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| Tuesday |
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UNA Merton – UN Global Compact workshops
Alison Williams will be conducting a series of workshops about the UN Global Compact, a voluntary corporate citizenship initiative. For more information about the UN Global compact, please visit www.unglobalcompact.org
The workshops will run twice a day on the above dates, from 12.30pm to 2.30pm and from 8.00pm to 10.00pm. They will be held at 11 Wilberforce House, 119 Worple Road, London SW20 8ET. For further information, please contact Alison Williams on 020 8944 0574 or alisonwilliams36@tiscali.co.uk
Saferworld and UNA-UK event on UN Peacebuilding Commission
The event will feature Carolyn McAskie, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, Professor Paul Collier of the University of Oxford, and Lord Hannay of Chiswick, UNA-UK's Chair and member of the UN High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change. It will take place at 4pm in Committee Room 10 in the House of Commons. Limited places are available. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to tomd@saferworld.org.uk |
| Wednesday |
4 |
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| Thursday |
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| Friday |
6 |
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| Saturday |
7 |
UNA-UK ‘The Climate Challenge: A call to action’ conference, Birmingham
Join the UNA-UK for a free one-day conference on climate change. 'The Climate Challenge: a call to action' will take place from 10am to 4pm on Saturday, 7 June 2008 at Birmingham Council House, Birmingham, B1 1BB. The conference - to feature expert speakers, interactive workshops and information stalls - will evaluate what solutions are needed at the international, national and local levels if the challenge of climate change is to be met with necessary action. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. For further information visit www.una.org.uk/climate. To register click here
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| Sunday |
8 |
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| Monday |
9 |
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| Tuesday |
10 |
UNA Merton – UN Global Compact workshops
Please see above.
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| Wednesday |
11 |
UNA-UK - A panel discussion of 'New World Disorder', a new book by Lord Hannay
This event will take place from 12.30pm to 1.45pm on Wednesday, 11 June at the Foreign Press Association, 11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AJ. Sandwiches and refreshments will be served from 12 noon. After an overview by Lord Hannay, responses will be given by Sir Michael Wood (Senior Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge, and former Legal Adviser to the FCO); and Sir Jeremy Greenstock (Director of the Ditchley Foundation, former British Ambassador to the UN, and former British Special Representative in Iraq). Click here for details of the book, copies of which will be available to UNA members to buy at the event at a discounted price. If you would like to register for a place, please e-mail rusling@una.org.uk or call 020 7766 3459.
UNA Exeter - Question time on international affairs
The speaker will be Professor Neil Armstrong, Deputy Vice-Chancellor,
University of Exeter. The event will take place in the Music Room, Exeter
Central Library, at 7pm for 7.30pm. For further details, please contact
Noel Harrower on 01395 271 731 or n.harrower@btinternet.com |
| Thursday |
12 |
UNA West Oxfordshire – Discussion on Western Sahara
Sidi Omar, the POLISARIO Representative for the United Kingdom and Ireland, will discuss the current situation in Western Sahara and POLISARIO's position on the issue. The meeting will begin at 8pm at The Cottages, Church Lane, Charlbury, Oxfordshire OX7 3PX. For further details, please contact Malcolm Harper on 07778 450 515 or malcolm.harper@ukonline.co.uk |
| Friday |
13 |
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| Saturday |
14 |
UNA Eastern Region – Council meeting and speech by Lord Hannay
This event will take place between 10.30am and 3.30pm, with a break for lunch at 1pm. Lord Hannay will be speaking about the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other issues. The event will take place at the Stoneyard Centre, St Andrew’s Baptist Church, St Andrews Street, Cambridge. For further information, please contact David Roberts on 01603 435 790 or unity.eastwards (at) ntlworld.com
UNA Wales – AGM and public meeting
The AGM will begin at 11.30am at the Temple of Peace, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3AP. The AGM will be followed by lunch and a public meeting at 1.30pm on ‘Justice and Humanitarian Intervention’. The speaker will be Dr Peter Sutch, Senior Lecturer in Political Theory in the Politics Department at Cardiff University. For further details, please contact Stephen Thomas on 02920 228 549 or stephenthomas (at) wcia.org.uk
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| Sunday |
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| Monday |
16 |
External Event
International Rescue Committee 2008 Annual Lecture
UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres, will give a talk entitled 'People on the Move: The Challenges of Displacement in the 21st Century'. The event will take place from 7pm at The Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore (Exhibition Road Entrance), London SW7 2AR. Tickets are £15 for the lecture (concessions £8.00) and £30 for the lecture and post-lecture reception. For reservations, please call the IRC-UK events line on 020 7692 2737. For more information, please click here.
External Event
The Urgency of Disarmament
Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala, (President, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs and Former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs), will give a keynote address on ‘the urgency of disarmament’ as part of the CISD's 3rd Annual London Conference.
The event is free of charge. To find out more click here.
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| Tueday |
17 |
UNA Merton – UN Global Compact workshops
Please see above.
External event
Amnesty Film Screening
‘The Exonerated’ is an exposé of the American criminal justice system. It tells the true stories of six people who were wrongly convicted and sentenced to death for crimes they did not commit and in the face of new evidence exonerated before their execution. This event begins at 6.30pm at the Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3EA. Admission is free but booking is essential. For further information and to book, please click here. |
| Wednesday |
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External event
Low and Zero Carbon Housing Seminar
CIFAL Findhorn, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research affiliated training centre for Northern Europe, offers a series of events that focus on sustainable solutions to the many and varied challenges of climate change. This series of seminars, in partnership with WWF and Moray Council, will take place in Findhorn Ecovillage, Scotland. For further information please visit www.cifalfindhorn.org or contact cifalfindhorn (at) findhorn.org
External event
LSE Lecture
Mark Leonard, Executive Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, will be talking about his book, ‘What Does China Think?’. This event will begin at 6.30pm and will be held in room B212, Columbia House, London School of Economics. For further information and to book a place, please click here. |
| Thursday |
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External event
Low and Zero Carbon Housing Seminar
See previous event for details.
External event
Seminar: 'From Fear to Nuclear Learning: Historical and Psychological Perspectives on Trust and Distrust in the Cuban Missile Crisis'
The Trust in World Politics Reading and Discussion Group of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies is holding the above seminar from 4pm to 6pm in the Main Hall, International Politics Building, Aberystwyth University SY23 3FE. Speakers will include, from the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, Jan Ruzica, Vincent Keating and Professor Len Scott, as well as Dr Alex Gillespie of the Department of Psychology, University of Stirling. If you are interested in attending please, register by contacting Rachel Owen at ddmstaff@aber.ac.uk |
| Friday |
20 |
UNA Norwich & District - World Refugee Day meeting
Jackie Watson of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture will speak at the Friends' Meeting House, Upper Goat Lane, Norwich. The talk will begin at 1pm and will last for about 45 minutes. Doors will be open from 12.15pm and people are welcome to bring a packed lunch. Hot drinks and biscuits will be included in the charge of £2. For more details contact David Roberts on 01603 435 790 or unity.eastwards@ntlworld.com
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| Saturday |
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UNA Canterbury - Garden day
Pat and Ian Wrigley will be opening their garden, at Cooks Farm, Lower Hardres, Canterbury CT4 5PA, to the
public between 2pm and 5pm to raise funds for UNAIS and UNA Trust.
Tickets are £4 and will include tea and cake. For further details please phone
Madeleine Webster 01227 761 894.
UNA Harpenden - Talk on 'Indigenous voices at the UN'
Phillip Powell, Director of the Centre for International Justice and Reconciliation at YWAM, Harpenden, will give a talk based on his experiences at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York. This event will take place at 11am at the Quaker Meeting House, 12 Southdown Road, Harpenden, AL5 1PD. For more information contact Trevor Evans at jandt.evans (at) ntlworld.com or 01582 713 895. |
| Sunday |
22 |
UNA Canterbury - Garden day
Please see above for details. |
| Monday |
23 |
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| Tuesday |
24 |
UNA Merton – UN Global Compact workshops
Please see above.
UNA Glasgow - MUN General Assembly
52 students will be representing twenty different countries. This event will be held in the Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow. The Programme starts at 9.30am until 3pm and will cover children's rights and landmines; and food shortage. For further details, please contact Frances Mildmay on 0141 339 5408 or frances.mildmay@btinternet.com |
| Wednesday |
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| Thursday |
26 |
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| Friday |
27 |
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| Saturday |
28 |
UNA Oxford - Winsome, lose some: reflections on the struggle for human rights and justice in Burma and East Timor, 1975 to present
The speaker will be Dr Peter Carey, Faculty of History at the University of Oxford. This event will take place at the Friends' Meeting House, 43 St Giles from 3pm to 5pm. For more details, please contact Neville Shepherd on 01865 761 630 or neville.shepherd@metronet.co.uk
UNA London and SE Region - Summer Council Meeting
This event, entitled 'UDHR: The way forward', with distinguished speakers, including Philippe Sands QC, practicing barrister and professor of international law at UCL, will be held to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It will take place, by kind permission of Her Excellency Dr Lindiwe Mabuza, South African High Commissioner, at The Kinema, South African High Commission, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DP from 12.45 to 4.30pm (please arrive at 12.30). A cover charge of £10 for members (including YPN) and £5 for UNYSA members will include a light lunch and refreshments. Please note that attendees must have letters of invitation with them. For further details and to book, please contact Neville Grant 020 8858 8489 or neville.grant@gmail.com |
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29 |
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| Monday |
30 |
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