Reports & Briefings: United Nations Association- UK

Reports, briefings and guides

Briefing notes
Briefings produced by UNA-UK breakdown UN issues into key points and straightforward language.

Climate change
UNA-UK has produced a set of briefings to complement the conference series on climate change. These background papers, written by climate change expert Alex Evans, cover these topics:

1. Climate change: an introduction (PDF)
2. International climate change architecture (PDF)
3. UK climate change policy (PDF)
4. How climate links to other issues (PDF)
5. What individuals can do (PDF)

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	Extraordinary rendidtion UNA-UK briefing paper on extraordinary rendition by Natalie Samarasinghe (July 2008)

	League of democracies UNA-UK briefing paper on proposals for a 'League of Democracies by Mipe Okunseinde (July 2008)

	Documenting the UN's Successes' The report is a concise assessment of the UN's comparative advantage in the key areas of its work 'Documenting the UN's Successes' (April 2008)

UNA-UK reports
Reports produced by UNA-UK assess and compile an initial analysis of key UN and UNA-UK related issues.

2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

UNA-UK sent a delegation to the May 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. In this report, Dr Owen Greene, who headed the delegation, provides his analysis of the conference processes and outcomes, highlighting key areas for focus during and after the Review Conference.

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	UNA-UK Impact Report 2009 In May 2009 the Impact Report was published. The report documents UNA-UK’s achievements over the last four years. It highlights our work in the areas of strategic communications, influencing foreign policy, grassroots campaigning, education, youth and good governance. Click here to download the report (3.8MB)

	The Road to Copenhagen UNA-UK has published a report drawing on discussions from UNA-UK's 2008-9 climate change conference series. The report provides an overview of the scientific and political context for climate change in 2009, together with an assessment of some of the key landmarks on the ‘road to Copenhagen’. Click on the icon to read more.

	In Larger Freedom in the UK In early 2005 UNA-UK was tasked by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to conduct a public and expert engagement process on UN reform in the lead-up to the UN Millennium Review Summit in September 2005. A series of national and regional public debates were undertaken to assess the recommendations made in the UN Secretary-General's report, In Larger Freedom. UNA-UK has compiled a report based on the feedback received and supplemented this with expert input. The full report can be accessed here.

	60 Years of UNA-UK: a report by Frank Field In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the organisation, former UNA-UK Director Frank Field compiled this report of UNA-UK's history.

UNA-UK guides

	UNA-UK hustings pack 2010 The guide offers step-by-step tips on how to organise a hustings meeting and provides sample questions to pose to candidates. The guide also looks at what a hustings can achieve, and considers what individuals can do to raise international issues at election time. Click here to download the guide