disarmament

Former child soldiers are released in Yambio in South Sudan in 2018.
UNMISS/Isaac Billy

UN updates guidelines to ensure successful return to civilian life for former combatants

19 November 2019
Peace and Security

Increasing hurdles which prevent former combatants from returning to a peaceful civilian life have prompted the UN to update its standard practices, in an effort to ensure they remain “fit-for-purpose for years to come”.

Craters and boreholes dot the former Soviet Union nuclear test site Semipalatinsk in what is today Kazakhstan. (File)
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)

Nuclear testing has ‘disastrous consequences’ for people and planet, General Assembly told

9 September 2019
Peace and Security

Events commemorating the recent International Day against Nuclear Tests serve as an “important and stark reminder…of the disastrous consequences of nuclear testing on human health and the environment”, a top UN official told the General Assembly on Monday.

Gardez city, Paktia province, Afghanistan.
UNAMA/Fardin Waezi

News in Brief 14 August 2019

14 August 2019
News in Brief
  • Afghanistan: grave concern at reports 11 civilians killed by pro-Government forces
  • UN panel urges Paraguay to probe poisonings, contamination from agrochemical sprays
  • Disarmament discussions must make urgent progress, says UN’s new top diplomat in Geneva
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A view of the sculpture - Good Defeats Evil - on the UN Headquarters grounds, presented to the UN by the Soviet Union on the occasion of the Organization’s 45th anniversary.
UN Photo/Manuel Elías

UN chief laments ending of Cold War-era disarmament treaty

2 August 2019
Peace and Security

Secretary-General António Guterres expressed his “deep regret” on Friday that the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty between the United States and Russia came to an end. 

Renata Hessmann Dalaqua, Report Author, UNIDIR.
UN News/Daniel Johnson

Women’s under-representation in disarmament discussions should be key talking point 

25 April 2019
Interviews

In an interview with Daniel Johnson from UN News, Renata Dwan - Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), and report author Renata Hessmann Dalaqua - explain why this traditionally male-dominated area, has been slow to change. 

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Freight ship off the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe.
UNCTAD/Jan Hoffmann

News in Brief 21 January 2019

21 January 2019
News in Brief
  • UN official says trade report shows eradication of poverty “unlikely”
  • Urgent need for disarmament in current climate
  • UN agency dispels refugees disease-spreading myth
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