Greater Lansing United Nations Association

Greater Lansing United Nations Association The Greater Lansing United Nations Association is actively committed to the cause of international peace, cooperation and justice. Not yet a UNA-USA member?

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This is the Official United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) Greater Lansing Chapter page. The Greater Lansing Chapter is part of the UNA-USA network, with 180 chapters and more than 20,000 members across the United States. UNA-USA is a grassroots movement dedicated to inform, inspire, and mobilize the American people to support the ideals and vital

work of the United Nations. For more than 70 years, UNA-USA and its supporters have stood at the forefront of building American support for the UN. Together with its sister organization, the Better World Campaign, UNA-USA represents the largest network of advocates and supporters of the UN in the world. UNA-USA is a nonpartisan organization. Join us in protecting the vital work of the United Nations at unausa.org/join. When you become a member of UNA-USA, you are joining 20,000 Americans who take an active role in supporting the work of the United Nations in their local communities. You’ll engage on critical UN priorities, such as the environment, human rights, health, and development. UNA-USA members receive exclusive invitations to high-level online briefings from UN staff members and leading outside experts, annual Leadership Summits in Washington, D.C., with a day on Capitol Hill, and yearly full-day conferences at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Students under 25 years old can join for free. Join us in advocating on behalf of the United Nations by seeing our advocacy priorities and resources at unausa.org/advocacy. The Greater Lansing United Nations Association strives to foster a friendly and informative online experience for all members of the Facebook community. Therefore, content and comments on this page that contain any of the following are not allowed and will be removed:
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06/04/2026
05/19/2026

Ministers, mayors, international organisations, urban planners and experts are in Baku, Azerbaijan, to tackle one of the world’s fastest-growing challenges: the global housing crisis, which, according to the United Nations, affects nearly 2.8 billion people worldwide.

05/19/2026

Join us next week in Michigan as the fight to affirm the Equal Rights Amendment comes to Lansing, Detroit, and Ann Arbor!

Join us this evening! Love Your Neighbor: Global and Local Refugee Voices.Hear from Chris Melzer of UNHCR, Kwach-kwan Ab...
05/13/2026

Join us this evening! Love Your Neighbor: Global and Local Refugee Voices.

Hear from Chris Melzer of UNHCR, Kwach-kwan Abwol of Catholic Charities Lansing, GL-UNA board member Banjor Musa, and former Refugee Services Director Judi Harris as they discuss refugee experiences and support efforts locally and around the world.

Tonight at 6:30 PM
Edgewood United Church, East Lansing
Virtual attendance option

More info and Zoom link: gluna.org/event/refugee-voices/

05/09/2026

Lansing's next drive-through mobile food distribution event in partnership with Greater Lansing Food Bank will take place on Saturday, May 16, 2026, at the Grace United Methodist Church, 1900 Boston Boulevard, Lansing 48910.

Vehicles may start lining up at 7 am. Food distribution will run from 9-11 am, or while supplies last.

For more information, please visit: https://www.lansingmi.gov/274/Food-Assistance.

Join us next Wednesday, May 13, for "Love Your Neighbor: Global and Local Refugee Voices"A Greater Lansing United Nation...
05/09/2026

Join us next Wednesday, May 13, for "Love Your Neighbor: Global and Local Refugee Voices"

A Greater Lansing United Nations Association (GL-UNA) program on refugee experiences and support efforts in Lansing and around the world.

Featuring:
• Chris Melzer (UNHCR)
• Kwach-kwan Abwol (Catholic Charities Lansing)
• Banjor Musa (MIARC / GL-UNA)
• Judi Harris (Former Refugee Services Director)

May 13 at 6:30 PM
Hybrid Program
In-person: Edgewood United Church, East Lansing
Virtual, Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/refugee-voices-zoom

Learn more: https://gluna.org/event/refugee-voices/
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According to the 2026 Global Report on Food Crises, global hunger is becoming entrenched in a small group of conflict-hi...
05/04/2026

According to the 2026 Global Report on Food Crises, global hunger is becoming entrenched in a small group of conflict-hit countries. And for the first time in the 10-year history of the GRFC, two famines (in parts of Gaza Strip and the Sudan) were confirmed in the same year.
Full Report: https://www.fightfoodcrises.net/global-report-food-crises

The Global Network Against Food Crises is an alliance of humanitarian and development actors united by the commitment to tackle the root causes of food crises and promote sustainable solutions through shared analysis and knowledge, strengthened coordination in evidence-based responses and collective...

05/04/2026

Young Palestinians in Gaza with university-level educations are setting aside dreams of putting their hard-won skills into practice and doing whatever they can to survive.

04/25/2026

More than 840,000 people die each year from health conditions linked to risks such as long working hours, job insecurity, workplace harassment and bullying, according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO).

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