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UN Regional Disarmament Centre Supports Myanmar to Build Capacity in Small Arms Control
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World Military Spending: Trends and Implications
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UNLIREC and Peru intensify collaboration in arms control through stockpile management training
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Advanced Training Course for States of the East African and Southern African sub-regions on conventional ammunition management utilizing the International Ammunition Technical Guidelines (IATG)
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South Africa hosts workshop on reporting under Security Council Resolution 1540
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Law’s Imperative: A World Free of Nuclear Weapons
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Ceremony at UN Raises Total Number of Ratifications to the Arms Trade Treaty to 31
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Kazakhstan hosted an international workshop on the tenth anniversary of UN Security Council resolution 1540 (2004)
Kazakhstan Flag On the occasion of the 10th year anniversary of the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 1540 (2004), the Government of Kazakhstan hosted, in cooperation with UNODA, an international workshop entitled “The Contribution of UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) to Regional and Global Disarmament and Non-Proliferation” on 11-12 March in Astana. The Security Council, acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, unanimously adopted resolution 1540 (2004) on 28 April 2004 obliging all States to refrain from providing any form of support to non-…
West African workshop on the implementation of the International Tracing Instrument (ITI)
The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), through its Regional Centre for Peace and the Disarmament in Africa (UNREC), and with financial support of the European Union, organized a sub-regional workshop on the International Tracing Instrument (known as the ITI) from 18 to 19 March 2014 in Lomé, Togo focusing on the marking, recordkeeping and tracing of illicit small arms and light weapons (SALW). The workshop brought together government representatives and members of SALW national commissions from Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea…
UN Office for Disarmament Affairs Meets Youth Representatives of Soka Gakkai Japan and of SGI-USA Engaged in Disarmament Issues
Staff of UNODA with youth representatives of Soka Gakkai Japan and of SGI-USA (New York) On Tuesday 18 March 2014, staff of the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) met with youth representatives of Soka Gakkai Japan and of SGI-USA working in the field of nuclear disarmament. Ten youth representatives from Japan and seven from the United States visited the UNODA for the first time to engage in a dialogue about nuclear disarmament. Soka Gakkai International (SGI), a lay Buddhist organization with 12 million members in 192 countries and territories, has been in…