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High Representative for Disarmament Affairs meets with delegates from Gensuikyo and Nihon Hidankyo
<!-- wp:columns --><div class="wp-block-columns"><!-- wp:column {"width":"66.66%","lock":{"move":true,"remove":true}} --><div class="wp-block-column" style="flex-basis:66.66%"><div id="content"> <p><b>24 April 2013</b> — High Representative Angela Kane and Ambassador Feruta of Romania, Chair of the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee of the 2015 NPT Review Conference, met with a delegation of 17 members from the Japan Council against Atomic and…
The “step-by-step” process of nuclear disarmament: Quo vadis?
<!-- wp:columns --><div class="wp-block-columns"><!-- wp:column {"width":"66.66%","lock":{"move":true,"remove":true}} --><div class="wp-block-column" style="flex-basis:66.66%"><div id="content"> <p><i>Below is the text of remarks by Angela Kane, UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, at a panel entitled “Next Steps in Nuclear Disarmament: Where do we go from here?” at the 10th International Security Forum, hosted by the Geneva Center for Security Policy…
High Representative Kane addresses NPT PrepCom, hopes deliberations will create climate for full implementation of all NPT commitments
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UNLIREC partners with national authorities to strengthen capacity: Four stories from Belize, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago
<!-- wp:columns --><div class="wp-block-columns"><!-- wp:column {"width":"66.66%","lock":{"move":true,"remove":true}} --><div class="wp-block-column" style="flex-basis:66.66%"><h2>UNLIREC assists Belize to strengthen capacity in combating illicit firearms trafficking and destroying obsolete ammunition</h2> <p>From 25 February to 8 March 2013, the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC) – in close…
UNODA and SIPRI present a panel discussion on military expenditures
<!-- wp:columns --><div class="wp-block-columns"><!-- wp:column {"width":"66.66%","lock":{"move":true,"remove":true}} --><div class="wp-block-column" style="flex-basis:66.66%"><div id="content"> <p><b>15 April 2013</b> — The United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) North America with the sponsorship of the Permanent Mission of Japan to the UN presented a lunch-time panel discussion…
UNODA and Global Action to Prevent War present publication: “Applying a Disarmament Lens to Gender, Human Rights, Development, Security, Education and Communication: Six Essays”
<!-- wp:columns --><div class="wp-block-columns"><!-- wp:column {"width":"66.66%","lock":{"move":true,"remove":true}} --><div class="wp-block-column" style="flex-basis:66.66%"><div id="content"> <p><b>9 April 2013</b> —<br> The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, in cooperation with the Global Action to Prevent War, launched the publication, “<a href="http://www.un.org/disarmament/update/20121119/" target="_blank…
Following lengthy process which began in the 1990s, General Assembly today passes Arms Trade Treaty
<!-- wp:columns --><div class="wp-block-columns"><!-- wp:column {"width":"66.66%","lock":{"move":true,"remove":true}} --><div class="wp-block-column" style="flex-basis:66.66%"><div id="content"> <p><b>2 April 2013</b> —<br> Building on a process that began in the 1990s, the General Assembly today passed a <a href="http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/67/L.58&Lang=E&qu…; target="_blank">resolution</a…
UNODA publishes paper on “The Impact of Poorly Regulated Arms Transfers on the Work of the United Nations”
<!-- wp:columns --><div class="wp-block-columns"><!-- wp:column {"width":"66.66%","lock":{"move":true,"remove":true}} --><div class="wp-block-column" style="flex-basis:66.66%"><div id="content"> <p><b>15 March 2013</b> —<br> The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs today released the electronic publication, <i>The Impact of Poorly Regulated Arms Transfers on the Work of the United Nations</i>, developed by the United Nations…
UNLIREC and Government of Dominican Republic accelerate destruction of surplus and obsolete weapons and ammunition
<!-- wp:columns --><div class="wp-block-columns"><!-- wp:column {"width":"66.66%","lock":{"move":true,"remove":true}} --><div class="wp-block-column" style="flex-basis:66.66%"><div id="content"> <p>From 4 – 22 February 2013, technical specialists from the <a href="http://unlirec.org" target="_blank">United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC)</a> joined forces…
UNLIREC and CIPRODEH promote national dialogue on weapons law in Honduras
27 Februrary 2013 —The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC) and the Centre for Research and Promotion of Human Rights (CIPRODEH) partnered to support the Secretariat of Security of the Republic of Honduras in organizing a Legal Seminar on the Draft Law for the Control of Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives and other Related Materials in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The seminar was held thanks to the generous contribution of the Federal Republic of Germany. The seminar brought together 62 participants (22 women)…