Updates (2015)

Quarter 4

Dec

18th

Hibakusha Meets UN Tour Guides and Interns

Dec

03rd

Workshop on Building Capacity in SALW Control through the United Nations Programme of Action

Nov

17th

CCW Meeting Takes Forward Mandate on Laws and Paves the Way for 2016 Fifth Review Conference

Nov

05th

Educating Teachers about Nuclear Disarmament at the United Nations

Nov

02nd

First Committee Side Event: End-Use/r Controls Workshop by UNIDIR

Oct

30th

Side-event on UNIDIR’s development of the International Small Arms and Ammunition Guidance Platform (ISAP)

Oct

27th

Discussing Drones at the UN Headquarters

Oct

26th

UNLIREC Provided Assistance on Firearms Forensic Ballistics to Belize

Oct

23rd

Side Event on Cybersecurity and the Way Forward

Oct

20th

First Committee Side Event on Generation of Change: Encouraging Youth Action for Nuclear Abolition

Oct

15th

Side event at the First Committee on Nuclear Disarmament Verification

Oct

14th

Side Event on Cyber and Autonomous Weapons

Oct

09th

Study on Armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Oct

08th

Building Networks to Empower Women on Peace and Disarmament Issues

Oct

03rd

Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Education Partnership Gains New Strategic Thinkers

Oct

02nd

Women Scholarship for Peace (WSP) Meets Women in Nuclear (WIN)

Oct

01st

Opening of the Exhibit to Mark the Second International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

Quarter 3

Sep

23rd

Commemoration of International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons in Geneva

Sep

18th

UNLIREC Provided Technical Assistance to Caribbean States to Combat Illicit Firearms

Sep

04th

UNLIREC assists Trinidad and Tobago with the strengthening of Maritime and Port Security

Aug

17th

The 70th Anniversary Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings Remembered in Vienna

Jul

23rd

Synergies and complementarities between the Arms Trade Treaty, the ECOWAS Convention on Small Arms and Light Weapons, the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms

Jul

06th

UNLIREC contributes to International Expert Consultations on protection of children from armed violence

Jun

30th

Togo and Senegal Host Visits by Security Council’s 1540 Committee, 15-16 And 18-19 June 2015

Jun

24th

UNLIREC Technical Assistance Package on Operational Forensic Ballistics in the Caribbean

Jun

18th

UNLIREC Supports Private Security Companies in Peru in The Management of their Weapons Stockpiles

Jun

04th

UNREC organizes workshop on implementation of ATT for African Small Island Developing States

Jun

01st

Guide to Participating in the Confidence Building Measures of the Biological Weapons Convention aids States Parties with agreed-to reporting requirements

Quarter 2

Jun

30th

Togo and Senegal Host Visits by Security Council’s 1540 Committee, 15-16 And 18-19 June 2015

Jun

24th

UNLIREC Technical Assistance Package on Operational Forensic Ballistics in the Caribbean

Jun

18th

UNLIREC Supports Private Security Companies in Peru in The Management of their Weapons Stockpiles

Jun

04th

UNREC organizes workshop on implementation of ATT for African Small Island Developing States

Jun

01st

Guide to Participating in the Confidence Building Measures of the Biological Weapons Convention aids States Parties with agreed-to reporting requirements

May

29th

Promoting nuclear disarmament through film: UNODA’s Nuclear Disarmament Documentary Film Series

May

29th

Malawi Hosts Visit by Security Council’s 1540 Committee, 20 to 22 May 2015

May

16th

International maritime operation to facilitate the removal and transport of Syrian chemical materials

Apr

17th

UNLIREC provided training to Costa Rica on small arms control

Apr

15th

UNLIREC assists Trinidad and Tobago in implementing resolution 1540 (2004)

Apr

13th

SIPRI Launches 2014 Military Expenditures Data at UN Headquarters

Apr

01st

2013 Future Policy Award Follow-Up: Arms Control Exchange Between Argentina And Bosnia And Herzegovina

Quarter 1

Mar

25th

Assistance to Liberia in Marking Small Arms

Mar

19th

The Importance of Civil Society in United Nations and Intergovernmental Processes: Views from Four Delegates to the United Nations

Mar

19th

UNREC training to MINUSMA on combatting arms trafficking in Mali

Mar

18th

High Representative briefs member States on the lessons-learned exercise on the UN Mission in Syria

Mar

17th

Linking the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) and Arms Control Agendas

Feb

04th

Regional Non-Proliferation Coordination Workshop takes place in Panama City, Panama

Feb

03rd

UNODA at the 16th Committee on Teaching about the United Nations (CTAUN) Conference

Feb

01st

UNRCPD promotes Peace and Disarmament Education in Nepal’s Schools