UNA Events
The UNA screens films from the Travelling UNA Film Festival at the Avenidas Senior Center in Palo Alto at 2pm on the second Monday of the month. Admission is free.
The UNA Book Club meets on the 3rd Tuesday of the month in Mountain View, focusing on United Nations issues and related topics. See the list of upcoming books, dates, and location.
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest by 2015.
- Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.
- Achieve universal primary educations.
- Promote gender equality and empower women.
- Reduce child mortality.
- Improve maternal health.
- Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases.
- Ensure environmental sustainability.
- Develop a global partnership for development
Read more about these Millennium Development Goals on the UN website.
Chapter Blog
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House Bill H. R. 2829
by Jane Miller Chai How is it that people in so many countries of the Middle East have had the courage, with little expectation or facility, to stand up against their powerful dictators of many decades? What provided the hope they could succeed and be part of a better world? Individuals felt they had a [...]
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Battling nuclear inertia goes beyond sanctions
by Jeffrey Laurenti “If I had known it was going to be this popular, I would have done this a long time ago,” President John F. Kennedy is said to have joked with aides when enthusiastic audiences cheered his mentions of the partial nuclear test ban treaty in 1963. Fast forward fifty years, however, and [...]
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Long Overdue
by Mary Granholm What do the U.S., Sudan, Somalia, Iran, Naura, Palau, and Tonga have in common? You may be surprised at the answer. They are the only seven countries that have not ratified CEDAW. And what is CEDAW? It’s the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women that was [...]