This page contains details of events supported by UNHCR London in 2006,
including speaking engagements by UNHCR London staff, fundraisers
and exhibitions.
4 December 2006
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars concert
Venue: London Islington Academy
 12 December 2006 Reporting Asylum - London Press Awards
UNHCR is one of the sponsors of these awards to publications which report well on issues concerning asylum and refugees by London's press.
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25 September 2006
"Refugee charities reception"
Labour Party Conference
Venue: Friends Meeting House,Mounts Street, Manchester
 1-4 October 2006
Conservative Party Annual Conference
Venue: Bournemouth
19 September 2006
"The way forward for asylum policy"
Liberal Democrat Party Conference - Fringe meeting
Venue: Thistle Hotel, Brighton
 30th August -1st September
International Mental Health Third Annual Conference
Venue: King’s College London’s
Franklin Wilkins Building
 24th & 26th August
'The Refugees All Stars' screening
Venue: Cineworld,Edinburgh
 18 June 2006
Celebrating Sanctuary
Venue: South Bank, London SE1
Celebrating Sanctuary is a cultural cornucopia of music, dance, performance, art and much more presesented by established and emerging artists from London's refugee communities. Find out more
 20-23 June 2006
The Chartered Institute of Housing
Harrogate
Venue:Harrogate International Centre.
The subject for this year's conference is 'Making the case for housing'. Exhibitors include: major developers, IT providers, building products and services, solicitors, architects, maintenance, funders, consultants, heating providers and many more organisations focusing on housing management, regeneration and delivering sustainable communities.
14 June 2006 'HIV/AIDS among
conflict-affected and displaced populations:
Dispelling myths and taking action'
Venue: Overseas Development Institute, London
Speakers:
- Paul Spiegel, Senior HIV Technical Advisor & Global Coordinator, HIV Unit, UNHCR
- Dieudonne Yiweza, Senior HIV Regional Coordinator, Central Africa, HIV Unit, UNHCR
Discussant:
- Tom Ellman, Medecins Sans Frontieres, UK
3 May 2006
Screening of Sometimes in April
Venue: Rich Mix, London
In April 1994, one of the most heinous genocides in world history began in the African nation of Rwanda. Over the course of 100 days, close to one million people were killed in a terrifying purge by Hutu nationalists against their Tutsi countrymen. Sometimes in April is an epic story of courage in the face of daunting odds, as well as an exposé of the West's inaction as nearly a million Rwandans were being killed.
Q & A will follow after the screening with ...
Fraser James (Actor), Jacqueline Parlevliet (UNHCR), Mary K Blewitt (Survivors Fund, SURF)
and Michael Morgan (Film Critic)
 16 March 2006 Immigration and Nationality Ditrectorate Senior Managers Conference - Speech by UNHCR UK Representative, Bemma Donkoh
Venue: Thistle Tower, St Katherine's Way, London, E1W 1LD
UNHCR's UK representative has been asked to deliver a speech on UNHCR-IND cooperationat a meeting of the IND's senior managers
>> Read Bemma Donkoh's speech here.
 9 February 2006 LSE Student Action for Refugees (STAR) talk on Afghanistan
Venue: London School of Economics, London
Peter Kessler, Senior External Affairs Officer for UNHCR will speak at LSE at 7pm in room D302. This LSE-Student Union UN Society event is free and open to all.
 13-15 February LGA Delivering Sustainable Communities Conference
Venue:ICC, Birmingham
The conference will open with registration at midday on Monday 13 February with study tours for those who wish to take part during the afternoon.Sessions open on Tuesday 14 February at 9.30am and close at 5.30pm followed by the conference reception and dinner from 7.30pm. The conference is scheduled to close on day 3 at around 4.00pm.
24-26 February Scottish Labour Party Conference 2006
Venue: Aviemore Highland Resort.
Scottish Conference is one of the highlights of the political year, bringing together party members, members of Trade Unions, affiliated societies and elected politicians from across Scotland.
 31 January 2006 UN 60th Anniversary Speech by Secretary-General Kofi Annan
Venue: Central Hall Westminster.
UNA-UK hosted a speech by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to mark the 60th anniversary of the first General Assembly which was held in London in January 1946.
>> Read Kofi Annan's speech here.
Friday 27 January 2006 Scottish Refugee Council AGM 2006
Venue: The Banqueting Hall, Glasgow City Chambers, George Square, Glasgow.
Guest speakers include Ms Twimukye Mushaka from the refugee community organisation, Karibu and Mrs Bemma Donkoh, the newly appointed UK representative of the UNHCR in the UK.
>> Read Bemma Donkoh's speech here (pdf)
 19 January 2006 Launch of the UNA-UK Young Professionals Network
Venue: Terrace of the Houses of Parliament.
The Network is a new programme of UNA-UK which aims to engage young professionals having an interest in international affairs and the United Nations. The launch event, which is being sponsored by UN All-Party Group Chair Hugh Robertson MP, will be an opportunity for parliamentarians, VIP guests, dynamic young professionals in their 20s and 30s, and business leaders from UK companies signed up to the Global Compact initiative to meet informally over canapés and a glass of wine.
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