The following article was first published on UNA-UK website. On the 5 February 2021 the British Ambassador to the UN, Barbara Woodward, acting in her capacity as President of the Security Council for the month of February circulated a joint letter with … Continue reading →
Addressing the U.N. Human Rights Council on 22 February [1], the Secretary-General warned about transnational threats from racism, white supremacists and neo-Nazis, saying: The rot of racism eats away at institutions, social structures and everyday life — sometimes invisibly and … Continue reading →
The 18th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture was delivered by United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres on 18 July 2020.
Continue reading →This article by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is the foreword to the UNA-UK’s report Climate 2020: The path ahead The recovery from COVID-19 should be focused on securing a sustainable, equitable and resilient future. There are six climate actions that … Continue reading →
The Together First campaign is commissioning a series of reports looking deeper into specific issues arising from the erosion of multilateralism in our global system. For the first of these expert reports, they have commissioned Mona Ali Khalil to address … Continue reading →
The following is the UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ appeal for a global ceasefire amid the COVID-19 pandemic, issued on 23 March 2020. Our world faces a common enemy: COVID-19. The virus does not care about nationality or ethnicity, faction or … Continue reading →
This is based on a report published on the UNA-UK website. On 3 June UNA-UK was delighted to host the UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, and special guests for an evening to celebrate the … Continue reading →