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Sep 19, 20191 min read

Edinburgh World Justice Festival: Edinburgh CND

Edinburgh World Justice Festival 2019 runs from 28th September to 19th October. The Festival will include many events throughout the...

UNHScotland

Sep 18, 20192 min read

Positive Action Training

Positive Action is offering an autumn training timetable for October to December 2019. They are offering a range of open courses on...

UNHScotland

Sep 17, 20191 min read

Scotland's New Climate Law

MSPs in the Scottish Parliament will vote on the new Climate Change law on Wednesday 25th September. That means we have just days left to...

United Nations Association-Glasgow Event

UNHScotland

Sep 16, 20191 min read

United Nations Association-Glasgow Event

UNA monthly meeting entitled Life Beneath Water will be featured at the University of Glasgow on Thursday 19th of September. The event...

Why do some countries have higher income inequality than others?

Jurin Katayama Flores

Sep 9, 20192 min read

Why do some countries have higher income inequality than others?

Income is the flow of money that you receive perhaps based on your work, business, state benefits, and/or properties that you are...

Is the U.S. undergoing a recycling crisis?

Hana Shono

Sep 2, 20193 min read

Is the U.S. undergoing a recycling crisis?

Source: Huffington Post: Why Southeast Asia is flooded with Trash from America and other wealthy nations - https://www.huffpost.com/entry...

Tracing Supply Chains: Chinese Forced Labour Camps

Laura Cox

Aug 29, 20193 min read

Tracing Supply Chains: Chinese Forced Labour Camps

Sustainable development goal 12 is responsible consumption and production – for this goal to be achieved, both consumers and businesses...

The Illegality of American Departure from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty

Hannah Barrett

Aug 5, 20193 min read

The Illegality of American Departure from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty

Dr. Timmon Wallis, Executive Director of NuclearBan.US, denounced United States President Donald Trump on the 3rd of August for pulling...

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ratifies the TPNW

Jessica Craig

Aug 1, 20192 min read

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ratifies the TPNW

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) yesterday welcomed the ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of...

Secure Scotland Seminar Report Available Now

Jessica Craig

Jul 31, 20191 min read

Secure Scotland Seminar Report Available Now

The Secure Scotland Seminar was held between the 16th and 18th April 2019 at Allanton Peace Sanctuary in Dumfries. The purpose of the...

Why the UK (and Europe) should offer sanctuary to more refugees

Eilidh Murrin

Jul 30, 20193 min read

Why the UK (and Europe) should offer sanctuary to more refugees

Sustainable Development Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages In light of calls from faith leaders for...

Environmental Controversy Amid Spaceport 1 Plans in Scolpaig, North Uist

Hannah Barrett

Jul 24, 20196 min read

Environmental Controversy Amid Spaceport 1 Plans in Scolpaig, North Uist

Last Summer, the UK Space Agency and Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) were in negotiations to fund the UK’s very first vertical...

New WHO data suggests that mental health problems in conflict are far more widespread than previousl

Jessica Craig

Jul 24, 20193 min read

New WHO data suggests that mental health problems in conflict are far more widespread than previousl

New data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) reveals that one in five people in conflict-affected areas experience mental health...

The 3 Groups to Target to Strengthen Protection against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Scotland

Jurin Katayama Flores

Jul 17, 20194 min read

The 3 Groups to Target to Strengthen Protection against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Scotland

On 29 May 2019, the Scottish Government introduced a new bill to increase protection against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the...

Are SDGs successfully implemented in Vietnam?

Thao Le

Jul 15, 20193 min read

Are SDGs successfully implemented in Vietnam?

Vietnam, my home country, is hardly known to Western public other than its war with the US, despite the subordinate’s important...

In green investments, there is a fine line between exuberance and tragedy in The Middle East

Dr Hamid Pouran

Jul 15, 20194 min read

In green investments, there is a fine line between exuberance and tragedy in The Middle East

About an hour drive from Dubai gets you to what is envisaged to become one of the largest solar farms in the world. Where the 5 gigawatt...

Charly Anderson

Jun 27, 20193 min read

The Great Firewall of Russia

The traditional view of security that was borne out of the Cold War can be best summed up by Walt : “the threat, use, and control of...

Maria Arvaniti Sotiropoulou

Jun 26, 20193 min read

A breath away from a nuclear nightmare

18 June 2019 brought the planet one step closer to a nuclear war. Russia declared that they – after the USA did so on 2 February 2019 –...

Charly Anderson

Jun 19, 20191 min read

Extinction Rebellion (XR) Scotland

All states are experiencing the devastating effects of climate change one way or another. According the UNDP, as of 2017 humans are...

Charly Anderson

Jun 12, 20193 min read

How likely is a nuclear accident?

HBO has recently released a mini-series ‘Chernobyl’ depicting the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that occurred in April 1986. The Economist...

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