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Resources

As we prepare for the 62nd DPI/NGO Conference this section of our website will provide links to the latest information on disarmament, including books, articles, and valuable websites to enable all who visit this site to keep breast of the latest developments in the fields of disarmament, development and peace. We hope you will find these resources informative and useful.

The DPI/NGO Cluster and its partners are not responsible for the content of external websites. These links are provided as a resource for web users. Other external links provided also do not reflect the views or opinions of the United Nations, the DPI/NGO Cluster, or its organizing partners.

DPI/NGO Conference information

Background information on the issue of Disarmament is available at the website of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs

We Must Disarm Campaign

GA Statement

Statement by Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Ambassador Patricia Espinosa Cantellano, during the General Debate of the 64th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, on Monday, 28 September. In her address, Ambassador Espinosa said she reinforces “the energetic call of global civil society - made on the 62nd Annual DPI/NGO conference in Mexico - so that governments from all over the globe undertake our responsibilities to achieve our goal of a nuclear-weapon-free world”

Other Related Links on Disarmament, Peace and Development:

NGO Relations of the United Nations Department of Public Information

United Nations Regional Information Center (UNRIC)

United Nations Information Service at Geneva (UNIS)

The Executive Committee of Non-Governmental Organizations Associated with the United Nations Department of Public Information

Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Status with the United Nations (CONGO)

Robles, Alfonso Garcia; architect of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America, also known as the “Treaty of Tlatelolco”, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, Oslo, Sweden, 10 December 1982.

Robles, Alfonso Garcia; architect of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America, more familiarly called the “Treaty of Tlatelolco”, Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, Oslo, Sweden, 11 December 1982.

Ban Ki-moon; Secretary-General, United Nations, My Plan to Drop the Bomb, The Kosovo Times, 31 July 2009. Since then, the article has appeared in numerous newspapers and on-line publications around the world.

“The United Nations and Security in a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World” – the Secretary-General’s five-point proposal on nuclear disarmament.

“Disarmament: The Long Road of Nuclear Hurdles, Hopes and Hard Work,” by Frida Berrigan, Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel, 28 September 2009. Ms. Berrigan was a Roundtable speaker at the 62nd Annual DPI/NGO Conference in Mexico City.

Campaign against Landmines
Jody Williams, one of the keynote speakers at the Opening Ceremony of the 62nd Annual DPI/NGO Conference “For Peace and Development: Disarm Now!”, which was held in Mexico City, 9-11 September 2009, discussed the U.S. position on the Mine Ban Treaty in the Tuesday, 1 December, edition of the Los Angeles Times. Williams was the founding coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, for which she was awarded, along with the organization, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997.

Additional Resources:

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace, and Security

Regional Centre on Small Arms

Global Security Institute (GSI)

Human Rights Watch

International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA)

The Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy

United States Institute of Peace

For further information, please refer to the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs.