Structure of the United Nations
1519 Other United Nations-related bodies
The following bodies are not subsidiary to any principal organ of the United Nations but were established by an international treaty instrument or arrangement sponsored by the United Nations and are thus related to the Organization and its work. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
Sessions: Forty-third, Geneva, 19 January–6 February; forty-fourth, New York, 20 July–7 August Chairperson: Naéla Gabr (Egypt) Membership: 22 Reports: A/64/38, A/65/38 Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
Sessions: Seventy-fourth and seventy-fifth, Geneva, 16 February– 6 March and 3–28 August Chairperson: Fatimata-Binta Victoire Dah (Burkina Faso) Membership: 18 Report: A/64/18 Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
Sessions: Tenth and eleventh, Geneva, 20 April–1 May and 12–16 October Chairperson: Abdelhamid El Jamri (Morocco) Membership: 10 Reports: A/64/48, A/65/48 Committee on the Rights of the Child
Sessions: Fiftieth, fifty-first, and fifty-second, all in Geneva, 12–30 January, 25 May–12 June, 14 September–2 October Chairperson: Yanghee Lee (Republic of Korea) Membership: 18 Report: A/65/41
These bodies, often referred to as “Treaty organs”, are serviced by the United Nations Secretariat and may be financed in part or wholly from the Organization’s regular budget, as authorized by the General Assembly, to which most of them report annually. Committee against Torture
Sessions: Forty-second and forty-third, Geneva, 27 April–15 May and 2–20 November Chairperson: Claudio Grossman (Chile) Membership: 10 Reports: A/64/44, A/65/44 Conference on Disarmament
Meetings: Geneva, 19 January–27 March, 18 May–3 July, 3 August– 18 September President: Viet Nam, Zimbabwe, Algeria, Argentina, Australia and Austria (successively) Membership: 65 Report: A/64/27 Human Rights Committee
Sessions: Ninety-fifth, New York, 16 March–3 April; ninety-sixth and ninety-seventh, Geneva, 13–31 July and 12–30 October Chairperson: Yuji Iwasawa (Japan) Membership: 18 Reports: A/64/40 (Vol. I), A/65/40 (Vol. I) International Narcotics Control Board (INCB)
Sessions: Ninety-forth, ninety-fifth and ninety-sixth, Vienna, 2–6 February, 11–23 May and 27 October–13 November President: Hamid Ghodse (Iran) Membership: 13 Reports: E/INCB/2008/W.12/Add.2/Rev.1, E/INCB/2009/W.1 Decision: ESC 2009/201 E
Principal members of the United Nations Secretariat 12 Secretariat
Department of Field Support
Secretary-General: Ban Ki-moon Deputy Secretary-General: Asha-Rose Migiro Executive Office of the Secretary-General
Under-Secretary-General, Chef de Cabinet: Vijay Nambiar Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Chef de Cabinet: Kim Won-soo Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Planning: Robert Orr Office of Internal Oversight Services
Under-Secretary-General: Inga-Britt Ahlenius Office of Legal Affairs
Under-Secretary-General, Legal Counsel: Patricia O’Brien Assistant Secretary-General: Peter Taksøe-Jensen Department of Political Affairs
Under-Secretary-General: B. Lynn Pascoe Assistant Secretary-General: Haile Menkerios; Oscar FernandezTaranco (from July) Office for Disarmament Affairs
Under-Secretary-General, High Representative: Sergio de Queiroz Duarte
Under-Secretary General: Susana Malcorra Assistant Secretary-General: Jane Holl Lute (until April); Anthony Banbury (from April) Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Emergency Relief Coordinator: John Holmes Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator: Catherine Bragg Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Under-Secretary-General: Sha Zukang Assistant Secretary-General, Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women: Rachel Mayanja Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development: Jomo Kwame Sundaram Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs: Thomas Stelzer Department for General Assembly and Conference Management
Department of Peacekeeping Operations
Under-Secretary-General: Muhammad Shaaban Assistant Secretary-General: Yohannes Mengesha (until May); Franz Baumann (from May)
Under-Secretary-General: Alain Le Roy Assistant Secretaries-General: Edmond Mulet, Dmitry Titov Assistant Secretary-General, Military Adviser: Lieutenant General Chikadibia Obiakor
Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information: Kiyotaka Akasaka
Department of Public Information