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UNLIREC holds Firearms Identification Workshop for Trinidad and Tobago
On 14 March 2022, the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC), delivered a Firearms Identification Workshop: From Crime Scene to Court, in...
UNLIREC provides technical assessment for armouries in Antigua and Barbuda and Grenada
From 14 to 18 March 2022, the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC), carried out technical assessments for government armoury facilities in...
UNLIREC holds Cartridge Case Triage Course for Trinidad and Tobago
From 7 – 10 March, the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC), delivered a Cartridge Case Triage Course in Trinidad and Tobago. One of the...
UNLIREC held a webinar for Peruvian institutions on the importance of gun control in the prevention of violence against women
On Tuesday 1 March 2022, the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC), in collaboration with the Directorate of Security and Defence of the...
UNLIREC holds Regional Webinar on Building a Crime Gun Preventive Strategy in the Caribbean
On 24 February 2022, the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC) hosted the regional webinar on ‘Building a Crime Gun Preventive Strategy in...
UNLIREC and CARICOM IMPACS hold Executive Seminar for the Advancement Haiti’s National Action Plan for the implementation of the Caribbean Firearms Roadmap
On 15 February 2022, the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC) and the Caribbean Community’s Implementation Agency for Crime and Security...
UNLIREC holds Serial Number Restoration Courses for Jamaica
From 7 – 10 December 2021 and 15 - 18 February in Jamaica, the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC), in collaboration with the Government of...
UNLIREC holds Serial Number Restoration Course for St. Kitts and Nevis and Trinidad and Tobago
From 25 – 28 January in St Kitts and Nevis, and from 31 January - 2 February in Trinidad and Tobago, the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean...
UNLIREC holds Regional Webinar on Building a Crime Gun Preventive Strategy in the Caribbean
On 20 January 2022, the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC) hosted the regional webinar on ‘Building a Crime Gun Preventive Strategy in the...
Webinar on Firearms Prevention in Schools in El Salvador
As part of the cycle of activities that UNLIREC has been carrying out between 2020 and 2021 to encourage conversation regionally and nationally about the phenomenon of firearms in schools, a webinar on ‘Firearms...
UNLIREC organizes a virtual event on measures to prevent armed violence against women in Haiti
On 15 December 2021, the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC), in collaboration with the Ministry on Women’s Condition and Women’s Rights in...
UNLIREC held a roundtable discussion with young people leading initiatives on the prevention and reduction of armed violence in the region
10 Dec 2021 - Within the framework of UNLIREC’s project on women, youth and disarmament, funded by the Kingdom of Sweden, the Regional Centre hosted a roundtable discussion with youth in their role as forces of change....