JANUARY 2009
Post-ceasefire Gaza humanitarian appeal
In the wake of the interim ceasefire declarations by both Israel and Hamas, UNA-UK supported a special appeal by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) to get basic supplies to the people of Gaza – especially the tens of thousands that have been made homeless by the violence.

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OCTOBER 2008
UNA-UK urges British government support for stronger UN presence in the DRC
UNA-UK Chair Lord Hannay wrote to FCO Minister Lord Malloch-Brown urging the British government to do everything it can to reinforce the UN's peacekeeping operation in the DRC.

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Click here to read Lord Malloch-Brown's response

SEPTEMBER 2008
UNA-UK urges the government to stamp out piracy around the Horn of Africa
UNA-UK's Chair Lord Hannay wrote to the British government calling on it to support efforts at the UN to curb piracy in the waters around the Horn of Africa.

In June the UN Security Council passed a resolution authorising the use of force against such acts of piracy – several of the vessels seized were operated by the UN World Food Programme. The hijackings are disrupting international trade, contributing to rising food prices, choking the flow of aid to displaced Somalis and, through ransoms, fuelling the region’s ongoing conflict. Sixty pirate attacks took place off the Somali coast and in the Gulf of Aden last year – twice as many as in 2007.

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