In a significant step forward for the ATLAS project, the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) has successfully concluded the first train-the-trainers event held in Tunis, Tunisia, from 11 to 15 September 2023. The event, which was a key milestone of the ATLAS project, aimed to strengthen Tunisia's capacity to prevent chemical weapons attacks by non-state actors through enhanced intelligence-sharing and inter-agency cooperation mechanisms.
On 12 to 13 July 2023, 37 officers from over 15 Ukrainian state agencies, including the State Border Guard Service, the State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management, the National Security and Defense Council, the Ministry of Defense, the Security Service and the National Police, completed a two-day in-person training in Kyiv entitled “Stop the virus of disinformation.”
On 20 June 2023, the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) hosted its first online training session to reinforce and expand Tunisian officials’ knowledge of chemical weapons and chemical security.
Twelve trainees from eight state authorities with different mandates pertaining to preventing, countering, and responding to chemical risks participated in the training.
On 21 June 2023, the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) conducted its first online training session to reinforce and expand Moroccan officials’ knowledge of chemical weapons and chemical security.
Within the framework of the European Union’s (EU) Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Centres of Excellence (CoE) Initiative (EU CBRN CoE), 64 partner countries cooperate to mitigate the CBRN risks of criminal, accidental or natural origin. The EU CBRN CoE global initiative represents the EU’s largest civilian external security programme, which is funded and implemented by the European Union as part of its goal to promote peace, stability and conflict prevention.
21 apprenants de six pays africains ont reçu aujourd’hui à Rabat, leur diplôme de Mastère spécialisé «Gestion des risques et menaces Nucléaire, Radiologique, Biologique, Chimique, Explosif (NRBCE) mention Afrique».
The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) organized the second peer-to-peer workshop on major security-related threats in Southeast Asia. The workshop, specifically designed for intelligence and law enforcement officers from Cambodia, Lao PDR and the Philippines, took place in Luang Prabang from 17 to 19 May 2023.