Top Five of 2025

Check out RCW's top five highlights of collective action for disarmament in 2025!

GGE on Autonomous Weapons

The UN Group of Governmental Experts on autonomous weapon systems will meet for its first session of 2026 on 2-6 March 2026.

Arms Trade Treaty

The next Working Group meetings of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) are scheduled to be held 16–19 March 2026 in Geneva.

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference

The Eleventh Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is scheduled to take place 27 April–22 May 2026 in New York.

First Committee

The 80th session of the UN General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security met from 8 October–7 November 2025 in New York.

Reaching Critical Will

Reaching Critical Will is the disarmament programme of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), the oldest women’s peace organization in the world. Reaching Critical Will works for disarmament and arms control of many different weapon systems, the reduction of global military spending and militarism, and the investigation of gendered aspects of the impact of weapons and of disarmament processes.

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