Areas of work:
Geneva
Briefing for Friends: The adoption of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
This briefing provides a short guide to the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, offering an explanation of the...
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Foundations for Implementation: QUNO launches new guidebook for States implementing the Global Compact for Migration
In December 2018, representatives from the Human Rights and Refugees programme traveled to Marrakesh to attend the 2018 Intergovernmental Conference to...
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Integrating Human Rights, Nonviolent Action & Peacebuilding to Sustain Peace
This panel, organized by โthe United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Berghof Foundation and the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO)...
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Nuclear Disarmament or Nuclear Arms Race: The World at Crossroads
The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) organised a panel discussion on “Nuclear...
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Integrating Human Rights and Sustaining Peace – The Role of the Universal Periodic Review
On 26 June, QUNO, in collaboration with the Permanent Missions of Germany and Switzerland, who co-chair the cross-regional Human Rights/Conflict...
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A Government Official’s Toolkit
This publication is written to support government officials—at local, regional and national levels—who are concerned about the impact of climate...
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Integrating Human Rights and Sustaining Peace โ The Role of the Universal Periodic Review
On 26 June, QUNO, in collaboration with the Permanent Missions of Germany and Switzerland, who co-chair the cross-regional Human Rights/Conflict...
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“We only have the Global Compact for Migration because of the witness of Human Rights defenders” : QUNO speaks at an OHCHR side event
On Thursday 27th September at the 39th Human Rights Council, Human Rights and Refugees representative, Laurel Townhead, spoke at a...
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In & Around the UN
Read QUNO New York's quarterly newsletter, In & Around the UN, featuring articles on: The newly established QUNO Alumni Network (QAN) Shared...
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Geneva Reporter
This issue of the QUNO Geneva newsletter features: perspectives on the recently concluded negotiations for a Global Compact on Migration, a...
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Integrating Human Rights and Sustaining Peace
This report brings together the learning from a project undertaken from February 2017 to April 2018 to explore the Universal...
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QUNO speaks at a side event on ‘Protecting the Human Rights of Migrants’
On 2nd March Laurel Townhead, QUNO’s Human Rights and Refugees Representative, spoke on a panel on ‘Protecting the Human Rights...
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Promoting Peacebuilding through the Universal Periodic Review
In February, QUNO New York and QUNO Geneva, in collaboration with UPR Info, hosted a series of discussions on the...
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QUNO gives an oral statement on sustaining peace and the UPR at the 37th session of the Human Rights Council
During the panel discussion on Human Rights Mainstreaming at the 3rd Meeting of the 37th Regular Session Human Rights Council in Geneva, Florence...
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Building Sustainable Peace: How inclusivity, partnerships and a reinforced UN Peacebuilding Architecture will support delivery
Following extensive interview and desk based research, QUNO and the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) released their report,...
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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Sustaining Peace: An introduction
This joint publication by the Quaker United Nations Office, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and Lancaster University demonstrates how economic, social and cultural rights...
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