UNA LASER 2021 Summer Council summary and recording
The UNA LASER 2021 Summer Council was held on 17th July. It was organised by the Twickenham and Richmond UNA Branch (TRUNA). The theme was: The UN: Past – Present […]
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Urge the G7 leaders to ensure vaccines for all and to address Climate Change
UNA LASER is a member of the Crack the Crises coalition. There is an important opportunity to influence the G7 world leaders due to meet in Cornwall on 11th June. […]
Continue ReadingCalling for an immediate overhaul of the UK domestic oil and gas policy
LASER – as a member of the Climate Coalition – has signed the following letter, coordinated by the Global Gas and Oil Network and being sent to the Prime Minsiter […]
Continue ReadingUrge HMG to help bring peace to Israel/Palestine
Please write to your MPs to ask them to urge her Majesty’s Government to help bring an urgent settlement in the Holy Land to achieve both peace and justice. Below […]
Continue ReadingThe UK Glasgow Action Plan
Here is the Gllsgoe Action Plan for COP26, with its 5 key actions that are needed to: Close the Gap to 1.5 deg C Address Loss and damage Increase climate […]
Continue ReadingDon’t Cut UK Aid to Yemen!
We have written on behalf of LASER to the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary, urging them to give more support to the Yemen. These letters mnay be dealt with […]
Continue ReadingWrite to PM, Defence Secretary & your MP about UK and TPNW
The UN Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is effective from 22nd January 2021. LASER’s Chair has writtento the Prime Minister and Defence Secretary to encourage them to take […]
Continue ReadingFollow-up to WHAT NEXT FOR THE UN? Building a more secure world Festival
Hundreds of people from all over the world joined us from 18th-24th October to agree actions for building a more secure world. Peace Child International joined us in creating nightly […]
Continue ReadingHiroshima 75: promoting the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear (ICAN) weapons is encouraging us to forward the following letter to our MPs this week (Hiroshima was 6th August; Nagasaki 9th August). We are […]
Continue ReadingUrgent briefing on humanitarian disaster in Yemen
Yemen: Two million under Fives are malnourished[1] UNICEF says “360,00 children will Die”[2] UN Agencies are facing a major funding crisis after donors, including the UK, Saudi Arabia and the […]
Continue ReadingAsking Foreign Secretary urgently to save lives in Yemen
private.office@fco.gov.uk Dear Foreign Secretary I am writing to you on behalf of the United Nations Association London and South East Region out of extreme concern for the humanitarian situation in […]
Continue ReadingSupport for the World Food Programme
The BBC news report on the “worst humanitarian crisis since the Second World war” alerted us to the urgency of the need for the World Food Programme (WFP) to be […]
Continue ReadingPetition for Debt Cancellation due to COVID 19 pandemic
The economic crash caused by coronavirus has pushed indebted countries even deeper into debt crisis. The call to cancel debts for the most vulnerable countries is gathering speed and LASER […]
Continue ReadingFunding for the WHO
LASER was appalled at President Trump’s decision to cut funding for WHO at this crucial time of international cooperation in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. Working with Sir Richard Jolly […]
Continue ReadingSupporting the Secretary General’s Call for a COVID-19 Global Ceasefire
On 23rd March 2020, UN Secretary General António Guterres said, “The fury of the virus illustrates the folly of war. That is why, today, I am calling for an immediate […]
Continue ReadingMigrants – Causes, Consequences and Solutions
The following is a report from the LASER Spring Council meeting at which our speaker event focussed on the issue of migration. The Region was very fortunate to have two […]
Continue ReadingStatement from UNA-UK on President Trump’s visit to Britain
The news is awash with stories about US President Trump’s visit to the UK, with most outlets focussing this morning on his comments on Brexit, supposed broadsides against the Prime […]
Continue ReadingMarching for peace from Helmand to Hiroshima
By Maya Evans I have just arrived in Hiroshima with a group of Japanese “Okinawa to Hiroshima peace walkers” who had spent nearly two months walking Japanese roads protesting U.S. […]
Continue ReadingStatement by UNA LASER on airstrikes in Syria
This is the statement issued by UNA LASER about the recent bombing in Syria carried out the the UK, US and France in response to allegations of chemical weapons use […]
Continue ReadingLetter by Bruce Kent on the bombing of chemical weapons installation in Syria
The following letter was sent by Bruce Kent to the Tablet Journal on the recent bombing carried out by the UK, France and the US of Syrian chemical weapons installations
Continue ReadingReport on the UN All-Party Parliamentary Group meeting on Yemen
By David Wardrop On Tuesday 1st May 2018 United Nations APPG held a high-level parliamentary meeting on the Humanitarian Situation in Yemen which is truly dire and shameful to us […]
Continue ReadingReport on Sustainable Development Goals
COMMONWEALTH SUMMIT DECISIONS, LONDON, APRIL 2018: DR CARL WRIGHT (UNA)
Continue ReadingWhy is the UK trailing its Commonwealth partners in tackling the UN SDGs?
UNA London and South-East Region held a meeting in the House of Lords to examine this crucial question.
Continue ReadingWhat Afghan women think about voting
The following is an essay written by Maya Evans from Kabul which focussed on what Afghan women think about voting. This essay first appeared in the Voices for Creative Non-Violence […]
Continue ReadingStability is threatened as British public misunderstand the Arab world
A poll has been conducted to examine what the British public think about the Arab world. The poll was conducted by Arab News, YouGov and the Council for Arab and […]
Continue ReadingThe lives of those born from rape during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994
In 2014 I travelled to Rwanda to conduct research in the field. My topic of interest was the lives of those born from rape during the Rwandan genocide of ‘94. […]
Continue ReadingLASER Women’s Officer attends a talk at the LSE Center for Women, Peace and Security
Last Thursday, the International Day of Peace, I attended a talk hosted by LSE Centre for Women Peace and Security. The topic of discussion for the evening was UN Peace […]
Continue ReadingAre Switzerland and Sweden the keys to easing the North Korean crisis?
The opening of the United Nations General Assembly has historically been a chance for world leaders to trade platitudes about peace. But this year’s edition of the U.N. jamboree may […]
Continue ReadingThe rights of disabled people in the UK
The United Nations Association’s aim is to advocate for strong government support of the UN and to demonstrate why the UN matters to people everywhere. Overseas issues are obviously of […]
Continue ReadingBruce Kent writes about the 2017 UN Disarmament Treaty
In work for global justice and peace, not surprisingly, there are highs and lows. My earliest ‘high’ comes in the form of a League of Nations colour poster issued just […]
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