Workshop to Enhance ATT and UNPoA Implementation by South-South Parliamentary Exchange and Cooperation in Togo

22/05/2014
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23/05/2014
Descripción de la actividad

The Parliamentary Forum held a workshop, in cooperation with UNREC and the National Assembly of Togo, to promote the implementation of the ATT and the PoA among Parliamentarians from Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean. The aim of the conference was to discuss the specific issue of violence and the proliferation of SALW as well as the role of parliamentarians in ratifying the ATT and to promote south- south cooperation. At the end of the workshop the text of the final declaration from the meeting was discussed, amended and adopted.

Descripción del Proyecto

The project 'Enhance ATT and UNPoA Implementation by South-South Parliamentary Exchange and Cooperation' provides support for the ratification of the ATT by organizing inter-regional exchanges for legislators from Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. The project is funded by the UN Trust Facility Supporting Cooperation on Arms Regulation (UNSCAR) a multi-donor funding mechanism designed to fund projects aimed at supporting the implementation of the ATT and the UNPoA.

Tipo de actividad
Institutional capacity-building
Sensitization and outreach
Enfoque de la Actividad
International instruments
Regional cooperation
Transfer controls
Socios
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Côte d’ivoire
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Gabon
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Liberia
Mali
Nigeria
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
São Tomé and Príncipe
Tanzania
Togo
Zimbabwe
Implementadores
Togo
Parliamentary Forum on Small Arms and Light Weapons
UN Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC)
Donantes
UN Trust Facility Supporting Cooperation on Arms Regulation (UNSCAR)
Contacto

United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC)
B.P. 2705 Lomé – TOGO
TEL : (228) 22 53 50 00
FAX : (228) 22 50 43 15
EMAIL: mail@unrec.org
www.unrec.org
www.facebook.unrec.org

Parliamentary Forum on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)
Box 612, 101 32
Stockholm, Sweden
E: info@parlforum.org
T: +46 (0)8 653 2543
http://www.parliamentaryforum.org

Fausto Brindis, Programme Officer
E: brindis@parlforum.org