The UNIPA runs a number of awards programs across Asia Pacific Region to promote the work, goals, and values of the United Nations. Choose an award to learn more and even nominate a worthy candidate today!
The UNIPA Community Awards were established recognize individuals and organizations in Asia Pacific communities, who have shown outstanding effort in initiating or supporting activities or projects which reflect the basis of the United Nations Charter and its purposes.. In Asia Pacific communities – from the suburbs to regional and rural areas and to the inner cities – many of us are often struck by the extraordinary efforts made by individuals and organizations to support and assist Asia Pacific peoples.
The UNIPA is now calling for nominations for 2019 to recognize those individuals and organizations whose selfless and often uncelebrated efforts work towards issues of peace, human rights, social justice and equality in our communities across the Asia Pacific countries.
Nominations for the UNIPA Community Awards should be based on activities by individuals and/or organizations which address one or more of the selection criteria and reflect the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
If you would like to nominate an individual or organization for an award, please on or before 1 November at https://unipa-un.org/nomination-form/
Awards will be presented in December.
UNIPA annual Media Awards recognize those in the media whose work highlights and champions human rights and social justice issues and stimulates public debate and changes in public and private policy. These awards are presented by our Thailand Division. For several years, the United Nations Inter pacific association acknowledged UN Day (24 October) by awarding Asia-Pacific journalists and media organizations who had excelled in their promotion of human rights and issues.
After a successful inaugural year in 2014, the Lifework Awards returned in 2017. The purpose of the UNIPA Lifework Awards is to recognize ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Longevity is a crucial key in determining the recipients of this award. It is a tangible acknowledgment of the long history of dedicated men and women have demonstrated:
These awards are presented by our Peace Program.
As members of the global community sharing a common humanity Inter-Pacific peoples in a concerted Joins the role of the UNIPA Peace Program of the United Nations Inter-Pacific Association. Our job is to convince everyone that ‘the world is a better place because the United Nations exists’.
Our program is a soft program – we try to make others connect emotionally and intellectually to a larger cause – peace – that transcends their immediate self-interest.
We invite leaders to help us to promote our noble visions for a peaceful community, to establish standards of achievement, conduct, peace, and justice, to explain why they matter and inspire others to adopt the agreed goals and benchmarks as their personal goals.
The UN International Day of Peace, generally known as World Peace Day or Peace Day, is observed annually on 21 September. It is dedicated to world peace, and specifically the absence of war and violence – this day is observed with a temporary ceasefire in a combat zone to enable humanitarian aid access. It was established by a United Nations resolution in 1981 to coincide with the opening of the General Assembly’s yearly session. The UN International Day of Peace was first celebrated in 1982 and is honored by many nations and peoples. In 2001, 21 September was designated as the official date for World Peace Day.
The UNIPA Art Award is a competition for Asia Pacific children in school years 6 to 15. This award promotes the importance of human rights education. The UNIPA have conducted these awards annually since 2008. The awards promote the importance of human rights education. Students use any art medium to communicate the meaning and importance of a selected human right.
Winning entries are selected by a panel of three judges based on their originality and effectiveness in conveying the meaning of the selected human right.
The judging panel’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
These are Art Awards. Although written text may be included, students need to be aware that relying on it to convey the meaning of a human right may detract from the effectiveness of their visual image.
For both the Primary and Secondary Awards: