FWCC granted consultative status at the UN, enabling Quaker representatives to attend intergovernmental meetings and to make written and oral statements.

Quaker House is given to the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) by a small group of donors to support a permanent Quaker presence at the UN.

Dag Hammerskjold, Secretary General, dies in air crash in the Congo. QUNO is asked to organize private meetings of UN ambassadors to discuss appointment of a new Secretary General.

QUNO chairs the Non-governmental Organization (NGO) Committee for the UN Conference on the Human Environment. This was the first NGO forum during a UN conference.

Intensive consultation on Middle East is led by QUNO staff and visiting Friends.

For the first time, a Chinese diplomat takes part in a meeting at Quaker House; Soviets are also present with
other representatives of the Security Council.

Quaker House is the venue of a series of meetings helping government representatives prepare for the Second Special Session on Disarmament, 1982. A Quaker representative addresses the Special Session.

Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemalan human rights advocate, addresses UN member governments’ representatives at Quaker House.