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 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. The more informed the younger generations are, the better the prospect of a nuclear weapons-free world becomes. This goal is not a utopian dream – but in order to succeed, we must first educate and mobilize the youth.
 14 July 2008: Hans Blix Inspires Student Movement Against Nuclear Weapons
Students from around the world and from a diversity of disciplines were invited by Hans Blix to write an essay, design a poster or make a video to express their ideas on how to free the world of nuclear weapons. After three days of intensive meetings at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, from 13-16 July, the fifteen winning students decided to create a mass movement of youth against nuclear weapons. “We want to solve these problems before we inherit them,” said Catriona Standfield, a student from Australia.
For the press release, click here
To read an article written by one of the winning students, click here
To read the report of the conference, click here
See the winners here>>
Do you want to see the Exco in action? For the first time a brief video was produced of the 195th Executive Committee meeting that took place in Nicosia, Cyprus, from 2-4 October. Check it out here >>
The Global Youth MDG Summit will be taking place in Mumbai, India from 7-11 November 2008. The Indian Federation of UN Associations and WFUNA are co-organizers of this Summit, which will bring together more then 200 young people from around the world to study and take action on the MDGs. At the Summit, the participants will be divided into eight groups, each working on one MDG. They will attend panel discussions and workshops on the MDGs as well as practical training in film-making, project development and fundraising. At the end of the Summit, the participants will have created eight 5-minute films, and eight actions plans – one for each MDG. The films will be showcased by WFUNA at an event at the United Nations. Go to: www.globalmdgsummit.org
2009 is the Year of Human Rights Learning
 WFUNA collaborates with Soka Gakkai International, OIDEL and Pax Romana in coordinating the work of the NGO Working Group on Human Rights Education and Learning (HREL) of CONGO. The Working Group was created in 2006 with the aim to ensure effective participation of NGOs in the processes of global policy making on human rights education in relation to the UN institutions, principally the UN Human Rights Council and other relevant bodies. In preparation for the International Year of Human Rights Learning the Working Group will organize a series of side events on Human Rights Education during the 10th Session of the Human Rights Council in March 2009. For more information click here>>
WFUNA would like to feature the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights celebrations of UNAs on our website and in next month’s UN Connections. Please email a brief description of your UNAs activity and photos to: molnar@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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Adv. Michal Navoth who has for more than 15 years been a Committee Member of UNA-Israel, specializes in international law and follows the UN Human Rights Machinery. In recent years she represented UNA-Israel at seminars organized by WFUNA in cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) held in Geneva. After participating in the 2005 seminar she presented the new concept of the Human Rights Council in her lecture to members and guests of UNA-Israel and published an article on the issue: "From a UN Commission on Human Rights to a Human Rights Council - A Structural Change or Human Rights Reform?". 
The President of UNA-Israel, Adv. Mayer Gabay, is former President and Judge of UN's Administrative Court. The Vice-President of UNA-Israel, Adv. Rena Shashua Hasson, is member of WFUNA's Executive Committee and Chair of the Membership Committee of WFUNA.
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