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What is a UU-UNO Envoy? An Envoy acts to represents the UU United Nations Office within their local congregation. They connect the congregation to the UU United Nations Office and get important information on current UN activities. They receive information on our program initiatives and then plan events in their congregation to promote the program. Envoys are extremely valuable to the UU United Nations Office because they are the link between the office and the global UU community. If your congregation does not already have an Envoy, consider becoming one. Or better yet, consider forming an Envoy Committee. To join the team, ...

Pride+Love in Uganda 06: What is our obligation to LGBT Ugandans?

Like the Jews, the LGBT community in Uganda is a global minority, a family, a tribe. When one part of the community is under threat of state and extra-judicial violence as we witnessed here in Uganda, the global LGBT community is called to act. What we do should be directed by the Ugandan LGBT community, but all the LGBT citizens of Uganda we saw, in the hundreds, asked for international support. In proposing to imprison LGBTs, their friends, families, doctors, and teachers, the UN Member State of Uganda threatens to be in violation of multiple treaties. If the anti-homosexuality bill should ...

Thank you for another great Spring Seminar!

Thank you to everyone who came to this year's Intergenerational Spring Seminar! The Seminar Statement can be viewed here. We'll be posting shortly photos and updates for next year. If you have comments or photos you'd like to share, please send them to springseminar@uu-uno.org and we'll post them soon! In the meantime, stay updated on the work of the UU-UNO Climate Change Task Force by visiting its portal.

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More than 14 million children under 15 in Africa have lost one or both parents to AIDS. The scope of this human tragedy is overwhelming. What can one person, or one congregation, do? Plenty! We, UU-UNO members, have begun by making these children our priority. As part of UU-UNO mission, Every Child is Our Child Program focuses on children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS and works toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of universal primary education, fighting HIV/AIDS, reducing hunger and poverty, and promoting gender equality. This effort is guided by our partnership with the Queen Mothers Association in the Manya Krobo region of Eastern Ghana. Because ...

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Program Announced for 9th Annual Youth Assembly at the United Nations hosted by Friendship Ambassadors Foundation

June 6th, 2011 by Youth Envoy Coordinator

We are very excited to release more details about the tentative program for the upcoming 9th Annual Youth Assembly at the United Nations, held August 3rd – 5th. Here are a few highlights.

** There’s still time to apply! The deadline in June 15th. Click HERE to register**

The UN Welcome to the United Nations will be provided by:

Ban Ki Moon (Invited)
United Nations Secretary General
Baso Sangqu, H. E. Ambassador
Permanent Mission of South Africa to the United Nations
Susan Rice, H. E. Ambassador (Invited)
Permanent Mission of the United States to the United Nations

The keynote address will be given by Grammy-Award winning singer, Angelique Kidjo, on 8 Goals for Africa and How Artists Can Contribute to the MDGs.

You will also have the opportunity to attend a panel on the The Arab Spring: A Discussion of Youth Leadership and the MDGs in a Changing World, moderated by Khaled Louhichi, Arab League Minister. The panel will include members of the Arab League Youth Delegates, as representatives from the Arab Spring. An audience Q&A will follow the discussion.

For the rest of the program, click HERE. The finalized schedule will be released in June.

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