General Board Meeting - Open invitation - Saturday, August 28 - Noon to 3

UNA-USA Division General Board Meeting - Open invitation. - Lunch (members order and pay individually), meeting and tour of the UNA "Global Gifts" Shop. $10 volunteer donation to the division treasury. Marie Callender's, 29051 S. Western Ave, Rancho Palos Verdes (near San Pedro). NW corner of W. Capitol Drive & South Western. Phone at Marie Callender's: 310-832-4559.
Contact Diane Gonzales - Link to Map

RSVP Today for the 3rd Annual West Coast Global Forum

Photo Gallery from the June 2010 Meeting - Click here

Message from the President - Summer 2010

Welcome Message from
Southern California Division President
Mel Boynton

Welcome to your SoCal UNA-USA Website!  If you’re not already a member, please join today.  Check out your local chapter websites and help us educate, advocate, and grow.

We are at a milestone this summer with the coming merger of UNA-USA into the United Nations Foundation family. Both national boards and the Council of Chapters and Divisions (CCD) of UNA-USA have endorsed moving forward on our strategic alliance. This combining of the UNA-USA chapter base and the UN Foundation advocacy resources is a logical and empowering development for both of our organizations and our ten SoCal chapters. Please see the description of the alliance.
 
Your SoCal Division of UNA-USA works for greater success to: . . . more

June 7th speech by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon at 2010 National CCD & UNA-USA meeting in Washington D.C.

1st annual Orange County Model United Nations Conference (OCMUN) Saturday, October 9th
Golden West College in Huntington Beach.

The conference is a joint sponsored event through Irvine Valley College and Golden West College.

This year’s conference will focus on the theme of New Beginnings: Balancing Globalization and State Sovereignty. It will consist of four committees including General Assembly Second Committee, UNICEF, IAEA, and Security Council. We strongly encourage co-delegations in the GA as to promote increased awareness of student’s roles and to foster relationships within the team. The Security Council will be a mandatory co-delegate committee as to give students more opportunity to compete at a higher level.

Through this preliminary invitation to advisors and delegates we would like to get an estimate of how many schools and delegates will be participating this year in order to thoroughly prepare. We ask that you or your head delegate contact us. Please click here for invitation and contact info.

Board Officers Richard Harris, Mel Boynton, Diane Gonzales, Barry Simon, Judith Harris, & Jim Stanbery at January 30 Board Meeting

UNA-USA Supports Haiti Quake Victims

As concerned citizens and UNA-USA members, we all want to help the victims of the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile. We can give immediate help through UNICEF's and the UN's World Food Program.

Please join me in donating to help to the victims.   

  
Mel Boynton, President
SoCal UNA-USA

January 28 - SoCal UNA-USA Leaders Help Welcome UN Information Agency
Director Will Davis to Los Angeles and UCLA Appearance

Pictured: Ardi Rashidi, Barry Simon, UCLA Student Leaders, Will Davis,
Fahriye Mahrenholz, Mel Boynton, and David Tuckman

2nd Annual Global Forum on December 2nd a Great Success!

From left: Mohammad "Ike" Khamisani (UNA-USA SoCal Div Citrus Belt Chapter President), Barry Simon (Southern California Division VP of Resource Development), Carl Mariz (UNA-USA Southern California Division President), Karen Kukurin (Office of the Governor), Jane Roberts (Nobel Peace Prize nominee and co-founder of "34 Million Friends of the Women of the World"), Mel Boynton (President of UNA-USA Pomona Valley Chapter, Incoming President, UNA-USA Southern California Division), Ambassador Alejandro Daniel Wolff (Deputy Permanent US Representative to the United Nations), Barbara Tebyan, (Co-President of UNA-USA Pacific LA Chapter), and David Tuckman (SoCal Division Secretary, President of UNA-USA San Fernando Valley)

Photo Gallery of the 2nd Annual Global Forum - Click here

Most people know that United Nations agencies have contributed to the eradication of smallpox, immunized 80% of the world's children against deadly diseases, provided food aid, coordinated emergency relief in the face of disasters. natural and otherwise, and helped to avert or end wars and maintain international peace and stability. But few are aware that the United Nations. . . more