Human Rights & Refugees (HRR)
Geneva
QUNO works to strengthen the promotion and protection of human rights through the United Nations system, with particular reference to the interface between human rights and armed conflicts, the protection of refugees and other Quaker concerns. The questions of the rights of indigenous peoples and gender are included in all the Human Rights and Refugees programme areas.
The specific topics which form QUNO’s current priorities are:
Past Work
In the past, QUNO’s Human Rights and Refugees Programme has worked on:
Human Rights & Refugees News
Recognition of conscientious objection to military service as a human right is now stronger than ever. To reflect the recent changes in international law and practice, QUNO has updated its publication on International Standards on Conscientious Objection to Military Service, in several languages. To read the publication in English, French or Spanish, please click here.
QUNO Programme Officer Oliver Robertson has participated in a panel discussion about babies in prison, on China Radio International, ahead of the upcoming Child Rights Committee Day of General Discussion on children of incarcerated parents. Please click here to listen to the discussion (hour 1).
Conscientious objection to military service is now explicitly recognised as a Human Right in Europe, thanks to the work of QUNO Geneva and others. In a groundbreaking judgement in the case of Bayatyan v. Armenia, issued on 7 July, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that States have a duty to respect individuals’ right to conscientious objection to military service. Please click here to read the full report and background to the case.
The Howard League for Penal Reform has commended QUNO’s publication Children Need Dads Too: Children with Fathers in Prison. Jenny Rosenberg, the publication’s author, was runner-up in the Howard League’s inaugural research medal competition.
Please click here to read the publication, in English, French, Spanish or Russian.
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