Updates (2017)

Quarter 4

Dec

27th

UN Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa supports gender perspectives in preventing the acquisition of arms by terrorist groups in Lake Chad Basin

Dec

01st

RCPD and UNITAR screen documentary “Paper Lanterns” at 27th UN Conference on Disarmament Issues in Hiroshima

Nov

27th

UN Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa supports the prevention of diversion of weapons by extremist groups in the Lake Chad Basin

Nov

24th

From Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Nuclear Weapons Today: A Professional Development Workshop for High School Educators

Nov

09th

Arms Control 2.0: Operationalizing Sustainable Development Goals Target 16.4

Nov

09th

Strengthening Nuclear Disarmament Verification Mechanisms

Oct

31st

Curbing Arms Flows from a Field Perspective: The Case of Africa

Oct

31st

Promoting Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Education

Oct

31st

Reinvigorating the Narrative: The Broader Benefits of the Arms Trade Treaty and the Implementation Guide to the ATT and PoA

Oct

26th

Paper Lanterns: A Film By Barry Frechette

Oct

23rd

Pathways to Banning Fully Autonomous Weapons

Oct

20th

South-East Asian Workshop on Global Challenges to Successful Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004), and Regional Efforts to Address Them

Oct

16th

Nuclear Disarmament Verification

Oct

16th

Verified Declarations of Fissile Material Stocks

Oct

13th

From Vision to Measurable Change on the Ground: Mine Action and Sustainable Development Goals:

Oct

13th

“Disarmament in Geneva” spotlighted on UN Open Day

Oct

13th

Autonomous Weapon Systems: Understanding Learning Algorithms and Bias

Oct

12th

A Draft Treaty for a WMD Free Zone in the Middle East: Time to Envisage the Practical

Oct

09th

Negative Security Assurances as Practical Steps towards a World Without Nuclear Weapons

Oct

06th

The Effect of New Technologies on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament: Artificial Intelligence, Hypersonic Technology and Outer Space

Oct

03rd

United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs Launches the Disarmament Digital Documents Library

Quarter 3

Sep

29th

Senior national authorities of Mali validate small arms and light weapons physical security and stockpile management standard operating procedures

Sep

28th

International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons – September 26

Sep

25th

UNREC and UNDP Assist Sahel Countries in Addressing the Illicit Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons

Sep

22nd

Dag Hammarskjöld Library: Research Guide and Book Exhibit to commemorate International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (26 Sep)

Sep

14th

Afghanistan’s determination to address the IED problem and its accession to the CCW

Aug

28th

Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan share experiences and discuss progress in implementing UN Security Council resolution 1540 (2004)

Aug

28th

Training Workshop to Build Capacity of Central Asian States to Strengthen the Implementation of the Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons

Aug

24th

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Peace Messengers visits United Nations Office at Geneva

Aug

17th

72nd Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Remembering and Looking Towards the Future

Aug

03rd

Fiji hosts regional workshop to promote the universalization of the Biological Weapons Convention in the Pacific

Jul

28th

Assistance to Mauritania in drafting of the initial report on Security Council resolution 1540 (2004)

Jul

14th

UNODA intern discovers personal connection to the history of disarmament

Jul

12th

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) Regional Industry Outreach Conference for the Pacific Alliance States and Brazil

Jun

30th

Training for Southeast Asian States to Strengthen the Implementation of the Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons

Jun

09th

National Round Table on the Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004)

Jun

09th

Mongolian authorities review measures to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to non-State actors

Jun

06th

Academy Award-winning actor and film producer Michael Douglas visits High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu

Quarter 2

Jun

30th

Training for Southeast Asian States to Strengthen the Implementation of the Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons

Jun

09th

National Round Table on the Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004)

Jun

09th

Mongolian authorities review measures to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to non-State actors

Jun

06th

Academy Award-winning actor and film producer Michael Douglas visits High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu

May

03rd

UNODA’s regional centre in Lima and OAS provide regional platform for States in Latin America and the Caribbean to engage in open debate on preventing WMD proliferation to non-State actors

Apr

24th

UN Disarmament Commission adopts by consensus “Practical confidence-building measures in the field of conventional weapons”

Apr

04th

United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs and European Union Delegation in Geneva co-host a Workshop in Support of the Biological Weapons Convention Extended Assistance Programmes

Quarter 1

Mar

30th

Former President of Costa Rica opens UNODA Women Scholarship for Peace training course

Mar

28th

Technical and Legal Assistance Project to Support the Philippines in the Implementation of the UN PoA and the ATT

Feb

08th

United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific resumes its operations from Kathmandu, Nepal

Feb

06th

67th Session of the Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters Discusses the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on International Security