Wednesday 30 March 2011

UNAMET/ UN Introductory Event at North Campus

INTERESTED IN THE UNITED NATIONS OR THE WORLD HEALTH
ORGANIZATION?


What is the UNITED NATIONS for? What does UNAMET? What they are all about?

 All this questions and more brought curious Students to a cosy Introductory Event, Friday 25th March 2011, to the North Campus together. For everyone who was unable to join us to the Introductory Event....

.... and are still snoopy about UN, WTO and UNAMET here is a brief Summary of the Event:

At first, Plamena our Society President, started off with a brief history and explanation of the United Nations. Did you know that the headquarter is in New York, U.S. and that the UN was founded 1945 after World War II., to stop wars between countries and provide a platforms for dialogues!! Hence, their main goal and aim was and is the achievement of PEACE... although other issues are fundamental to the UN, such as Human Rights, International Security and social progresses. An impressive number of 192 member state are committed to the UN!! Further, Plamena listed the Principal organs, like the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, Secretariat and International Court of Justice.


 Ban Ki-moon is the eighth and current Secretary-General of the United Nations, introduced Plamena to the group... Moreover there are UN Agencies working closely with the Organisation. Magdalena, our Secretary of the UNAMET Society, talked then of these Agencies. The first she mentioned was the World Health Organisation (WHO), and what they do? For instance did you know that they coordinate international effort to control outbreaks of infectious diseases (e.g. SARS, malaria, Tuberculosis, swine flu, and AIDS) & worth of mention is that after over two decades of fighting smallpox, the WHO declared in 1980 that the disease had been eradicated - the first disease in history to be eliminated by human effort!! 


The next point Magdalena presented was the Millennium Development Goals, in support of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The Goals are set to be achieved ...

...by 2015







Then we ended up the Introductory presentation by explaining what is UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) stands for! Foremost importantly long-term humanitarian and developmental assistant to children and mothers in developing countries. Magdalena concluded with the UNYSA-UK telling everyone that the UNA Youth and Students Association, are young people (school, college, University students in the UK) passionately agree with the work and ideals the UN do!! These brings together 40 Branches across the UK that regularly run their own events and campaigns. Its real fun and you meet amazing people along + its awarding work and good to build up your communications skills and professionalize your knowledge!! 
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