QUNO New York newsletter from June 2013.

Features articles on:

• Letter from the Director
• Update from QUNO Geneva
• Beijing Meeting on UN Peacemaking, Peacekeeping, and Peacebuilding
• A Workshop for Incoming Members of the UN Peacebuilding Commission
• The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Comes to New York
• Update on the Post-2015 Development Agenda
• QUNO Annual Review

Meeting summary of the workshop for new members of the UN Peacebuilding Commission, co-organized by QUNO New York and the International Peace Institute.

The statement encourages the Independent Expert to consider the following:

• The role that peacebuilding approaches can play in fulfilling procedural rights, in order to achieve both substantive rights and effective environmental poliy, and
• How small farmers, rural communities and marginalised sections of society can effectively participate in consultation and decision-making processes that relate to their environment.

QUNO New York newsletter from December 2012.

Features articles on:

• Letter from the Director
• Update from QUNO Geneva
• Crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo
• Palestine Becomes a "Non-Member Observer State"
• New Perspectives on Somalia

A statement entitled:
"Civil Society Organisations Call for Dialogue and Urgent International Engagement to Support Non-­Military Solutions in Northern Myanmar."

Includes recommendations for immediate action by the Government of Myanmar and the Kachin Independence Army, as well as supportive measures to be taken by China, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and the UN.

Jointly authored by:

• QUNO
• Transnational Institute
• Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
• German Asia Foundation
• AFSC
• Burma Centre Netherlands
• Initiatives for International Dialogues

This statement welcomes the work of the UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, and discusses Quaker perspectives on the issue.

A presention by QUNO New York Director Andrew Tomlinson at a seminar hosted by the United Nations Office at Geneva and the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform (GPP) entitled: “20 Years of ‘An Agenda for Peace’: A New Vision for Conflict Prevention?”

QUNO Geneva's newsletter for November 2011 to February 2012. Featured stories:

- Preventing Armed Violence: the Geneva Declaration Review Conference
- The Unknown Impacts of Seeds Policies: Exploring the Effects of UPOV
- News from QUNO New York
- Watching the Climate Change Negotiations
- News in Brief, Jardins Ouverts, and Publications

QUNO New York newsletter from December 2011.

Features articles on:

• UN experts from China
• Letter from the Director
• Letter from QUNO Geneva
• Programme Assistant Corner
• Restorative Justice and Peacebuilding
• Prevention Seminar with the Security Council
• Quaker Collaboration on the Horn of Africa