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In 2001, the United Nations created the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat, and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, commonly called the Programme of Action (PoA). The PoA is not a treaty; rather, it is a political mechanism, which works by unanimous consensus, for encouraging voluntary cooperation. A meeting of the PoA results in an outcome document or chair’s summary containing conclusions that, if unanimously agreed, are politically—though no...

• The burden of cancer in the country has been increasing in the last few years with 47,000 new cases reported last year alone. • Overall, breast, cervical, prostate, esophagus and non-Hodgkins lymphoma are the five top cancers in the country.

The proliferation of small arms and light weapons in Nigeria has had devastating effects on the country. This was the submission of the South-South Zonal

The United States Should Withdraw from the U.N.’s Programme of Action on Small Arms Ted R. Bromund, PhDThe 2018 meeting of the U.N. Programme of Action (PoA) on the illicit trade in small arms broke both a U.S. red line and the PoA’s principle of unanimity. As its achievements are limited at best the only reason for the U.S. to participate in the PoA was to prevent it from making bad decisions and binding U.S. policy. Now that the PoA has abandoned unanimity, the U.S. should withdraw from, a...

The Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) was signed by then-Secretary of State John Kerry on behalf of the United States on September 25, 2013, and transmitted to the Senate by the Obama Administration on December 9, 2016. The ATT is one of several treaties in the field of conventional and nuclear weapons that seek to constrain the ability of the United States to make decisions about how it defends itself and its allies.

The Bill on National Taskforce on Prohibition of Illegal, Importation/Smuggling of Arms, Ammunition, Light Weapons (NATFORCE), will create about 10,000 job opportunities for Nigerians when assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari, Sen. Ayo Akinyelure (Ondo Central) has said. The Senate Committee Chairman on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions told reporters in Ilorin, yesterday that Nigeria, […]

The Nigerian government through the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW) has said it had intensified the mopping up of illicit small arms and light weapons nationwide ahead of the 2023 general elections. This is just as the centre hinted that it had recovered and destroyed over 3,000 illegal arms across the country. The South West coordinator of the NCCSALW, Ben Sola Akinlade, disclosed this in Abeokuta on Friday, saying the arms were recovered from terrorist...

Europe Daily News, the latest policy and legal developments in the European Union

For this week and the next, the United Nations is hosting a conference of its Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat, and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects—fortunately abbreviated as the PoA. Like the U.N. Human Rights Council, the PoA is a classic U.N. institution: It’s a good idea in theory, but a terrible failure in practice.

The National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW) says it recovered over 3,000 illegal arms in the last...