UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2020: An Inflection Point
The United Nations Environment Programme has issued their Emissions Gap Report 2020: An Inflection Point which shows that, despite a dip in greenhouse gas emissions from the COVID-19 economic slowdown, the world is still heading for a catastrophic temperature rise … Continue reading →
Trump Pardons Blackwater Guards: UN experts call it an ‘affront to justice’
On 22 December, Donald Trump pardoned four Blackwater guards convicted in connection with the killing of Iraqi civilians. At the same time he pardoned two people who pleaded guilty in the special counsel’s Russia inquiry, and three corrupt former Republican … Continue reading →
Theater of War
Theater of War Productions works with leading film, theatre, and television actors to present dramatic readings of seminal plays—from classical Greek tragedies to modern and contemporary works—followed by town hall-style discussions designed to confront social issues by drawing out raw … Continue reading →
Tackling Modern Slavery
Walk Free is an international human rights group focussed on the eradication of modern slavery, in all its forms, in our lifetime. They approach this challenge by integrating world class research with direct engagement with some of the world’s most … Continue reading →
What Should President Biden Do About Israel-Palestine?
In an article in the NBC News website, Martin Indyk, former special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations reviewed the history of US attempts to find peace between Israel and Palestine and outlined four steps he considers Biden could take to move … Continue reading →
Unicef UK gives emergency food aid to UK children
School Food Matters have received funding from Unicef UK to deliver nutritious breakfasts to schools in Southwark, south London, over the two-week Christmas holidays and February half-term. Unicef said it was helping children in the UK for the first time … Continue reading →
Palestine in November and December
Contents of this page DemolitionsCOVIDIsrael-Palestine CooperationArmed Force Demolitions The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that in November, the Israeli authorities demolished, forced people to demolish, or seized 178 Palestinian-owned structures across the West Bank: this … Continue reading →
Roadmap to West Midlands Sustainability 2030
The West Midlands’ Sustainability Roadmap to 2030 focuses on improving social, economic and environmental indicators across the West Midlands for a more sustainable, fairer and greener region for all. Building on the previous Roadmap for 2010 – 2020, SWM has … Continue reading →
UN Secretary-General’s State of the Planet speech at Columbia University
How to create a UN that listens
This page contains extracts from the article by Lysa John and Mandeep Tiwana from CIVICUS, the global alliance for civil society, contained in UNA-UK’s magazine “A First Aid Kit for the World”. The complete article can be read here. It … Continue reading →
Sustainable Development Goals Global Survey
The United Nations is running a global survey to collect the views of people around the world on the Sustainable Development Goals. Take the survey at myworld2030.org
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UNA Coventry is working with Dr Ken Grainger to develop a forum at which anyone wishing to promote and take action on sustainable development can exchange ideas and work together to develop plans. The name comes from the 17 Sustainable … Continue reading →
UNA Coventry to Host Work Experience Masters Students
UNA Coventry are delighted to announce we will be hosting two work experience students in 2021. They are attending the the University of Warwick’s Centre for Education Studies masters course “Understanding Global Education and International Development”. They are due to begin work in January … Continue reading →
A First Aid Kit for the World
The latest edition of UNA-UK’s magazine offers reflections on 75 years of the United Nations and looks to the future of the Organisation and its key role in tackling global challenges. In the face of adversity humanity repeatedly forges a … Continue reading →
Climate Ambition Summit 2020
To mark 5 years since the Paris Agreement, 75 world leaders gathered virtually on Saturday 12 December, together with members of civil society and the private sector, for the “Climate Ambition Summit 2020“. Some countries pledged to increase their ambitions … Continue reading →
UNA-UK Work in 2020
On 7 – 8 December 2020, UNA-UK held its annual membership conference, this time a virtual event, at which, among other things, it reported on the work of UNA-UK during 2020: These included: Establishing UNA-UK as the coordinator of UK … Continue reading →
Global Festival of Action for SDGs
The Global Festival of Action for Sustainable Development is the world´s most inspiring SDG event to celebrate, empower, and connect the global community driving Action for the Sustainable Development Goals. Organised by the UN SDG Action Campaign with the support of the … Continue reading →
Report on Black Lives Matter Discussion
Report by Violeta Cotoman. Currently, more than 6 months have passed since George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor were brutally murdered in the US by police officers. These murders have generated a global wave of protests, from Minneapolis to Coventry. Communities … Continue reading →
International Chat Website
The best way to promote peaceful relations between people of different communities, religions, races and nations is to enable them to talk to and (above all) to listen to each other. This was a clear message that emerged both from … Continue reading →
UNA-UK statement on the election of Joe Biden as President of the USA
This article was first published on the UNA-UK website. On 7 November Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were elected as President and Vice-President of the United States. After an historic election, in which more Americans voted than at any other … Continue reading →