Areas of work: Human Rights & Refugees
QUNO delivers oral statement on minorities in criminal justice systems at the HRC
QUNO delivered an oral statement on the impact of discrimination against minorities in the criminal justice system during the 31st...
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QUNO co-hosted briefing on new UN rules on treatment of prisoners
QUNO Geneva co-hosted a briefing on the new revised UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (known as...
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Children of Incarcerated Parents and Minorities in Criminal Justice Systems
This briefing paper was prepared for the 8th session of the UN Forum on Minority Issue in November 2015, and revised in...
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QUNO delivers oral statement on children of parents sentenced to death or executed at the HRC
QUNO delivered an oral statement on the rights of children of parents sentenced to death or executed during the 30th...
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QUNO delivers oral statement on children of parents sentenced to death or executed at the HRC
QUNO delivered an oral statement on the rights of children of parents sentenced to death or executed during the 30th...
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Read QUNO’s latest Geneva Reporter newsletter
QUNO's December 2017 issue of the Geneva Reporter newsletter is now available online. The latest issue features: a brief overview on our recent work...
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QUNO hosts CFSC for the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
For the last two weeks of April, QUNO hosted partners from the Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC) in New York...
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QUNO hosts event on children of incarcerated parents at the 13th UN Congress of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
QUNO's Laurel Townhead and Rachel Brett presented the findings of the COPING project, a transnational research project looking at the impact of...
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Children of Incarcerated Parents International Standards and Guidance
The risks faced by children of incarcerated parents can be compounded by criminal justice and penal systems that do not...
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QUNO co-hosts side event on children of incarcerated parents at the Human Rights Council
QUNO, along with the Permanent Delegation of the African Union to the UN in Geneva, the Permanent Mission of Uruguay...
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UPDATED in 2015 – International Standards on Conscientious Objection to Military Service
This document, lays out the ways in which conscientious objection has been recognized and is protected under human rights treaties and mechanisms, taking...
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QUNO co-hosted a side event on human rights and climate change in Lima
QUNO, together with the World Council of Churches and Religions for Peace, co-hosted a side event on the human rights impacts of...
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QUNO raises the rights of prisoners and their families at the 27th session of the UN Human Rights Council
QUNO has raised the issue of the rights of the families of persons deprived of their liberty and of children...
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Amicus Curiae opinion on conscientious objection to military service submitted to the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Korea
QUNO has submitted an Amicus Curiae opinion on conscientious objection to military service to the Constitutional Court of Korea jointly with Amnesty International,...
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Open Letter regarding the Outcome Document of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples
QUNO partners, Amnesty International and the Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC), have written an open letter regarding the Outcome Document...
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A new Human Rights and Refugees Representative at QUNO Geneva
In February, Rachel Brett who has been Representative, Human Rights and Refugees (HRR) at QUNO Geneva since 1993 announced her...
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