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UNA Edinburgh is planning to organize a one day modeling of the United Nations General Assembly on Friday 25 June and are hoping to hold the event in the City Chambers for the students from six schools in Edinburgh and possibly two schools from Iran and two from Russia; each school providing about six delegates (total about 60 students) plus some teachers, parents and UNA members.
For more information and how you can support this event please email Prof Dabir Tehrani
2010 dates
Saturday 4 September A public meeting on the situation in Darfur and AGM of the Darfur Training Committee will be held at 2pm in the Royal Overseas League. A flyer is enclosed - feel free to invite friends, relations, and anyone interested.
Wednesday 15 September UN Democracy Day meeting with invited speakers,
at 7pm in the City Chambers
Saturday 2 October AGM of UNA Scotland, to be held in Glasgow. Arrangements tbc.
Saturday 16 October Annual General Meeting of UNA Edinburgh Branch
Quaker Meeting House, Victoria Street, Edinburgh, 10.30am to ~1pm.
Details will follow soon, including agenda, invitation to submit nominations for officers and committee members, and details of the invited speaker. The meeting will include reports from Working Groups, and from Dr Gari Donn, Convenor, member of the UNA UK Board, and a representative of UNA UK at the NPT Review Conference in New York last May. All members and friends will be welcome.
Sunday 24 October United Nations Day
Details of United Nations Day Service at St Giles will follow soon.
Monday 1 November A Conference on the NATO Strategic Review will be held in the Scottish Parliament, with invited speakers from NATO and member countries.
Friday November 26 MUNGA - Model UN General Assembly for teams of secondary school students, will be held in the City Chambers. Most teams will be from in and around Edinburgh, but we hope to have at least one overseas team. Observers are welcome. More information from Martin Verity and at the AGM
We hope that many will be able to participate in some or all of these events.
With all best wishes
the committee
Darfur report updates ,please click on "Darfur Working Group" tab above.
Nuclear Non-Proliferation updates please click on tab above
Link to Peace Keeping video.
http://www.un.org/events/peacekeeping60/
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NEW!
PUBLIC MEETING on DARFUR
on Saturday 4 September 2010 at 2.0.p.m.
At the Overseas Club, 100 Princes Street, Edinburgh.
All Welcome
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Agenda
2 p.m. Chairperson : Dr. Gari Donn, UNA-UK Board of Directors
2.05 Dr. Abdel Adam - Convenor Darfur Training Committee
The situation in Darfur today
2.15 Questions
2.20 Zeinab Burma and Maimona Ismail, just returned from Khartoum organising groups of Darfuri Women to campaign for their human rights to empower themselves and have a voice in deciding their future.
2.40 Questions
2.45 Ekhlas Ahmed, Trained Volunteer worker to Khartoum in Nov/Dec. “My hopes for the women of Darfur”
2.55 Questions and discussion
3.00 Collection for the Darfur Training Committee - Ray Newton
Coffee, tea and biscuits
NEW Please contact Mark directly for participating details
"Once again Mercy Corps is organising an informal five-a-side football event in Edinburgh on the 21st of September to help mark the International Day of Peace in support of the One Day One Goal campaign of the organisation Peace One Day. This time the game will be at Meadowbank Stadium at 5pm.
It was great to have Robert and Ruby at the game last year, and the UNA represented. Do you think the UNA will be able to take part again this year? "
Best wishes,
Mark
Mark Chadwick
Senior Programme Officer
Mercy Corps European Headquarters
40 Sciennes
Edinburgh
EH9 1NJ
Direct line: +44 (0)131 662 5183
skype: mark.chadwick2
For Events, Briefings and Conversations Coordinator please contact
Mr Kenneth H Stewart Dip Pol Gov
Consular and Diplomatic Liasion
tel No 44 (0) 1875 853888
email ken_h_stewart@yahoo.co.uk
NEW
United Nations International Day of Democracy, 15 September 2010
The United Nations Association (Edinburgh) invites you to join with us in celebrating the UN International Day of Democracy. This event is presented by kind permission of Councillor David Beckett of the City of Edinburgh and will take place in the European Room of the City Chambers Edinburgh on Wednesday 15 September 2010 at 1830 hours.
This year’s Democracy Lecture will be delivered by Douglas Fraser. Douglas Fraser has been business and economy editor at BBC Scotland for the past two years. Previously, he was political editor at The Herald and the Sunday Herald, covering the first nine years of devolution. Starting at The Scotsman in 1989, he also covered education, the arts and the Highlands and Islands, and worked for a time for both The Observer and The Sunday Times. He is co-author of the Political Guide to Modern Scotland, and has degrees from Oxford and Harvard.
Admission will be by prior reservation only and applications for this prestigious event should be made by email to the United Nation’s Association Event Convener, Ken Stewart at the following coordinates, stating heading reference ‘Democracy Day 2010’;
ken_h_stewart@yahoo.co.uk
Please understand that the popularity of both the event and the speaker will guarantee that this
Democracy Day Lecture will be fully subscribed and as such reservation for prospective attendees
must be made on the above noted ‘confirmed application and acknowledged attendance’ basis.
Best regards
Kenneth H Stewart
Events, Briefings and Conversations Coordinator, UNA Edinburgh
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