Archive

BIOLOGICAL SECURITY

• Biosecurity implications of SARS-CoV-2, Biosecurity Insight Newsletter (July 2021)

• International Federation of Biosafety Associations updates Professional Certification in “Biocontainment Facility Design, Operations, and Maintenance”, with support from Canada and the United States (June 2021)

• COVID-19: Stepping up Global Health Management, highlights OIE-led biosecurity projects supported by GP countries (June 2021)

• Tunisia establishing agro-terrorism and agro-crime monitoring system, with support from Canada’s Weapons Threat Reduction Program (June 2021)

• Africa CDC Report on Priorities for Strengthening Biosafety and Biosecurity, with support from Canada’s Weapons Threat Reduction Program (June 2021)

• OIE launches first ever virtual PVS Pathway mission, with support from Canada’s Weapons Threat Reduction Program (March 2021)

• GHSA Biosafety & Biosecurity Action Package Update (March 2021)

• A Global Partnership to Mitigate Biological Threats (OIE Panorama: Responding to emergencies through preparedness and resilience, #2020-2)

• Canada provides 120,000 N95 Masks to Vietnam (November 2020)

• Global Partnership Newsletter (September 2020)

• Global Health Security Agenda Action Package Prevent-3 (APP3) Statement on Biosecurity and Biosafety During the COVID-19 Pandemic (July 2020)

• Canada National Statement to UN Security Council Open VTC on Pandemics and Security (July 2020)

• Statement by UN Secretary General on the International Security Implications of COVID-19 (July 2020)

• How Canada paved the road for COVID-19 testing in Ghana (June 2020)

• The German Bio-security Program (June 2020)

• International cooperation against agro-terrorism - OIE-FAO-INTERPOL initiative funded by Canada (June 2020)

• Assistance with COVID-19 Diagnostics: the German Bio-Security Programme in the Sudan (May 2020)

• Biosecurity: working together in the fight against COVID-19 (Germany, May 2020)

• UN Secretary-General's remarks to the Security Council on the COVID-19 Pandemic (April 2020)

• GP Statement to the BTWC Meeting of States Parties (December 2018)

• International Activities of Global Partnership Member Countries related to Article X of the BTWC (December 2018)

• Inaugural Global Bio-security Dialogue (London, June 2018)

• International Activities of Global Partnership Member Countries related to Article X of the BTWC (December 2017)

• GP Statement on “Strengthening the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) through a reinforced intersessional work programme” (November 2017)

CHEMICAL SECURITY

• Chemical Weapons Munitions Deployed in the Syrian War, with support from Canada's Weapons Threat Reduction Program (July 2021)

• France contributes €500,000 to support OPCW’s cybersecurity resilience (June 2021)

• Ireland contributes €100,000 to OPCW’s Trust Fund for Syria Missions (June 2021)

• Czech Republic and OPCW deliver First Responder Training for Eastern Europe (May 2021)

• France Contributes €1M to OPCW’s Trust Fund for Syria Missions (May 2021)

• New Zealand Contributes Further €100,000 to Future OPCW Centre for Chemistry and Technology (May 2021)

• OPCW delivers Czech-funded chemical emergency first response training to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)(April 2021)

• Assad's Long Reach: The Syrian Arab Air Force at War (April 2021)

• Philippines Contributes $15,000 to Future OPCW Centre for Chemistry and Technology (April 2021)

• France Contributes €200,000 to Future OPCW Centre for Chemistry and Technology (March 2021)

• The OPCW, in collaboration with Finland and Spain, delivers UK-funded capacity building training to member states in Latin America and the Caribbean (March 2021)

• The Last Straw: How Chemical Weapons Impact Women and Break Communities (February 2021)

• United Kingdom Contributes £29,000 to Support OPCW Training (January 2021)

• G7 Foreign Ministers' statement on arrest and detention of Alexey Navalny (January 2021)

• Global Partnership Newsletter (December 2020)

• Germany Contributes €1M to Support OPCW’s Digital Resilience (December 2020)

• USA Contributes $7M to Future OPCW Centre for Chemistry and Technology (November 2020)

• Germany Contributes further €500,000 to OPCW Centre for Chemistry and Technology (November 2020)

• Our Global Partnership Against Chemical Weapons Abuses, Remarks by Dr. Christopher Ford (Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, U.S Department to State) to the GPWG (November 2020)

• UK Contributes Further £1M to Support OPCW’s Cyber Resilience and Centre for Chemistry and Technology (November 2020)

• Switzerland Contributes €100,000 to OPCW Centre for Chemistry and Technology (November 2020)

• Final Report: Lessons Learned from the OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism, funded by Canada and Switzerland (October 2020)

• OPCW and Czech Republic train East African Responders on Chemical Emergencies (October 2020)

• Korea Contributes €120,000 to OPCW (October 2020)

• Canada Contributes further C$2.5M to OPCW Centre for Chemistry and Technology (September 2020)

• G7 Foreign Ministers’ Statement on the Poisoning of Alexei Navalny (September 2020)

• OPCW Statement on Allegations of Chemical Weapons Use Against Alexei Navalny (September 2020)

• Canada Condemns Alexei Navalny Poisoning (September 2020)

• United Kingdom Contributes £800,000 to Support OPCW Activities (August 2020)

• Japan Contributes €480,000 to OPCW's Trust Fund for Syria Missions (July 2020)

• Finland Contributes €200,000 to Support OPCW Activities and Centre for Chemistry and Technology (July 2020)

• UK Contributes £100,000 to Future OPCW Centre for Chemistry and Technology (July 2020)

• Statement by Canada on Second Anniversary of Chemical Weapons attacks in Syria (April 2019)

• GP Statement to the CWC 4th Review Conference (November 2018)

• International Activities of GP Member Countries related to the CWC (November 2018)

• Canada Contributes $7.5M to Future OPCW Centre for Chemistry and Technology (October 2018)

• UK Statement on Special Session of the Conference of States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention (June 2018)

• Canada welcomes OPCW actions to counter impunity for use of chemical weapons (June 2018)

• Canada condemns reported chemical attack in eastern Ghouta (April 2018)

• OPCW Praises Complete Destruction of Libya’s Chemical Weapon Stockpile (January 2018)

• Canada Tweet on Libya CW destruction (January 2018)

• Remove. Transport. Destroy: Achieving a Chemical Weapons-Free Libya (January 2018)

• Condemnation of Chemical Weapons Use in Syria (October 2017)

• Completion of CW Destruction in Russia (September 2017)

NUCLEAR SECURITY

• Global Partnership Newsletter (March 2021)
• The IAEA Provides Over 100 Countries with COVID-19 Testing Equipment (August 2020)
• Progress on Global Nuclear Security Has Slowed Significantly, According to 2020 NTI Index (July 2020)
• A Satellite Imagery Review of the Pyongsan Uranium Mill (July 2020)
• IAEA to Ship Vital Testing Equipment to Countries in the Fight against COVID-19 (April 2020)
• UNODC promotes the international legal framework against nuclear terrorism in Uganda (March 2020) - funded by the EU
• UNODC Supports CARICOM countries to Act against Risks of Nuclear Terrorism (February 2020) - funded by Canada
• UNODC Promotes the International Legal Framework Against Nuclear Terrorism in the Philippines (February 2020) - funded by Canada

CBRN SECURITY AND UNSCR 1540 IMPLEMENTATION

• "Well, Somebody Has to Arrange the Matches": Understanding the Shortcomings of the 1540 Nonproliferation Assistance Process (July 2021)

• How the EU made the world safer from nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons in 2020: Annual WMD Report (July 2021)

• Report on CBRNe Events in the World - Issue 05/2021, prepared by the Observatory on Security and CBRNe Defence (June 2021)

• CBRNE terror threat focus of new INTERPOL-UN initiative (November 2020)

• 18th Anniversary of the Global Partnership (June 2020)

• How the WCO builds capacity to implement strategic trade controls (June 2020)