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August 30, 2012

The world is over-armed and peace is under-funded

Posted 9:42am

Below is an op-ed from United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Here, he states, “Massive military spending and new investments in modernizing nuclear weapons have left the world over-armed — and peace under-funded.” Read more »

July 25, 2012

Myths and Facts: United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty

Posted 2:03pm

The United Nations Visitors Center has been receiving call about the United Nations Conference on the Arms TradeTreaty. They worked with the Office for Disarmament Affairs to provide some myths and facts about the treaty negotiations. Their post with myths and facts is below. We have been receiving quite a number of angry phone calls… Read more »