A special panel featuring our 2024 Summer Scholars Fellowship winners, moderated by UNA-NYC Board Member Ramu Damadoran.

Run, bike, or walk with us — as we celebrate the 79th anniversary of the United Nations (October 24th is UN Day) — and recognize its tireless efforts to create a world in which everyone thrives in peace, dignity, and equality on a healthy planet. This year’s theme will be Gender Equality. Read more about it — and register!

The UN Day Humanitarian Awards Gala Dinner, hosted by the United Nations Association of New York, is a major and exclusive national gathering which attracts leading individuals and organizations recognized for their unique contributions to, and exemplary support of the ideals and work of, the United Nations.

Please join us for this important FilmTalk event at the Ukrainian Institute in New York, as we present a special screening of the multi-award winning film 20 Days in Mariupol, followed by a discussion with Ukrainian Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya and war correspondent Edith M. Lederer.

Join us for this event in our acclaimed Ambassador Series, when we will host an evening of discussion with Ambassador Robert Rae, Canada’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

Please join us at our 2024 Annual Meeting, when UNA-NYC will celebrate our accomplishments over the past year, and our guest speaker will be financial journalist and author Josie Cox, who will share her compelling story of women’s fight for financial freedom, and the social and political hurdles that have kept them from equality.

During CSW68, the United Nations Association of New York, the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York and Medical Women’s International Association will introduce a panel of experts who will share their personal narratives and novel global initiatives to strengthen institutions with a gender perspective and eliminate harassment in the workplace as well as to provide cultures of inclusion, belonging and advancement for all in the workplace.

Join us for this special panel discussion on global reporting and human rights, as defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, within the evolving landscape of AI and the challenges and opportunities it presents.

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Please join us for this timely conversation with Paul O’Brien, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, and Troy Wolfe, Senior Director of Partnerships and Special Initiatives at the United Nations Foundation, when they will be assessing the human rights movement's challenges and progress on the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Please join us for this live film-talk event at the Dolby Screening Room in New York, as we present a special afternoon screening of Goodbye Julia, Mohamed Kordofani’s compassionate, moving film set in the days before the 2011 secession of South Sudan, in which a retired singer from the north seeks redemption for causing the death of a southern man by hiring his unsuspecting wife as her maid.

Join us for this discussion in our acclaimed Ambassador Series, when award-winning UN Correspondent Stephanie Fillion and Egypt's Ambassador to the United Nations H.E. Osama Abdelkhalek will talk about the current situation in the Middle East, and the role of Egypt in relationship with other states in the region.

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Run, bike, or walk with us — as we celebrate the 78th anniversary of the United Nations (October 24th is UN Day) — and recognize its tireless efforts to create a world in which everyone thrives in peace, dignity, and equality on a healthy planet. This year’s theme will be Gender Equality. Read more about it — and register!

A special panel featuring our 2023 Summer Scholars Fellowship winners, moderated by UNA-NYC Executive Vice President and Treasurer Robin van Puyenbroeck.

It’s back! Come out and enjoy our 2023 Summer Soirée — a perfect weeknight wind down with friends and colleagues. Quality time for catching up, do a bit of networking, and sharing some perspectives on what life looks like from more informed, global viewpoints.

Join us for this premiere sneak peek of RETURN DATE: UNKNOWN, which will be included in the 2023 season of BYkids films to be presented on PBS. Our guests this evening to discuss the film after the screening will be Holly Carter, founder and executive director of BYkids, filmmaker Tymur Tsapliienko, and BYkids mentor Rom Barnea.

Please join us at our 2023 Annual Meeting, when UNA-NYC will celebrate our accomplishments over the past year, and our guest speaker will be Irish Ambassador Fergal Mythen, joined in conversation with UNA-NYC Executive Vice President Robin van Puyenbroeck.

In a discussion with award-winning UN Correspondent Stephanie Fillion, Finland's Ambassador to the UN Elina Kalkku will talk about current global affairs, what it's like to be Russia's neighbor right now, being a woman diplomat in one of the world's most gender-equal countries and more.

In commemoration of International Women’s Day (March 6) and in celebration of the 2023 Conference on the Status of Women (CSW) taking place at the United Nations (6–17 March), we are pleased to hear from CNN International anchor ZAIN ASHER, who will discuss her inspirational memoir Where the Children Take Us. The event will take place at the Nigerian Mission to the United Nations in New York City.

To celebrate this year’s International Women’s Day, and the 67th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), we are offering, as a special CSW67 Parallel Event, a multidisciplinary panel addressing issues involving technology and its role in advancing the status of women and girls.

Please join us for the return engagement of our live film-talk events at the Dolby Screening Room in New York, as we present this absorbing and inspiring film. On hand after the screening, we are pleased to host our guest speakers Deanna Bitetti, Head of External Relations and Communications at UNHCR, the UN refugee agency based in New York City, and Sven Spannekrebs, Co-Founder of the Yusra Mardini Foundation (USA) and the Butterfly by Yusra Mardini Association (Germany).

After the success of our UN Summer Garden Tour, this winter we’re offering a UNA-NYC chapter members-only tour, this time highlighting the UN’s art collection, preceded by a lunch. It’s another appealing opportunity to meet up with other members of our NYC Chapter… and learn all about the works of art gifted to UN Headquarters in the heart of New York City.

A special panel featuring our 2020-2021 Summer Scholars Fellowship winners, moderated by UNA-NYC Executive Vice President and Treasurer Robin van Puyenbroeck.

Please join us for our first live, post-pandemic in-person event, in partnership with the Columbia University Club of New York, when we will gather to hear UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, share her perspectives on the future possibilites ahead for achieving success in securing an effective global disarmament agreement.

The UN Day Humanitarian Awards Gala Dinner, hosted by the United Nations Association of New York, is a major and exclusive national gathering which attracts leading individuals and organizations recognized for their unique contributions to, and exemplary support of the ideals and work of, the United Nations.

Please join us for this webtalk as two key representatives from the Pastoralist Child Foundation, Co-Founder & Director Samuel Siriria Leadismo, alongside FGM expert and community mobilizer, Elizabeth Lemoyog, discuss their initiatives and strategies for eradicating FGM, at the national level and beyond. The moderator this evening will be PCF founder and president, Sayddah Garrett. This special event coincides with the UN’s International Day of the Girl Child (October 11).

We are happy to welcome our NYC Chapter Members back into the swirl of summer — with the return of our annual Summer Soirée! And this year, sustainability is our theme, as we co-host this soirée with the NYC Fair Trade Coalition — bringing together fashion, food, and fair trade.

We are pleased to announce a special treat in the early New York summertime — a tour of the United Nations garden, preceded by a lunch — an appealing opportunity to meet up with other members of our NYC Chapter, and even make some new friends! Non-members are welcome. Note: registration is now closed.