UNA-USA Supports JAPAN's Quake Victims

Many of your chapters are looking for good ways to help the victims in Japan. Here is a good link through our sister organization, UN Foundation http://www.unfoundation.org/global-issues/united-nations/japan.html to benefit the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF).

Please join me in donating to help to the victims.  

Mel Boynton, President
SoCal UNA-USA

 

 

 

 

 

News & Events
2012
  

Sat, Feb 18
11:30

Women's Club Pasadena

160 n. Oakland Avenue
Pasadena 91101

 

Parking: in back at 165 Madison
The American Association of University Women - Pasadena Branch


UNTIL OUR LAST BREATH: POISONED CHINESE WORKERS FIGHT FOR JUSTICE -
DOCUMENTARY SCREENING AND DISCUSSION OF “RED DUST” with DIRECTOR AND WRITER KARIN T. MAK

From Ginny Hatfield, President SCRCO:

The Pasadena Branch of AAUW will be hosting the event. As the AAUW representative to SCRCO, I will be participating in the program which highlights the documentary film "Red Dust," dealing with the subject of cadmium poisoning among Chinese women factory workers.  AAUW CA sponsored State legislation in 2010 to prohibit the importation of jewelry containing cadmium which successfully passed the Legislature and was signed into law.  I hope you will join me for this important presentation and circulate this invitation among your respective organizations.  Please note that the deadline for reservations is Friday, February 10th, so don't delay.

COST: $20.00 per person
RESERVATIONS: Mail check payable to AAUW Pasadena Branch to P.O. Box 94309, Pasadena, CA 91109-4309 by February 10. Indicate Grilled Salmon or Skinny Chicken or Fruit Plate. INFORMATION: Call 626-797-1059

Recent Events Featured

 

Mauritanian girl
Jane Roberts

A girl performs domestic labour in a rural Mauritanian encampment. The International Labour Organization estimates there are at least 10 million working children in Africa alone.
Photo from United Nations website, "Human Rights" section
Jane Roberts, author of
"34 Million Friends of the Women of the World"
Women, Gender Equality and
the United Nations
Millennium Development Goals

Jane Roberts, co founder of 34 Million Friends of the UN Population Fund spoke to the UNA -USA San Fernando Valley Chapter on March 3 on the campus of Cal State Northridge. Her topic was Women, Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals. She summarized exactly what the United Nations Family Planning Assn. (UNFPA) does in over 150 countries of the world emphasizing its work to save women’s lives in childbirth and to offer the family planning that we all take for granted. She opined that unless MDG 5 to Improve Maternal Health is fully implemented, the other 7 goals will not be achieved. With the world headed toward 9 billion people, there will be great stress on people, the planet, and peace.

Hillary Clinton laments that globally women and girls are the "majority of the world's unhealthy, unschooled, unfed and unpaid." Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations states that "In women, the world has the most significant but UNTAPPED potential for development and peace." Jane Roberts tied this all together and showed that empowering women and girls with education, health, equality, and human rights is the basis of any hope for people, the planet, and peace.

Attending were several members of UNA and about 40 students from two different Women’s Studies classes. Jane gave out her book to several students. David Tuckman, UNA Chapter President then gave Jane a beautiful Certificate of Appreciation which was signed by David and by Ginny Hatfield, Co-Chapter President.

 

Marsha Hunt
Courageous Patriot, Actress

and Great Friend of the United Nations Assn.(UNA)

Discussion of the Feb 18, 2010 Event for Marsha Hunt

By David Tuckman and Roger Memos

Dr. Rolfe's Afghan Dream

As a means to call awareness of the humanitarian efforts of activist and actress Marsha Hunt, a special screening of  “Call from the Stars” was held at the historic Hollywood Studio Museum, Feb 18, 2010.  Producer and Director Roger Memos, along with Richard Adkins are producing a Documentary, called “Marsha Hunt, Sweet Adversity”, on Marsha’s life of service through the United Nations Assn.-USA and U.S. committee for Refugees.  She received the "Eleanor Roosevelt" Award for her contribution to the organization. The showing of “Call From the Stars” was put on as a fundraiser for their documentary “Marsha Hunt: Sweet Adversity” project.   Selected clips from this film were shown.  . . . . more