UNGA
First Committee 2008
This year's First Committee on Disarmament and International
Security met from 6–31 October. Read statements
and resolutions,
see voting
records, and read NGO reports in the First
Committee Monitor.
Arms
Control Reporter 2007
The latest edition of the most comprehensive resource on disarmament,
arms control, and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
and conventional armaments is now available. Please write
to editor[at]armscontrolreporter.org
for pricing information.
Nuclear
Iran? and North
Korea and Nuclear Weapons
Up-to-date news and analysis on Iran and North Korea's nuclear
programmes and the international community's response.
Outer
Space
Information on the militarization and weaponization of outer
space and potential treaties and existing legal instruments.
Also see an overview of the aerospace
industry and an index of space
weapons technology in various stages of development
by the military-industrial complex. Part of RCW's Dirty
Dozen project. Also visit the PAROS
Working Group, an international consortium of activists
working to prevent an arms race in outer space.
Nuclear
Disorder or Cooperative Security?
A civil society analysis of the current disarmament regime
and response to the WMD Commission Report released by the
Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy, Western
States Legal Foundation, and Reaching Critical Will of
WILPF. Nuclear Disorder or Cooperative Security can
now be fully accessed online
in PDF format.
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- Now accepting internship applications
RCW will be accepting applications for January-May
internships until 15 December 2008. Applications accepted
on a rolling basis until positions are filled.
- The General Assembly took action on First Committee
resolutions on 2 December
Find out the results on RCW's First
Committee resolutions page.
- The UN Security Council held an open debate on Article
26 on 19 November
Under the Presidency of Costa Rica, the Security Council
held an open debate on “strengthening collective security
and armament regulation,” offering an opportunity
to reinvigorate and reenergize work to implement Article
26 of the UN Charter, specifically to reduce global spending
on armaments and refocus spending on true human security
needs. Read Reaching Critical Will's report
on the debate and access background
information and primary documents from the debate.
- The UNGA First Committee closed on 31 October
Read the First
Committee Monitor to find out what happened. The
final edition is now available in PDF
and HTML.
- The UNGA General Debate closed on 29 September
See RCW's Disarmament Index by Country
or by Topic
for all references to disarmament, peace, and security.
See PeaceWomen's Gender
Index for all references to gender, women, and girls.
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