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On 12 June 2010 UNA-UK held a major one-day civil society event in London entitled 'UN Forum: for a more secure and just world'.

The purpose of the event was to highlight the pressing challenges facing the UN today, and to stimulate thought and debate on how to make the Organisation stronger, more credible and more effective.

Over 1,400 people participated in the event, at which H.E. Helen Clark, head of the UN Development Programme; H.E. Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; and Dr Hans Blix, former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency delivered keynote speeches. A host of panel discussions and workshops also took place.

This e-report features summaries of the day's proceedings, with links to web- and audio-casts of the sessions.

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The inaugural International Day against Nuclear Tests will be commemorated on 29 August.

The Day, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly last year, will serve to galvanise UN, government and NGO efforts to ban nuclear tests as a step towards a world free of nuclear weapons, which UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has termed "a global public good of the highest order".

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