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NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace, and Security

For more than thirty years, the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security has provided services and facilities to hundreds of citizens' groups concerned with the peace and disarmament activities of the United Nations. Because of its distinguished efforts as conference organizer, network clearing house, newspaper publisher, and year-round UN liaison, the NGO Committee is viewed as a primary ally of the international movement for arms control, peace and disarmament, and the continuing body designated to serve this worldwide constituency.

The Committee has a crucial and expanding responsibility to inform NGOs worldwide of the status of negotiations, country positions, major obstacles and opportunities, and to help NGOs transmit their expertise and creative proposals to the appropriate decision-making fora. This website can be your first stop for access to current UN issues on disarmament, peace, and security.
 
U.N. First Committee Reportage

The First Committee deals with disarmament and related international security questions. It met from 5 October–3 November to debate on issues and vote on related resolutions. Successful resolutions will now be forwarded to the UNGA for voting.


Please visit the website of Reaching Critical Will, a project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom for government statements, NGO statements, and the results voting results explanations and resolutions. Please see the First Committee Monitor for reportage on specific issues by affiliated NGO members.

On Friday, October 23rd, representatives of the NGO community presented to the First Committee. See those statements here, via the Reaching Critical Will website.
 

Recent NGOCDPS Events:
 
NGOCDPS Annual Meeting

Wed, Oct 28, 2009, Church Center for the U.N. (corner of 44th St and 1st Ave), 2nd floor

2:30-3:30PM
NGOCDPS ANNUAL MEETING (to announce new board members and positions)

3:30-5:30PM
PANEL DISCUSSION, "Getting to Zero: How and When?"

Nuclear disarmament is back on the global agenda with new opportunities to advance this goal in significant ways. Consensus may exist on the need to reach "nuclear zero" but opinions differ on the best path to get there. This event will be an opportunity to present key perspectives on this important subject and invite discussion and debate between panelists and audience members. It will also emphasize the need for coordinated action from civil society as we approach the 2010 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Speakers include representatives of the Carnegie Endowment, Federation of American Scientists, Global Security Institute, The Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation and others.

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5:30-7:30PM
RECEPTION to kick-off a new year of commitment
 
Hiroshima: A Reminder

Thursday, October 29th, 2009 1:15PM - 2:45PM

Location: Conf Room A, UN Secretariat

With the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Review Conference convening next May to discuss the future of the NPT, it is imperative to remember the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a reminder of the destructive power of nuclear weapons and the dire need for complete nuclear abolition.

Speakers:

Ms. Emiko Okada, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombs, speak about her experience and reminds us of the stakes in the game we are playing. 
Mr. Steve Leeper, the first non-Japanese chairman of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, who will explain why Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the other 3,000 members of Mayors for Peace believe it is crunch time for nuclear abolition. 
Ms. Parker Diggory, representative from Religions for Peace Global Youth Network who will be mobilizing religious youth to engage their mayors on advancing towards a nuclear weapons free world.

This event is presented by Mayors for Peace with the NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security and the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs.