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Sustainable Development Goals: Delivering Change
With a foreword from Amina Mohammed, this report is the fifth in a series of UNA-UK publications on the post-2015 development agenda.
Climate 2020: New leaders, new approaches
UNA-UK has released a major report on taking forward the climate framework agreed by UN member states in Paris
Keeping Britain Global
Britain’s foreign policy needs to invest in the United Nations. Keeping Britain Global is a report that calls for just that: a joined-up approach to the UK’s role in the world
Climate and development
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.
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.
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)
The UK's role on the Human Rights Council
The report takes stock of recent developments in Geneva, assesses some of the constraints and opportunities the UK is likely to face and provides recommendations for its 2014-16 term.
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.
UK foreign policy
Foreign policy manifesto
UNA-UK's foreign policy manifesto 'A global force for good' contains 10 recommendations for UK Government action that we believe, with full public support, represent an investment in Britain’s future and in a safer, fairer and more sustainable world.