Geneva's newsletter from July to October 2013. Features stories:

• Children of parents sentenced to death or executed
• New framework for trade and investment in agriculture
• Conscientious objection to military service
• New energy on nuclear disarmament
• Highlights from QUNO New York

This joint written statement was submitted by the Friends World Committee for Consultation (Quakers), Defence for Children International, Geneva Infant Feeding Association, the International Catholic Child Bureau, the International Institute for Child Protection and SOS Kinderdorf International. This submission highlights the need for increased attention to the impact on children of having a parent sentenced to death or executed. 

This is a very detailed study exploring the situations of children whose parents have been sentenced with capital punishment. It looks first at the commonalities between their experiences and those of children whose parents have been incarcerated, and then at the differences between these groups of children. It also sets out recommendations.

See also:

• Children of Parents Sentenced to Death: How are they affected? How can they be supported?
• Briefing Paper: Children of Parents Sentenced to Death
• Report: Children of Parents Sentenced to Death
• This oral statement.

Geneva's newsletter from January to March 2013. Featured stories:​

• QUNO engagement with climate talks
• Natural resources, conflict and cooperation
• Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners
• Highlights from QUNO New York

This submission welcomes the UN Secretary General’s report on the death penalty, in which the children of sentenced persons are recognized. It updates states about recent QUNO efforts to highlight the effects of parental execution or sentencing on children.

See also:

• Lightening the Load of the Parental Death Sentence on Children
• Children of Parents Sentenced to Death: How are they affected? How can they be supported?
• Briefing Paper: Children of Parents Sentenced to Death
• Report: Children of Parents Sentenced to Death

Geneva's newsletter from May to August 2012. Featured stories:

• Water, conflict and cooperation
• Conscientious objection to military service
• Highlights from QUNO New York
• News in brief
• Children of parents sentenced to death: New work at QUNO Geneva

This publication arose out of QUNO’s wider work on the question of women in prison and children of prisoner’s. The study looks at children of incarcerated parents as individuals unto themselves, rather than as extensions of their parents, and therefore adopts a child’s rights approach. The Revised Draft Framework is a comprehensive exploration of the relevant child rights issues throughout the criminal justice process, from a parent’s arrest or detention to release following imprisonment. Examples of potential good practice, as well as relevant international/regional standards are included.

See also the following oral statement to the 14th session of the Human Rights Council.

One of the first QUNO publications to deal exclusively with the question of children whose parents are sentenced to death, paving the way for other documents in the same series. This paper raises awareness of some of the issues facing such children. It considers and elaborates on these issues in as much detail as the literature available at the time permitted, and highlights directions for future study.

See also:

• Children of Parents Sentenced to Death: How are they affected? How can they be supported?
• Lightening the Load of the Parental Death Sentence on Children
• Briefing Paper: Children of Parents Sentenced to Death
• This oral statement.

In 2011, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child held a Day of General Discussion on the issue of children of incarcerated parents, marking the first time that this issue had been discussed substantively anywhere within the UN system. This Briefing Paper provides a brief synopsis of the Day of General Discussion.

See also Collateral Convicts: Recommendations and Good Practice, and the related Exhibition.