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Author United Nations. Department of Public Information. News and Media Division.

Title Basic facts about the United Nations / Department of Public Information
Published New York : United Nations, 2004

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB  KC 405 Bfa/Tun 2004  AVAILABLE
Description xv, 359 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
regular print
Contents United Nations websites -- The United Nations Organization -- United Nations Charter -- Purposes and principles -- Membership -- Official languages -- Structure of the Organization -- General Assembly -- Security Council -- Economic and Social Council -- Trusteeship Council -- International Court of Justice -- Secretariat -- Secretary-General -- Budget of the United Nations -- The United Nations family of organizations -- United Nations Secretariat -- Regional commissions -- International tribunals -- United Nations programmes and other bodies -- Specialized agencies and other organizations -- International Peace and Security -- The Security Council -- The General Assembly -- Conflict prevention -- Peacemaking -- Peacekeeping -- Enforcement -- Sanctions -- Authorizing military action -- Peace-building -- Electoral assistance -- Building peace through development -- United Nations action for peace -- Africa -- Southern Africa -- Central Africa -- West Africa -- Ethiopia-Eritrea -- The Americas -- Asia and the Pacific -- The Middle East -- Afghanistan -- Iraq -- India-Pakistan -- Tajikistan -- Cambodia -- Bougainville / Papua New Guinea -- Europe -- Cyprus -- Georgia -- The Balkans -- Disarmament -- Disarmament machinery -- Weapons of mass destruction -- Conventional weapons, confidence-building and transparency -- Peaceful uses of outer space -- Latest developments -- Economic and Social Development -- Coordinating development activities -- Economic development -- Official development assistance -- Promoting development worldwide -- Lending for development -- Lending for stability -- Investment and development -- Trade and development -- Agricultural development -- Industrial development -- Labour -- International aviation -- International shipping -- Telecommunications -- International postal service -- Intellectual property -- Global statistics -- Public administration -- Science and technology for development -- Social development -- Reducing poverty -- Fighting hunger -- Health -- Human settlements -- Education -- Research and training -- Population and development -- Advancement of women -- Promoting the rights of the child -- Social integration -- Families -- Youth -- Older persons -- Indigenous issues -- Persons with disabilities -- Uncivil society: crime, illicit drugs and terrorism -- Science, culture and communication -- Sustainable development -- Agenda 21 -- World Summit on Sustainable Development -- Financing sustainable development -- Action for the environment -- Climate change and global warming -- Small islands -- Sustainable forest management -- Desertification -- Biodiversity, pollution and overfishing -- Protecting the marine environment -- Weather, climate and water -- Natural resources and energy -- Nuclear safety -- Human Rights -- Human rights instruments -- International Bill of Human Rights -- Economic, social and cultural rights -- Civil and political rights -- Other conventions -- Other standards -- Human rights machinery -- Commission on Human Rights -- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights -- Promoting and protecting human rights -- The right to development -- The rights of labour -- The struggle against discrimination -- Apartheid -- Racism -- The rights of women -- The rights of children -- The rights of minorities -- Indigenous peoples -- Persons with disabilities -- Migrant workers -- Administration of justice -- Future priorities -- Humanitarian Action -- Coordinating humanitarian action -- Providing assistance and protection -- International protection and assistance to refugees -- Palestine refugees -- International Law -- Judicial settlement of disputes -- Development and codification of international law -- International trade law -- Environmental law -- Law of the sea -- International humanitarian law -- International tribunals -- International terrorism -- Other legal questions -- Decolonization -- International trusteeship system -- Non-Self-Governing Territories -- Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples -- Namibia -- Timor-Leste -- Western Sahara -- United Nations member states -- Growth in United Nations membership, 1945-2003 -- Peacekeeping operations, past and present -- Decolonization -- Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories independent since 1960 -- Dependent Territories that have become integrated or associated with independent states since 1960 -- Trust Territories that have achieved self-determination -- Budget of the United Nations -- United Nations special observances -- United Nations information centres, services and offices -- Amendments to the United Nations Charter -- Previous Secretaries-General -- The United Nations as a catalyst for change -- The question of intervention -- Who commands peacekeeping operations? -- United Nations peacekeeping operations -- Political and peace-building missions -- An interim administrator -- Africa: a United Nations priority (peace and security) -- Multilateral disarmament and arms regulation agreements -- Bilateral agreements -- The fight against landmines -- UNISPACE conferences -- Making globalization work for all -- The United Nations competitive advantage -- International Conference on Financing for Development -- Africa: a United Nations priority (economic and social) -- Foreign direct investment and development -- Promoting equitable trade -- Major world conferences since 1990 -- World Summit for Social Development -- Millenium Declaration targets -- On the verge of a polio-free world -- The UN combats HIV/AIDS -- Malaria, SARS and tuberculosis -- World conferences on women -- Special Session on Children -- Sustainable development summits -- Changing human behaviour -- Defining universal rights -- Special rapporteurs and working groups -- World Conference on Human Rights -- Technical cooperation programme -- Responding to emergencies -- Coordinating emergency relief -- Protecting children in war -- Children in war -- legal norms and standards -- Protecting UN staff and humanitarian workers -- Refugees in their own country -- People in flight (UNHCR) -- The International Criminal Court (ICC) -- Territories to which the Declaration on decolonization continues to apply -- The United Nations system -- Principal United Nations offices around the world -- United Nations peacekeeping operations -- Political and peace-building missions -- Net financial flows to developing countries, 1995-2002 -- The telephone gap shrinks, the Internet gap grows -- Carbon dioxide emissions from high-income countries -- World and regional unemployment rates, by gender
Notes "Data current as of December 2003"--T.p. verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject United Nations.
Author United Nations. Department of Public Information. News and Media Division.
ISBN 9211009367 (paperback)