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.
Every Fall, the UNA-USA selects a current topic on which high school students nationally may write an essay, according to prescribed standards, and submit it to the local Chapter. The best essay in each Chapter is sent to the national office in January where the three top essays are selected and the winners receive cash prizes and national recognition.
Read the 2010 winning essay for our Chapter, by Vijay Menon. This essay also won 2nd place nationally!
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 [...]