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New World Spring 2008.Pdf news and comment on the United nations and UnA-UK Spring 2008 | £3.00 NE W WORLD SHIRLEY WILLIAMS on the new push to rid the world of nuclear weapons The Beginning of The end? AND Foreign Secretary David Miliband speaks to YPN page 27 The global food crisis page 9 Join the debate on climate change page 2 Combat child The US-Un The right to trafficking relationship water page 16 page 10 page 14 PLUS groundbreaking disability treaty page 5 The responsibility to protect page 7 oil-for-food page 10 Parliament and the Un page 18 david hannay’s new book page 20 UnA-UK 63rd Annual Conference page 22 new Youth Council page 30 UNA-UK UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION OF THE UK | 3 Whitehall Court, London SW1A 2EL | www.una.org.uk UNA-UK What is the role of the United Nations in finding solutions to climate change and building CLIMATE CHANGE resilience to its impacts? CONFERENCE SERIES Is the UK government doing enough to build 2008-09 a low-carbon economy? What can you do as an individual ? An upcoming series of one-day conferences on climate change, to be held by UNA-UK in 2008-2009 in different cities around the UK, will be tackling these questions. The first conference of the series will be held in Birmingham on Saturday, 7 June 2008. The second will be held in Belfast on Thursday, 6 November 2008. Two further events are being planned for the autumn of 2008 and early 2009 – one in Wales and the other in Scotland. These one-day conferences are free and open to all, subject to capacity. You can register for the Birmingham and Belfast conferences by signing up at www.una.org.uk/climate, calling 020 7766 3448, or writing to Climate Change, UNA-UK, 3 Whitehall Court, London SW1A 2EL. UNA-UK has produced a set of briefings to complement the conference series. These background papers, written by climate change expert Alex Evans, cover these topics: Climate change: an introduction International climate change architecture UK climate change policy How climate links to other issues UNA-UK What individuals can do The briefings are available to download at www.una.org.uk/climate. UNA-UK is grateful to the Foreign & Commonwealth To order hard copies, e-mail [email protected], call 020 7766 3448, Office for its financial support for this initiative. or write to Climate Change, UNA-UK, 3 Whitehall Court, London SW1A 2EL. Contents Turkish Cypriot area NEW WORLD NICOSIA Greek Cypriot DIRECTORY 4 area Letter from the Editor Welcome to Rich Nelmes 4 Cyprus A final Can we rid the world of nuclear weapons? Yes, according to UN MISCELLANY 5 opportunity to the American foreign policy heavyweights who form the so- heal one of the called Hoover Group. Including the likes of Henry Kissinger, DISPATCHES last open wounds the group has proposed concrete steps for revitalising multi - Cyprus: Once more into the breach 6 in Europe lateral nuclear disarmament. In this issue’s Essay, Shirley David Hannay Williams calls on political leaders to give the Hoover Group The United Nations tackles the 7 their full support, arguing that ‘the potential benefit to hu - responsibility to protect manity…is without comparison’. Ed Luck p.6 High food prices, which are threatening to push up the How to respond to soaring 9 number of hungry people worldwide, have featured promi - food prices nently in recent headlines. In Dispatches Jacques Diouf, the Jacques Diouf head of the UN’s Food & Agriculture Organization, explains the origins of the crisis and says how the international com - UPDATES munity should respond. Oil-for-Food 10 Over a million children are victims of trafficking each year. The US-UN relationship 10 Oil-for-Food One way you can support action to protect them is to ask Now that the dust your MP to sign EDM 172 on child victims of trafficking. ESSAY has settled, the See pages 16-17 for more information. Resurrecting Reykjavik: a new 12 culprits become evident opportunity for nuclear disarmament and Veronica Lie, Editor non-proliferation Shirley Williams From the archive – 26 years ago BRIEFING p.10 Access to clean water and 14 sanitation: cutting across development, human rights and security Mark Rusling DO SOMETHING No more Child victims of trafficking 16 nukes? Shirley Williams revisits Reykjavik PARLIAMENT 18 and explores new opportunities for RESOURCES disarmament Books 19 The UN online 20 LETTERS 21 p.12 UNA-UK UNA-UK 63rd Annual Conference 22 Listings 24 Bruce Robertson retires 26 The membership at work 26 ‘Struck YPN 27 by their David Miliband addresses YPN 27 idealism . .” – The Foreign and blogs about it Secretary blogs The YPN interview: Dr Cathy 28 about the Young Gorman-Heenan Professionals Network UNYSA 30 From New World , November/December 1982 Your new Youth Council 30 p.27 UNYSA 2008 Annual Conference 31 Contents | Spring 2008 | NEW WORLD | 3 UNA-UK A warm welcome to Rich Nelmes, UNA-UK’s new Membership & Fundraising 3 Whitehall Court, London SW1A 2EL www.una.org.uk Administration Officer EXECUTIVE OFFICE We are delighted to an - Executive Director nounce that Rich Nelmes Sam Daws 020 7766 3457 has been appointed to this [email protected] crucial position at UNA-UK. He brings with him prodi - Executive Assistant gious experience in member - Natalie Samarasinghe 020 7766 3457 ship support, administration [email protected] and development, having worked as Senior Membership MEMBERSHIP & FINANCE Officer at the Evangelical Finance Manager Ajay Vasa Alliance, and Membership 020 7766 3454 Development Manager at the [email protected] Institute of Advanced Motorists. In his previous posts, Rich played a key Membership & Fundraising Administration Officer role in streamlining procedures and in Rich Nelmes 020 7766 3456 developing and implementing strate - [email protected] gies to increase membership. As UNA-UK Membership & POLICY & ADVOCACY Fundraising Adminstration Officer, Rich will be given ambitious growth and rev - Deputy Executive Director (Head of Policy & Advocacy) Veronica Lie enue targets. He has also been tasked with overseeing the upgrade of the or - 020 7766 3451 ganisation’s database and professionalising our membership administration sys - [email protected] tems. Rich is excited about taking on these challenges: ‘I look forward to support - Campaigns & Education Officer Mark Rusling ing the UNA-UK Board of Directors’ new strategic approach to developing 020 7766 3459 UNA-UK’s membership and supporter base.’ [email protected] John Bright Peace & Security Programme Officer Tim Kellow Join us . 020 7766 3446 [email protected] The United Nations Association of the UK (UNA-UK) is the UK's leading independent Communications Interns policy authority on the UN and a UK-wide grassroots membership organisation cam - Cynthia Park paigning for a strong, credible and effective United Nations. 020 7766 3467 [email protected] Every member of UNA-UK receives a free subscription to New World, containing John Phillips news and comment on the UN. By joining you will also be invited to take part in 020 7766 3459 campaigns and to attend conferences, seminars and other events. [email protected] This issue of New World is printed using vegetable- UNA Wales | CCU Cymru based inks on 80 per cent recycled chlorine- and acid- free paper from sustainable sources. The Temple of Peace/Y Deml Heddwch Cathays Park/Parc Cathays, Cardiff/Caerdydd CF10 3AP When you are done with the magazine, please www.wcia.org.uk/unawales recycle it or, better yet, pass it on to a friend. OFFICERS/SWYDDOGION Secretary/Ysgrifennydd New World is published by To advertise please call Subscription: UNA-UK Veronica Lie on 020 7766 3451 Copies of New World are Stephen Thomas 3 Whitehall Court included in the membership 02920 228 549 London SW1A 2EL The deadline for submission fee for UNA-UK www.una.org.uk of material for the next issue [email protected] of New World is noon on The United Nations Editor: 2 June 2008 Association of Great Britain Veronica Lie, [email protected] and Northern Ireland is a Assistant Secretary/Ysgritennydd Cynorthwyol The next issue will cover the company limited by Tamara Gervasoni Research, drafting period 1 July to guarantee (registered and copy-editing: 30 September 2008 no. 2885557) 02920 821 057 Tim Kellow [email protected] Cynthia Park All submissions should be typed Designed by John Phillips and sent by e-mail where possible SoapBox Mark Rusling to [email protected]. Photos should www.soapboxcommunications.co.uk Natalie Samarasinghe ideally be 300 dpi resolution 020 7766 3462 4 | NEW WORLD | Spring 2008 | UnA-UK To help find short- and longer-term solu - The UN to stay put in Kosovo tions to this crisis, a global task force is being after all set up under UN auspices. To be chaired by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the As expected, Kosovo declared its independ - group will also include the heads of key UN ence from Serbia in early 2008, on 17 agencies and the World Bank. February. Serbia reacted by rejecting the The use of agricultural land to produce declaration and denouncing the US, which biofuels is among the factors pushing up had promptly recognised the region’s inde - prices. In 2007, a fifth of the US’s corn crop pendence, for helping to create a ‘false state’. was used to produce biofuels; the EU is Russia, Serbia’s Security Council ally, called planning to source 10 per cent of its petrol for the UN to proclaim the declaration ille - and diesel from biofuels by 2020. British gal.
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