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The United Nations Association of the United States of America is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that supports the work of the United Nations and encourages active civic participation in the most important social and economic issues facing the world today. 

UNA seeks to promote constructive US leadership in a strengthened United Nations system. Specifically, it is our task to educate the public about the United Nations, increasing public knowledge about international issues and US government policies relating to the UN. We are to build public support for constructive leadership in the United Nations and advocate with government officials for US participation.

The West Triangle Chapter is composed of nearly 300 members in Orange, Durham and Chatham Counties, North Carolina.

EVERY DAY
The United Nations works to solve global challenges

  • Provides food to 108 million people in 74 countries

  • Vaccinates 40 per cent of the world’s children, saving 2 million lives a year

  • Assists over 34 million refugees and others fleeing war, famine or persecution

  • Fights climate change and leads a campaign to plant 1 billion trees a year

  • Keeps the peace with 116,000 peacekeepers in 17 operations on 4 continents

  • Fights poverty and helped 300 million rural poor achieve better lives in the last 30 years

  • Monitors, promotes, protects and develops human rights worldwide

  • Mobilizes $7 billion in humanitarian aid to help people affected by emergencies

  • Leads international efforts in clearing landmines in over 30 countries

  • Promotes universal primary education, reaching 88% enrollment coverage in developing countries

(From the Outreach Division, Department of Information of the United Nations)

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The implications of the Arab Spring are many and varied, but one sure result will be the redesigning of the political systems and governments of the affected countries in accordance the new political conditions that will evolve in each country - a process that has already begun. Our January Lunch and Learn speaker, Professor Andrew Reynolds, Chair of UNC’s Department of Global Studies, is already involved in helping affected governments to sort out their responses. Professor Reynolds is a foremost expert whose research and teaching focus on democratization, constitutional design and electoral politics. When he’s not teaching at UNC, he serves as a consultant for the United Nations, the British government's Department for International Development, the US State Department and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), assisting governments - some 25 to date in Africa, Asia, the Middle East (including Egypt and Libya) and Latin America - to address these issues. Widely published in eight languages, he’s written many books and articles in these fields and is currently working on a book on the Arab Spring. Professor Reynolds will be speaking to our Lunch and Learn meeting on the subject "The Arab Spring: Uprisings, Revolutions, and Wars" at our Lunch & Learn meeting (Noon-2PM) on January 25 at Carolina Meadows. Reservations may be made by $18 check to "UNAWTC" and sent to Warren Glick 83203 Jarvis, Chapel Hill 27517 by January 20."
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