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.
Rethinking innovation, development and intellectual property in the UN: WIPO and beyond
In these issues papers, individual authors are invited to examine a subject of importance in the developing international intellectual property...
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Child Soldiers: Children Deprived of Parental Care, A Submission by Friends World Committee for Consultation to the Committee on the Rights of the Child Day of General Discussion on “Children without parental care”
This submission discusses how children without parental care are most vulnerable to becoming child soldiers, not only in times of...
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Advancing the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples: a Critical Challenge for the International Community: Voices from a forum at the 61st session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights
This report was presented by Amnesty International, la Fédération Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l’Homme (FIDH), the Netherlands Centre...
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UN Reform and Human Rights: QUNO Briefing Paper
This paper addresses the debate on the reform of the UN Commission for Human Rights, looking at the body's current...
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References to Conscientious Objection in the documents submitted to, and resolutions of, the 61st session of the UN Commission on Human Rights
References to Conscientious Objection in the documents submitted to, and resolutions of, the 61st session of the UN Commission on...
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References to Standing Invitations in the documents submitted to, and resolutions of, the 61st session of the UN Commission on Human Rights
References to Standing Invitations in the documents submitted to, and resolutions of, the 61st session of the UN Commission on...
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References to Women in Prison and Children of Imprisoned Mothers in the documents submitted to, and resolutions of, the 61st session of the UN Commission on Human Rights
References to Women in Prison and Children of Imprisoned Mothers in the documents submitted to, and resolutions of, the 61st...
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Babies and Small Children Residing in Prisons
In the course of QUNOs work on the situation of women in prison, it became clear that imprisonment of women...
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The Politics and Practicalities of a Disclosure of Origin Obligation
QUNO – Occasional Paper 16 This paper examines some issues that may influence the establishment of an internationally binding disclosure...
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Rethinking Innovation, Development and Intellectual Property in the UN: WIPO and Beyond
This paper critically analyses the increasing level of international intellectual property standards, the lack of economic analysis of such higher...
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Harmonisation or Differentiation in Intellectual Property Protection? The Lessons of History
Part One of the paper explains how the priority of achieving minimum standards of protection and enforcement of existing IPRs...
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Women in Prison and Children of Imprisoned Mothers: Preliminary Research Paper
This is QUNO's initial publication on the question of women in prison, and their children. It is detailed, and as...
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The Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health and the Contradictory Trend in Bilateral and Regional Free Trade Agreements
Occasional Paper 14 – The Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health and the Contradictory Trend in Bilateral...
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Why Adolescents Volunteer: Oral Statement to UN Commission on Human Rights
An oral statement by Friends World Committee for Consultation (Quakers), to the 60th session of the UN Commission on Human...
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Bilateral Agreements and a TRIPS-plus World: The Chile-USA Free Trade Agreement
Focuses on the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Chile and the United States of America (U.S.). The paper deals with...
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Patents, Trade and Health
This non-specialist briefing paper describes how global rules on trade and patents can make medicines more expensive. It also describes...
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Patents, Trade and Development
This beginners' introduction to rules on patents, copyright and other forms of intellectual property describes how they affect distribution of...
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