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Dear Reader, Below we list the latest news and articles from our website related to international affairs and issues such as sustainable development. Read these stories and more, plus information about forthcoming events, by following the links below. You might also like the Coventry Climate Action Network website which we also maintain. Please check it out at https://covcan.uk/ Philip Brown Secretary, UNA Coventry Branch
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The following open letter was published on 26 May 2025 signed by more than 800 lawyers, academics and retired senior judges. The full list of the signatories can be found here. The text of the letter and footnotes but excluding the 828 signatories Dear Prime Minister, We are lawyers, legal academics and former judges who are UK-based or qualified. We write …
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27 May 2025 Chaos ensued when the first of the new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's (GHF) aid distribution site opened in the in the Tal al-Sultan area of the southern Gaza city of Rafah. The UN Human Rights Office has said it believes 47 people were injured when crowds overwhelmed the centre. Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said one person was killed …
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On 26 May 2025 Anna Foster (AF) interviewed the Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, Jan Egeland (JE) during the BBC Today radio programme. Egeland was previously United Nations Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. The above is a recording of this and a transcript is included below. The background Under international law Israel, as an occupying power, …
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On 21 May 2025 Anna Foster (AF) interviewed Michael Kleiner (MK), President of the Supreme Court of Israel, during the BBC Today Programme. He is a member of the Likud party to which the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also belongs. AF: The UK government has made it very clear that it wants Israel to stop this expanded new military offensive …
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On 21 May 2025 UN Secretary-General António Guterres made a statement explaining the Sustainable Development Goals are alarmingly off-track and the lives and futures of millions of people hang in the balance. Donors are pulling the plug on aid commitments and delivery at historic speed and scale. A transcript of the statement can be found here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwysCOJMGT4
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An International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two State Solution will be held in New York on June 17-20, 2025. On 23 May, diplomats convened at UN Headquarters in New York to lay the groundwork for this crucial conference which is aimed at advancing global efforts towards achieving a two-State …
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On 20 May the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office announced what it calls "major sanctions" against Russia in support of Ukraine. The European Union also applied sanctions but Putin's friend Trump did not. The UK announcement said: As President Putin ruthlessly intensifies his strikes against innocent Ukrainians, the UK is ramping up pressure with raft of 100 new sanctions. …
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United Nations News reported on 19 May that the UN is facing a worsening cash crisis that threatens its ability to carry out vital work. Because of member states' current underpayments of contributions – $2.4 billion in unpaid regular budget dues and $2.7 billion in peacekeeping – the UN has been forced to cut spending, freeze hiring, and scale back …
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On 20 May Tom Fletcher was interviewed by Anna Foster during the BBC Today Programme. He is the Under-Secretary General in the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA). He stated during that interview that "There are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them". This was not true. It was …
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Article by Philip Brown, Secretary of United Nations Association Coventry Branch. This is his own personal point of view and does not represent the views of the United Nations Association-UK. 18 May 2025 Last night I could not sleep. I, along no doubt with millions of other people around the world, have for many months been horrified by the inhuman …
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On 20 May 2025 the UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, David Lammy, made a statement on Israel to the House of Commons. A transcription of his speech is shown below the video. https://youtu.be/ejFHS-zDBkk With permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I will make a statement on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. This weekend, the Israel Defence Forces started …
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On 3 June, Streatham & Clapham UNA will host a Zoom event at which David Heymann will talk on the subject The World Health Organisation: its role in promoting health & keeping people safe, and the impact of the USA leaving Professor David Heymann CBE spent 22 years with the World Health Organization (WHO) as, among other roles, Assistant Director-General …
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Great Big Green Week 2025 will run from 7 to 15 June. It is the UK’s biggest celebration of community action to tackle climate change and protect nature. During the week, communities, schools, businesses, churches, mosques and more join together in a wave of support for action to protect the planet. Taking action to swap together for good shows our support …
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Refugee Week 2025,will run from 16 to 22 June. The theme will be Community as a Superpower Community is the incredible everyday. Ordinary and extraordinary. Simple acts of shared generosity. Kindness multiplied to become an unstoppable force! “We can begin the process of making community wherever we are. We can begin by sharing a smile, a warm greeting, a bit …
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An International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two State Solution will be held in New York on June 17-20, 2025. On 23 May, diplomats convened at UN Headquarters in New York to lay the groundwork for this crucial conference which is aimed at advancing global efforts towards achieving a two-State …
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The UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP) 30 will take place in Belém, Brazil, 10-21 November 2025. What is the COP? The COP is the supreme decision-making body of the Convention. All States that are Parties to the Convention are represented at the COP, at which they review the implementation of the Convention and any other legal instruments …
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