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ABOUT THE UNA-OREGON
United Nations Association of the USA,
Oregon
Division (Portland)
Essay
Winners - MUN Awards -
Activities this Month -
Hosts Needed
What do YOU know about
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
High school students from
Oregon and SW Washington had the unique opportunity this year to read all
thirty articles of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, decide
which one or more was most meaningful to them and to share why in an Essay
Competition on the United Nations. This competition was initiated by the
Education Committee of the United Nations Association - Oregon Division,
under the direction of its chairperson, Karen Ettinger, K-12 Education
Director of the World Affairs Council. Thirty two students from five schools
responded, allured by the chance of not only winning prize money but
receiving tickets to the Council's International Speaker Series!
Winners of the UNA-Oregon Essay Contest
First Prize was awarded
to an 11th Grade student from Reynolds High School, Abby Maichi Tran,
who chose Article Twenty Six, "Everyone
has the right to an education", as her theme.
Read her article here.
Second Prize was
awarded to a 9th Grade student from Catlin Gabel School, Alex Corey,
who espoused upon Article Nineteen, "Everyone
has the right to freedom of opinion".
Read his article here.
Third Prize winner,
Adrienne Hurst, a Tenth Grade student from Mountain View High
School in Vancouver, Washington, also found Article Twenty Six "Everyone has
the right to education" to be most
significant to her. Read
her article here.
Honorable Mention was
presented to Ellen Osborne, an Eleventh Grade student from
Grant High School for her essay on Article Twenty-Five, "Everyone
has the Right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being
of himself and of his family".
Read her article here.
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Delegates from PSU
MUN/Student Alliance Bring Home the Gold!
This March, Portland State
University Model United Nations/Student Alliance returned from their first
Model United Nations summit in Vancouver, B.C. The four-day event, hosted by
Simon Fraser University, featured hours upon hours of exciting negotiation
as teams from Northwest universities and high schools simulated the United
Nations.
Thanks to the generous support of sponsors like UNA-Oregon, PSU MUN/Student
Alliance sent nine PSU students to the conference, representing diverse
countries including Costa Rica, Cuba, France, and Saudi Arabia. True to
international spirit, both our students and our Canadian brothers and
sisters impressed each other with their dedication, preparation, and
creativity.
Most notably, hats off to the delegates representing France--PSU
students Jeff Fisher ('08), Patrick Maloney ('08), and Carrie Stiles
('08)--for winning the conference's top award: Best Delegation!
For more information on PSU MUN, on how to get a MUN going on your own
campus, or to show your support, please contact
psumun@pdx.edu.
Photos from the MUN
Summit
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