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The 39th WFUNA Plenary Assembly will be held in Seoul, Republic of Korea from 10-12 August 2009 on the theme "Global Citizens for the United Nations". The WFUNA-youth Plenary Meeting will be held at the same time. WFUNA President Hans Blix will preside. The Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea, Han Seung-soo and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will speak at the opening ceremony.
The Plenary Assembly is the supreme organ of the Federation, responsible for pursuing and achieving our objectives as a peoples’ movement for the United Nations. For more information, click here >>
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WFUNA Launches Human Rights Website
In December 2008,  WFUNA launched a new website entirely dedicated to human rights:
www.humanrightsnexus.org
The website, available in all six UN languages, is intended to facilitate access to educational materials on human rights, enhance interaction and information sharing between UNAs, and to support closer engagement of UNAs with the work of the UN Human Rights Council and human rights treaty bodies. A strong focus will be placed on human rights education as 2009 will be the International Year of Human Rights Learning. The website is sponsored by the Russian Friends of WFUNA and UNA-Russia.
Read the full press release in English, French, Spanish, Chinese
WFUNA Partner on First UN/ DPI Organized Model UN Conference
 For the first time ever, the United Nations Department of Public Information with WFUNA as a co-organizer, will be holding the Global Model UN (GMUN) conference for University students at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland from 5-7 August. The conference will be a simulation of General Assembly plenary sessions and the Assembly’s Main Committees, on the theme “The Millennium Development Goals: Lifting the Bottom Billion out of Poverty.” We hope that GMUN will inspire the next generation of leaders to become involved in national and global issues. Please visit: www.un.org/gmun
Youth Voices Promote the MDGs through Film
 The Global MDG Summit – Mumbai 2008, organized by WFUNA, the Indian Federation of UN Associations and Jai Hind College, took place from 7-11 November in Mumbai. UN Under Secretary-General Kiyo Akasaka and other UN staff sent video messages to the opening ceremony, where officials from the partner and host organizations spoke. Over 300 participants from 13 countries representing every region of the world participated in a day of learning about the MDGs, followed by a strategy day when the student formed “MDG teams” and then two film-making days that included an opportunity for the students to spend a day with local NGOs in rural villages in India. The resulting 16 fully student-made videos (2 on each MDG) were presented at the closing ceremony that was attended by NGO activists, Bollywood stars and noted filmmakers.
MDG 1: Eradicate poverty and hunger
MDG 2: Achieve universal primary education
MDG 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
MDG 4: Reduce Child Mortality
MDG 5: Improve maternal health
MDG 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
MDG 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability
MDG 8: Develop a global partnership
 Students for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World
Two basic ideas at the heart of the NPT continue to have strong international support – that more fingers on more nuclear triggers would result in a more dangerous world, and that non-proliferation by the have-nots and disarmament by the haves will together lead to a safer world.’ (WMDC Report, 2006)
www.disarmamenthub.org
The Student for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World (SNWFW) initiative is designed to encourage young people from around the world to become informed, and inform others, on the realities of the nuclear weapons threat.
Initiated by Dr. Hans Blix in 2006, WFUNA's Students for a Nuclear Weapons Free World program has sought to engage the youth of the world in the nuclear disarmament dialogue. This third year of WFUNA's Students for a Nuclear Weapons Free World program aims to tap into the energy and creativity of the digital generation to invigorate world-wide campaigning to free the world of nuclear weapons. A competition is being held challenging students around the world to start their own campaign, either online or in their community. Competitors submit web links, photos, videos, posters etc to hub@wfuna.org by the end of July. The winners will have a chance to be invited to the UN DPI/NGO conference on disarmament in Mexico in September and to be part of a global video conference in October organized by the Project for Nuclear Awareness. For more information visit www.disarmamenthub.org , or email hub@wfuna.org
  
Who We Are
Inspired by the opening words of the United Nations Charter "We the Peoples", the World Federation of United Nations Associations was established in 1946 as a peoples’ movement for the United Nations.
Today the World Federation is a global network of hundreds of thousands of people linked together through United Nations Associations (UNAs) in over 100 nation states. They have many and diverse programs, such as Adopt-a-Minefield, the Millennium Development Goals, Model UN conferences, human rights education and as well they provide regular media and parliamentary briefings on UN matters. As testimony to their valuable role, UNAs are the only national level organizations entitled to use the UN emblem.
The Plenary Assembly, the supreme organ of the World Federation, is held every three years. It is in effect a peoples’ assembly for the United Nations, where priority issues of concern to the international community are addressed and elections are held for the leadership positions.
Today, the World Federation has an ever more important role to play in fulfillment of its primary objective of being a ‘peoples’ movement for the UN’. We have inherited a great responsibility to help make the United Nations an ever more effective instrument for world peace and security, development and human rights and to bring the United Nations ever more closer to the real concerns and interests of “We the Peoples”.
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