UNODA – United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs

UPDATES

2nd Safe and Secure Approaches to Field Environments (SSAFE) for experts on UNSGM roster concluded

From 5-11 May, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), the United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) and the UNDP organized a training course in Thailand on ‘Safe and Secure Approaches in Field Environments’ (SSAFE) for the United Nations Secretary-General’s Mechanism for Investigations of Alleged Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons (UNSGM).  […]

From 5-11 May, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), the United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) and the UNDP organized a training course in Thailand...

Youth Leader Fund for a World without Nuclear Weapons Completes First Online Phase 

The Youth Leader Fund for a World without Nuclear Weapons, an innovative learning programme launched in 2023 by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) with the generous...

“The disarmament community has a proud history of anticipating weapons, means and methods of warfare.” – High Representative opens UNODA-ICRC side event on legal reviews of weapons at the Vienna Conference on Autonomous Weapons Systems

The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) partnered up with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to organize a side event in the margins of the...

University students learn about the link between disarmament and human rights in Vienna

On 17 April 2024, the University of Applied Arts Vienna organized its 4th Applied Human Rights World Café. As part of the course program, students enrolled in the Vienna...

States meet in Geneva for Universalization Workshop of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW)

From 11 to 12 April 2024, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) organized a regional workshop on achieving the...

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The main units of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs.

EVENTS

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May 23 - 26, 2023

New York

Open-Ended Working Group on Information and Communication Technologies

June 5 - May 9, 2023

New York

Open-Ended Working Group on Ammunition

July 24 - 28, 2023

Vienna

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons – Working group on further strengthening the review process

July 24 - 28, 2023

New York

Open-Ended Working Group on Information and Communication Technologies

July 31 - September 15, 2023

Geneva

Conference on Disarmament

July 31 - August 11, 2023

Vienna

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons — Preparatory Committee for the Eleventh Review Conference

August 7 - July 18, 2023

Geneva

Biological Weapons Convention — Working Group on the strengthening of the Convention

August 28 - September 1, 2023

Geneva

Open-Ended Working Group on Reducing Space Threats

September 11 - 14, 2023

Geneva

Convention on Cluster Munitions — Eleventh Meeting of States Parties

October 2 - November 3, 2023

New York

General Assembly First Committee

November 8 - 8, 2023

Geneva

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons

November 9 - 10, 2023

Geneva

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons — Amended Protocol II Group of Experts

November 13 - 13, 2023

Geneva

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons — Protocol V Annual Conference

November 14 - 14, 2023

Geneva

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons — Amended Protocol II Annual Conference

November 15 - 17, 2023

Geneva

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons — Meeting of High Contracting Parties

November 27 - December 1, 2023

New York

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons — Second Meeting of States Parties

December 4 - 8, 2023

Geneva

Biological Weapons Convention — Working Group on the strengthening of the Convention

December 11 - 13, 2023

Geneva

Biological Weapons Convention — Meeting of States Parties

May 20, 2024

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