Please join us on
UN Day
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
75th Anniversary
Kirk Boyd, guest speaker, will share his work about a new nonprofit, Legal Pact for the Future, organized under the UN Secretary General’s Common Agenda Report in preparation for the Summit of the Future in Sept. 2024.
The mission of Legal Pact for the Future is to serve as an umbrella giving all the organizations that support legally enforceable rights, like United Nations Association, the ability to link together and demand “more courts and fewer reports” with our combined clout. You’ll also learn about Eleanor Lives! and Ecocide.
Sunday, October 15, 2023
3:00 pm
Join us for this free Zoom event!
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John Kirk Boyd, Executive Director at Legal Pact for the Future and CEO/Founder of Eleanor Lives!: Has three law degrees, from UC Berkeley School of Law, including his doctorate. He has argued at every level of court, including the United States Supreme Court. Kirk has also taught International Human Rights, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law and International Law at the University of California, Berkeley and Santa Barbara. His goal is to carry on the plan for humanity started by Eleanor Roosevelt and others for an international community built upon an International Bill of Rights.
Watch the video of Eleanor Lives!
“Equality, Freedom and Justice for All” – UNA-USA’s theme for UN Day 2023 aims to celebrate the first universally protected fundamental human rights document. With its 30 articles, the Universal Declaration of Humarn Rights (UDHR) serves as a constant reminder that human rights are universal, indivisible, and essential for a just and harmonious global community.
The United Nations was created on October 24, 1945.
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Past Event
United Nations Association, Marin Chapter
invites you to join us in celebrating
UN International Day of Peace
Tues., Sept. 26, 2023
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
“An Evening with Peace Leaders”
Free!
Community Congregational Church of Tiburon
145 Rock Hill Drive, Tiburon, CA
Be inspired, hear from everyday peacebuilders.
Learn how we can model, support, and expand peacebuilding.
Honored Speakers
Tezikiah Gabriel, Executive Director, Pathways To Peace, Entrepreneur, Ordained Minister
RJ Jennings, Social Justice Advocate, Peace Alliance Board member, Executive Coach
Matthew Albrecht, Former Executive Director, The Peace Alliance, Author
Kimberly Weichel, Peacebuilder, Educator, Author, Non-profit leader/advisor (Moderator)
Tezikiah Gabriel, Executive Director, Pathways To Peace, Entrepreneur, Ordaine Minister Tezikiah (Tez) founded Gabriel Associates in 1991. The mission of Gabriel Associates is to partner with nonprofit organizations and leaders to strengthen and increase their ability to make a positive difference in the lives of people they exist to serve and to change our world. Over the past 30 years, as a nationally recognized consultant and trainer, Tezikiah has provided change management consulting and training to hundreds of mission-based organizations and thousands of nonprofit leaders who wish to create and inspire sustainable change through transformative approaches that value individual differences, unleash untapped potential, honor inherent wisdom, and deliver desired results.
RJ Jennings, Social Justice Advocate, Peace Alliance Board member, Executive Coach. RJ is a passionate leader, executive coach and development consultant. He has dedicated his life’s work to motivating others to move deeper into their desire to affect sustainable change. Working with business executives, teams and community leaders in Silicon Valley, South Africa, Australia and across the US, RJ inspires others to access answers from within, and in doing so, helps to identify practices that cultivate skillful interactions, and each client’s unique leadership presence.
Matthew Albrecht, Former Executive Director, The Peace Alliance, Author. Matthew is a Founding member and has served in various roles over the years. Prior to The Peace Alliance, Matthew worked as Managing Director of the Global Renaissance Alliance and on various campaigns to help create a more just and sustainable world. He is a Huffington Post blogger and the author ofLiving Out Loud! Young Adults, Finding our Purpose, Shaping a Better World and Nourish Your Self Whole.
Moderated by
Kimberly Weichel, Peacebuilder, Educator, Author, Non-profit leader/advisor (Moderator). Kim is a women’s leadership specialist, cross-cultural communicator, peacebuilder, author, educator and non-profit leader who has worked on the forefront of building bridges between cultures and peoples for over 30 years. She is a passionate advocate and champion for women’s and girls’ advancement and leadership and for global cooperation. Kim has extensive experience in South Africa, East Africa, Southeast Asia, United Arab Emirates, Germany, Canada, Russia, and Australia working with global agencies. In particular, she has had a long background working with UN agencies, including UN Women, and participates in the annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at the UN.
Sponsoring organizations
UNA Marin Chapter is dedicated to educating and mobilizing people to support the principles and wide ranging, vital work of the United Nations. (unamarin.org)
Pathways To Peace is an international, inter-generational and multi-cultural peacebuilding, educational, and consulting organization. (pathwaystopeace.org)
The Peace Alliance educates, advocates, and mobilizes people into action to transform systems and public policy toward a culture of peace. (peacealliance.org)
World Affairs is an independent, nonpartisan forum that brings people together to turn global ideas into local action. WAC produces a weekly radio show, “On Shifting Ground with Ray Suarez”. (worldaffiars.org)
UNA Marin Chapter Membership
Your membership dues keep the UNA alive in our communities!
Welcome!
The United Nations Association actually pre-dates the UN itself. Why? Because the creation of the UN required civic support. That civic support is needed today, and that’s why the Marin Chapter is one of a network of over 200 chapters across the U.S. doing this important work. We hold local events, engage members in actions, lobby elected representatives, and promote local adoption of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of 2030.
We offer a global perspective on local issues.
Coast Miwok Acknowledgement
The land area currently known as Marin County is the historic home of the Coast Miwok tribe. Some current tribal members are affiliated with the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, which also includes Southern Pomo descendants. Others who are not officially part of Graton may be found at this website, www.coastmiwok.com or this Facebook page.
On September 13, 2007, 144 member states of the United Nations voted in favor of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. At the time the United States joined Canada, Australia, and New Zealand as the only four member nations that voted against the declaration, but later reversed their position. (Reference.)
Please click here or on the image of the document to access the complete declaration. An excellent book by Bette Goerke, teacher at College of Marin, is available as well. Serious researchers may want to track down the book Interviews with Tom Smith and Maria Copa.
Visit this helpful reference for a map of the traditional territories of native groups, Native Land.
Can Marin County meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of 2030?
