By Leen Shoura This time my story is different. It’s not about memories, not about the past, I’m writing about a fear I felt with my own skin, a fear I thought I had buried forever.    On July 16, Damascus was shaken in a way I hadn’t seen in a while. Around 3 p.m., the sky cracked open with thunder that wasn’t thunder. Israeli airstrikes struck the very heart of the capital, Umayyad Square, a place so central that no Syrian can imagine Damascus without it. The targets weren’

By Hana Shono Please note that as the event was held in Japanese, some of the quotations included in this blog post have been translated or summarised for clarity and may not reflect the speaker’s exact wording. On 22 January 2026, at 3pm JST, Peace Boat marked the fifth anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) with a commemorative event featuring the voices of diplomats, activists and Hibakusha, survivors of nuclear violence. The event was both

On Thursday 5th February 2026, representatives from UnA Scotland and UNHS Scotland met remotely to share updates from all branches and departments, and discuss strategy and collaboration going forward. The meeting was facilitated by Dr Gari Donn, Chair of UNAS and Executive Director of UNHS, and minutes were recorded by resident intern, Magali Courades.

By Georgiana F Bugeag Eighty years ago, in January 1946, delegates from fifty-one nations gathered inside Methodist Central Hall Westminster for the inaugural session of the United Nations General Assembly. Emerging only months after the end of the Second World War, they met to define the purpose of a new international organisation founded on a radical ambition: to replace war with cooperation, and force with law. On 17 January 2026, I returned to this same hall on behalf of