On 14th December at 2:20pm. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Association is hosting a webinar on “Even the most impossible task offers opportunities”: Dag Hammarskjöld’s diplomacy, to be led by Dr Roger Lipsey, author of Hammarskjöld: A Life (2013) and of Politics and Conscience: Dag Hammarskjöld on the Art of Ethical Leadership (2020). A ticket costs £5. Please contact Lucie Portman to register and arrange payment […]

On 11th January at 7:00pm, UNA Coventry will be holding their AGM, reporting on 2022, and planning their future activities. Join the meeting by clicking here

UNA Twickenham & Richmond (TRUNA) On 17th January from 19:30 to 21:30 at The Community Church Hall, Werter Road, SW15 2LL (opposite Sainsbury's) TRUNA is hosting a meeting on The Mysterious Death of Dag Hammarskjold. ​The main speaker is David Wardrop MBE, Chair of​Westminster UNA and Editor of Hammarskjold inquiry info looking into the sixty-year old mystery of […]

On Thursday 19th January from 14:00, UNA Luton is holding a virtual seminar on Dementia/Alzheimer Awareness (global, national and local): The speakers will be Nazia Khanum, Chair, UNA Luton and Louise Buckingham, Alzheimer’s Society. Here is the link; you might need the passcode 128849.

On Thursday 19th January at 19:00, following a brief AGM at 18:30, UNA Warwick will host a webinar on Iran - Its Politics and International Relations with its Neighbours. The speaker will be Professor Ali Ansari from the Institute of Iranian Studies at University of St Andrews, Senior Associate Fellow at Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). Use this link to join […]

UNA Harpenden invite you to a talk on the International Protection of Minorities: From the League to the UN by Professor Jennifer Jackson-Preece of the London School of Economics on Saturday January 21st at 10:30 at the Salvation Army, AL5 2TG (10 mins walk from Harpenden station). Please register here.

UNA Wandsworth, Twickenham & Richmond, Streatham are holding a joint meeting on 28th January at 12 noon at The Adelaide, TW11 0AU (2 minutes from Teddington station) to mark the International Day for Education (24th January). Olivia Darby, co-founder of the WONDER Foundation, will speak on Education as a route to thriving for women, girls and their communities. The meeting will […]

On February 18, UNA Harpenden hosted a talk on The Greatest Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today by Linda Yueh, Fellow in Economics, St Edmund Hall, Oxford University and Adjunct Professor of Economics, London Business School. A video recording of the talk can be viewed here.

The UN theme of this year’s International Mother Language Day is Multilingual education: a necessity to transform education. To mark this, UNA Luton – with Purbachal, the Eastern Sky, a Bangladeshi voluntary cultural organisation – is holding a virtual celebration of the contributions of mother-tongues to identities, cultures, enrichment and community cohesion on 26th February, 14:30-16:30. This is the zoom link. […]

Kings College Department of War Studies is holding a conference on 3 March, 09:00-17:30 in their Strand Campus, London WC2R 2LS, entitled Conflict, Security  and Development.  The cost is £5-£10. For further information and to register, follow this link.