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Philip Brown

Secretary, UNA Coventry Branch
philip@unacov.uk

Recent News Highlights

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International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade - but has it been abolished?

This article was first published by Coventry Lord Mayor's Committee for Peace and Reconciliation. 28 August is the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, but Sir Mo Farah's life tells a different story and demonstrates that slaves do not live in peace. The Olympic gold medallist revealed in July that he was a victim …

Human activity made UK extreme temperatures 10 times more likely

Climate attribution scientist at the Met Office, Dr Nikos Christidis, has told the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has declared that "In a recent study we found that the likelihood of extremely hot days in the UK has been increasing and will continue to do so during the course of the century. Climate change has already influenced the likelihood of temperature …

Food systems need climate resilience to avoid global food crisis

UN General Assembly President Abdulla Shahid told a special meeting to address the global food crisis that scaling up climate resilience across food systems is among the actions needed to counter rising hunger and malnutrition. “Frankly, we were already falling short of meeting our food-security targets, prior to 2020. However, the situation is now critical,” said Mr. Shahid. “The shocks of …

UNHCR and others condemn UK's Nationality and Borders Act

The much disputed Nationality and Borders Act, which passed into UK law in April, has been condemned by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as being "fundamentally at odds with the Government’s avowed commitment to upholding the United Kingdom’s international obligations under the Refugee Convention and with the country’s long-standing role as a global champion for the refugee …

Has Coventry ever declared a climate emergency and does it matter?

The UN Secretary General writes "We are on a fast track to climate disaster. Major cities under water. Unprecedented heatwaves. Terrifying storms. Widespread water shortages. The extinction of a million species of plants and animals. This is not fiction or exaggeration. It is what science tells us will result from our current energy policies." So you might wonder has Coventry …

UN's Plan to Tackle Action on Internal Displacement

More people are currently displaced within their own countries than ever recorded before due to conflict, violence, disasters and the impact of climate change. The number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) has doubled over the last ten years, with women, children and marginalized groups often facing the greatest impacts. Millions of people have remained trapped in displacement for years, some …

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Hiroshima Day 2022

The Hiroshima Remembrance Service will be held in Coventry Cathedral from 2 to 3pm on 6 August 2022. The full programme is as follows: 1:00 pm: Taiko Drumming (please also see below) 1:30 pm: Music from Tony Edwards organist and Taiko Drumming by Coventry students. 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm: Coventry Hiroshima Remembrance which will include folding of paper cranes …

Closing Date for UN Pitching Peace Youth Music Challenge

12 August 2022 will be the closing date for submissions for the Pitching Peace Youth Music Challenge which invites young people to express their passion for peace through music. With financial support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, the #Youth4Disarmament initiative invites young people, aged 13-29, to share what disarmament means to them and their communities by …

Closing date for Coventry International Young People's Peace Essay Competition

31 October is the closing date for those aged between 15 and 24 to submit their Peace Essay. What do you see as the greatest threat to peace? Do you have ideas what people can and should do reduce that threat? Then Coventry’s International Young People’s Peace Essay Competition is your chance to tell the world what you think. Write …

Lord Mayor's Peace Lecture 2022

Coventry Lord Mayor's Committee for Peace and Reconciliation is pleased to announce that BBC's energy and environment analyst, Roger Harrabin, will deliver the Lord Mayor's Peace Lecture on 11 November. Roger was born in Coventry and attended Stivichall Primary School and King Henry VIII School. After studying English at Cambridge he returned to Coventry as a journalist at the Coventry …

International Prize for the Promotion of Young Scientists

15 November 2022 is the deadline for entries to the UNESCO-Al Fozan International Prize for the Promotion of Young Scientists in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The Prize was created to encourage people under 40 to undertake scientific careers and make their work more visible to the community and society. This is the first edition of the Prize, which …

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