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Quaker United Nations Summer School 2023 – Applications Now Open
We are excited to announce the return of summer school! This year's program will be in person for the first...
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QUNO highlights the importance of the arms sector when discussing responsible business conduct
During the 11th UN Forum on Business and Human Rights | OHCHR, QUNO Geneva partnered with American Bar Association Center...
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The 1st session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent
In August 2021, the General Assembly adopted its resolution 75/314, in which it formally operationalized the Permanent Forum as a consultative mechanism...
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Briefing paper: Using the Outcomes of the International Migration Review Forum for Migration Justice
The 2022 International Migration Review Forum was the first global reflection by States on the implementation of the GCM so far....
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QUNO New York staff attends UN PGA townhall
On December 2, QUNO NY Programme Assistant, Sadhbh O’Driscoll, attended the UN-Civil Society Townhall. The event was held at UN...
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QUNO Stresses the Importance of Adopting Package-less and Reuse Systems to Address Plastics Pollution in a Workshop Organised by the WTO and UNCTAD
QUNO participated in a workshop on sustainable and effective substitutes and alternatives for plastics, co-organized by the World Trade Organization...
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QUNO Attends Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution
From 28 November to 2 December 2022, the first session of the Intergovernmental negotiating committee (INC) on Plastic Pollution was...
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Second Week of COP27 (14-20 November 2022)
The Human Impacts of Climate Change representative, Lindsey Fielder Cook, and HICC programme assistant, Alana Marie Carlson, continued in the...
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Geneva Peace Week 2022 (part 3/3) – QUNO moderates High Level Panel on ‘Rights, Inequalities and Peace: navigating tensions, finding opportunities”
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development explicitly combines the promotion of peaceful, just, and inclusive societies in its Goal 16,...
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QUNO New York Staff Visit Cambodia
QUNO New York staff members, Sarah Clarke and Kavita Desai, traveled to Siem Reap, Cambodia to join in a workshop...
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QUNO New York Joins Panel on Strengthening the UN
QUNO New York UN Representative Kavita Desai joined a panel on November 3rd hosted by the Baha’i International Community (BIC)...
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Geneva Peace Week 2022 (part 2/3) – QUNO continues to spotlight human rights, social and economic justice, and political participation as foundational to sustainable peace
As one of the founding organizations of the Geneva Peace Platform (GPP), QUNO Geneva continues to play a role in...
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Saving Lives and Listening to those Most Affected: Key Actions for the UN Network on Migration
It is five months since States met at the International Migration Review Forum (IMRF) to assess implementation of the Global...
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First Week of COP27 (6 – 12 November 2022)
QUNO’s team at the COP27 are the Representative for the Human Impacts of Climate Change (HICC), Lindsey Fielder Cook, and...
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Geneva Peace Week 2022 (part 1/3) – QUNO Geneva believes ‘Peace is Possible’ at the Opening Ceremony
The Geneva Peace Week 2022 took place from 31st October to 4th November 2022. It is a leading annual forum...
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Financing Climate Solutions via Sovereign Debt Reduction: A webinar raising awareness on a key issue for COP27
On 25 October 2022, QUNO and the Catholic Climate Covenant co-hosted a webinar on sovereign debt reduction. COP27 is promising to...
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QUNO NY Committee Member Spotlight
QUNO is governed by a Committee of Friends appointed by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and Friends World Committee...
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QUNO highlights the role of the informal waste sector in African inclusive circular economy transitions
QUNO has partnered with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF South Africa) to demonstrate how the informal waste sector (IWS) can...
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