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• Arms and Non-State Groups

  Published: September 6, 2007, 3:18 pm

  Tags: Unidir, Non State Armed Groups, Mc Carthy, Terrorism, Biological Weapons, Arms Trade Treaty, Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Arms Transfers, Wmd

  highlighted this week by a UNIDIR seminar on "Preventing the Spread of Weapons to Non-State Armed Groups." Interestingly, participants seemed to be less worried about the prospect of terrorists building or otherwise acquiring a nuclear device than they were about them getting their hands on such relatively low-tech devices as shoulder-fired

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• The Arms Trade Treaty that States Want

  Published: October 29, 2007, 4:46 am

  Tags: Unidir, Mc Carthy, Control Arms, Conventional Weapons, Arms Transfer Criteria, Arms Trade Treaty, Att, First Committee Monitor, First Committee

  for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) presented an initial statistical analysis of the submissions, constituting the first part of a two-part analysis that UNIDIR plans to complete by the end of the year. You can listen to the presentation at the UN Audio Library. A coalition of NGOs - including the leaders of the Control Arms Campaign; Oxfam,

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• Cluster munitions: Arguments for and against

  Published: November 28, 2007, 6:25 am

  Tags: United Nations, Unidir, Human Rights Watch, Ccw, Oslo Process, Cluster Munitions, Icrc

  Last week's meeting of states party to the Mine Ban Treaty (8MSP) in Jordan provided an opportunity for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) to offer a lunchtime briefing to states on the Oslo Process to address the humanitarian impacts of cluster munitions. Austrian Ambassador Wolfgang Petritsch

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• Disarmament Insight: 2007 in review

  Published: December 12, 2007, 2:37 am

  Tags: Unidir, Disarmament As Humanitarian Action, Geneva, Disarmament Insight

  Geneva, Switzerland (where UNIDIR's project on Disarmament as Humanitarian Action and the Geneva Forum are based) to attracting thousands of visitors, at least some of whom we hope have bookmarked the site and return on a frequent basis. Indeed, this post is the 111th. We'd like to thank in particular our Geneva Forum and DHA project donors,

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