Resources
The Quaker United Nations Office conducts in-depth research and analysis on a range of topics relating to our core areas of focus and in conjunction with various partners. Search this archive or filter by topic to access our publications, including research papers, annual reports, significant statements of our positions, and more.
A Government Official’s Toolkit: Inspiring Urgent, Healthy, and Equitable Climate Action – 2024 Edition
The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva published an updated version ‘A Government Official’s Toolkit: Inspiring Urgent, Healthy, and Equitable...
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Climate Change: What We Can Do – 2024 Edition
The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva published a 'Climate Change: What We Can Do" (previously known as ‘How to...
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Children of Incarcerated Parents – International Standards and Guidelines
Children of incarcerated parents continue to face a range of challenges to the full respect for and enjoyment of their...
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Policy brief: The relationship between intellectual property rights and small-scale farmer innovation
The relationship between intellectual property (IP) and small-scale farmer innovation is far from straightforward. The majority of innovation in agriculture...
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Policy Brief: Small-scale farmer innovation
This policy brief consolidates lessons learned from an in-depth literature review on small-scale farmer (SSF) innovation systems and a two-day...
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Policy Brief: The relationship between food security policy measures and WTO trade rules
This report first provides a historical overview of both the concept of food security and the incorporation of agriculture into...
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Realizing the right to food in an era of climate change
Agriculture is a major contributor to anthropogenic climate change, and in turn climate change threatens the viability of food production around...
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Building peace through Principle 10
QUNO Geneva have produced a new publication that focuses on the potential of environmental rights agreements to prevent destructive conflict...
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UPDATED in 2015 – International Standards on Conscientious Objection to Military Service
This document, lays out the ways in which conscientious objection has been recognized and is protected under human rights treaties and mechanisms, taking...
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Trade Liberalization and Food Security: Examining the Linkages
The paper is released as part of our project working towards a New Framework for Trade & Investment in Agriculture,...
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Conscientious objectors to military service: Punishment and discriminatory treatment
Conscientious objectors to military service face a number of serious and negative implications for their refusal to perform military service,...
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Children of Parents Sentenced to Death or Executed: How are they affected? How can they be supported?
This document highlights the experiences of children with a parent(s) accused of a capital crime. From the point of arrest,...
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Lightening the Load of the Parental Death Sentence on Children
This is a very detailed study exploring the situations of children whose parents have been sentenced with capital punishment. It...
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A Conscientious Objector’s Guide to the International Human Rights System
A user-friendly Guide to using Human Rights System for Conscientious Objectors. Together with the Centre for Civil and Political Rights,...
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TRIPS-Related Patent Flexibilities and Food Security: Options For Developing Countries – Policy Guide
Food security is as a pressing global challenge. Agricultural innovation is critical to addressing it. Equally important is ensuring that...
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Collateral Convicts: Recommendations and Good Practice from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Day of General Discussion 2011
The first time a UN body considered the question children with parents in prison was in September 2011, in a...
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Children of Parents Sentenced to Death
One of the first QUNO publications to deal exclusively with the question of children whose parents are sentenced to death,...
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