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Related issues, including information and outreach
element for building trust and confidence among States and helped to relieve
international tensions. (See also pp. 83-84.)
Disarmament and non-proliferation education
In its resolution 65/77 of 8 December 2010 entitled “United Nations
study on disarmament and non-proliferation education”, the General Assembly
welcomed the report of the Secretary-General74 on the implementation of the
recommendations contained in the United Nations study on disarmament
and non-proliferation education. 75 The General Assembly also requested
the Secretary-General to prepare a report reviewing the results of the
implementation of the recommendations and possible new opportunities for
promoting disarmament and non-proliferation education, and to submit the
report to the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session.
In accordance with relevant provisions of the General Assembly
resolution 65/311 of 19 July 2011 on multilingualism, the United Nations
Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) relaunched the disarmament
education website (www.un.org/disarmament/education) in September in
all six official languages of the United Nations. Since 2007, UNODA has
been updating the website, featuring disarmament education materials from
the United Nations, other international organizations and non-governmental
organizations, including a section for use in the classroom by teachers and
students.
UNODA also launched “Disarmament Today”, 76 a series of podcasts
in which experts are interviewed about present-day disarmament issues. In
2011, these discussions included topics such as the status of disarmament and
non-proliferation education, disarmament and non-proliferation in the context
of space security, and the story of an atomic bomb survivor who became a
peace activist. In December, UNODA created a dedicated web page focusing
on atomic bomb survivors or hibakusha. 77
A number of new interactive presentations were added to the
disarmament education website, 78 including, inter alia, the Disarmament
Treaties Timeline from 1946-2011; the International Day against Nuclear
Tests, 29 August; the Convention on Cluster Munitions; 79 Transparency in the
Global Arms Trade; Focus on Armed Violence; and the Biological Weapons
Convention. 80
74 A/65/160.
75 A/57/124.
76 Available from the UNODA disarmament education website, http://www.un.org/
disarmament/education/podcasts/.
77 Available from http://www.un.org/disarmament/content/slideshow/hibakusha/.
78 Available from http://www.un.org/disarmament/education/presentations/.
79 The text and status of adherence are available from http://disarmament.un.org/treaties/
(accessed 7 May 2012).
80 Ibid.
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