On 29th February, 10:30 - 17:00, UNA Westminster is hosting an all-day online conference on Dag Hammarskjöld's plane crash: The Continuing Search for Truth. Our speakers at this all-day online conference will set out the landscape in which the UN inquiry has had to work, the obstacles it has faced, and identify those issues which deserve further and urgent […]

On 5th March, 19:30, at The Community Church, Werter Road, London SW15 2LL (opposite Sainsbury’s), SLUNA is holding an International Women’s Day event, Strengthening Women’s Organisations at Grassroots Level, chaired by Catherine Pluygers, Wandsworth UNA, with convenor Gillian Dare, former diplomat. The speaker will be Sierra Schraff Thomas, Womankind Worldwide. There will be refreshments. For further information, please contact Robert and Meena Storey  or Catherine […]

On Saturday 9th March, 10:30, at the Salvation Army, Harpenden AL5 2TG, UNA Harpenden is hosting a talk by Professor David Egerton, Hans Rausing Professor of the History of Science and Technology and of Modern History at King’s College, on Political Economy, Internationalism and British Thinking. This talk will suggest there was a distinctive British way of thinking about peace and war, […]

Our 2024 Policy Conference will be held at Bermondsey Village Hall, London SE1 3TD – and online – on 9th March, starting at 12 noon. If you want to join by zoom, please register here. Registrations for attending at the hall are here. This is your chance to help decide what stance the Region should take on a wide range […]

On 16th March, 10:30, UNA Wandsworth, with the Putney Society, invites you to join them outside Southfields Library for the unveiling of a plaque by Fleur Anderson, MP, followed by a talk by Robin Gerber, to commemorate Eleanor Roosevelt’s formative years in Southfields, where she attended Allenswood School. For further information, please contact the principal organiser.

On 19th March, 18:30, at the Alumini Lecture Theatre at SOAS, UNA Westminster, with the Bar Council of England and Wales and the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS, is holding its 21st Annual International Law Lecture, on Where are we in combatting impunity? to be presented by Professor Kingsley Abbott of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. With authoritarianism, instability and conflict on […]

On 21st March, 19:00 – 20:30, Amnesty Central England Network are holding an online panel discussion on Israel/Gaza: impacts, human rights and routes to peace.  Panellists include Dr Marwan Darweish, Dr Samah Jabr, Professor Lynne Segal, with Chair Dr Alan Kessedjian. They would welcome people linked to UNA. Please register here.

On 23rd March, 12:30, at the Leamington Spa Baptist Church, CV32 4RN, UNA Warwick are holding a hybrid meeting on Challenges for Humanitarian Action in Conflicts, with speaker Dr Martin Barber, UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. In an armed conflict, the safety, dignity, and livelihoods of civilian populations is the most pressing action and yet often the most difficult […]

On 27th March, 18:30, in Room 002 King William Court, University of Greenwich, SE10 9LS, UNA Blackheath and Greenwich, with Greenwich University, is holding a talk on Reflections of an International Criminal Court Prosecutor by Her Excellency Dr Fatou Bensouda, High Commissioner for Gambia and former Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC). She will not only remind […]

On 13th April, 10:30-12:30, UNA Harpenden are holding a pubic meeting with a talk on The problems of governing a neoliberal Britain by Professor Gwyn Bevan, London School of Economics and Political Science, at the Salvation Army, Leyton Green, Harpenden AL5 2TG. After the talk, a few of us will be going for lunch with the speaker […]