Quaker United Nations Office

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The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) is a non-governmental organisation representing the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) at the United Nations. Parent bodies of QUNO are the Friends World Committee for Consultation, American Friends Service Committee and Quaker Peace and Social Witness. FWCC holds consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and has offices in Geneva and New York.

Areas of work[edit]

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Quakers	List of Quakers Susan B. Anthony Robert Barclay Anthony Benezet Kenneth E. Boulding Howard Brinton John Cadbury Levi Coffin Margaret Fell George Fox Elizabeth Fry Edward Hicks Elias Hicks Herbert Hoover Rufus Jones Thomas R. Kelly Benjamin Lay Dave Matthews Lucretia Mott James Nayler Richard Nixon Parker Palmer William Penn Robert Pleasants Jessamyn West John Greenleaf Whittier John Woolman

Groups	Yearly Meeting Monthly Meeting American Friends Service Committee A Quaker Action Group Evangelical Friends Church International Friends Committee on National Legislation Friends General Conference Friends United Meeting Friends World Committee for Consultation Quaker Council for European Affairs Quaker Peace and Social Witness Quaker United Nations Office World Gathering of Young Friends

Testimonies	Peace Equality Integrity ("Truth") Simplicity

Other	Businesses, organizations and charities Clerk Faith and Practice or Book of Discipline History Homosexuality Inner light Meeting houses Query Schools Tapestry Wedding Women

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