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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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Lunch & Learn to Meet May 15 for Last Session Of Year

The United Nations (UN) and the European Union (EU) are central to international cooperation and the maintenance of global peace and security. Both are supranational organizations established after World War II to address major issues of peace and international cooperation. Both are critical, indeed, indispensable to the future peace and well-being of the world. But despite their pivotal roles in the global schema and name-recognition, what they do and how they affect the common person remain a cipher to most people. Klaus Larres, Krasno Distinguished Professor of History at UNC, an expert on contemporary transatlantic relations and the impact of American global hegemony, will discuss the two organizations and their significance at our final Lunch and Learn meeting at noon on May 15, in a talk he has titled "The EU and the UN: Are They Still Relevant: Peacekeeping, the Euro Crisis and other Matters?" Reservations, due by May 10, may be made via the L&L reservations form tab.

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