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Sustainable Development Goals: From promise to practice
With a foreword from António Guterres, this report is the fourth in a series of UNA-UK publications on the post-2015 development agenda.
Climate 2020: Rising to the challenge
UNA-UK has released a major report on taking forward the new climate framework agreed by UN member states in Paris last year.
Climate and development
Sustainable Development Goals: the people's agenda
With a foreword from Ban Ki-moon, this report is the third in a series of UNA-UK publications on the post-2015 development agenda.
Climate 2020: Facing the future
UNA-UK has released a major report on the new climate framework, due to be agreed by UN member states in December this year.
Global Development Goals: Partnerships for Progress
UNA-UK has released its second major report on the post-2015 development framework. Building on the first edition, this new publication shifts the focus from ‘what’ to ‘how’, as the international community enters its final year of deliberations on the framework.
Global Development Goals: Leaving no one behind
Global Development Goals: Leaving no one behind considers the context in which the Millennium Development Goals were developed, assesses progress to date, offers views on achieving the 2015 targets, and provides insights into the creation of the post-2015 agenda.
After the Spring: Prospects for the Arab World in 2013
Aimed at scholars, practitioners and interested observers, the publication explores the effects and implications of the political uprisings that have swept the Middle East and North Africa.
Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation
TZ Report 2: Towards a more secure and WMD-free Middle East
UNA-UK's second Towards Zero briefing report, by Mark Fitzpatrick, examines the prospects for establishing a Middle East zone free from weapons of mass destruction.
TZ Report 1: Is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty fit for purpose?
UNA-UK's first Towards Zero briefing paper, by Professor John Simpson, examines whether the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is fit for purpose.
Human rights and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
R2P Report 2: Mainstreaming the responsibility to protect in UK strategy
This report focuses on how the UK Government can work to prevent genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing.
R2P Report 1: The Responsibility to Protect: Towards a "Living Reality"
UNA-UK’s first Responsibility to Protect (R2P) briefing paper examines the emergence, current status and future implementation of the R2P norm, and was written by Professor Alex J. Bellamy.
Learning about human rights
In 2008, the United Nations initiated a year of human rights learning to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In the UK, UNA-UK teamed up with UNESCO Associated Schools to produce materials to help secondary school teachers and students explore human rights together.