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Every Child is Our Child

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 ...

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.

Become an Envoy

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 ...

2012 Spring Seminar

This year’s seminar Beyond Borders: Breaking Barriers of Race and Immigration will take place from April 12th – 14th 2012 with sessions at the UN Headquarters, the UN Church Center, and the Salvation Army.

Youth will arrive on the evening of April 11th and be hosted at the All Souls NYC congregation located at 1157 Lexington Ave.

Click below for:

The PARTICIPANT PACKET with readings, schedule, and venue information.

The YOUTH PACKET.

Scholarship Application for Youth and Young Adults of Color

We have several scholarships for youth and young adults of color to attend the Spring Seminar April 12th-14th. To apply, please fill out the application form and e-mail it to springseminar@uu-uno.org, or mail it to 777 UN Plaza Suite 7G, New York, NY 10017, by Friday April 1st.

To download the application form: Spring Seminar Scholarship for Youth and Young Adults of Color

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