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Geneva Peace Week Event: Prevention and sustaining peace: human rights in action
QUNO will co-host a side event during Geneva Peace Week on "Prevention and sustaining peace: human rights in action" on Tuesday...
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In & Around the UN
Read QUNO New York’s newsletter, In & Around the UN, featuring articles on: Landmark changes to the UN system Attending...
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In & Around the UN
The six months since our last newsletter have been extraordinary ones as COVID-19 hit New York in force in March....
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Briefing Paper: Using the Regional Migration Reviews to Further Human Rights Protection
This updated paper is intended to help migrants, NGOs and other stakeholders to engage with the Regional Migration Reviews as part of...
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Landmark UN Human Rights Council resolution on the prevention of human rights violations
QUNO was pleased to have actively engaged in the informal negotiations of a landmark new UN Human Rights Council resolution...
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The impact of arms transfers on human rights
QUNO was pleased to welcome the High Commissioner’s report on the impact of arms transfers on human rights (A/HRC/44/29, 19...
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QUNO delivers oral statement on the human rights of migrants
QUNO works on the human rights of migrants at the international level to promote the protection of human rights of...
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UN releases system-wide Community Engagement Guidelines
As the Secretary-General boldly states in his 2020 report on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace, “civil society engagement and participation is...
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The Principle 10 Negotiations resulted in the adoption of a legally binding agreement
Representatives of 24 Latin American and Caribbean countries who were gathered in San Jose, Costa Rica adopted the first binding...
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QUNO delivers oral statement on children of parents sentenced to death or executed
As part of our work to uphold the rights of children of parents sentenced to death or executed QUNO raises...
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QUNO delivers oral statements on the human rights of migrants
QUNO was pleased to have delivered two oral statements drawing attention to the human rights of migrants at the 45th...
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The time is now: Recommit to Peace
Established in 1981 by the unanimous agreement of the United Nations General Assembly, the International Day of Peace (21 September) is devoted to strengthening the...
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Eliminating harmful fisheries subsidies in the WTO
QUNO hosted several meetings in 2019 on the negotiations at the WTO on the elimination of harmful fisheries subsidies, and...
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Paris Peace Forum
In November 2019, Joachim Monkelbaan participated for the second time in the Paris Peace Forum. The Paris Peace Forum is...
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QUNO’s Joachim Monkelbaan presents at the 2019 ESDN annual conference
In October 2019, Sustainable & Just Economic Systems programme Representative Joachim Monkelbaan gave a presentation at the annual conference of the...
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QUNO hosts Geneva Peace Week event on the private sector’s role in sustaining peace
During Geneva Peace Week in November, the Sustainable & Just Economic Systems programme organized a side event on this topic and...
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QUNO Geneva welcomes Joachim Monkelbaan
QUNO is pleased to welcome Joachim Monkelbaan to our Geneva office, as Representative for our new Sustainable and Just Economic Systems...
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Connecting Civil Society Organizations and UN Peace and Development Advisors
As co-facilitator of the Civil Society – UN Prevention Platform, QUNO co-hosted a meeting entitled ‘Responding to Socio-economic and Humanitarian...
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