Areas of work: UN Human Rights Council
QUNO participation at the 31st session of the Human Rights Council
The 31st session of the Human Rights Council (29 February to 24 March) provided new opportunities for QUNO to raise issues...
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Quaker statement on drug policy and human rights issued
Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) has issued a new Quaker statement on drug policy and human rights in advance...
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HRC32 joint statement with PRI on HIV/AIDs and prisons
HRC32 joint statement with PRI on HIV/AIDs and prisons
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Consultation on Human Rights and Peace and Security
QUNO and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) hosted a consultation with invited experts to look at how peacebuilding and human...
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QUNO delivers oral statement on minorities in criminal justice systems at the HRC
QUNO delivered an oral statement on the impact of discrimination against minorities in the criminal justice system during the 31st...
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QUNO delivers oral statement on human rights and climate change at HRC
In response to the report of the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, QUNO delivered an oral statement stressing the...
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Important rights around the environment being negotiated in Latin America and the Caribbean
QUNO organised a side event at the UN Human Rights Council on 4 March on “Procedural Rights and the Environment: The Principle...
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QUNO delivers oral statement on children of parents sentenced to death or executed at the HRC
QUNO delivered an oral statement on the rights of children of parents sentenced to death or executed during the 30th...
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From Geneva to Paris: One voice on rights for a just climate agreement
On September 24th 2015, QUNO is co-sponsoring a side event as part of the 30th session of the Human Rights...
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QUNO delivers oral statement on children of parents sentenced to death or executed at the HRC
QUNO delivered an oral statement on the rights of children of parents sentenced to death or executed during the 30th...
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QUNO co-hosts “Moving away from the Death Penalty” side event at the 29th session of the Human Rights Council
QUNO will co-host the side event "Moving away from the Death Penalty: Protection of the rights of persons facing death penalty...
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QUNO co-hosts side event on children of incarcerated parents at the Human Rights Council
QUNO, along with the Permanent Delegation of the African Union to the UN in Geneva, the Permanent Mission of Uruguay...
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QUNO particpates in a side event on strengthening death penalty standards at the Human Rights Council
On Monday, 9 March, QUNO participated in a side event on strengthening death penalty standards, organized by Penal Reform International and the Permanent...
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QUNO co-hosts Climate Change side event at the Human Rights Council
The Geneva Climate Change Concertation Group (GeCCco), the Geneva Interfaith Forum on Climate Change and Human Rights (GIF), QUNO and other...
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Oral Statement on the role of Small Scale Farmers and the Right to Food at the 28th session of the HRC
QUNO delivered an oral statement in the 28th session of the Human Rights Council at the Clustered Interactive Dialogue with the Special...
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Oral Statement in response to the Report of the Independent Expert on the issue of human rights and the environment to the 28th session of the HRC
QUNO delievered an oral statement in response to the Report of the Independent Expert on the issue of human rights...
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