Links
International Organizations
The links provided below are to international and multilateral organizations promoting the control, disarmament, elimination, and/or destruction of CBW.
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The Australia Group
Homepage
– official site for the international regime focusing on chemical and biological
export controls; description of export controls, which overlap with the CWC,
is included
Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) Website
Homepage
– a website maintained by the University of Bradford, Department of Peace
Studies in anticipation of the establishment of an organization to monitor
the implementation of a protocol to the BWC
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
Homepage
– official site of the CWC implementing
body; official documents and speeches provided
Pugwash Conferences on Science and
World Affairs
Homepage
– official site; the Conferences bring together scholars
and public figures from throughout the world seeking to reduce armed conflict
and find solutions to global programs; Pugwash scholars have been particularly
active in chem-bio disarmament fields in recent years; website details recent
efforts
United Nations: BWC Fifth Review Conference
Homepage
– collection of official documents, press releases and speeches from the Fifth Review Conference of the BWC held November 19 – December 7, 2001, in Geneva, Switzerland
United Nations: Department for Disarmament Affairs (DDA)
Homepage
– the chief arms control department located
at United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York; it is responsible for coordinating
UN disarmament efforts; the DDA regularly updates the website on UN disarmament
efforts, including those concerning the BWC and CWC
United Nations: Disarmament Section
Homepage
– portal for all UN arms control organizations and fora like
the UN General Assembly's First Committee and the UN Institute for Disarmament
Research (UNIDIR)
United Nations Office at Geneva: Conference on Disarmament (CD)
Homepage
– official site for the UN Conference on Disarmament (CD) at the United Nations Office at Geneva.
United Nations Office at Geneva - The Biological Weapons Convention Website
Homepage
– a website maintained by the United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs providing information related to the BWC.
United Nations: Monitoring,
Verification and Inspection Commission(UNMOVIC)
Homepage
– the UN commission
formed to replace UNSCOM (see below) and resume UN efforts to disarm Iraq
of its WMD; also to operate a system to monitor and
verify Iraq's compliance with its obligation to disarm and not reacquire WMD; submits
quarterly reports (found on the site) to the UN Security Council on UNMOVIC's efforts
to fulfill its mandate
United Nations: Special Commission (UNSCOM)
Homepage
– the official site of UNSCOM, which performed
inspections in Iraq; not updated since December 1999 when UNSCOM was replaced
by UNMOVIC (see above)
World Health Organisation (WHO)
Communicable Disease
Surveillance and Control (CSR) Document Centre
– this page lists reports
by the WHO's CSR department; the reports are on diseases and their spread
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