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QUNO hosts third expert consultation on trade and investment in agriculture
From 1-2 April 2015, QUNO held its third Expert Consultation on a New Framework for Trade and Investment in Agriculture...
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Read QUNO’s latest Geneva Reporter newsletter
QUNO's December 2017 issue of the Geneva Reporter newsletter is now available online. The latest issue features: a brief overview on our recent work...
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QUNO co-hosts panel event on promoting conflict sensitive business practice
QUNO and the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform and hosted "Promoting conflict sensitive business practice – Reflections on experience," a lunch-time panel discussion on civil society efforts...
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QUNO hosts CFSC for the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
For the last two weeks of April, QUNO hosted partners from the Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC) in New York...
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QUNO hosts event on children of incarcerated parents at the 13th UN Congress of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
QUNO's Laurel Townhead and Rachel Brett presented the findings of the COPING project, a transnational research project looking at the impact of...
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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 chairs event on drones, protection and transparency
In November, QUNO chaired an event of the Geneva Forum entitled New Warfare Challenges: Drone Operations and Protection of Civilians....
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QUNO co-hosted a side event on human rights and climate change in Lima
QUNO, together with the World Council of Churches and Religions for Peace, co-hosted a side event on the human rights impacts of...
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French, Chinese and Spanish translations of our Trade Liberalization and Food Security booklet are now available!
French, Chinese and Spanish language translations of Trade Liberalization & Food Security: Examining the Linkages by Jennifer Clapp are now available. The...
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QUNO hosted events and released two new publications during the UN Climate Summit and the People’s Climate March in New York
On 23 September, world leaders met in New York for the UN Climate Summit to highlight the urgency of acting on...
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QUNO raises the rights of prisoners and their families at the 27th session of the UN Human Rights Council
QUNO has raised the issue of the rights of the families of persons deprived of their liberty and of children...
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Read QUNO Geneva’s latest Geneva Reporter newsletter
QUNO Geneva is pleased to share the most recent issue of our Geneva Reporter newsletter and accompanying briefing paper on The Aarhus Convention. Other featured articles include updates on our A New Framework for Trade and Investment in Agriculture work, the Human Rights...
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Open Letter regarding the Outcome Document of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples
QUNO partners, Amnesty International and the Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC), have written an open letter regarding the Outcome Document...
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A new Human Rights and Refugees Representative at QUNO Geneva
In February, Rachel Brett who has been Representative, Human Rights and Refugees (HRR) at QUNO Geneva since 1993 announced her...
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UN Commission on Crime Prevention & Criminal Justice (CCPCJ): Elimination of Violence against Children
QUNO welcomes the CCPCJ adoption of the United Nations Model Strategies and Practical Measures on the Elimination of Violence against Children in...
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UN Commission on Crime Prevention & Criminal Justice: Side-event on the wider impacts of the death penalty
In May, QUNO attended the annual UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) in Vienna with other representatives...
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Meeting of the European Bureau of Conscientious Objectors in Brussels
QUNO attended the meeting of the European Bureau of Conscientious Objectors in Brussels. At the meeting, QUNO reported on recent...
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QUNO makes a Statement at the 17th working Group of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention
QUNO attended the 17th Working Group of the Parties of the Aarhus Convention as part of our work on Natural...
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