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Through formal and informal events and relationship building, the Quaker United Nations Office engages with UN bodies, Member States and other partners. Stay up-to-date with the latest news relating to happenings at the UN and our work on the global stage.
Launch of the Nansen Initiative
Launch of the Nansen Initiative by the governments of Switzerland and Norway. To find out more about the Nansen Initiative...
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QUNO publishes ‘Increasing Trust and Effectiveness under the UNFCCC: Learning from International Monitoring Processes’
QUNO publishes ‘Increasing Trust and Effectiveness under the UNFCCC: Learning from International Monitoring Processes’.
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QUNO attends UNFCC Conference of the Parties, Doha, Qatar
QUNO attended the eighteenth Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC in Doha, Qatar.
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QUNO attends UNFCCC Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform (ADP2)
QUNO attended the second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform (ADP2) under the UNFCCC.
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QUNO attends UNFCCC Subsidiary Body & Ad Hoc Working Group meetings
QUNO attended the thirty-eighth sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 38) and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and...
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QUNO facilitates roundtable discussion at the Act Alliance Informal Climate Change Equity Dialogue, Geneva
QUNO participated in an Informal Climate Change Equity Dialogue convened by the ACT Alliance, and facilitated a roundtable discussion on...
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QUNO attends UNFCCC Joint Workshop, Bonn, Germany
QUNO attended the UNFCCC Joint Workshop on the Framework for Various Approaches, Non-Market-Based Approaches and the New Market Mechanism in...
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QUNO briefs New York meeting of Geneva Declaration core group on post-2015 issues
On 30 October, QUNO briefed a meeting of the Core Group of the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development...
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New research on peaceful societies launched at Quaker House in New York
Together with the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) and the United Nations Inter-Agency Framework Team for Preventive Action, QUNO...
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QUNO co-hosts a High Level Side Event in the opening week of the 68th General Assembly on Stability and Peace
QUNO and the Civil Society Platform for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding hosted a High Level Side Event on “Stability & Peace: Finding the...
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QUNO spoke to the fundamental impact of violence on development at a live-streamed World We Want event in New York.
"Peace, Poverty and the Post-2015 Development Agenda”: QUNO was a featured speaker in the World We Want “People’s Voices” Series event, held...
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In & Around the UN
The New York office is pleased to share our most recent Newsletter, featuring articles on the crisis in Syria, sustainable...
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A Conscientious Objector’s Guide to the International Human Rights System
QUNO launched a user-friendly Conscientious Objector's Guide to the International Human Rights System. Together with the Centre for Civil and Political...
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Water Management and Peacebuilding Seminar at the World Water Week in Stockholm
QUNO held – together with CARE International, Catholic Relief Service, CGIAR Challenge Programme on Water and Food; Howard G. Buffett...
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Post-2015 Peace & Stability
QUNO recently contributed to an article in ‘Global Policy’ on the centrality of Peace & Stability to Sustainable Development and...
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Beijing Seminar on Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding, and Peacemaking
In coordination with the American Friends Service Committee and the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum of the Social Science Research...
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Building Just Societies
QUNO participated in an international workshop on the topic of Building Just Societies: Reconciliation in Transitional Settings held in Accra,...
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Chinese Scholars Visit New York
QUNO and the American Friends Service Committee hosted a visit by four leading UN scholars from China to the UN...
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