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Quakers at the United Nations

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Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) is based in Geneva and New York.

Geneva

There has been a Friends Centre in use by Quakers in Geneva since the 1920s when the the League of Nations headquarters was established in Geneva, Switzerland after the first world war.

In 1948, Friends sought and obtained consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council, in the name of Friends World Committee for Consultation (the worldwide body of Friends), and re-established the office in Geneva and set up one in New York as Quaker offices to the United Nations (QUNOs).

Both offices are a partnership between FWCC, and in New York, American Friends Service Committee and in Geneva with QPSW.

QUNO - Geneva Summer School 2010

More information and application pack now available to download here

Current Work at Geneva

There are three programmes at QUNO Geneva:

  • Disarmament and Peace Programme
  • Human Rights and Refugee Programme
  • Global Economic Issues Programme

    More detailed information on this work including a complete list of all QUNO Geneva publications can be found on their website: http://www.quno.org/ [offsite link]