United Nations

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WITNESS AND MISSION
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St. James's Church is an affiliated member of the Twickenham and Richmond Branch of the UK's United Nations Association which generally exists to promote the work of the UN. This gives us a means of working for peace and justice and making our voice heard in support of the principles of the UN.

The local branch is very active and has over one hundred individual members as well as affiliated members. This very active branch of UNA has a new chairman, Councillor Virginia Morris, and has just won the region’s important Steven’s trophy for its work.

Regular activities include lobbying local MPs, public and smaller meetings, local charity fairs and fund raising activities, Saturday pub lunches with invited speakers, an annual collection for UNA/UNICEF, the production of a quarterly newsletter (available in the church), exhibitions on UN themes in local libraries, proposing resolutions to the national UNA conference, and an annual civic Service to celebrate United Nations' Day.

The branch is currently looking for ways to celebrate the 60th anniversary of one of the UN’s most important instruments, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Recent activities included an address by Zac Goldsmith, Director of ‘The Ecologist’ magazine, about how to make a difference to the environment at the local level.

Education is a particular area in which the Branch has worked for several years with many local schools helping organise Model UN General Assemblies. We help with the planning, with the pupil’s preparation, the introduction to the program and chairing the actual event. The branch looks to work with 3 to 4 schools again locally in this Summer term with Model UN General Assemblies, where students engage as they represent different countries debating an issue like Climate Change.

UN Charter
WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED
• To save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and
• To reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and
• To establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and
• To promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,

AND FOR THESE ENDS
• To practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours, and
• To unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and
• To ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and
• To employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples,

HAVE RESOLVED TO COMBINE OUR EFFORTS TO ACCOMPLISH THESE AIMS
Accordingly, our respective Governments, through representatives assembled in the city of San Francisco, who have exhibited their full powers found to be in good and due form, have agreed to the present Charter of the United Nations and do hereby establish an international organization to be known as the United Nations.

Further Information
	Contact Dennis Wilmot 020 8977 9434
	Latest UNA APCM Report
	Associated pages on this website: The United Nations and Local Schools (2002 August)
	Links to other websites: Unicef \| United Nations \| United Nations Association

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