Action for UN Renewal exists to promote an effective United Nations, with the authority and resources required to realise the aims of its founders - international peace, environmental protection, respect for human rights, economic and social justice, and the rule of law.
CND Southern Region AGM & public meeting, Winchester, St Lawrence Parish room Colebrook St., 1.30pm
Monday
9
South Lakeland & Lancaster City United Nations Association Welcome you to a talk on “The UN Doctrine on the Responsibility to Protect ” Monday 9th March 2009, Highgate Room, Shakespeare Centre, Kendal, Public meeting 6.00 – 8.00 pm, Speakers: Vijay Mehta - Chair of Action for UN Renewal, London Luckshan Abeysuriya - Retired Director Amnesty International
Tuesday
10
South Lakeland & Lancaster City United Nations Association and Human Rights Law Department Lancaster University, Welcome you to a talk on “Close Guantanomo Bay and end Illegal Detention”, Anglican Chaplaincy Centre in the Campus, Lancaster University, Public meeting 12.30 – 2.00 pm , Speakers: Vijay Mehta Chair of Action for UN Renewal, London, Emile Secker Phd. Lancaster Law Faculty
Saturday
21
World Disarmament Campaigns and Action for UN Renewal Spring Conference. 'A New Cold War in Europe ? Russia, EU and NATO', Wesley Chapel, 49 City Road, London, EC1Y 1AU
Monday
23
Time Running Out: Transformation of the International Institutions in the 21st Century
Commonwealth Journalists’ Association
and Action for UN Renewal
Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington Street,
Marylebone, London, W1U 5AS
Monday, 23rd March 2009
Chair
Humphrey Hawksley, BBC World Affairs Correspondent and author
Speakers
LORD OWEN: Former British Foreign Secretary and peace negotiator
VIJAY MEHTA: Author and global activist for peace, development, human rights and the environment
JESSE GRIFFITHS: Coordinator of the Bretton Woods Project (BWP)
DR INDRAJIT COOMARASWAMY: Former Director of Economic Affairs in the Commonwealth Secretariat
Saturday
28
Action for UN Renewal AGM, "Unity in Diversity": Celebrating the United Nations international Year of Reconciliation, 2009. Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ Public meeting. Contact Vijay at vijay@vmpeace.org
Tuesday
31
March 31 - April 2, 2009 World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development, Bonn
Germany, "Moving in to the second half of the UN decade"
Tuesday
31
UNA Cheltenham Branch
'Building Better Human Rights: The Success and Failure of the last 60 years'
Peace History - lessons from the past, hope for the future, 9.30am to 5.30pm, Imperial War Mueseum, Lambeth Road, London SE1 (Day 1 of 2) Contact: MAW History Conference, 11 Venetia Road, London N4 IEJ
Peace History - lessons from the past, hope for the future, 9.30am to 5.30pm, Imperial War Mueseum, Lambeth Road, London SE1 (Day 2 of 2) Contact: MAW History Conference, 11 Venetia Road, London N4 IEJ
Supported by Commonwealth Journalists Association
For further information please contact :
Vijay Mehta (vijay@vmpeace.org or 0207 377 2111) Brian Cooper (0131 447 4004)
Frank Jackson (editor.worlddisarm@ntlworld.com or 01279 300 572)
Saturday
25
Peace-making in Britain and Ireland, 11 - 5 pm, Quaker Meeting House, Frederick Street,
(off York Street), Belfast, Northern Ireland
August
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Tuesday
18
Action for UN Renewal and World Disarmament Campaign Invites you to an open discussion on
Inquiry on the Iraq War: Who is Accountable? Tuesday 18th August 2009
Friends House, 173 Euston Road
opposite Euston Station, NW1 2BJ London, 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Chair - Rita PayneChair Commonwealth Journalists Association
General Sir Hugh Beach Why the UK went to war in Iraq in 2003?
Robert Fox Role of Media in Iraq War
Defence correspondent Evening Standard
Nick Grief Legality and Conduct of Iraq War Prof. International Law, Bournemouth University
Nicholas Jones Hidden Agendas in the Buildup to the Iraq War
Former BBC Political Correspondent and Author
Vijay Mehta UN and Iraq War
Chair, Action for UN Renewal
With the announcement by the UK government to hold an inquiry on the war on Iraq, it would be timely to have a public meeting in which we can explore the, issues of:
For what reasons did the UK go to war?
The legality and conduct of war without a UN mandate to go to war
How does the government justify spending over £7 billion on the war to date when pensioners and hospitals in Britain are in need of funds?
What is the effect on people’s trust in democracy and willingness to participate in the democratic process when the government ignores the voices of two million people who demonstrated to express their opposition to the war as well as the wishes of the majority of British people?
How many civilian casualties and military casualties – on both sides – have been lost as a direct result of the war in Iraq and use of Depleted Uranium ?
What reparations will Britain make to the people of Iraq?
What principles can we follow that future disputes can be settled peacefully without recourse to violence?
For registration and further information please contact: Vijay Mehta (vijay@vmpeace.org 0207 377 2111)
Public meeting free. Donations welcome.
Please make cheques payable to ‘Action for UN Renewal.’ And post it to Treasurer,
97 Commercial Road, London E1 1RD
Friday
21
UNA Southern Counties Region – Conference
The Relevance of the UN in Today’s World
21 – 23 August 2009
Bishop Otter Campus, College Lane
University of Chichester
Why Peace Keeping is Not Effective – The Alternatives
Speaker: Vijay Mehta
