Welcome to the Quaker United Nations Office
The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) serves as a Quaker presence at the United Nations (UN), representing Friends’ concerns at the international level, with offices at UN headquarters in New York, as well as in Geneva.
In addition to representing Friends, QUNO facilitates dialogue and works on specific issues in a manner that is unique in the UN community. QUNO advocacy is carried out in a number of ways, particularly by facilitating informal, open negotiating processes in which all participate on an equal footing.
New at QUNO
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Rachel Brett, QUNO Representative for Human Rights and Refugees will deliver the 2012 Swarthmore Lecture during Britain Yearly Meeting. She will speak about Quaker processes and ways of working and how they have been applied to the United Nations sphere, with particular reference to QUNO's work on human rights. The lecture will be on 26 May 2012 in London, and an accompanying book will be published. To read more about Rachel Brett's Swarthmore Lecture, please click here.
By 15 March 2012, Quno Geneva expects to announce opportunities for two one-year Programme Assistant positions starting on 1 September 2012. We expect to be seeking candidates with skills and experience in the following areas: human rights and refugees; and the interface between natural resources, environment and climate change on the one hand and conflict transformation and peacebuilding on the other. The closing date for applications is expected to be 10 April 2012 and will not be earlier than that. Interviews are expected to be conducted in London on 8 and 9 May 2012. QUNO invites applications for its Geneva Summer School 2012. Each year QUNO Geneva organises a summer school to introduce young people to the work of the UN and other international agencies in Geneva. The Summer School gives 20-26 year-olds a unique insight into the workings of international policy-making, in a hard-working and enjoyable context. To read more about the Summer School and how to apply, please click here. -
Former QUNO Geneva Director, David Atwood, spoke of the " nuts and bolts" of of Quaker work
in Geneva, at Australia Yearly Meeting in January 2012. His talk is
published as the Backhouse lecture. To obtain the lecture, published by
Australia Yearly Meeting, please click please click here.
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In December 2011, QUNO New York Director Andrew Tomlinson made a formal statement at the Geneva Peacebuilding Forum event, "Strengthening International Support for Conflict Prevention." To read the statement, entitled "Five Years of Progress in UN Preventive Action", please click here.
Recent QUNO Publications
Children of parents
sentenced to death,
Helen F. Kearney February 2012 (pdf 618 kb)
Geneva Reporter, Nov 2011 - Feb 2012
(pdf 418 kb)
In & Around the U.N. (New York), December 2011 (pdf 273 kb)
International Standards on Conscientious Objection to Military Service, (English), (Español), (Français), Rachel Brett, updated December 2011 (pdf 295 kb)
Palestinian U.N. Bid: U.S. Should Press for Peace, Not Punishment, Joint Statement from AFSC, FCNL, QUNO September 2011 (pdf 43 kb)
Collateral Convicts - If my parents go to prison, what happens to me? Exhibition on children of incarcerated parents, September 2011 (exhibition version, pdf 4.78 mb) (light version 1.8 mb)
Civil Society Good Practices Magazine: Paths Toward Peace - Best practices in violence reduction and development in South and Southeast Asia, June 2011 (pdf 1.17 mb)
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