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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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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 ...

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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 ...

TUNZA International Conference in Indonesia

June 6th, 2011 by Youth Envoy Coordinator

Tunza International Children and Youth Conference on the Environment Organized by the United Nations Environment Programme in Cooperation with the Government of Indonesia

BANDUNG, INDONESIA
26 – 30 September 2011

Under the slogan ‘ Reshaping Our future through A Green Economy and Sustainable Lifestyle’, the TUNZA International Conference will bring together 1400 children and youth, to discuss their role and inputs to the upcoming United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development ” Rio+20″.

Children with a school or recognized organization may apply to attend. There is no application fee.

Nominations must be submitted to UNEP on or before 30 June 2011.

For more information and to apply, click here.

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