Areas of work:
Geneva
New Brief: “Trade Issues and the International Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution: A Legal Analysis”
As part of QUNO’s Sustainable and Just Economic Systems programme and the Uncommon Collaborations initiative, we are pleased to announce...
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Finding Determination in Disappointment: QUNO reflects on the Summit of the Future
On 22 and 23 September, world leaders met in New York for the Summit of the Future. The road to...
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Plastic Money: Turning Off the Subsidies Tap (Phase 1)
QUNO’s Sustainable and Just Economic Systems programme, in partnership with Eunomia Research & Consulting Ltd., has published the Phase 1...
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A Government Official’s Toolkit: Inspiring Urgent, Healthy, and Equitable Climate Action – 2024 Edition
The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva published an updated version ‘A Government Official’s Toolkit: Inspiring Urgent, Healthy, and Equitable...
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Climate Change: What We Can Do – 2024 Edition
The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva published a 'Climate Change: What We Can Do" (previously known as ‘How to...
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Booklet: Sustaining peace and human rights towards just, peaceful, and inclusive societies
QUNO Geneva's Peace & Disarmament program works to highlight and reinforce the inextricable link between human rights and peace and...
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Booklet: Arms control, human rights, and corporate responsibility towards just, peaceful, and inclusive societies
QUNO Geneva's Peace & Disarmament program works on highlighting the arms-related risks to human rights and tackling the challenges in...
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QUNO’s Engagement at the 60th Session of the IPCC
QUNO’s Human Impact of Climate Change programme, speaking on behalf of the Friends World Committee for Consultation, participated in the 60th Session...
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Towards More Ambitious Goals: Reflections on the First International Migration Review Forum
The new FES publication offers a civil society perspective on how we can raise ambition for the IMRF to deliver...
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QUNO COP28 Resources and Analysis
QUNO's Human Impacts of Climate Change Programme attended the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) in Dubai in November and December...
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The right to conscientious objection to military service: connecting conscientious objectors and the UN
Building on our many decades of work to ensure recognition and implementation of the right to conscientious objection to military...
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Diplomats, stakeholders gear up for United Nations meeting to end plastic pollution
As part of its quiet diplomacy efforts, the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva recently hosted 22 diplomats and...
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Sustaining peace needs intersectional approach at United Nations
Peacebuilding has been viewed mainly as post-conflict intervention at the United Nations (UN), but the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO)...
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New Report: Strategies for Asian countries to end plastic pollution
Against the backdrop of Asia’s struggle with burgeoning plastic waste, the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) has published a new...
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Integrating Human Rights and Sustaining Peace: Exploring Special Procedures
The report 'Integrating Human Rights and Sustaining Peace: Exploring Special Procedures' is based on a joint project undertaken by the...
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QUNO’s Submission to the Article 6.4 Supervisory Body
QUNO, on behalf of the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC), offered this submission in response to a call for input...
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