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 A three-day regional dialogue to address the humanitar­ian impact of improvised anti-personnel mines in West Africa and the Sahel Region...

The Biodefense Posture Review and other authoritative U.S. and foreign government strategies emphasize that countering these threats requires comprehensive international deterrence and defense measures.

How geopolitics and technological advances are making this a riskier world for bioweapons.

Abstract: The framework on which the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), currently being negotiated, is likely to be based is clear: It will set out criteria that signatories must apply to proposed arms transfers and require them to decide whether the proposed transfer poses a risk under any of those criteria. But these criteria are likely to be ill-defined, and the ATT's "checklist" model differs fundamentally from the "guidance" model that the U.S. currently employs. Worst o...

Prime Minister Hun Sen announced that the Kingdom will host the “Global Conference on Assisting, Landmine and other Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) Victims and Survivors in the context of Disability Rights” this coming October.

The ATT will impose constraints on the U.S. that will not in practice affect the dictatorial regimes at which the treaty is nominally aimed.

AMMAN — The Higher Coordinating Committee (HCC) for the National Social Protection Strategy (NSPS 2019-2025) chaired by Minister of Social Development Ayman Al Mufleh on Tuesday convened its annual meeting. The meeting was attended by committee members representing different line ministries and national stakeholders including the ministries of planning, labour, youth, health,

A draft of the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty reveals some of the reasons the U.S. should withdraw from negotiations.

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