• Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) is a non-governmental organisation representing the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) at the United Nations in...
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    United States suffered a number of secessions, which resulted in the formation of different branches of the Religious Society of Friends. The Quakers...
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  • symbol - Peace flag Quakerism in Sichuan Quaker Peace and Social Witness on Nobelprize.org QPSW website Quaker United Nations Office Mundus – Archives of...
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    Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) UN Watch World Council of Churches (WCC) World Business...
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    them as Quakers as the founder of the movement, George Fox, told a judge to quake "before the authority of God". The Friends are generally united by a belief...
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  • Social Science Research Network (SSRN). 5 December 2017. "QUNO | Quaker United Nations Office". www.quno.org. Retrieved 2018-01-18. Rochester, Martin J. Between...
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    Quakers (or Friends) are members of a Christian religious movement that started in England as a form of Protestantism in the 17th century, and has spread...
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    European Quakers to a great extent: Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva and New York (c. 1920) Friends World Committee for Consultation (1937) Quaker Council...
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    awareness and support of the UDHR. Some organizations, such as the Quaker United Nations Office and the American Friends Service Committee have developed curriculum...
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    characteristic of a believer's growing in grace. George Fox, the founder of Quakerism (Religious Society of Friends), taught perfection, in which the Christian...
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    Quaker weddings are the traditional ceremony of marriage within the Religious Society of Friends. Quaker weddings are conducted in a similar fashion to...
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  • Douglas C. Bennett (category Heads of universities and colleges in the United States)
    Maine. Bennett was a member of the advisory committee for the Quaker United Nations Office in New York and served on the Corporation for the American Friends...
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    members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) for peace and against participation in war. Like other Quaker testimonies, it is not a "belief", but a...
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    Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge (category South African Quakers)
    that Madlala-Routledge would serve as the next director of the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva. Born on 29 June 1952 in Magog, Umzumbe, Nozizwe Charlotte...
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  • Sydney D. Bailey (category United Nations officials)
    expert on international affairs. He worked at and was head of the Quaker United Nations Office during the 1950s. He was a conscientious objector during World...
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  • American Friends Service Committee (category Quaker organizations based in the United States)
    first NGOs to be given Consultative Status at the United Nations. The Quaker United Nations Office was established. On 7 December 1948 the UN Secretary-General...
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    teachings are rooted in the theology of John Wesley, and a minority being Quakers (Friends) that emphasize the doctrine of George Fox, as well as River Brethren...
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  • Meeting also contributes a large portion of the Quaker United Nations Office budget, through Quaker Peace and Social Witness. Communications between...
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    Conservative Friends (category Quaker organizations based in the United States)
    members of the Wilburite branch of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). In the United States, Conservative Friends belong to three Yearly Meetings: the...
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    Inward light (category Quaker practices)
    Society of Friends (Quakers) as metaphors for Christ's light shining on or in them. It was propagated by the founder of the Quaker movement, George Fox...
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  • Friends World Committee for Consultation (category Quaker organizations established in the 20th century)
    Economic and Social Council of the United Nations since 2002. FWCC shares responsibility for the Quaker UN Office in Geneva and New York City with the...
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    for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) (PDF). Quaker United Nations Office. "Actes des conférences internationales pour la protection des...
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    Christian perfection (category Quaker theology)
    referred to as Christian perfection or entire sanctification. Traditional Quakerism uses the term perfection and teaches that it is the calling of a believer...
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    Human Rights System Archived 15 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Quaker United Nations Office, Geneva & CONCODOC, London. 2000. Retrieved 22 October 2009....
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    Quaker views on women have always been considered progressive in their own time (beginning in the 17th century), and in the late 19th century this tendency...
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    Latin America contains approximately 17.5% of the world's Quakers. Latin American Friends are concentrated in Bolivia and Central America. Most of these...
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    Richmond Declaration (category Quaker practices)
    represented by the Friends United Meeting), Holiness Quakers (represented by the Central Yearly Meeting of Friends) and Evangelical Quakers (represented by Evangelical...
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    proportion on any one continent. Kenya has the largest number of Quakers in a single nation—about 146,300 in the year 2012 (according to the Friends World...
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    Central Yearly Meeting of Friends (category Quakerism in the United States)
    Central Yearly Meeting of Friends is a yearly meeting of Friends (Quaker) churches located in Indiana, North Carolina, Arkansas and Ohio. Central Yearly...
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  • International delivered research findings and policy recommendations to the United Nations Security Council in New York and the UN Committee on the Rights of the...
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