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Find Yourself in the Global U/U Story

Unitarians, Universalists, and Unitarian Universalists (U/U) around the world are connected through a story of bold, compassionate faith that we’ve been creating together for centuries.

Struggling for human rights alongside those that demand it, influencing governmental policy in the name of justice, passionately promoting a message of interfaith peace and solidarity, and building faithful worshipping communities—each of us has a part, and a stake, in the story we share.

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  • Screenshot grid of four videoconference windows: One is a white man wearing glasses and a grey suit; one is a black man wearing glasses, a septum piercing, and a white sweater; one is a white woman wearing glasses and an olive shirt; one is a white man wearing glasses and a black sweater
    On December 15, 2021 the Unitarian Universalist Association’s office at the United Nations (UU@UN) hosted an event on “Human Rights and Policing Through a Global Lens.” This event was created to educate people on current global policing policies and how those policies affect those in...
    by Rose Singleton, Brooklyn Darling |
  • Hands reach up to grasp the top of a barbed wire fence, silhouetted by the sun in an overcast sky.
    December 18 is International Migrants Day, an occasion to recognize and mobilize around protecting migrants’ fundamental human rights. In the face of climate chaos, we must advance just, compassionate policies.
    by Bruce Knotts |
  • December 10, 2021 Human Rights Day (written in dark font over a green watercolor painting of a map of the world's land masses.)
    In honor of Human Rights Day, UU@UN Director reflects on the human rights priorities of the UUA Office at the UN, expressing gratitude for the generosity of supporters which sustains the office’s work.
    by Bruce Knotts |
  • Planet Earth seen from space takes up the bottom left corner, on a black background with blue text reading "Displacement and Human Rights" and green text reading "All In for Climate Justice"
    We are excited to share an update about the UUA Office at the UN’s upcoming Intergenerational Spring Seminar, “Displacement and Human Rights: All In for Climate Justice.” Programming for the 2022 Intergenerational Seminar will be offered fully online, April 22 – May 1, 2022. The online...
    by UUA International Resources: UU Office at the United Nations |
  • Photo of teenage water protector Autumn Peltier standing in front of a lake under an overcast grey sky. She is holding a copper-colored vessel.
    In honor of those whose land and lives have been stolen, the UUA holds space to reflect on the atrocities of colonization, and affirms our solidarity with those who continue to fight for Indigenous sovereignty. We honor the missing and murdered Indigenous women and children. We uplift Indigenous...
    by Amanda Newlove |
  • COP 26
    Was COP26 a success? Or a failure? I believe it’s most accurate, if unsatisfying, to answer “both” – and “neither.” Each year since the Convention was adopted in 1994, the secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has convened a Conference of Parties (COP),...
    by Bruce Knotts |
  • Three turquoise-colored trucks almost submerged in the brown water of an overflowing river. There are piles of stones in the truck beds and a forest lines the bank of the flooded river.
    Hello to the UUA Community! I am Pierre Candelon, and here at COP26 I co-coordinate a network of stakeholders (practitioners, activists, decision-makers, academics) called the Loss and Damage Collaboration.
  • Black and white photo of the signing of the United Nations Charter in a room lined with national flags from UN member states and the UN logo on a curtain to the right. US Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. sits at a round table to sign the document while President Harry S. Truman stands by at the left looking pleased. Additional diplomats stand behind wearing suits.
    As a child, I could not tell that day by day, I was growing. Instead, my father marked my height every year so we could see how much I had grown. October 24, 2021 is the 76th birthday of the United Nations. The UN Charter was signed in 1945 by the representatives of 51 nations. (All those...
    by Bruce Knotts |
  • Comparison of a historical etching of slaveholder on horseback with a whip poised above an enslaved person and a recent photograph of border patrol on horseback pursuing an asylum seeker
    Introduction The visual that circulated in September 2021 of U.S. Border patrolmen chasing Haitian asylum seekers on horseback made many who saw it think of the slave patrols that roamed the Southern U.S. states before emancipation....
    by Halley Mistry, Rose Singleton |
  • UN Secretary-General António Guterres is seen speaking at the podium of the UN General Assembly Hall. He is wearing a black suit with a red tie.
    This post was originally sent out on September 24 via a monthly email message from Director Bruce Knotts of the Unitarian Universalist Association Office at the United Nations. Subscribe to the UU@UN email list....
    by Bruce Knotts |