Spotlights (2021)

23 February 2021

HR delivers opening remarks at second informal workshop in support of the Conference on the establishment of a MEWMDFZ

22 February 2021

The Comoros ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)

22 February 2021

The Comoros ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)

22 February 2021

The Philippines ratifies the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)

18 February 2021

HR delivers video message to the Diplomatic Academy of Mexico’s webinar on the TPNW

15 February 2021

HR delivers a video message to the State Parties of the Treaty of Tlatelolco on the occasion of the Treaty’s 54th anniversary

12 February 2021

ODA launches nuclear-weapon-free zones web-portal

10 February 2021

Newly updated: UN SaferGuard Website and IATG Implementation Support Toolkit

(French)

(Spanish)

4 February 2021

Cuba ratifies the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)

3 February 2021

HR briefs Security Council during Open VTC on Middle East (Syria) on implementation of Security Council Resolution 2118 (2013) 

2 February 2021

HR speaks with Nippon TV about the TPNW’s entry into force 

(with English subtitles)

2 February 2021

UNODA launches newsletter for nominated experts and analytical laboratories on the roster for the Secretary-General’s Mechanism for Investigation of Alleged Use of Chemical or Biological Weapons (UNSGM)

1 February 2021

Newly published #Youth4Disarmament Spotlight Story – “I Don’t Want to Be a ‘Hibakusha 2.0”  

29 January 2021

UNODA honoured for contribution to international peace by the International Section of the NYSBA

29 January 2021

HR and ROK Deputy Foreign Minister discuss key disarmament milestones in 2021 and ways forward for empowering youth 

28 January 2021

HR discusses multistakeholder approaches to international security with World Economic Forum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan (in Japanese) 

27 January 2021

UNODA honoured for ‘vital’ contribution to international peace (award acceptance speech by the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs)

Watch the acceptance speech here

27 January 2021

HR delivers opening keynote address at Wilton Park’s virtual meeting on “policy options for multilateral controls on ballistic missiles” 

26 January 2021

“They looked as if they were ghosts”: An atomic bomb survivor shares her memories 

25 January 2021

HR discusses the TPNW’s entry into force with Mainichi Shimbun (in Japanese) 

24 January 2021

HR’s video message on the 75th anniversary of the first United Nations General Assembly resolution

22 January 2021

Cambodia ratifies the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)

22 January 2021

HR delivers message to Hibakusha and civil society groups on the occasion of the TPNW’s entry into force (in Japanese)

22 January 2021

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons enters into force (Secretary-General’s Video Message)

(Written Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General)

 

 

19 January 2021

Meet the 2021 participants to the 2nd Biosecurity Diplomacy Workshop for Young Scientists from the Global South

18 January 2021

HR reflects on 2020 and discusses her outlook for disarmament in 2021 with NHK Radio (in Japanese)

18 January 2021

The Power of One to ‘Knot the Gun’ – the latest #Youth4Disarmament Spotlight Story

11 January 2021

HR’s video message to participants of the Hiroshima Peacebuilders Center (HPC) Mid-Career Course on “Leadership in the UN system at the time of the pandemic”

7 January 2021

UNREC kick-starts cooperation on gender and small arms control with the Democratic Republic of Congo

5 January 2021

HR briefs Security Council on implementation of Security Council Resolution 2118 (2013) during Open VTC on Middle East (Syria)

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