United Nations Association- UK

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The United Nations Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UNA-UK) is the UK's leading independent policy authority on the UN and a UK-wide grassroots membership organisation. Read more about UNA-UK here.

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4 February - UK launch of ICNND report on eliminating nuclear threats

On 4 February, the report of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament - Eliminating Nuclear Threats: A Practical Agenda for Global Policymakers - was launched in Parliament.

The event was co-convened by the United Nations APPG (for which UNA-UK acts as the secretariat), the APPG on Global Security and Non-Proliferation and the Top Level Group of UK Parliamentarians for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation.

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		27 January - Remembering the victims of genocide On 27 January 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau - the most infamous Nazi concentration camp - was liberated. Of the estimated six million Jews who were killed during the Holocaust, about one million were murdered there, along with hundreds of thousands of others from across Europe. Click here to read more

		21 January 2010 Cuts to the FCO budget threaten conflict prevention initiatives The FCO has revealed an estimated budget shortfall of £110 million this year, which will mean major cuts to FCO operations and programmes, and could negatively impact British discretionary spending on conflict prevention. Click here to read more
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