Under the UN flag, let us urgently elevate our efforts and strive to alleviate human misery and restore human potential.

A busca pelo próximo chefe do Escritório das Nações Unidas para a Coordenação de Assuntos Humanitários (OCHA) está em andamento. A pessoa escolhida substituirá Martin Griffiths, britânico que anunciou sua decisão de deixar o posto no final de junho, em virtude de problemas de…

Let’s hope the #UnitedNations appoints a humanitarian boss with integrity not a tarred politician chosen by Rishi Sunak. I’m not unpatriotic. It’s in UK interest for UN to field a competent and engaged aid boss, not a tired appointee from a retrograde political party.

A edição de abril da Blue Smoke, intitulada 'For British Eyes Only', destaca o desafio enfrentado pela ONU em relação à predominância de nacionais de países com assento permanente no seu Conselho de Segurança em cargos-chave da organização.

A busca pelo próximo chefe do…

Just gonna leave this here for when the US didn’t seem to think the International Criminal Court's use of territorial jurisdiction was an issue 🤷🏼‍♂️

See this article from PassBlue - passblue.com/article/blue-s…

The P5 dominate senior appointments at the UN, carving them up between them. It's time for the UK to give up its monopoly on the head of UN Humanitarian and allow the job to go to the most qualified, especially since the UK is involved in many of the conflicts UNOCHA deals with

We join over 60 humanitarian experts, #CivilSociety leaders and former UN officials calling on António Guterres to champion a merit-based appointment process for the United Nations’s next Emergency Relief Coordinator.

Read the open letter:

una.org.uk/open-letter-un…

On the anniversary of UK’s Grapple Y hydrogen bomb test in Kiribati, remember that Britain, Russia, North Korea and France were the only four countries in the world to vote against a 2023 UN General Assembly resolution - proposed by Kiribati - on assistance to nuclear survivors!

Today marked the final meeting of the Pathfinders' Member States with Sarah Cliffe & Karina Gerlach at the helm.

Their visionary leadership & substantive contributions have been invaluable.

Wishing them both the very best in their future endeavors! #Pathfinders #SDG16

#CoopersLaneBikeBus starts our weekly journey to Coopers Lane Primary School in a traffic free space, and we end in our fantastic #SchoolStreet in Lewisham Council . We hope you will join us one week Brenda Dacres Will Norman Sadiq Khan Our children love the opportunity to cycle to school.

I disentangle networks and politics of the new Cold War with The Conversation. We are in an age of neolateralism.

Thank you Jonathan Este! BISA - British International Studies Association Dr Linda Ross Dean Burnett (@[email protected]) CND Asia-Pacific Leadership Network Nuclear Age Peace Fn Reverse The Trend:Save Our People, Save Our Planet BASIC Florian Eblenkamp Ben Donaldson Roger Mac Ginty

theconversation.com/new-cold-war-g…

This cut away to an empty ministerial chair in the Business and Trade Committee’s session on UK arms exports to Israel is all you need to know about this government’s commitment to transparency and accountability on arms trade.

Business and Trade Committee

Extremely proud Andy Fearn and our Protection Approaches & On Your Side teams are launching our latest publication this evening in parliament on the true level of hate crime against East & Southeast Asian communities —with our research partners The Centre for Hate Studies & event chair Sarah Owen MP

Let's dispel the misconceptions:

Addressing AI risks doesn't mean stalling progress; we can innovate & deploy new AI technologies while improving AI safety simultaneously.

Resist the false dichotomies—progress & safety can go hand in hand.

It's not an 'either-or' situation!

13 years I’ve been working in conflict zones and I’m rarely left speechless.

How is this not top of every news bulletin?!?

“Among the deceased were allegedly older people, women and wounded, while others were found tied with their hands…tied and stripped of their clothes.”

So the Rwanda bill passed - how utterly shameful

The hostile environment continues to become more violent making no one more safe

The world sees us shirking our responsibilities to provide sanctuary, shrinking the UK’s identity & influence still further theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…