On 16th December, 16:00, at Eastbourne Town Hall, UNA Eastbourne, with the Bangladeshi community, will be marking Human Rights Day, with addresses from Eastbourne MP Josh Babarinde, Eastbourne Mayor Candy Vaughan, and Film Director Leena Gazi (who will introduce her film Rising Silence, embodying the struggle for peace and human rights around the world). The film will be followed by […]

On 18th December, 15:00-16:30 at the Conference Room Civic Centre, 1st floor, Enfield Civic Centre, Silver Street, London, EN1 3FH and online (password 249303), UNA Enfield and the Barnets is launching the EBUNA SDG Interim Research Report on Food Poverty in Enfield (see above). Through a combination of desk research and field research with local providers they have found interesting insights and […]

On 18th January, 12:35-13:45, Warwick UNA are holding a meeting online and at the Leamington Spa Baptist Church, Chandos Street, Leamington Spa, CV32 4RN, with feminist activist, psychologist and author, Dr Helen Liebling, speaking on Conflict, Resilience and Justice: Tackling Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Africa. Dr Liebling has worked extensively in Uganda, Liberia, Rwanda, South Africa and the Democratic Republic of the […]

On 20th January, 19.00-21.00 UNA Medway will be holding a Blue Monday Party. This is to combat the January blues on the day psychologists identify as the most depressing day of the year. The aim is to turn this into a celebration of the amazing work the UN (and UNA-UK and its groups) have undertaken over the years. Please […]

On 25th January, 17:45, at the Park Hall, AL5 2LZ, UNA Harpenden is holding a Burns Supper to celebrate the life and poetry of Robert Burns. It will cost £25 per head. Please make your reservations here.

On 27th January, UNA Westminster is holding a free public meeting in the House of Lords on Can the UN ride the AI Wave or will it get Left Behind?. The meeting will be chaired by Lord Clement-Jones, Co-Chair All-Party Parliamentary Group on AI, with panellists Anjali Mazumder, Theme Lead on AI and Justice & Human Rights, Alan Turing Institute for Data Science […]

On 8th February, 10:30 – 12:30, UNA Harpenden will be hosting its AGM and Group Discussion at The Salvation Army, Harpenden, AL5 2TG. Register here.

On 12th February, 19:30-21:00, the Amnesty activist-led UN Network will be hosting a free. open webinar on the UN Human Rights System: Essentials for Activists, with speakers Renzo Pomi (Amnesty International UN Representative in New York) and Anna-Karin Holmlund (Amnesty International UN Representative in Geneva) on how the UN can make a difference to global human rights and crisis situations and how […]

On 22nd February, 12:35-13:45, UNA Warwick are holding a meeting online and at the Leamington Spa Baptist Church, Chandos Street, Leamington Spa, CV32 4RN, on Challenging the UN Security Council Veto in the Face of Atrocity Crimes. The speaker is Professor Jennifer Trahan (of New York University’s Center for Global Affairs, author of Legal Limits to Security Council Veto Power in the Face of Atrocity Crimes). […]

On 22nd February, 13:15-17:00, UNA Bexhill and Hastings is holding a free meeting at St. Peter’s Community Centre, Church Street, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN40 2HE with a discussion on Rural Town Planning and Development, led by Stephen Hardy, preceded by a short AGM, and a tea break. The discussion will consider how the government’s National Housing Plans will affect plans to […]