Resources
The Quaker United Nations Office conducts in-depth research and analysis on a range of topics relating to our core areas of focus and in conjunction with various partners. Search this archive or filter by topic to access our publications, including research papers, annual reports, significant statements of our positions, and more.
Climate justice and the use of human rights law in reducing greenhouse gas emissions
This report looks at how human rights obligations can help support policies which lead to more successful and just efforts...
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Inclusivity and the Implementation of Sustaining Peace
This document includes a summary and recommendations from an informal discussion organized by the New York Peacebuilding Group between member...
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International Peace and Security – how human rights can help
In February 2016, QUNO Geneva and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) hosted an expert meeting on integrating human rights, peacebuilding and...
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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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Small-scale farmer innovation systems: A review of the literature
This literature review marks QUNO’s step back from focusing on intellectual property rights (IPR) to ask more broadly: What are...
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Preparing for Paris: a series of briefing papers relating to COP21, December 2015
Between November 30 and December 11, 2015, international negotiators will meet at the Conference of Parties (COP) 21 in Paris....
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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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Building peace through Principle 10
QUNO Geneva have produced a new publication that focuses on the potential of environmental rights agreements to prevent destructive conflict...
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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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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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Trade Liberalization and Food Security: Examining the Linkages
The paper is released as part of our project working towards a New Framework for Trade & Investment in Agriculture,...
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Informal Report and Understandings Emerging from the Second Expert Consultation on QUNO’s New Framework for Trade and Investment in Agriculture (NFTIA), 22-23 May 2014
The current multilateral framework governing international agricultural trade was designed a quarter of a century ago, as part of the...
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Geneva Reporter
In this issue: A New Framework for Trade and Investment in Agriculture Update from the UN Human Rights Council QUNO and...
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A QUNO Report from UNFCCC Negotiations published by QEW
In an article written for Quaker Earthcare Witness (QEW), QUNO’s Representative for the Human Impacts of Climate Change Programme, Lindsey Fielder...
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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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Call to Conscience – Quaker experiences in facing the challenge of climate change
“A Call to Conscience: Quaker experiences facing the challenge of Climate Change” features interviews with Quakers worldwide on why they care...
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Conscientious objectors to military service: Punishment and discriminatory treatment
Conscientious objectors to military service face a number of serious and negative implications for their refusal to perform military service,...
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Moving Forward in International Negotiations: Four Innovative Examples
This paper presents four examples of multilateral agreements that involved complex negotiations, some spanning several years, others several decades. The...
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