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Events Engaging Youth in Disarmament
Over the last week, the United Nations played host to three events focusing on youth engagement. In the first, the Office for Disarmament Affairs held a “knowledge exchange” bringing together young professionals from its offices in New York, Geneva, and UNODA’s three Regional Centres for Peace and Disarmament (in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean) to share inspiring ideas for future projects. For the second, UNODA hosted a discussion with Peace Boat U.S. on the issue of nuclear disarmament. In the third and last event, UNODA interns created an exhibit on military…
Youth from China's Diplomatic Advanced Training Program visit UNODA
In January 2019, youth from the Research Center of the United Nations and International Organizations (part of Beijing Foreign Studies University) visited the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The visit was part of the Chinese Youth Diplomatic Advanced Training Program (ATP), which the Research Center created in 2012 to train outstanding young candidates in diplomacy and international affairs. In the last year, almost 50 students visited UNODA in New York to attend training events and seminars. Group picture with ATP…
UNLIREC holds Sub-Regional Seminar “Fostering Violence Prevention against Women through Arms Control. Every Woman Counts” in El Salvador
20-21 March 2019, San Salvador – As part of the Canada-funded project “Building Momentum for the Regional implementation of A/RES/65/69 on Women, Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Arms Control”, the UN Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC) carried out a sub-regional seminar entitled “Fostering Violence Prevention against Women through Arms Control. Every Woman Counts.” Dates were from 20 to 21 March 2019 in San Salvador, El Salvador. Sub-regional seminar “Fostering Violence Prevention against Women through Arms…
Events celebrating the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action
4 April 2019, New York – On the occasion of the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action on the 4 April 2019, the Inter-Agency Coordination Group for Mine Action (IACG-MA) held a panel discussion on how the UN Mine Action Strategy 2019-2023 promotes the 2030 Agenda. The panel consisted of representatives from DPO, UNMAS, UNDP, UNODA, UNOPS, UNICEF, and UNHCR. Inter-Agency Coordination Group for Mine Action held a panel discussion on how the UN Mine Action Strategy 2019-2023 promotes the 2030 Agenda Ms. Agnès Marcaillou, Director of UNMAS, opened the panel…
UNODA kicks-off global programme promoting a gendered approach to small arms control
This month, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) kicks off a multi-year programme in support of gender mainstreamed policies, programmes and actions in the fight against small arms trafficking and misuse. Funded by the European Union, the programme will also support the broader international policy agenda on Women, Peace and Security and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which place emphasis on gender-equality and women’s empowerment. The UN Office for Disarmament Affairs kicks off a multi-year programme funded by the European Union Women, men…
The UNSaferGuard Programme publishes three IATG* support guides to promote safe and secure ammunition management
Inadequately-managed ammunition poses the dual risk of accidental explosions of ammunition sites and diversion to illicit markets, resulting in humanitarian disasters and contributing to armed conflict, terrorism and crime. Against this backdrop, the United Nations has developed the International Ammunition Technical Guidelines (IATG) to provide interested stakeholders with practical, neutral, authoritative guidance on ammunition management. Under the umbrella of UN SaferGuard, our knowledge-management programme on ammunition management, the United Nations system continues to…
UN Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament Holds Seminar on Trade and Trafficking of Illicit Conventional Ammunition
Bangkok, 20-22 March 2019 – As part of its region-wide initiative to support States with the safe and secure management of conventional ammunition, the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific (UNRCPD) organized the Southeast Asia Regional Outreach Seminar on Trade and Trafficking of Illicit Conventional Ammunition, in Bangkok, Thailand, on 20-22 March 2019. United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific (UNRCPD) at Southeast Asia Regional Outreach Seminar on Trade and Trafficking of Illicit Conventional…
UNODA-OSCE Scholarship for Peace and Security awarded with “Gender Champion Award”
Vienna – On 14 March 2019, the Scholarship for Peace and Security, a joint initiative of United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), has received the “Gender Champion Award”, for its contribution to empowering women in promoting international peace and security. Scholarship for Peace and Security receiving the “Gender Champion Award The Scholarship was hailed by the OSCE as an outstanding initiative for its support for young women in the security sector. The OSCE especially acknowledged the contribution of…
Ms. Mariela Fogante of Argentina elected as first woman to chair group of experts on conventional arms since 1999
The first session of the 2019 Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on the UN Register of Conventional Arms (UNROCA) is being held in Geneva (from 11-15 March 2019). Ms. Mariela Fogante of Argentina was unanimously elected as Chairperson of the Group. She is the first woman to chair a GGE in the area of conventional arms since 1999. Another heartening piece of news is the unprecedented number of women representatives in the Group: 8 of the 15 experts in the first session are women. The Register was established by the General Assembly in 1991, to enable Member States to…
High Representative Nakamitsu meets with the Executive Secretary of Regional Centre on Small Arms
(New York) On 27 February 2019, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu met with Lt. Gen. Badreldin Elamin Abdelgadir, Executive Secretary of the Regional Centre on Small Arms in the Great Lakes Region, the Horn of Africa and Bordering States (RECSA). The visit by the Executive Secretary of RECSA was timely as the Security Council was discussing cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations in maintaining international peace and security on the same day. RECSA is an intergovernmental organizations in Nairobi established in…