disarmament

A child living in an IDP camp in northwestern Syria.
© UNICEF/Khaled Akacha

‘Limited’ progress in closing Syria chemical weapons file, UN Disarmament Chief tells Security Council

4 March 2021
Peace and Security

Seven years after the Security Council mandated the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons programme, there have been only “limited developments” in the implementation of resolution 2118, passed unanimously in 2013 to bring the country into compliance with its global obligations, the UN disarmament chief said on Thursday. 

A visual search for landmines takes place in Mehaires, Western Sahara.
UN Photo/Martine Perret

Landmine toll still high amid concerns over COVID-19 impact on clearance efforts

12 November 2020
Law and Crime Prevention

Thousands of people continue to be killed and injured every year by landmines and explosive weapons in conflicts around the world, while the COVID-19 pandemic has forced mine-clearance efforts to be scaled back, a  UN-backed civil society report on the issue said on Thursday.

An atmospheric nuclear test conducted by the United States at Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, on 1 November 1952.
US Government

UN treaty banning nuclear weapons set to enter into force in January

25 October 2020
Peace and Security

In what leading campaigners are describing as “a new chapter for nuclear disarmament”, the ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will now come into force on 22 January, after Honduras became the 50th Member State to ratify on Saturday.

Euratom inspectors conduct safeguards inspections at URENCO in the Netherlands.
IAEA/Dean Calma

‘Reverse course’ towards full nuclear disarmament – UN chief

25 September 2020
Peace and Security

On the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons marked on Saturday, the UN chief has underscored the need to “reverse course and return to a common path to nuclear disarmament”.
 

UN peacekeepers escort a UNICEF convoy to towns north-east of Bambari in Central African Republic in September 2018.
UNICEF/Ashley Gilbertson

THE COMMITTEES: Disarmament for a peaceful world, defines work of UN General Assembly's First Committee

24 December 2018
Peace and Security

Every year in September, the United Nations General Assembly makes the headlines as world leaders gather at UN headquarters to set the agenda for the year ahead. But for the nitty-gritty discussions of how to turn decisions into action, Member States break out into six specialized “Main Committees”. For this first in our series of Committee explainers, we'll take you inside the work of the  First – tasked with addressing issues of disarmament and international security.