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United Nations Association – UK

The United Nations Association – UK (UNA-UK) is the official United Nations Association of the United Kingdom. It is a UK-wide grassroots UN membership organization.

Growing out of the League of Nations Union, UNA-UK held its first meeting in 1945 – before the UN Charter had been finalised. In 2006, UNA-UK published a comprehensive history of the organisation, written by former UNA-UK Director Frank Field.

The United Nations Association Youth Platform - UK (UNA-YP) was established in 2019 as a Youth-wing to UNA-UK and is composed of students from UK-based universities as a means of increasing youth involvement in the UN, and launching the UK's first sustainable UN & UNESCO Youth Delegations.

A catalogued collection of the organization's publications, correspondence and other materials from 1945-2011 can be found in the archives of the London School of Economics.

UNA-UK's policy work can be split into three main areas:

Alongside these broad policy areas, UNA-UK's campaigns include:

UNA-UK acts as the secretariat for The All‐Party Parliamentary Group on the United Nations (UN APPG), a cross‐party group supporting the aims and ideals of the United Nations. The UN APPG's primary objective is to raise awareness among MPs and Peers – about the UN; its myriad contributions across the areas of peace and security, development and human rights; the scope of international law and its relevance to the UK; and the applicability of the UN to the people who make up the British electorate.

In partnership with UN APPG Officers, UNA-UK sets out the strategic plan for the Group for each parliamentary session and reports back on the activity of the Group to its members.

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