Welcome to the Quaker United Nations Office
The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) serves as a Quaker presence at the United Nations (UN), representing Friends’ concerns at the international level, with offices at UN headquarters in New York, as well as in Geneva.
In addition to representing Friends, QUNO facilitates dialogue and works on specific issues in a manner that is unique in the UN community. QUNO advocacy is carried out in a number of ways, particularly by facilitating informal, open negotiating processes in which all participate on an equal footing.
New at QUNO
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The QUNO Review 2011 is now available in French as well as English. This review presents the work of both QUNO offices (New York and Geneva) as well as other Quaker work at the United Nations. To download a copy of the Review, please click here. To receive a hard copy of the review, please email your name and mailing address to quno@quno.ch. The QUNO Review 2011 will soon be available in Spanish.
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Rachel Brett will deliver the Swarthmore lecture at Britain Yearly Meeting on Saturday 26 May at 7 pm 2012. Entitled Snakes and Ladders, it will describe Quaker work on human rights at the United Nations. This work has brought real change for many, including conscientious objectors, and child soldiers. The Swarthmore Lectureship, established in 1907, provides for the publication of a book as well as the public lecture. To order review copies of the book accompanying the Swarthmore Lecture, please click here. To learn more about QUNO's work on human rights please click here.
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QUNO Geneva thanks all applicants for the 2012-2013 Programme Assistant positions. We have now made offers to two candidates, who have accepted and will join our team in September. To read more about these positions, and other opportunities QUNO offers young people, please click here.
On 3-4 May, QUNO hosted a workshop to design the methodology and identify the indicators for assessing the impact of plant variety protection on human rights. This workshop brought together a group of experts in human rights, intellectual property, agriculture and biodiversity.
QUNO New York Program Assistant Kirsten Mandala attended the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Chicago, Illinois April 23-25. The theme of this year’s summit was “Speak Up, Speak Out for Freedom and Rights.” Kirsten was selected as a youth representative of the American Friends Service Committee, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947. At the summit, nine Nobel Laureates and thirteen Laureate organizationsbrought their messages of peace, human rights, and individual responsibility to students, government leaders, international dignitaries and the general public.
Recent QUNO Publications
Children of (Alleged) Offenders:
Revised Draft Framework
for Decision-Making, Holly Mason-White and Helen F. Kearney, Foreword by Rachel Brett and Oliver Robertson, March 2012 available in color or black/white
Collateral Convicts:
Children of incarcerated parents Oliver Robertson, March 2012 (pdf 683 kb)
Children of parents
sentenced to death,
Helen F. Kearney February 2012 (pdf 618 kb)
Geneva Reporter, Nov 2011 - Feb 2012
(pdf 418 kb)
In & Around the U.N. (New York), December 2011 (pdf 273 kb)
International Standards on Conscientious Objection to Military Service, (English), (Español), (Français), (Deutsch), Rachel Brett, updated December 2011 (pdf 295 kb)
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