Basic Facts about the United Nations
264 on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 194 on the Rights of the Child, 193, 204 communication and information, 169 Conference on Disarmament, 98 conflict prevention, 57 conventional weapons, disarmament, 103–07 Counter-Terrorism Committee, 233 Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force, 167 crime Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, 166–67 Committee against Torture, 193 and social development, 165–68 cultural rights, 191 culture, social development and, 168–69
D decolonization, 111–18 Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, 113–18 Special Committee on the Situation with Regard to the Implementation of the, 114 Department for General Assembly and Conference Management (DGACM), 20–21 of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), 20, 123 of Field Support (DFS), 20, 60 of Management (DM), 21 of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), 22–23, 60 of Political Affairs (DPA), 21, 60, 64 of Public Information (DPI), 22 of Safety and Security (DSS), 23 Deputy Secretary-General, 19 desertification, 178–79 development building peace through, 65 Commission on Population and, 157 coordinating development activities, 122–23 disarmament, relationship with, 107 right to, 199
international law, 226 MDGs and, 146 see also social development; sustainable development disabilities, persons with, 164–65 Committee on the Rights of, 194 human rights, 207–208 disarmament, 97–107 anti-personnel mines, 105 Arms Trade Treaty, 105 bilateral agreements on nuclear weapons, 101 chemical and biological weapons, 103 Conference on Disarmament, 98 conventional weapons, 103–107 development, relationship with, 107 gender perspective in, 107 information and education activities, 107 machinery of disarmament, 98–99 multilateral agreements, 99–100, 101–102 nuclear weapons, 100–103 outer space, prevention of arms race in, 106–107 regional approaches to, 107 small arms, light weapons and practical disarmament, 103–104 weapons of mass destruction, 100–103 discrimination Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, 159, 193 Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 193 human rights and struggle against, 201–209 disease Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, 149 Global Polio Eradication Initiative, 151 MDGs and, 144–45 see also health; HIV/AIDS; malaria; tuberculosis Division for Social Policy and Development, 142 for Sustainable Development, 171 of Technology, Industry and Economics, 173–74