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Below we list the latest news and articles from our website related to international affairs and issues such as sustainable development.

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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
philip@unacov.uk

Recent Articles

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UN response to UK Illegal Migration Bill

The Illegal Migration Bill will change the law to make it unambiguously clear that, if you enter the UK illegally, you should not be able to remain here. Instead, you will be detained and promptly removed either to your home country or to a safe country where any asylum claim will be considered. You will no longer be able to frustrate …

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House of Lords Special Committee on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Weapon Systems

Origin of the Committee On 7 December 2022, following increasing parliamentary interest and the work of a group of committed parliamentarians, the House of Lords Liaison Committee recommended the creation of a Special Committee on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Weapon Systems to be established in 2023. Each parliamentary year a total of four special inquiry select committees are established …

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Artificial Intelligence could generate Weather Warnings

The power of Artificial Intelligence and the private sector could be harnessed to ensure that everyone on Earth is protected from hazardous weather, water, or climate events through life-saving early warning systems. That is the conclusion of two special dialogues, organised by the World Meteorological Congress, dedicated to mapping the strengths and potential contribution from the private sector to the …

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Global mean temperature likely to exceed 1.5C limit before 2027

Under the 2015 Paris climate agreement, countries pledged to try to hold global temperatures to no higher than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. They did this because scientists warned that multiple tipping points would probably be crossed if that level were exceeded, unleashing a cascade of increasingly catastrophic and potentially irreversible impacts. A report published by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) …

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International Day of UN Peacekeepers Conference - video

The video below shows the Peacekeepers Day Conference organised by UNA-UK, RUSI and UNA Westminster on 23 May, as near as possible to the official International Day of UN Peacekeepers on 29 May. The panel featured peacekeeping experts and practitioners, focusing on peacekeeper training and marking 75 years of UN Peacekeeping: Hester Adriana Paneras, Head of Institutional and Operational Partnership …

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Join UNA-UK

You can now join UNA-UK as a member for £10 per year and stand with us in support of a strong, credible and effective UN.  Over the last 18 months, UNA-UK has been engaged in an extensive process of reviewing our engagement structures - how our members, supporters, and network of UNA Groups interact with us as an organisation and contribute to the …

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Forthcoming Events

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Coventry Against Racism Zoom Meeting

The community and trade union anti racist group Coventry Against Racism which invites people who support, not oppose, people and defend our rights to an online meeting on 14 June 2023. The attacks on our communities are relentless. Government continues to ratchet up its rhetoric. All of a sudden Britain has a national emergency. The crisis is not of our …

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World Refugee Day 2023

Each year on 20 June, the world celebrates World Refugee Day, the international day to honour people who have been forced to flee. World Refugee Day is designated by the United Nations to honour refugees around the globe. It celebrates the strength and courage of people who have been forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or persecution. It …

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Hiroshima Day 2023

The 2023 Hiroshima Remembrance Service will be held in Coventry Cathedral from 2 to 3pm on 6 August. Hiroshima was largely destroyed by an atomic bomb on August 6 1945 — one of two bombs detonated by the US. The second was detonated over Nagasaki on August 9. The two bombs combined killed up to 266,000 people, most of whom …

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