UNA Slovenia Youth Section, a member of the newly established UN Youth Association Network (UNYANET), prepared a special activity to honour this year’s International Day of Democracy. Young Slovenian UN enthusiasts decided to collect as many thoughts on democracy as possible in order to publish them on the web pages of UNA Slovenia and UNYANET. The activity was taking place at the Bazaar of Slovenian NGOs in the centre of Ljubljana on the 15^th of September.

UNYANET – Press release

Vienna, 8 December (UN Information Service) - "Embrace diversity, end discrimination" is the theme of this year's Human Rights Day, observed around the world on 10 December. "No country is free of discrimination. We see it everywhere, in many forms: old and new, covert and blatant, public and private. It may appear as institutionalized racism, as ethnic strife, as episodes of intolerance and rejection, or as an official national version of history that denies the identity of others," says United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message on the occasion of Human Rights Day.

Discrimination targets individuals and groups that are vulnerable to attack: the disabled, women and girls, the poor, migrants, minorities, and all those who are perceived as different. "Abstract commitments are not enough. We must continue to confront inequality and intolerance wherever they are found," the Secretary-General emphasizes in his message.

24 August 2009 - The 39th WFUNA Plenary Assembly, hosted by the UNA-Republic of Korea, was held from 9-12 August 2009 in Seoul.