Student Ambassador Program launch

New for the 2010-2011 academic year, the program will establish UNA-GB Student Ambassadors at local colleges and universities. Ambassadors will serve as liaisons and a direct line of communication between UNA-GB and the college campus. Read more (and apply) here!.

Check out the new UNA-GB blog!

Women's Forum event in Harvard Square
Tuesday, August 17 (rain date August 19)
Hosted by Christina Asquith, author of "SISTERS IN WAR: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival
in the New Iraq"
6:00-7:30pm
Directions will be sent to attendees
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Journalist Christina Asquith went to Baghdad on assignment in 2003 and spent two years
reporting from the front lines. By fall 2004, as the insurgency strengthened, two of Asquith’s
Iraqi girlfriends agreed to hide her in their Baghdad house for safety. Living with an Iraqi
family gave her an up-close look at how the war had affected their lives: they had little
electricity or water, lived in constant fear of mortar attack or suicide bomb, and while women
had walked the streets freely under Saddam, they could no longer leave home unaccompanied
by a man and were forced to veil or risk being groped or killed. From this experience, Asquith
decided to follow their lives and write SISTERS IN WAR: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival
in the New Iraq.

Join us for a wine & cheese hosted by Christina Asquith at her home. We will enjoy a garden reception and talk by Christina on her book, with plenty of time for questions and reception.

Save the Date: UN Day Luncheon
Tuesday, October 26
Boston Harbor Hotel
11:30am Reception
12:30-2:00pm Luncheon and Keynote Address
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United Nations Day is celebrated around the world on October 24, the anniversary of the day in 1946
when the UN Charter came into effect. This simultaneous global celebration recognizes the essential
work of the United Nations on critical international issues from humanitarian relief and global health to
human rights and peacekeeping.

Since 2000, the United Nations Association of Greater Boston has organized the UN Day Luncheon
each year . The event gathers business, community, and academic leaders from the Greater Boston
area to engage in a dialogue about world affairs and to recognize locally the important work carried out
by the United Nations system.

Ambassador Anderson took up her post as Ireland’s Permanent Representative to the UN in September of 2009, having previously served as Ireland’s Ambassador to France and Monaco. From 2001 to 2005, Ms. Anderson served as Permanent Representative to the European Union in Brussels; before which she was Ireland’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, where her responsibilities also included Chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (1999-2000); Vice-President of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (1997); and Chair of Trade Policy Review Body, World Trade Organization.