Putney & Roehampton Branch History
PUTNEY UNA MEETINGS
1989/90
Talk on Afghanistan
Service: St Simon's Catholic Church
Christmas Sale
Namibia
Cambodia
[Middle East] Apartheid Today South America - Nicaragua Drugs Debt & Rock 'n Roll AGM
1990/91
UN International Literacy Year Service: United Reform Church, Putney Christmas Sale
Water Decade: What Progress? Water in Developing Countries
[The UN and the Planet]
UN and the Gulf Crisis
The UN in a Changing Europe
UN Development Fund for Women
AGM
1991/92
40th Anniversary of UN Convention on Refugees Service: Wandsworth Baha'i Community Christmas Sale
Human Rights Day - Australian Aboriginal Rights
UNESCO and Britain
SA Update
Women's Rights
After the Gulf
AGM
1992/93
An Agenda for Peace, Report of Secretary General Service: Buddhapadipa Temple, Wimbledon The Asylumn Bill Christmas Sale
SA Update II - Report & discussion Earth Summit in Rio
Balkans and the UN Report & discussion Angola and the UN – discussion
AGM
1993/94
Talk on celebrations in India for International Year of Interreligious Understanding and Co-operations Service: St Mary's Parish Church, Putney Bridge Christmas Sale Bosnia
Change in the Middle East Somalia
UN Year of the Family
Run-up to World Environment Day
AGM - Summer Jumble Sale
1994/95
Observing the South African Elections
Service: Society of Friends Wandsworth (Quakers)
Mozambique Elections
Christmas Sale
The UN and Internal Conflicts
International Maritime Organisation - a UN Agency
The United Nations at 50
AGM
SW London UNAs 50th Anniversary get-together
1995/96
UN Year for Tolerance
Service: 50th Anniversary Celebration at Westminster Abbey January Sale
The Menace of Anti-Personnel Mines
Asylum
AGM
1996/97
The Habitat II Conference
Service: Inter-faith at Unitarian Church, Richmond, with Richmond & Twickenham International Year for the Eradication of Poverty January Sale
Anti-Personnel Mines Update
AGM
1997/98
The Year for UN Renewal Service: Putney Methodist Church Britain Back in UNESCO January Sale
International Year of the Oceans
AGM
1998/99
Service: Sikh Temple, Merton Road, Wandsworth 50th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights UN International Year of Older Persons Iraq - Alternatives to Sanctions?
AGM
1999/2000
Is the Free Market a Disaster for Eastern Europe? Service: St Simon's Catholic Church
UN International Year of Thanksgiving and for the Culture of Peace Disarmament
AGM
2000/2001
Jubilee 2000 - Debt Relief Service: The London Mosque UN International Year of Volunteers New Initiatives in Co-operation for Peace
AGM
2001/2002
UN World Conference against Racism
Service: Wimbledon & District Synagogue
Democratising Globalisation: People and the United Nations
UN International Year of Ecotourism
AGM
2002/2003
World Summit on Sustainable Development
Service: Southfields Baptist Church
Combating Terrorism through the United Nations
UN International Year of Freshwater
AGM
2003/2004
Together for Human Rights - Fifty Years of International Service
Service: St Mary's Church, Putney High Street
What Action for Reform of the United Nations Organisation?
Arms Reduction and the United Nations
AGM
2004/2005
UN International Year of Rice
Service: Salvation Army Hall, Wandsworth
Showing Movement for Abolition of War's Video War No More
The Problem of Human Trafficking
AGM
2005/2006
UN International Year of Microcredit
Service: 60th Anniversary Rededication at St Paul's Cathedral Outcome of the Millennium Review Summit - Way Forward for the UN Report on the Commission for Africa
AGM
2006/2007
UN International Year of Deserts and Desertification
Service: Holy Trinity Parish Church, Ponsonby Road, Roehampton
Iran Today
What Progress on Anti-Personnel Mines?
AGM
2007/2008
UN International Polar Year
Service. Ghanapathy (Hindu) Temple & Sai Mandir, Effra Road, Wimbledon
The UN Human Rights Council
Health as a Bridge to Peace
AGM
2008/2009
Celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Service: Wandsworth Quakers
Film - An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore and talk Coal and Climate change: Impacts on the Global South
International Women's Day - Educating to End Violence Against Women
AGM
2009/10
UN International Year of Astronomy - Mars and Beyond
The UN, Human Rights and Liberty
International Womens's Day - Crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo - How can the UN help
2010/11
Friday 24th September 7.30pm
The crime of Ecocide
Speaker Polly Higgins Barrister.
the Community Church Hall, Werter Rd, Putney SW15
UN International Year of Biodiversity
Friday 21st January 7.30pm
Peace-One-Day.
An organisation working for worldwide cessation
of conflicts for one day each year
Friday 11th March 7.30pm
UN International Women's Day.
Trafficking of Women into the UK
Tuesday 17th May 8pm
Agm
United Nations Day Services
1982 United Reformed Church, Briar Walk, Putney
1983 Unitarian Church - All Faiths Service,
Upper Richmond Road
1984 Friends Meeting House(Quakers),
Wandsworth High Street
1985 St Mary's, Putney High Street
1986 Sikh Temple, Merton Road, SW18
1987 Jewish Synagogue, Wimbledon
1988 Hindu Temple, Wimbledon
1989 St Simon's Catholic Church,
Hazlewell Rd, Putney
1990 United Reformed Church,
Briar Walk, Putney
1991 Baha'i Community at
Robert Joy Day Centre
1992 Buddhapadipa Temple,
Wimbledon
1993 St Mary's,
Putney High Street
1994 Friends Meeting House,
Wandsworth High Street
1995 50th Anniversary Celebration at
Westminster Abbey
1996 Inter-faith service at
Unitarian Church, Richmond
1997 Putney Methodist Church,
Gwendolen Avenue
1998 Sikh Temple,
Merton Road,SW18
1999 St Simon's Catholic Church,
Hazlewell Road,Putney
2000 The London Mosque, Gressenhall Road,
Wandsworth
2001 Wimbledon & District Synagogue,
Queensmere Road,SW19
2002 Southfields Baptist Church,
Wimbledon Park Road, SW18
2003 St Mary's Church,
Putney High Street
2004 Salvation Army Hall,
Wandsworth
2005 60th Anniversary Rededication at
St Paul's Cathedral
2006 Holy Trinity Parish Church,
Ponsonby Road, Roehampton
2007 Ghanapathy(Hindu)Temple & Sai Mandir,
Effra Road, Wimbledon
2008 Wandsworth Meeting House of the
Religious Society of Friends
2009 Putney Methodist Church.
2010 Buddhabadipa Temple, 14 Calonne Rd,
Wimbledon SW19 5HJ