World Security, Global Governance and the Role of UN For a just, peaceful and sustainable world
A talk given by Vijay Mehta at the conference of World Disarmament Campaign ‘Global Security: New challenges’ 29th October 2007 House of Lords, London
"We need governments and institutions which are transparent, democratic, accountable and can work together with NGOs and civil society. With all its weaknesses and need for reform, the UN is one of the best world institution which has the clout, legitimacy and caliber to solve problems effectively on a world stage. All of these are problems that no one country, however powerful, can solve on its own and which are the shared responsibility of humankind."

Climate Change: How it impacts us all
Vijay Mehta Reports on the 60th Annual DP/NGO Conference United Nations, New York, 5 -7 September 2007

Reforming the UN for the 21st Century
James Thring's notes on Professor Joseph Schwartzberg's, Prof. Emeritus U. Minnesota, lecture on 9th August 2007 at United Reform Church, Essex Street, London WC2

Bursting at the Seams
Alison Williams' notes from Broadcast of  Reith Lecture 1 given by Jeffrey Sachs,   Royal Society, London – 11 April 2007

Survival in the Anthropocene
Alison Williams' notes from Broadcast of  Reith Lecture 2 given by Jeffrey Sachs, Peking University Beijing – 18 April 2007

The Great Convergence
Alison Williams' notes from Broadcast of  Reith Lecture 3 given by Jeffrey Sachs,  Columbia University, New York – 25 April 2007

Obituary – Jim Addington
Vijay Mehta, Author and Vice Chair Action for UN Renewal pays tribute to  Action for UN Renewal's founder and Chair Jim Addington

Carne Ross at Portcullis House (Westminster) on 20^th February 2007
Jim Addington reports on Carne Ross's talk on ‘How the United Nations Security Council makes bad decisions’; subtitled ‘What it is like to be in the Security Council and affected by it’.

Report on the 2007 Erskine Childers Annual Memorial Lecture by Kate Allen,
Dr James B Thring, Secretary of Ministry Of Peace reports on the 2007 Action for UN Renewal Erskine Childers Annual Memorial Lecture 'The growth and importance of individual action and its increasing influence in the field of human rights and United Nations reform' given by Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International (UK), 12th June 2007 , Friends House, London

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR THE UNITED NATIONS
A Personal Proposal by Rev. Malcolm Hill

Index of Human Rights in the UN
Letter from  Act-UN member Richard Lawson  April 2007

Replacing Trident?
General Sir Hugh Beach's Speech at Trident Conference 2nd September 2006

Tony Blair's speech at Georgetown
Jim Addington's letter to the Times

Why we should need an Action  for UN Renewal separate from the UNA itself
David Roberts responds to a letter from one of our members

The Gordon & Tony Show
Jim Addington's parody about some UK Politicians.
Gordonius. “Look you Bennius,
The angy spot doth glow on Tonius’s brow,
And Twojags looks with such ferret
and such fiery eyes as we have seen him on the hustings”.

Action for UN Renewal  Resolutions at the 2006 UNA-UK Conference in Durham.
Three resolutions proposed by Action for UN Renewal  members and passed at the 2006 UNA-UK Conference in Durham 21-23 April 2006. Resolution F. Foreign Policy

Letter to The Guardian 6th April 2006.
Jim Addington Chair, Action for UN Renewal

Letter to the Times 12 March  2006
from Jim Addington, chair: Action for UN UN Renewal

PROGRAMME of global reconciliation and cooperation
The following resolution was submitted and debated at Action For Un Renewal's AGM on 25 February 2006. Although it was not passed; it did create much discussion and sympathisers for some parts of it.

UN-related Thought for the Day 9 September 2005 Alison Williams' transcript

Jim Addington's  Letters to The New Statesman 11th September 2005

Introduction to the Book Launch - The United Nations and Its Future in the 21st Century - Friends House, London, 19 July 2005 by Vijay Mehta

Beyond the High Level Panel recommendations; Reform of the Security Council and the General assembly by David Roberts

Can we trust any British politician?  Letter from David Roberts to The Hon Nicholas Soames MP.

One World Trust publishes pamphlet on UN Reform. The pamphlet, The Reform of the United Nations, seeks to address two key questions: (1) what changes in the United Nations are necessary to make it a serious player in today’s world, and (2) what lessons might be learned from the experience of the circumstances that led to the creation of the EU?

World Court Project's Declarations for a Nuclear-Free World. The Declarations are available in several languages.

An appeal to members - our right to expect a parliament committed to the UN by David Roberts

The problems that the UN faces today it has faced before. From a speech given to Action for UN Renewal  in the House of Commons Monday September 13, 2004  by Linda Melvern.

Letter to Jenny Tonge MP
David Roberts writes 2004 Erskine Childers lecturer Jenny Tonge MP. With information on 'War, International Law, and the UN' , 'International Law Against War', 'The Nuremberg Principles'

New Year’s Day Peace Challenge from British Peace Groups. From Action for UN Renewal, Legal Action Against War and World Court Project (UK)
With background material from:
*    From the Judgment of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal, 1946
*    Declaration on principles of international law in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations. Extract from UN General Assembly Resolution 2625 - 24 October 1970.
*    From the Charter of the United Nations.
*    THE NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY

Tragic failures. The UN and its relationship with Iraq. The needed reforms of the UN.
 "The treatment of Iraq by the United Nations Security Council is a scandal and points to an urgent need for radical reform. . . A key problem is that one member of the Security Council, America, has a foreign policy today which is in direct opposition to many UN principles." Based on a talk at a meeting of Action for UN Renewal, St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square, London, 11 October 2003 given by David Roberts, Press Officer, Action for UN Renewal.

Reform UN says African Regional Consultations on UN-Civil Society Relationships 25-26 November 2003. A Suggested Declaration on Civil Society Participation in the United Nations System. Author unknown; purporting from some African civil society organisations.

What Should the UN do About Iraq?  Jim Addington looks at the institution's response to what Koffi Annan described as the "fundamental challenge" of America's lawless unilateralism and considers its next move.

Iraq is only the latest, extremely dangerous, symptom of the impotence of the United Nations by Jim Addington

International War Crimes Tribunal and Legality of Occupation on Iraq - suggestion for working together with coordinating groups in other parts of the world (A talk given at the Workshop of Legality of War in Iraq at CND Annual conference 6th of September 2003 - University of Birmingham) By Vijay Mehta. This article also includes a interview with Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the first prosecutor of the newly appointed international criminal court at the Hague in Netherlands.

Save the UN, it is the only world body we have (A talk given at the Workshop of Action for UN Renewal at CND Annual conference 6th of September 2003 - University of Birmingham) by Vijay Mehta

Paths to peace Amid Global Crises (A talk GIVEN at AGM of  Ex-services campaign for nuclear Disarmament) by Vijay Mehta

Report of European Network for Peace and Human Rights Conference, European Parliament, Brussels 26/27 June 2003 by Vijay Mehta

The Arria Formula - A special mechanism that enables Meetings between NGOs and the Security Council

Some Emails on the position of the World Bank and IMF in the UN system.

A proposal from a Canadian teacher - very brief. Extracts of a discussion between a Canadian Teacher and Noam Chomsky, with a few comments from ACTUN members. "I am proposing an international democratic digital referendum on the question of forgiving Third World Debt".

Whatever happened to the peace protesters? Letter by David Roberts, Mid Sussex Global Peace Campaign.

A UN Reform proposal - Remove the Veto by: Nicholas Kollerstrom with a reply by David Roberts

A Report of the European Peace Conference in Prague on 21st---23rd March 2003 By Vijay Mehta

NGO’s Disarmament committee Meeting 2nd May 2003 and review of NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty) Conference Palais Des Nations Geneva By Vijay Mehta

Report of the UNA Annual Conference, Norwich, April 2003 By Vijay Mehta

Report from Palestine
Alison Williams' summary of Ailsa Moore’s talk on Saturday 12 April about her visit to Palestine.

A list of UN Resolutions against "Israel"
compiled by Dave Rolstone www.hamdden.co.uk

Is World Without Arms Possible?
Talk by Martin Hogbin National / Event Co-ordinator of Campaign Against Arms trade

UNITE FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
STOP WAR AND TERRORISM
A Talk Given At European Peace Conference In Prague On 21^st—23^rd March 2003 By VIJAY MEHTA

A Report of the European Peace Conference in Prague on 21^st---23^rd March 2003 by Vijay Mehta

Press Releases and Briefings - April 2003
Some of ACTUN's Press Officer David Roberts's press briefings on Iraq during March and April 2003.
Resolution 1441 specifically PROHIBITS war
Record of disarmament in Iraq since 1991.
The United Nations and the threat to peace posed by America and Britain
Duties and limitations of the Security Council of the United Nations

The World is waging PEACE - an amazing speech
Report of the lecture given by Dr. Robert Muller, former assistant secretary general of the United Nations.
Has anyone read many of his 4000 Ideas and Dreams For A Better World?

Press Releases and Briefings - March 2003
Some of ACTUN's Press Officer David Roberts's press briefings on Iraq during February and March 2003.
Tony Blair is dangerously ill-informed about what resolution 1441 allows him to do.
EMERGENCY SESSION OF UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY CALLED FOR
A U.N. ALTERNATIVE TO WAR: "UNITING FOR PEACE"
Law is against war The Security Council cannot authorize war
Record of disarmament in Iraq since 1991
Jack Straw - dangerously ill-informed
The credibility of the United Nations is not in question
EXTRACT FROM Declaration of the United Nations General Assembly 24 October 1970
Letter to The Times - 24 February 2003

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441
The much debated resolution on Iraq (November 2002) entitled ' The situation between Iraq and Kuwait'.
See official text at: http://www.un.org/Docs/scres/2002/sc2002.htm

Voting Against Peace & Disarmament
Nick Kollerstrom charts votes at the  UN against Peace and Disarmament

New World Order & United Nations
A talk given at London Region CND AGM by Vijay Mehta

Not since 1938 ...
Jim Addington looks at some historical context of the Iraq conflict.

Some Ideas on Iraq
Karl Miller shares some thoughts on Iraq

A UN without America?
Nick Kollerstrom looks at the notion of a UN that asks America to leave.

The UN's Selective Intervention
Stephen J. Cheleda looks at what appears to be inconsistencies in the UN's peace-enforcement efforts

Reforms related to the United Nations
Stephen J. Cheleda looks at some UN Reforms.

Governments start wars
Jim Addington on government involvement in war and the lengths to which governments will go to persuade the population to support them.

The Face of War
Jim Addington looks at some of the impulses lying behind the USA’s warmongering.

War Against Iraq Would be Illegal
writes Jim Addington in www.spectrezine.org

The Erskine Childers Lecture (2002)
Lecture by Denis Halliday on 'United Nations: The Embarrassment of International Law'

Americans and the World UN attitudes 2002
The majority of Americans are strongly supportive of the UN and of US participation in it.

What's wrong with the United Nations? 
Jim Addington, Talk to Oxford UNA, 16th April 2002.

Text of the statement by Mary Robinson, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights at the opening of the 58th session of the Commission on Human Rights. 18 March 2002

The Erskine Childers Lecture (2001)
Lecture by Professor Paul Rogers on 'The UN and the Future of War'

Cyril Foster Lecture given By Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General, at Oxford on 19th June 2001
War Less likely between Mature Democracies. Summary by  Jim Addington (June 2001)

The Erskine Childers Lecture (2000)
Lecture  by Dame Margaret Anstee entitled: The UN in Crisis?

Lobby of Parliament Report
Report on the Lobby for a renewed United Nations for peace, human rights & development, 6 December 2000 by Anna Rehin.
Briefings for the Lobby by Anna Rehin and Lobby Coalition
Ensuring that international economic and social institutions become integrated with and accountable to the UN
Disarmament
Funding for global citizenship education including education for peace, human rights and the United Nations