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Research paper: Access to seeds: lessons from the access to medicines debate
This new research paper considers what lessons the access to medicines debate provides for those concerned with protecting farmers’ access to seeds. Taking the...
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QUNO Geneva backs junior staff pay campaign
Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) Geneva is pleased to lend its support to the aims of the ‘We Pay Our...
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QUNO delivers oral statement on human rights and climate change at HRC
In response to the report of the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, QUNO delivered an oral statement stressing the...
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QUNO presents at international colloquium on global governance
On 4-5 February, QUNO's Food & Sustainability representative travelled to The Hague, Netherlands, to attend and present at a colloquium...
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QUNO Food & Sustainability publications now available in four languages
Three of QUNO's recent policy briefs from the Food & Sustainability programme are now available online in up to four...
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Project Brief: QUNO interactive policy tool
Within our Trade and Investment in Agriculture work, QUNO has been developing an online tool to help explain the complex relationship between...
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QUNO demonstrates policy tool at Global Donor Platform for Rural Development
Over the past year, QUNO has been developing an interactive tool to help shape coherent food security and trade policies. Attending...
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QUNO presents at WIPO seminar on Intellectual Property Rights, Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions
The issue of genetic resources or traditional knowledge that are shared among different countries was discussed at a World Intellectual...
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QUNO & FAO launch an online consultation on food security measures and trade
QUNO launched and moderated an online consultation on food security measures and trade, in conjunction with the FAO Global Forum on...
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French, Chinese and Spanish translations of our Trade Liberalization and Food Security booklet are now available!
French, Chinese and Spanish language translations of Trade Liberalization & Food Security: Examining the Linkages by Jennifer Clapp are now available. The...
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QUNO hosts side event on trade and food security at the Committee on World Food Security
QUNO hosted a side event entitled “Harnessing Trade for Food Security” at the 41st meeting of Committee on Food Security....
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QUNO hosts WTO working session on agricultural trade and food security
QUNO organized a working session at the WTO Public Forum, to address the forum theme of “Why Trade Matters to...
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Creation of Food & Sustainability Programme
QUNO has been working to make the international intellectual property and trading systems more equitable since the early 1990s. Within...
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