Events

On Saturday 28th February, 13:15 – 17:15, UNA Bexhill and Hastings are holding their AGM (13:13 – 14:00) followed by a public seminar on Warfare, Welfare, Climate Change and the United Nations, led by Gonzalo Alvarez (Chair of UNA Climate and Oceans, and LASER Climate and Oceans Officer) and Sheila Kesby (Chair of UNA Bexhill and Hastings). This will be at St. Peter’s Community Centre, Bexhill-on-Sea, […]

On 5 March, 17:30, United Against Inhumanity (of which LASER is a supporter) is hosting, with the Geneva Graduate Institute, a public hybrid roundtable asking Do Afghan Lives Matter? It will consider some of the human consequences of sanctions, frozen assets, coerced returns, and economic restrictions. For more information and to register for in-person or online attendance, please go here.

On 11th March, 18:00-20:00, UNA-UK is hosting a conversation between UNA-UK Chair Ian Martin and Dr Augusto Lopez Claros (Chair of the Global Governance Forum), focussing particularly on progress Towards a Second UN Charter, focusing on the Forum’s draft proposals for a Second United Nations Charter. The event will be at 3 Whitehall Court, and online. Please register here.

On 14th March, 10:30, UNA Harpenden is hosting a hybrid public lecture on Diverse Global Future – how the world is becoming less western by Dr Samir Puri (King’s College, London) at Salvation Army, Harpenden AL5 2TG. Refreshments will be available. Please see more about the speaker here and register here.

On 17th March, 19:00, UNA Tunbridge Wells and Wealden, with Amnesty International Kent Network, is hosting a free, online talk on the Afghan Taliban’s Relentless Assault on Women’s Rights by Dr Taliq Malik (US National University of Sciences and Technology). For further information and to register, please go here.

From 21st March to 30th March, Palestine Frees Us All is holding Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), rooted in campuses around the world. This will start on March 21st, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and will include Palestine Land Day on 30th March. Please register events here.

Our Policy Conference will be on 28th March, 2026, at the Sands Film Studio, in Rotherhithe, London SE16 4HZ and online, starting at 11:30am. Register for coming in-person here; register to attend on Zoom here. We welcome donations towards the cost of the venue. If you are attending by zoom, perhaps you could donate what travel would have cost you. […]

On 28th March, 12:30, Warwick and District UNA is holding a hybrid event at Leamington Spa Baptist Church, CV32 4RN and on zoom on Is the Post-War International Rule-Based Order and the UN No Long Relevant?, led by Paul Graham (University of Birmingham Centre for UN Studies). He will consider the Trump administration’s paradigm shift in US foreign policy and not so […]

On 20th April, 18:30, at SOAS Gallery, Russell Square, London WC1B 5DQ, UNA Westminster – with SOAS at the University of London, and the Bar Council of England and Wales – is hosting the 23rd Ruth Steinkraus-Cohn International Law Lecture. Professor Philippa Webb (University of Oxford Blavatnik School of Government) will be speaking on Toppling Heads: Regime Change and Immunity in International Law. This […]

On 21st May, 13:00, at the cenotaph in Whitehall, UNA Westminster will be coordinating the annual Peacekeepers Day, marking the International Day of United Nations Peacekeeping, honouring those who have died in the cause of peace and recognising those from 120 countries who have served as UN Peacekeepers. More information on the UNA Westminster website and in future editions of Pulse.