UN Day is the birthday of the United Nations. It marks the day on which the UN Charter entered into force in 1945.
This year's UN Day theme is the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), following the UN MDG Summit on 20-22 September 2010, which adopted a global action plan to achieve the eight goals by their 2015 target date.
- UNA-UK began commemorating UN Day on 21 October, with a high-level event at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the UN and the Association itself.
- Our exciting new parliamentary campaign 'Lobby for the UN 2010-11' was launched on UN Day itself. The campaign aims to stimulate a genuine national debate on international issues, with a particular focus on our two policy priorities: the MDGs and nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament.
- To help us foster a new generation of international citizens, we have begun to develop a range of educational materials with the UK National Commission for UNESCO. The latest resource is a set of activity sheets to mark international days, the first of which - on UN Day - is now available for download.
Our members and supporters across the country have been organising local events to celebrate UN Day.
