Tag: time to act

12th June 2014

British Ambassador to Japan

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#TimeToAct – emblazoned across the Australian sky

I’m not a fan of hot air. Although when you’re floating in a balloon over Australia’s capital city Canberra, and it’s the only thing keeping you up there, you’re rather glad of it. The balloon was emblazoned with the hashtag #TimeToAct. We were drawing attention to the Global Summit on Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict, […]

3rd September 2013

by Nigel Baker

Ambassador to the Holy See (2011-2016)

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UK and Holy See: It’s Time to Act Together

One of the highlights of the United Nations General Assembly in September will be an event hosted by Foreign Secretary William Hague and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to launch a high level political and ambitious declaration on the need to keep up the international momentum on tackling sexual violence in conflict. This event follows […]