MARCH

ICAN Civil Society Forum

02 – 03  March | Oslo, Norway

In March 2013, the government of Norway will host an international conference on the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons. Before the governments meet, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is hosting a Civil Society Forum in Oslo to promote a total ban on nuclear weapons! A dedicated website and more information will be available soon from ICAN.

The Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons

04 – 05 March 2013 | Oslo, Norway

The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be hosting an intergovernmental conference on the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons.

Commission the Status of Women, 57th Session

04 – 15 March | New York, USA

The fifty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 4 to 15 March 2013. The priority theme for this year’s CSW is the elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls..

International Women’s Day

8 March

Arms Trade Treaty Negotiating Conference

18 – 28 March | New York, USA

The UN will host the second round of negotiations of an arms trade treaty (ATT), as set out in resolution A/C.1/68/L.11 adopted by the UN General Assembly First Committee.

APRIL

Convention on Cluster Munitions Intersessionals

16 – 19 April | Geneva, Switzerland

MAY

Global Week Against Armed Violence

10 – 16 May

Mine ban Treaty intersessionals

13 – 17 May, Geneva, Switzerland

JUNE

ATT Signature 

3 Jun

JULY

Nuclear Abolition Week 

6-13 July

Regional Seminar on Cluster Munitions in Latin America and the Caribbean.
July 3rd week

AUGUST

Entry into force of the Convention on Cluster Munitions

1° agosto

SEPTEMBER

Fourth Meeting of States Parties to the Cluster Munitions Coalition

10 – 13 September| Lusaka, Zambia

OCTOBER

UN First Committee,

New York, USA

DECEMBER

13th Meeting of States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty

2 – 6 December | Geneva, Switzerland