Areas of work: UN Human Rights Council
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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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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Insights into Multilateral Cooperation on Prevention of Armed Conflict: An Overview of Member States’ Prevention Priorities: An analysis by Natalie Dewar and Mathilde Dépéry
The 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA78) opened with an invitation to the UN Member States to...
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Arms industry tactics avoid human rights responsibility
The irresponsible role of the arms industry needs to be addressed as part of preventing violence and human rights violations...
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Deaths of refugees, migrants remain ‘unnoticed’
A global “nonchalance” at deaths of refugees and migrants is shocking, says Volker Türk, the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner...
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Climate change: beyond fear and into courage
The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) consistently monitors developments around climate change. QUNO approaches climate change as a peace and...
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Reflections on a year with QUNO
The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) annually employs programme assistants to work with its Representatives at the United Nations (UN)...
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Young people gather for QUNO’s Summer School in Geneva
QUNO Geneva’s annual Quaker UN Summer School (QUNSS) hosted 23 participants from various countries recently, connecting them to the United...
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QUNO Geneva speaks at the Human Rights Council on casualty recording and arms related risks to human rights.
Florence Foster, Representative for Peace & Disarmament at QUNO Gevena, spoke at the Human Rights Council 53rd Session during the...
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Quakers involvement in the UN Human Rights Prize 2023
Established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1966 and awarded every five years since, the UN Prize in the...
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Human Rights Council: Special Rappoerteur on Migrants Emphasises need for an International Monitoring Mechanism
On Monday 26 June, QUNO’s Laurel Townhead spoke in the in the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur, calling on...
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Joint call for the UN Human Rights Council to respond to the global pattern of deaths, torture and other grave human rights violations at international borders
As part of our work to end lethal disregard for people on the move, the Human Rights and Refugees Programme...
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Joint call for the UN Human Rights Council to respond to the global pattern of deaths, torture and other grave human rights violations at international borders
As part of our work to end lethal disregard for people on the move, the Human Rights and Refugees Programme...
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Quaker work at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Away from the buzz of the UN, young Indigenous people gathered at Quaker House under the shade of the gingko...
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New Opportunities for Breaking the Barriers of Systemic Racism in Migration Governance
On 29 March, QUNO Geneva engaged with the work of the Human Rights Council on systemic racism. Human Rights and...
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Ending lethal disregard for people on the move: working through the UN for migration justice
In line with our prioritisation of ending lethal disregard for people on the move as a core element of achieving...
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