United Nations Today/ United Nations

PART ONE
Chapter 1: 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. .
TKe United Nations family of organizations .
United Nations Secretariat.
Regional commissions . . .
International tribunals. . .
United Nations programmes and other bodies
Specialized agencies and other organizations .
PARTTWO
Chapter 2: International Peace and Security.
Tlie Security Council.
The General Assembly
Conflict prevention .
Peacemaking.
Peacekeeping
Enforcement.
Sanctions
Authorizing military action
Peacebuilding .
Electoral assistance
Building peace through development .
United Nations action for peace. . . .
Africa
Southern Africa
Great Lakes region of Africa
West Africa
East Africa. . . .
The Americas . . .
Asia and the Pacific .
The Middle East ,
Afghanistan . .
Iraq
India-Pakistan . .
Tajikistan ... .
Cambodia ... .
Myanmar ... .
Nepal
Bougainville / Papua New Guinea
Timor-Leste
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. . . .
Chapter 3: 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 . .
Progress in attaining the Millennium Development Goals
Reducing poverty .
Fighting hunger . .
Health
Human settlements
Education
Research and training
Population and development
Gender equality and empowerment 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 .
Chapter 4: 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. . .
Human Rights Council .
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights .
Promoting and protecting human rights.
The right to development
The right to food . . . .
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
Chapter 5: Humanitarian Action . .
Coordinating humanitarian action
Providing assistance and protection
International protection and assistance to refugees
Palestine refugees
Chapter 6: International Law
Judicial settlement of disputes i i
Development and codification of international law
International trade law
Environmental law
Law of the sea • • •
International humanitarian law
Internation.il tribunals
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Incernacionai terrorism
Other legal questions
Chapter 7: Decolonization.
International trusteeship system . . .
Non-Self-Governing Territories. . . .
Declaration on the Granting of Indepenaence to
Colonial Countries and Peoples
Namibia
Timor-Leste
Western Sahara
PART THREE
APPENDICES
United Nations member states .
Growth in United Nations membership, 1945-2006
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
For flirther reading.
INDEX ,
Boxes
Chapter 1
Amendments to the United Nations Charter.
Previous Secretaries-General
2005 World Summit Outcome
The United Nations and the Nobel Peace Prize.
A World of Support for the United Nations . .
Reform and revitalization: peacekeeping and disarmament
Cb^ter 2
The new peacebuilding architecture . . .
The responsibility to protect
Who commands peacekeeping operations
United Nations peacekeeping operations
United Nations Political and peacebuliding missions.
An interim administrator
Africa: a United Nations priority (peace and security)
UNAMID: the UN's first hybrid peacekeeping mission . .
Oil for food: fact and fiction . .
Multilateral disarmament and arms regulation agreements .
Bilateral agreements . . . .
The fight against landmines
UNISPACE conferences . .
Oi^terS
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
Millennium Declaration targets . . . .
On the verge of a polio-free world . . .
Malaria and tuberculosis . . . .
The UN combats HIV/AIDS. .
World conferences on women .
A World Fit for Children. . . .
An Alliance of Civilizations . .
Sustainable development summits
Changing human behaviour . . .
Synthesis report on climate change
Chapter 4
Defining universal rights
The United Nations Democracy Fund .
Special rapporteurs and working groups
World Conference on Human Rights .
Technical cooperation programme . . .
Chapters
The Indian Ocean Earthquake-Tsunami of December 2004
Coordinating emergency relief.
Protecting children in war . . .
Protecting UN staff and humanitarian workers.
Refugees in their own country .
People in flight. . .
Chapter 6
The International Criminal Court
Chapter 7
Territories to which the Declaration on decolonization
continues to apply .
Charts and maps
Chapter 1
Principal Offices of the United Nations
The United Nations system .
Chapter 2
United Nations peacekeeping operations.
Political and peacebuilding missions . . .
Chapter 3
Foreign investment inflows to developing countries, 1990-2006
Total primary energy supply by source, 2002
Chapter 4
Women's participation in national parliaments across regions. .
Chapter 5
Pulling together for tsunami aid and recovery . .