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SUMMARY:Strengthening Women’s Organisations at Grassroots Level
DESCRIPTION: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 Pluygers.
URL:https://unalaser.org/events/strengthening-womens-organisations-at-grassroots-level
LOCATION:The Community Church\, Werter Road\, London\, England\, London SW15 2LL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Political Economy\, Internationalism and British thinking about the world
DESCRIPTION: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\, often unrecognised by practitioners and critics. Please use this link to register for the talk. If you plan to hurry home after the talk\, to join (most of) our Policy Conference online\, don’t forget to register here!
URL:https://unalaser.org/events/political-economy-internationalism-and-british-thinking-about-the-world
LOCATION:Salvation Army Hostel\, Leyton Green\, AL5 2TG\, Salvation Army Hostel\, Leyton Green\, AL5 2TG\, Leyton Green\, AL5 2TG\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:LASER Policy Conference
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis is your chance to help decide what stance the Region should take on a wide range of international issues. Resolutions need to be on an international topic and must call for action by the UK government or the UN. They can also set out background facts or statements of concern that you would like the Region to support\, and they can be put forward by UNA Groups or individual members. You can see our current resolutions – for inspiration and for the framework we use – here. New resolutions need to be 175 words or fewer in total. You can also suggest amendments to existing resolutions which should add not more than 75 words to the total length of the resolution. \nIf there are no objections\, the Policy Committee will make minor edits (to bring them up to date) to Resolutions:\n– 7. Financial levy for clean water (remove reference to the 2016 US election)\n– 8. Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) (remove reference to the Chief Executive election May 2022)\n-12. Nuclear weapons (remove reference to June 2022 conference). \nThe following need updating because things have moved on. We would welcome proposals to help the Policy Committee prepare a draft of a new policy for Resolutions:\n– 9. How did Dag Hammarskjold die?\n– 14. Our world after the pandemic\n– 17. Proposed laws restricting boycotts\, divestment or sanctions\n– 20. Refugees and Asylum Seekers in London hotels and elsewhere\n– 21. Second Voluntary National Review of the UN Sustainable Development Goals \nThe Policy Committee will prepare new merged and updated draft resolutions on which amendments can be submitted in the second round of submissions (by 26th February) on:\n– Climate Change (combining Resolutions 4\, 5\, and the AGM Resolutions)\n– Israel/Palestine (combining Resolutions 15\, 29\, AGM Resolution)\n– Ukraine \nPlease send in draft policy resolutions to our Policy Committee Chair by 5pm on Monday 29th January. We shall then share the draft agenda with you in the February Pulse for which you will be able to send in amendments by 26th February.
URL:https://unalaser.org/events/2259
LOCATION:Bermondsey Village Hall\, Kirby Grove\, London\, SE1 3TD
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SUMMARY:unveiling of a plaque
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://unalaser.org/events/unveiling-of-a-plaque
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240319T183000
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SUMMARY:20th Annual Ruth Steinkraus-Cohen International Law Lecture
DESCRIPTION: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 the rise globally\, do we have an impossible task? Or are there hopeful signs in the increased use of universal jurisdiction and the rise of a new generation of accountability mechanisms created by UN bodies (including the UN Human Rights Council)? There will be a wine reception following the lecture. Admission free. For full information and to register\, please click here.
URL:https://unalaser.org/events/20th-annual-ruth-steinkraus-cohen-international-law-lecture
LOCATION:Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre\, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre\, SOAS\, England\, WC1B 5DQ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Israel/Gaza: impacts\, human rights and routes to peace
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://unalaser.org/events/israel-gaza-impacts-human-rights-and-routes-to-peace
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SUMMARY:Challenges for Humanitarian Action in Conflicts
DESCRIPTION: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 to ensure. The zoom link is here.
URL:https://unalaser.org/events/challenges-for-humanitarian-action-in-conflicts
LOCATION:Leamington Spa Baptist Church\, Chandos Street\, Leamington Spa\,\, England\, CV32 4RN\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Reflections of an International Criminal Court Prosecutor
DESCRIPTION: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 us of some of the important interventions and prosecutions during her time as ICC Prosecutor\, but also consider its role in some key present global challenges. Please register here.
URL:https://unalaser.org/events/reflections-of-an-international-criminal-court-prosecutor
LOCATION:University of Greenwich\, Room 002\, King William Court\, London\, England\, SE10 9LS\, United Kingdom
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