The YP Voice is a series of contemporary and thought-provoking blog posts written by volunteers and guests of the UNAA Young Professionals Network.
All views expressed on this blog are the views of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the United Nations or United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA).
Event Series: Yoga for Peace – UNAA Young Professionals QLD
In 2021, UNAA Young Professionals Queensland has continued its partnership with St John’s Cathedral in the Yoga for Peace event series – to raise much-needed funds for the Romero Centre. […]
Event Recap: April’s Social Thursdays YP Networking in Perth
Social Thursdays is a monthly networking event hosted by UNAA Young Professionals WA and runs on the second Thursday of every month. It’s an opportunity for young professionals from all […]
Australia’s First Nations incarceration epidemic: origins of overrepresentation and a path forward
In 2020, a wave of Black Lives Matter movements unfolded across the globe. These movements re-focused a spotlight on Australia’s fraught relationship with its First Peoples. In particular, the movements […]
Event Recap: Networking Night – UNAA Young Professionals QLD
Thank you to everyone who attended our first networking event of 2021 with UNAA Young Professionals Queensland! We had a great turnout at Sixteen Antlers’ rooftop venue and enjoyed networking […]
Why is female genital cutting practised, and what is being done to eliminate it?
Today marks International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). First observed in 2012, the United Nations General Assembly declared 6 February as a day to raise awareness […]
The Future We Want: Exhibition Digital Prelaunch – SDGs through Art
On 12 Dec the UNAA Young Professionals Queensland hosted the final event of 2020 and the last webinar in our series ‘The Future we Want’ – a digital pre-launch of […]
The digital divide: lessons COVID-19 taught us about the digital exclusion of students from low socio-economic backgrounds
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, educators across the globe have been required to establish learning from home for school students, resulting in the rapid roll out of remote […]
The Future We Want: World Refugee Day
For World Refugee Day 2020, the UNAA Young Professionals Queensland heard from inspiring speakers on Sat 27 June in our second online webinar as part of our ongoing series ‘The […]
The Future We Want: Who Pays for a Pandemic?
For all Australians, 2020 has been a devastating year. For months, flames engulfed much of the country and the resulting smoke blanketed our cities. Then, as we emerged from one […]
The Future We Want: Humanitarian Changemakers
On 19 August, the UNAA Young Professionals Queensland hosted a collaborative ‘World Cafe’ style online event, linking young professionals with leaders in humanitarian organisations across health, climate change, refugee support […]