United Nations Today
, by United Nations Department of Public Information
- ISBN: 9789211011609 | 9211011604
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/30/2008
The United Nations Today, formerly the Basic Facts about the UN, reflects the multitude of ways in which the United Nations touches the lives of people everywhere. It chronicles the work of the Organisation in such areas as peace, development, human rights, humanitarian assistance, disarmament and international law. In describing the work of the United Nations family of organisations, this book provides a comprehensive account of the many challenges before the international community, as well as the joint ongoing efforts to find solutions.
| United Nations websites | p. xii |
| List of acronyms | p. xiv |
| Foreword | p. xvii |
| The United Nations Organization | p. 1 |
| United Nations Charter | p. 3 |
| Purposes and principles | p. 5 |
| Membership | p. 5 |
| Official languages | p. 5 |
| Structure of the Organization | p. 6 |
| General Assembly | p. 6 |
| Security Council | p. 8 |
| Economic and Social Council | p. 10 |
| Trusteeship Council | p. 12 |
| International Court of Justice | p. 12 |
| Secretariat | p. 13 |
| Secretary-General | p. 14 |
| Budget of the United Nations | p. 18 |
| The United Nations family of organizations | p. 22 |
| United Nations Secretariat | p. 22 |
| Regional commissions | p. 35 |
| International tribunals | p. 37 |
| United Nations programmes and other bodies | p. 38 |
| Specialized agencies and other organizations | p. 52 |
| International Peace and Security | p. 69 |
| The Security Council | p. 73 |
| The General Assembly | p. 74 |
| Conflict prevention | p. 75 |
| Peacemaking | p. 75 |
| Peacekeeping | p. 77 |
| Enforcement | p. 82 |
| Sanctions | p. 82 |
| Authorizing military action | p. 83 |
| Peacebuilding | p. 84 |
| Electoral assistance | p. 84 |
| Building peace through development | p. 86 |
| United Nations action for peace | p. 86 |
| Africa | p. 86 |
| Southern Africa | p. 86 |
| Great Lakes region of Africa | p. 89 |
| West Africa | p. 94 |
| East Africa | p. 100 |
| The Americas | p. 106 |
| Asia and the Pacific | p. 109 |
| The Middle East | p. 109 |
| Afghanistan | p. 114 |
| Iraq | p. 117 |
| India-Pakistan | p. 121 |
| Tajikistan | p. 122 |
| Cambodia | p. 123 |
| Myanmar | p. 123 |
| Nepal | p. 124 |
| Bougainville / Papua New Guinea | p. 126 |
| Timor-Leste | p. 126 |
| Europe | p. 127 |
| Cyprus | p. 127 |
| Georgia | p. 128 |
| The Balkans | p. 129 |
| Disarmament | p. 131 |
| Disarmament machinery | p. 134 |
| Weapons of mass destruction | p. 134 |
| Conventional weapons, confidence-building and transparency | p. 138 |
| Peaceful uses of outer space | p. 142 |
| Latest developments | p. 146 |
| Economic and Social Development | p. 147 |
| Coordinating development activities | p. 151 |
| Economic development | p. 152 |
| Official development assistance | p. 152 |
| Promoting development worldwide | p. 154 |
| Lending for development | p. 156 |
| Lending for stability | p. 159 |
| Investment and development | p. 160 |
| Trade and development | p. 161 |
| Agricultural development | p. 164 |
| Industrial development | p. 166 |
| Labour | p. 167 |
| International aviation | p. 169 |
| International shipping | p. 170 |
| Telecommunications | p. 171 |
| International postal service | p. 172 |
| Intellectual property | p. 173 |
| Global statistics | p. 175 |
| Public administration | p. 175 |
| Science and technology for development | p. 176 |
| Social development | p. 176 |
| Progress in attaining the Millennium Development Goals | p. 178 |
| Reducing poverty | p. 181 |
| Fighting hunger | p. 181 |
| Health | p. 185 |
| Human settlements | p. 189 |
| Education | p. 191 |
| Research and training | p. 193 |
| Population and development | p. 195 |
| Gender equality and empowerment of women | p. 197 |
| Promoting the rights of the child | p. 198 |
| Social integration | p. 201 |
| Families | p. 202 |
| Youth | p. 202 |
| Older persons | p. 203 |
| Indigenous issues | p. 204 |
| Persons with disabilities | p. 205 |
| Uncivil society: crime, illicit drugs and terrorism | p. 206 |
| Science, culture and communication | p. 210 |
| Sustainable development | p. 214 |
| Agenda 21 | p. 215 |
| World Summit on Sustainable Development | p. 216 |
| Financing sustainable development | p. 217 |
| Action for the environment | p. 218 |
| Climate change and global warming | p. 220 |
| Small islands | p. 224 |
| Sustainable forest management | p. 225 |
| Desertification | p. 226 |
| Biodiversity, pollution and overfishing | p. 227 |
| Protecting the marine environment | p. 228 |
| Weather, climate and water | p. 229 |
| Natural resources and energy | p. 231 |
| Nuclear safety | p. 234 |
| Human Rights | p. 237 |
| Human rights instruments | p. 239 |
| International Bill of Human Rights | p. 240 |
| Economic, social and cultural rights | p. 240 |
| Civil and political rights | p. 242 |
| Other conventions | p. 242 |
| Other standards | p. 245 |
| Human rights machinery | p. 246 |
| Human Rights Council | p. 246 |
| UN High Commissioner for Human Rights | p. 248 |
| Promoting and protecting human rights | p. 250 |
| The right to development | p. 251 |
| The right to food | p. 252 |
| The rights of labour | p. 253 |
| The struggle against discrimination | p. 254 |
| Apartheid | p. 254 |
| Racism | p. 255 |
| The rights of women | p. 256 |
| The rights of children | p. 257 |
| The rights of minorities | p. 258 |
| Indigenous peoples | p. 258 |
| Persons with disabilities | p. 260 |
| Migrant workers | p. 261 |
| Administration of justice | p. 261 |
| Future priorities | p. 262 |
| Humanitarian Action | p. 263 |
| Coordinating humanitarian action | p. 266 |
| Providing assistance and protection | p. 269 |
| International protection and assistance to refugees | p. 273 |
| Palestine refugees | p. 275 |
| International Law | p. 277 |
| Judicial settlement of disputes | p. 279 |
| Development and codification of international law | p. 282 |
| International trade law | p. 283 |
| Environmental law | p. 284 |
| Law of the sea | p. 286 |
| International humanitarian law | p. 290 |
| International tribunals | p. 290 |
| International terrorism | p. 291 |
| Other legal questions | p. 294 |
| Decolonization | p. 295 |
| International trusteeship system | p. 297 |
| Non-Self-Governing Territories | p. 299 |
| Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples | p. 300 |
| Namibia | p. 301 |
| Timor-Leste | p. 302 |
| Western Sahara | p. 303 |
| Appendices | p. 305 |
| United Nations member states | p. 307 |
| Growth in United Nations membership, 1945-2006 | p. 315 |
| Peacekeeping operations, past and present | p. 318 |
| Decolonization | |
| Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories independent since 1960 | p. 325 |
| Dependent Territories that have become integrated or associated with independent states since 1960 | p. 327 |
| Trust Territories that have achieved self-determination | p. 328 |
| Budget of the United Nations | p. 329 |
| United Nations special observances | p. 331 |
| United Nations information centres, services and offices | p. 334 |
| For further reading | p. 348 |
| Index | p. 357 |
| Boxe | |
| Amendments to the United Nations Charter | p. 4 |
| Previous Secretaries-General | p. 15 |
| 2005 World Summit Outcome | p. 16 |
| The United Nations and the Nobel Peace Prize | p. 19 |
| A World of Support for the United Nations | p. 21 |
| Reform and revitalization: peacekeeping and disarmament | p. 29 |
| The new peacebuilding architecture | p. 74 |
| The responsibility to protect | p. 76 |
| Who commands peacekeeping operations | p. 78 |
| United Nations peacekeeping operations | p. 79 |
| United Nations Political and peacebuilding missions | p. 83 |
| An interim administrator | p. 85 |
| Africa: a United Nations priority (peace and security) | p. 87 |
| UNAMID: the UN's first hybrid peacekeeping mission | p. 103 |
| Oil for food: fact and fiction | p. 119 |
| Multilateral disarmament and arms regulation agreements | p. 132 |
| Bilateral agreements | p. 135 |
| The fight against landmines | p. 141 |
| UNISPACE conferences | p. 144 |
| Making globalization work for all | p. 150 |
| The United Nations competitive advantage | p. 153 |
| International Conference on Financing for Development | p. 155 |
| Africa: a United Nations priority (economic and social) | p. 158 |
| Foreign direct investment and development | p. 162 |
| Promoting equitable trade | p. 165 |
| Major world conferences since 1990 | p. 179 |
| World Summit for Social Development | p. 180 |
| Millennium Declaration targets | p. 183 |
| On the verge of a polio-free world | p. 185 |
| Malaria and tuberculosis | p. 186 |
| The UN combats HIV/AIDS | p. 187 |
| World conferences on women | p. 199 |
| A World Fit for Children | p. 201 |
| An Alliance of Civilizations | p. 213 |
| Sustainable development summits | p. 215 |
| Changing human behaviour | p. 217 |
| Synthesis report on climate change | p. 223 |
| Defining universal rights | p. 241 |
| The United Nations Democracy Fund | p. 243 |
| Special rapporteurs and working groups | p. 247 |
| World Conference on Human Rights | p. 249 |
| Technical cooperation programme | p. 252 |
| The Indian Ocean Earthquake-Tsunami of December 2004 | p. 266 |
| Coordinating emergency relief | p. 268 |
| Protecting children in war | p. 270 |
| Protecting UN staff and humanitarian workers | p. 271 |
| Refugees in their own country | p. 273 |
| People in flight | p. 274 |
| The International Criminal Court | p. 293 |
| Territories to which the Declaration on decolonization continues to apply | p. 298 |
| Charts and maps | |
| Principal Offices of the United Nations | p. 23 |
| The United Nations system | p. 24 |
| United Nations peacekeeping operations | p. 80 |
| Political and peacebuilding missions | p. 84 |
| Foreign investment inflows to developing countries, 1990-2006 | p. 163 |
| Total primary energy supply by source, 2002 | p. 225 |
| Women's participation in national parliaments across regions | p. 256 |
| Pulling together for tsunami aid and recovery | p. 267 |
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