Areas of work: Peace & Disarmament
QUNO Participates in the Global Launch of the UN Community Engagement Guidelines
As a member of the Joint UN-Civil Society Working Group that developed the Guidelines, QUNO representative, Megan Schmidt, delivered this...
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Geneva Peace Week 2020
QUNO is proud to be one of the institutional partners behind the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, the organisation that runs Geneva...
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Geneva Peace Week Event: Prevention and sustaining peace: human rights in action
QUNO will co-host a side event during Geneva Peace Week on "Prevention and sustaining peace: human rights in action" on Tuesday...
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Building Peace during the Pandemic – A Conversation between QUNO and the UNPBSO
In recognition of the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on global peace and security, the United Nations (UN) Peacebuilding Support...
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United Nations Community Engagement Guidelines for Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace
As the Secretary-General boldly states in his 2020 report on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace, “civil society engagement and participation is...
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QUNO hosts Geneva Peace Week event on the private sector’s role in sustaining peace
During Geneva Peace Week in November, the Sustainable & Just Economic Systems programme organized a side event on this topic and...
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Advancing Prevention in the Era of Climate Change
As the sixth and final event in the Civil Society – UN Prevention Platform’s 2020 discussion series, QUNO co-hosted a...
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Working Paper: Exploring barriers to justice and sustainability in economic systems
This analysis is a work in progress that has been prepared as a working document by QUNO’s Sustainable and Just...
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QUNO speaks at the resumed 43rd session of the Human Rights Council
QUNO was pleased to deliver a statement at the resumed 43rd session of the Human Rights Council on 15 June in...
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Building Peace through Reconciliation
Every five years the UN undertakes a review of the Peacebuilding Architecture (PBA) to assess the system’s progress towards peacebuilding and sustaining peace...
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Geneva Reporter
QUNO's December 2019 issue of the Geneva Reporter newsletter is available below. This special issue highlights some of the ways the Quaker commitment...
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Roundtable: Integrating Human Rights and Sustaining Peace
For Geneva Peace Week 2019, QUNO and Interpeace organised a self-reflective roundtable on Integrating Human Rights and Sustaining Peace. The...
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How the Human Rights pillar is contributing to Arms Control
QUNO recently co-organized a discussion on “How the Human Rights pillar is contributing to Arms Control” as part of the...
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Our latest Geneva Reporter newsletter is now available online
QUNO's September 2022 issue of the Geneva Reporter newsletter is available below. This issue includes a welcome letter from our Director Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge,...
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Geneva Reporter
QUNO's August 2019 issue of the Geneva Reporter newsletter is available below. This issue features: an update from our Human Rights & Refugees...
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Global Peace Index Launch
Florence Foster, QUNO’s representative for Peace & Disarmament was invited to speak at the 2019 Global Peace Index (GPI) launch...
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