Six main bodies of the United Nations shape global policies:
– Peace and security, sustainable development, human rights
– Law and international cooperation
– Oversight of UN agencies, commissions and offices worldwide
The Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review (QCPR), a UN process to assess its development system. It is a major review process by the UN General Assembly (UNGA) every four years to evaluate the effectiveness and coherence of the UN development system (UNDS). Purpose: To provide policy guidance for how the UN Read More
The United Nations Treaty Collection at https://treaties.un.org/ is the most comprehensive collection of treaties in the world, both bilateral and multilateral. It consists mainly of the full texts of treaties and subsequent actions registered pursuant to Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations and the Regulations and published Read More
The term “rapporteur” is a French-derived word for an investigator who reports to a deliberative body. Special rapporteur is a title given to individuals working on behalf of the United Nations (UN) within the scope of “special procedure” mechanisms who have a specific country or thematic mandate from the United Nations Human Rights Read More
UN Day marks the anniversary of the entry into force in 1945 of the UN Charter. With the ratification of this founding document by the majority of its signatories, including the five permanent members of the Security Council, the United Nations officially came into being. 24 October has been celebrated Read More
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