Basic Facts about the United Nations
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Basic Facts about the United Nations

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Basic Facts about the United Nations

About this book

This comprehensive handbook designed for the general public explains the structure of the United Nations, how the Organization works, the main issues it addresses and its importance for people everywhere. In addition to setting out the various roles played by principle UN organs and related organizations, Basic Facts about the United Nations documents the Organization's contributions to international peace and security, economic and social development, human rights, humanitarian action, international law and decolonization. Appendices contain current data on UN membership and peacekeeping operations, as well as contact information for UN information centres, services and offices. This latest edition, published in 2017, has been revised to take account of significant developments in the world and the Organization itself since 2014.

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APPENDICES

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In Bamako, Mali, MINUSMA supports the preservation of ancient manuscripts. An employee cleans a page of a manuscript with a brush, part of the third step of the preservation process. In a later stage, each page will be digitalized to facilitate access to the manuscripts and avoid damages due to the usage (12 January 2016, UN Photo/Marco Dormino).

Appendix I

UNITED NATIONS MEMBER STATES

(Total membership: 193)
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Non-member states
The following states are not members of the United Nations but have been invited to participate as observers in the sessions and the work of the General Assembly, and maintain permanent observer missions at Headquarters:
â–  Holy See
â–  State of Palestine
The Holy See contributes towards the expenses of the Organization based on a scale of assessment of 0.001 per cent.
* Net contributions are equal to gross contributions less total staff assessment amounts for each country. The staff assessment is an amount deducted from all UN staff members’ gross pay and credited to the Tax Equalization Fund, which is used to resolve issues related to staff members’ taxes.
Notes
1 On 19 September 1991, the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic informed the United Nations that it had changed its name to Belarus.
2 The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was an original member of the United Nations, the Charter having been signed on its behalf on 26 June 1945 and ratified 19 October 1945, until its dissolution following the establishment and subsequent admission, as new members, of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia, the Republic of Slovenia, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Slovenia were admitted as members of the United Nations on 22 May 1992. On 8 April 1993, the General Assembly decided to admit as a member of the United Nations the state provisionally referred to for all purposes within the United...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Foreword by the Secretary-General
  5. Contents
  6. List of acronyms
  7. About this edition
  8. United Nations system chart
  9. I. Un Charter, Structure and System
  10. II. International Peace and Security
  11. III. Economic and Social Development
  12. IV. Human Rights
  13. V. Humanitarian Action
  14. VI. International Law
  15. Appendices