UF Uppsala

It was then called the Students' Association for Intersocietal Cooperation (SFMS), founded February 18th, 1948. During the autumn of 1954, the association changed its name to the Uppsala Association of International affairs. UF Uppsala was one of many associations created in correlation with the newly founded United Nations, and its member organisation the World Federation of United Nations Association (WFUNA). UF Uppsala has from the start always been a politically and religiously impartial association, with the aim to survey and promote serious debate related to international politics. UF Uppsala supports the UN Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention of Human Rights. During the association's first years, 1948-1960, UF Uppsala concentrated on arranging lectures, political discussions, and study circles. The association also arranged workshops focused on writing resolutions in cooperation with other similar associations. During these years, prominent speakers included among others the famous Swedish authors Per-Anders Fogelström and Per Wästberg; the former French council president Pierre Mendès-France; Herbert Tingsten, the editor in chief for Dagens Nyheter, one of Sweden's largest newspapers; and Henry Osborne, British member of parliament. IN THE MIDST OF POLITICAL TURMOIL