First Committee (Disarmament & International Security): deals with disarmament, global challenges and threats to peace that affect the international community and seeks out solutions to the challenges in the international security regime.
Second Committee (Economic & Financial): responsible for agenda items related to economic, financial and environmental affairs. Main issues addressed by the Committee include the following: -Macroeconomic policy questions.
Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian & Cultural): deals with human rights, humanitarian affairs and social matters. The Third Committee meets every year in early October and aims to finish its work by the end of November.
Fourth Committee (Special Political & Decolonization): deals with a diverse set of political issues, including UN peacekeeping and peaceful uses of outer space. However, the issues of decolonization and the Middle East take up most of its time.
Fifth Committee (Administrative & Budgetary): deals with internal United Nations administrative and budgetary matters.
Sixth Committee (Legal): deals primarily with legal matters and is the primary forum for the consideration of international law and other legal matters concerning the United Nations.
