Our Branches
Our Missions
01
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The 2018 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations members in 2015, created 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNAS works towards raising awareness of and encouraging engagement at grassroots level with these goals through their various projects and sub-committees, particularly with the work of its outreach and research arm United Nations House Scotland (UNHS).
02
Peace, Security and Disarmament
Since the birth of the United Nations post-WWII, international peace and security has been central to the work of the UN. Some of its priorities over the years have been to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons, destroy chemical weapons, and strengthen the prohibition of biological weapons. The work of the Nuclear Disarmament team at UNHS and their attendance at the annual Meeting of States Parties for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is central to UNAS' work on this.
03
Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs
In 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set down the principles that brought human rights into the realm of international law. Since then, the principles of humanitarian law and international human rights have been embedded into the work of UNAS, its branches and its outreach and research arm UNHS. This is particularly shown in the Human Rights Roundtable series on humanitarian principles in Human Rights law.
