Areas of work: Geneva
Quaker Statement on Migration
Working together American Friends Service Committee, Britain Yearly Meeting, Friends Committee for National Legislation, Quaker Council for European Affairs and...
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Geneva Peace Week 2020
QUNO is proud to be one of the institutional partners behind the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, the organisation that runs Geneva...
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QUNO moderates panel for the Interfaith Liaison Committee to the UNFCCC
With the postponement of the 26th Conference of the Parties under the UNFCCC (COP26) to November 2021, many in the...
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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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United Nations Community Engagement Guidelines for Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace
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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Building Peace during the Pandemic – A Conversation between QUNO and the UNPBSO
In recognition of the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on global peace and security, the United Nations (UN) Peacebuilding Support...
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Exploring Structural Barriers to Justice and Sustainability in Economic Systems
QUNO Representative for Sustainable and Just Economic Systems Joachim Monkelbaan contributed to the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung publication “Building Back Better: A Call for...
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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’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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Advancing Prevention in the Era of Climate Change
As the sixth and final event in the Civil Society – UN Prevention Platform’s 2020 discussion series, QUNO co-hosted a...
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QUNO Joint Statement on Children of Prisoners, Role of Civil Society in protecting their rights
During the 44th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, QUNO delivered a joint oral statement with partner Child Rights Connect,...
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Quaker Conversations: Changing the World from the Top Down
QUNO was invited to lead the second session in the Friends World Committee for Consultation’s (FWCC) Quaker Conversations, FWCC’s monthly webinar series with Friends around the...
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Children of Incarcerated Parents and Violence Against Children: QUNO delivers oral statement to 44th Human Rights Council
During the 44th session of the Human Rights Council, QUNO delivered an oral statement at the Interactive Dialogue with the...
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‘A lethal disregard’: QUNO’s written statement on the human rights of migrants at the 44th Human Rights Council
QUNO submitted this written statement on the occasion of the annual Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights...
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