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7 MAY 2008 The number of dead and missing in Burma could be as high as 100,000. Up to a million have been left homeless. Survivors face poor sanitation, a lack of access to clean water, and the threat of disease.The United Nations is mobilising aid and giving assistance. Click here to read more. Would you like to help? You can make an online donation to help the humanitarian effort through the UK Disasters Emergency Committee, the UN World Food Programme, the UN Refugee Agency and/or the UN Children's Fund. |
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2 MAY 2008
Spring issue of New World released The spring issue of UNA-UK's flagship quarterly magazine, New World, leads with an essay by Baroness Williams on the push to reinvigorate multilateral nuclear disarmament. Other features include articles by Ed Luck, the UN Secretary-General's Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect, and Jacques Diouf, head of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization. |
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28 APRIL 2008 UNA-UK Chair Lord Hannay was part of a Cluster Munitions Coalition delegation which presented Foreign Secretary David Miliband with a list of more than 30,000 signatures collected in the UK. The petition calls for a ban on the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of cluster bombs. Many UNA-UK members signed the petition, having added their signatures at this year's Annual Conference in Exeter. Click here to read more. |
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New Books resources page: click here |
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Spring issue of New World available to download: click here |
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New UDHR60 page: click here |
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New Do Something page: click here |
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New Climate Change Conference Series page: click here |
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