Basic Facts about the United Nations
268 see also decolonization; disarmament; peacekeeping and peacebuilding missions International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 204 International Seabed Authority, 230 international shipping, 135–36 International Telecommunication Union (ITU), 46–47, 137 International Trade Centre (ITC), 30, 130–31 International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, 230 International Trusteeship System, 111 investment and development, 129
Middle East peace process, 83–85 migrant workers Committee on, 194 human rights, 208–209 military action, authorization, 62 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), 121, 142–46 Millennium Summit (2000), 121 mines anti-personal, 105 landmines, 26, 97, 105–106 minorities, human rights, 205 Model United Nations Conference, 155 Money Laundering, Global Programme against, 167 J Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI), 127 Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (UNAIDS), 39 (MIGA), 44, 127, 129 justice, administration of, 209
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natural resources labour sustainable development and, 182–84 economic development, 133–134 see also environment International Programme on the Eliminatural sciences, social development and, 168 nation of Child Labour, 204 rights, 200–201 New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), 25 law of the sea, 229–31 Commission on the Limits of the Conti- Nobel Peace Prize, 29 nental Shelf, 231 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), 15 International Seabed Authority, 230 International Tribunal for the, 230 Non-Self-Governing Territories, 112 UN Convention on, 229–31 nuclear safety, 184–85 League of Nations, 3, 111, 114 nuclear-weapon-free zones, 102 lending nuclear weapons, see disarmament for development, 126–27 for stability, 127–29 O observances, UN, 249–52 Office malaria for Outer Space Affairs, 109–11 Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis for the Coordination of Humanitarian and Malaria, 149 Affairs (OCHA), 23 MDGs and, 145 of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), 24 Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership, 150 of Legal Affairs (OLA), 25 Man and the Biosphere Programme, 179 of the High Representative for the Least marine environment Developed Countries, Landlocked high-seas fishing, 179–80 Developing Countries and Small sustainable development and protecIsland Developing States (UN-OHRLLS), 26 tion of, 180–81
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