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UN House Scotland
- Apr 8, 2021
- 3 min
Generation Equality Forum: a promising beginning
Whereas we secretly wish we started our day walking to the conference hall in sunny Mexico City, the organisation of this year’s...
UN House Scotland
- Mar 3, 2021
- 6 min
Legal Aspects of the TPNW and How they Impact on its Effect
The story of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is a very fast moving one - we must be most concerned with what we...
UN House Scotland
- Jan 28, 2021
- 2 min
The Humanitarian Approach to Nuclear Weapons Decision Making
Humanitarian perspectives have resulted in the prohibition of nuclear weapons: For many years, the discourse about nuclear weapons had...
UN House Scotland
- Jan 14, 2021
- 3 min
Why is it so offensive to say ‘all lives matter’?
This week acting Australian Prime Minister Michael McCormack uttered a controversial phrase. Defending previous comments in which he...
UN House Scotland
- Nov 25, 2020
- 3 min
Prioritizing economic benefits over human rights
By Elena Gastaldo (Photograph: Keith Tsuji/Getty Images) We see powerful countries, leaders and TNCs refusing to denounce the Republic of...
UN House Scotland
- Nov 20, 2020
- 3 min
Young people leading the charge on climate action
COP26 President Alok Sharma at the opening of Mock COP, a youth-led online climate conference from 19 November - 2 December, on the...