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.
A Government Officialโs Toolkit: Inspiring Urgent, Healthy, and Equitable Climate Action – 2024 Edition
The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva published an updated version ‘A Government Official’s Toolkit: Inspiring Urgent, Healthy, and Equitable...
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Climate Change: What We Can Do – 2024 Edition
The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva published a 'Climate Change: What We Can Do" (previously known as ‘How to...
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Children of Incarcerated Parents – International Standards and Guidelines
Children of incarcerated parents continue to face a range of challenges to the full respect for and enjoyment of their...
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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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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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Children of Parents Sentenced to Death or Executed: How are they affected? How can they be supported?
This document highlights the experiences of children with a parent(s) accused of a capital crime. From the point of arrest,...
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Lightening the Load of the Parental Death Sentence on Children
This is a very detailed study exploring the situations of children whose parents have been sentenced with capital punishment. It...
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Children of Parents Sentenced to Death
One of the first QUNO publications to deal exclusively with the question of children whose parents are sentenced to death,...
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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...
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Briefing on the UN Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (Bangkok Rules)
The Bangkok Rules supplement a set of international standards on the treatment of prisoners – The UN Standard Minimum Rules...
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Children Need Dads Too: Children with Fathers in Prison
Since 2003, QUNO has worked on the issue of women in prison and children of imprisoned mothers, raising awareness about...
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The Impact of Parental Imprisonment on Children
One of QUNO’s earlier studies on the effects of parental imprisonment on children. All through the criminal justice system, which...
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Patents, Trade and Food
This is a beginners' introduction about patents and other forms of intellectual property and how they can affect agriculture and...
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Patents, Trade and Development
This beginners' introduction to rules on patents, copyright and other forms of intellectual property describes how they affect distribution of...
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Patents, Trade and Health
This non-specialist briefing paper describes how global rules on trade and patents can make medicines more expensive. It also describes...
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Multilateral Agreements and a TRIPS-plus World: The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Discusses TRIPs-plus standards at the multilateral level particularly in negotiations at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). The World Trade...
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Special and Differential Treatment of Developing Countries in TRIPS
Analyses the special and differential treatment provisions in the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPs) Agreement, assesses their implementation...
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Former Child Soldiers as Refugees in Germany
Published jointly with Terre des hommes Germany, this research concerns the experiences and circumstances of former child soldiers seeking asylum...
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