Today and tomorrow in Vienna 🇦🇹 we take part in the discussions shaping the future of autonomous weapons systems #aws2024 hosted by MFA Austria

When humanity is at the crossroads, we need to take the right turn❗️

Today MFA Austria hosts representatives from 140+ States, int‘l organisations & civil society for the first int’l conference on #AutonomousWeaponsSystems .

Join #AWS2024Vienna live ➡️ bmeia.gv.at/en/european-fo…

Global Firearms Programme collaborates with law enforcement, legal experts & judiciary authorities to enhance the use of specialized investigative techniques in countering firearms trafficking across the Western Balkans. Activity under #Roadmap2024 with support from 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇫🇷🇸🇪🇳🇱🇳🇴🇪🇺

At UN Office on Drugs & Crime Firearms Working Group, UK hosted the side event on a ‘Multi Agency Approach to Tackling the Threat of 3D Printed Firearms’.

Member States shared experiences, highlighting the global threat of the spread and increasing availability of 3D-printed firearms.

Today UN Office on Drugs & Crime #UNTOC .COP Working Group on Firearms discussed technological developments relating to #firearms & article 5 of the Firearms Protocol ✅️

✅️Tomorrow, @UNODC_FTS will be launching the Digest of #firearms trafficking and related crimes cases!
📍Join us online or in-person to listen to case studies from Jamaica 🇯🇲and Sweden 🇸🇪 t.ly/GY5f8

Tomorrow at 3pm (CET) @UK_HomeAffairs will present their Approach to Tackling the Threat of 3D-printed Firearms at the UN Office on Drugs & Crime Working Group on Firearms. Join us online to🗣️discuss the spread and availability of 3D-printed #firearms --> shorturl.at/eHSZ4

With Project #DISRUPT we supported countries in setting up joint investigation teams focused on transnational #firearms trafficking, find out more about the project’s results here: youtube.com/watch?v=aqra73…
EU Service for Foreign Policy Instruments 🌐 The Flow INTERPOL UNODC in Brussels

Last week we were in Brussels to celebrate the achievements of Project #DISRUPT and identify the way forward to continue supporting the fight against illicit #firearms flows in West and Central Africa and Latin America UNODC in Brussels EU Service for Foreign Policy Instruments 🌐 The Flow INTERPOL

Counting down the days to the #UNTOC .COP WGFA!
Looking forward to collaborative efforts to address illicit #firearms trafficking
On this year's agenda:
📝 How technological developments impact illicit firearms markets
📝 Implementation of the Protocol's criminal offences

Full room today at the launch of ‘Firearms & Drugs: Partners in Transnational Crime’ Issue Paper
Highlights:
💡 Drug trafficking fuels demand for illicit #firearms
🌐 Similar routes, actors & modus operandi used
🕊️Firearms fuel violence, crime & threaten stability

“ #Firearms & #drugs : Partners in transnational #crime ” is the new report by Global Firearms Programme
& Vredesinstituut. Join the #CND67 launch-event now! With SIMONETTA GRASSI Astrid De Schutter 🐈‍⬛ Cecilia Farfán-Méndez, Ph.D. Giuseppe Battaglia
🎦watch: bit.ly/48X3V78
📖read: vlaamsvredesinstituut.eu/en/report/fire…

How are the #UNTOC_ReviewMechanism Secretariat & relevant UN Office on Drugs & Crime colleagues preparing for the next stages of the review process?

Last week's Branch Briefing provided UN Office on Drugs & Crime_Firearms & UN Office on Drugs & Crime_HTMSS colleagues with key insights into the processes & methodologies of the Mechanism.

👉Join us on 18 March for #CND67 side event 'Firearms & Drugs: Partners in Transnational Crime'
We'll be launching the joint Global Firearms Programme-Flemish Peace Institute issue paper on the links between illicit drug & #firearms trafficking

Don´t miss it! 🔗 bit.ly/48X3V78

Juntos contra las #armasdefuego ilícitas & el crimen organizado: 🇧🇷 Policía Federal de Brasil, EMPACT-Armas de Fuego, INTERPOL iArms y Global Firearms Programme asisten al lanzamiento de ELPACCTO en la Ciudad de Panamá 🇵🇦

¡Listos para unir fuerzas para abordar este problema en la región!

Together against illicit #firearms & related organized crime: 🇧🇷 Brazilian Federal Police, EMPACT-Firearms, INTERPOL iArms and Global Firearms Programme attending the ELPACCTO launching event in Panama City

Ready to join forces to tackle this problem in the region!

Happening now❗️
UN Office on Drugs & Crime GIFP funded programmes #AIRCOP , #CRIMJUST & #DISRUPT joining the launch of ELPAcCTO 2.0 in 🇵🇦, ready to support and contribute to the various working sessions and build the basis for increased synergies and cooperation with our respective programmes