assistance. In June, the United Nations Political Office in Somalia was replaced by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia. At year’s end, 15 peacekeeping operations served by some 116,755 uniformed and civilian personnel were deployed worldwide, along with 13 political and peacebuilding missions with 3,784 staff. The number of people displaced by conflict and persecution reached 51.2 million—the highest level since the Second World War. Of the displaced, 16.7 million were refugees. The war in Syria was the primary cause of refugee outflows, with 2.4 million people having fled the country by the end of 2013. The number of persons displaced within their own country as a result of conflict was estimated at 33.3 million—the highest number ever recorded—of whom 23.9 million received protection and assistance from UNHCR. The number of identifiable stateless persons stood at 3.5 million. An estimated 414,600 refugees were able to return home voluntarily, the lowest level in a decade. In 2013, 352 natural disasters were recorded, affecting 97 million people in 109 countries and causing $118 billion in damages. In November, Super Typhoon Haiyan killed nearly 6,000 people in the Philippines and affected 14 million in the region. The High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development was held in New York in October. The General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the High-Level Dialogue, in which Member States resolved to work towards an inclusive agenda on international migration that integrated development and respected human rights. The General Assembly held a high-level meeting on the goal of nuclear disarmament. It declared 26 September the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons and agreed to convene, no later than 2018, a high-level international conference on nuclear disarmament. The landmark Arms Trade Treaty was adopted by the Assembly in April. By the end of the year, 115 countries had signed the Treaty and 9 had become parties to it. The Commission on Sustainable Development was abolished by the Economic and Social Council and concluded its work on 20 September. The Commission was replaced by the high-level political forum on sustainable development, which held its first meeting on 24 September on the theme “Building the future we want: from Rio+20 to the post-2015 development agenda”. The International Year of Water Cooperation was observed in 2013. The Human Rights Council examined the human rights record of 42 Member States through the universal periodic review mechanism and held three regular sessions during the year. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of its mandate. The General Assembly proclaimed the 2015–2024 period as the International Decade for People of African Descent, and 2 November as the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. The UN System-wide Action Plan on Youth was developed during the year, and a trust fund was launched to boost youth volunteering. In January, the first Youth Envoy was appointed by the Secretary-General. The International Court of Justice delivered two judgments, made 11 orders and had 14 contentious cases pending before it.
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Table of contents wait, 332: UN mediation of bilateral issues, 332; UN Compensation Commission and Fund, 336. Timor‑Leste, 336: Financing of UN operations, 336. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 338: Non‑proliferation, 338. Iran, 346: Non‑proliferation, 346. Yemen, 349: Political and security developments, 349; Children and armed conflict, 351. Other issues, 352: Cambodia, 352; Myanmar, 353; The Philippines, 354; United Arab Emirates–Iran, 354.
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V. Europe and the Mediterranean 355 Bosnia and Herzegovina, 355: Implementation of Peace Agreement, 356. Kosovo, 361: Political and security developments, 361; EULEX, 362; UNMIK, 362; KFOR, 364. The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 364. Georgia, 365: UNOMIG, 366. Armenia and Azerbaijan, 367. Cyprus, 368: Political and security developments, 368; UNFICYP, 369. Other issues, 375: Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean, 375. Organization for Democracy and Economic DevelopmentGUAM, 376.
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Political and security questions I. International peace and security 35 Promotion of international peace and security, 35: Maintenance of international peace and security, 35; Conflict prevention, 39; Peacemaking and peacebuilding, 43; Protection issues, 45; Special political missions, 49. Threats to international peace and security, 52: International terrorism, 52. Peacekeeping operations, 60: Comprehensive review of peacekeeping, 65; Operations in 2013, 65; Roster of 2013 operations, 66; Financial and administrative aspects of peacekeeping operations, 68.
VI. Middle East 377 Peace process, 378: Diplomatic efforts, 378; Occupied Palestinian Territory, 379. Issues related to Palestine, 403: General aspects, 403; Assistance to Palestinians, 407. Lebanon, 421: Political and security developments, 421; Implementation of resolution 1559(2004), 422; Implementation of resolution 1701(2006) and UNIFIL activities, 423; Special Tribunal for Lebanon, 431. Syrian Arab Republic, 431: Political and security developments, 432; Use of chemical weapons, 441; The Syrian Golan, 451; UNTSO, 461.
II. Africa 84 Promotion of peace in Africa, 85. Central Africa and Great Lakes region, 100: Democratic Republic of the Congo, 106; Burundi, 124; Central African Republic, 128; Central African Republic and Chad, 144; Rwanda, 145. West Africa, 146: Regional issues, 146; Côte d’Ivoire, 157; Liberia, 170; Sierra Leone, 180; Guinea-Bissau, 184; Mali, 192; Cameroon–Nigeria, 205; Guinea, 206; Mauritania, 207. Horn of Africa, 207: Sudan–South Sudan, 207; South Sudan, 236; Chad, 246; Somalia, 247; Eritrea, 269. North Africa, 273: Libya, 273; Western Sahara, 280. Other issues, 286: Mauritius–United Kingdom, 286.
VII. Disarmament 462 UN machinery, 462. UN role in disarmament, 466. Nuclear disarmament, 468: Comprehensive NuclearTest-Ban Treaty, 477; Advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, 479; Prohibition of the use of nuclear weapons, 480; Humanitarian approach to nuclear disarmament, 481. Non-proliferation, 481: Non-proliferation treaty, 481; Missiles, 488; Non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, 488; Multilateralism in disarmament and non-proliferation, 491; IAEA safeguards, 494; Radioactive waste, 496; Nuclear-weapon-free zones, 498. Bacteriological (biological) and chemical weapons, 502: Bacteriological (biological) weapons, 502; Chemical weapons, 504. Conventional weapons, 507: Arms Trade Treaty, 507; Small arms, 509; Convention on excessively injurious conventional weapons and Protocols, 517; Cluster munitions, 519; Anti-personnel mines, 519; Practical disarmament, 521; Transparency, 521. Other disarmament issues, 525: Prevention of an arms race in outer space, 525; Prevention of an arms race on the seabed and
III. Americas 287 Central America, 287: Guatemala, 287; Gulf of Fonseca zone of peace, 288. Haiti, 288: Political and security developments, 288; MINUSTAH, 294. Other Issues, 296: Cuba–United States, 296. IV. Asia and the Pacific 298 Afghanistan, 298: Political and security developments, 299; UNAMA, 320; International Security Assistance Force, 320; Sanctions, 325. Iraq, 327: Political and security developments, 327; UNAMI, 331; Post‑Development Fund mechanism, 331; UN Iraq escrow account, 332. Iraq–Ku-
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viii ocean floor, 528; Observance of environmental norms, 528; Science and technology and disarmament, 529. Studies, research and training, 529. Regional disarmament, 529: Regional centres for peace and disarmament, 535. VIII. Other political and security questions 540 General aspects of international peace and security, 540: Support for democracies, 540. Regional aspects of international peace and security, 540: South Atlantic, 540; Indian Ocean, 541. Decolonization, 542: Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism, 542; Puerto Rico, 549; Territories under review, 549; Other issues, 562. Peaceful uses of outer space, 567: Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, 567; UN system coordination, 572. Effects of atomic radiation, 574. Information Security, 576. Public information, 578: Committee on Information, 578. PART TWO
Human rights I. Promotion of human rights 591 UN machinery, 591: Human Rights Council, 591; Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, 595; Other aspects, 596. Human rights instruments, 597: Convention against racial discrimination, 599; Covenant on civil and political rights and optional protocols, 599; Covenant on economic, social and cultural rights and optional protocol, 600; Convention on elimination of discrimination against women and optional protocol, 601; Convention against torture, 601; Convention on the Rights of the Child, 602; Convention on migrant workers, 611; Convention on rights of persons with disabilities, 612; Convention for protection from enforced disappearance, 612; Convention on genocide, 613; General aspects, 613. Other activities, 615: Strengthening action to promote human rights, 615; Human rights education, 623; International Decade for People of African Descent, 625; Commemoration of sixtyfifth anniversary of Universal Declaration, 626; Follow-up to 1993 World Conference, 626. II. Protection of human rights 627 Special procedures, 627. Civil and political rights, 628: Racism and racial discrimination, 628; Human rights defenders, 635; Reprisals for cooperation with human rights bodies, 640; Protection of migrants, 640; Discrimination against minorities, 645; Freedom of religion or belief, 649; Right to self-determination, 655; Rule of law, democracy and human rights, 659; Other issues, 670. Economic, social and cultural rights, 682: Realizing economic, social and cultural rights, 682; Right to development, 683; Social Forum, 698; Extreme poverty, 699; Right to food, 699; Right to adequate housing, 704; Right to health, 704; Cultural rights, 707; Right to education, 711; Environmental and scientific concerns, 711; Slavery and related issues, 712; Women, 714; Children, 717; Older persons, 722; Internally displaced persons, 723; Persons with disabilities, 727; Indigenous peoples, 727.
III. Human rights country situations 732 General aspects, 732. Africa, 733: Central African Republic, 733; Côte d’Ivoire, 734; Democratic Republic of the Congo, 735; Eritrea, 736; Guinea, 737; Libya, 738; Mali, 738; Somalia, 739; Sudan, 741; South Sudan, 741. Americas, 742: Bolivia, 742; Colombia, 742; Guatemala, 742; Haiti, 743. Asia, 743: Afghanistan, 743; Cambodia, 744; Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 745; Iran, 748; Myanmar, 752; Sri Lanka, 755; Yemen, 756. Europe and the Mediterranean, 756: Belarus, 756; Cyprus, 757. Middle East, 757: Syrian Arab Republic, 757; Territories occupied by Israel, 763. PART THREE
Economic and social questions I.
Development policy and international economic cooperation 769 International economic relations, 770: Economic and social trends, 770; Development and international economic cooperation, 771; Sustainable development, 779; Eradication of poverty, 794; Science, technology and innovation for development, 800; Information and communications technologies, 806. Development policy and public administration, 816: Committee for Development Policy, 816; Public administration, 818. Groups of countries in special situations, 820: Least developed countries, 820; Small island developing States, 828; Landlocked developing countries, 832. II. Operational activities for development 836 System-wide activities, 836. Technical cooperation, 842: UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS Executive Board, 842; UNDP, 842; UNFPA, 852; UNOPS, 853; Joint matters, 855. Other cooperation, 858: UN Office for Partnerships, 858; Economic and technical cooperation among developing countries, 859. III. Humanitarian and special economic assistance 862 Humanitarian assistance, 862: Coordination, 862; Resource mobilization, 867; Humanitarian action, 874. Disaster response, 880: International cooperation, 880; International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, 885; Mine action, 892. Special economic assistance, 895: African economic recovery and development, 895; Other economic assistance, 906; Haiti, 906. IV. International trade, finance and transport 908 International trade and development, 908: Multilateral trading system, 908; United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, 911; Commodities, 915; Coercive economic measures, 919. International financial system and development, 920: Debt situation of developing countries, 923; Financing for development, 928; Other matters, 937. Transport, 940: Maritime transport, 940; Transport of dangerous goods, 941.
Table of contents V. Regional economic and social activities 945 Regional cooperation, 945. Africa, 945: Economic trends, 946; Activities, 946; Programme and organizational questions, 951. Asia and the Pacific, 954: Economic trends, 954; Activities, 955; Programme and organizational questions, 959. Europe, 963: Economic Trends, 963; Activities, 963; Programme and organizational questions, 964. Latin America and the Caribbean, 973: Economic trends, 973; Activities, 973. Western Asia, 977: Economic trends, 977; Activities, 977. VI. Energy, natural resources and cartography 979 Energy and natural resources, 979: Energy, 979; Natural resources, 983. Cartography, 984. VII. Environment and human settlements 986 Environment, 986: UN Environment Programme, 986; Global Environment Facility, 994; International conventions and mechanisms, 994; Environmental topics, 1004; Other matters, 1009. Human settlements, 1013: UNHabitat, 1013; Follow-up to the 1996 UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), 1016. VIII. Population 1020 Population and development, 1020: Follow-up to 1994 Conference on Population and Development, 1020; Commission on Population and Development, 1022. International migration and development, 1024. United Nations Population Fund, 1027. Other population activities, 1032. IX. Social policy, cultural development and human resources development 1035 Social policy, 1035: Social development, 1035; Ageing persons, 1047; Persons with disabilities, 1053; Youth, 1058; Family, 1061. Cultural development, 1065: Culture of peace, 1065; Sport for development and peace, 1072; Culture and development, 1075. Human resources development, 1078: UN research and training institutes, 1082; Education, 1084. X. Women 1087 Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and Beijing+5, 1087: Critical areas of concern, 1091. UN machinery, 1125: Convention on elimination of discrimination against women, 1125; Commission on the Status of Women, 1127; UN-Women, 1130. XI. Children 1137 Follow-up to 2002 General Assembly special session on children, 1137. Promotion and protection of the rights of children, 1138. United Nations Children’s Fund, 1139. XII. Refugees and displaced persons 1149 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 1149: Programme policy, 1149; Refugee
ix protection and assistance, 1154; Regional activities, 1158; Policy development and cooperation, 1166; Financial questions, 1168. XIII. Health, food and nutrition 1171 Health, 1171: AIDS prevention and control, 1171; Noncommunicable diseases, 1174; Tobacco, 1175; Water and sanitation, 1176; Malaria, 1177; Global public health, 1181; Road safety, 1184. Food, agriculture and nutrition, 1185: Food aid, 1185; Food security, 1186; Nutrition, 1193. XIV. International drug control and crime prevention 1195 UN Office on Drugs and Crime, 1195. International drug control, 1197: Commission on Narcotic Drugs, 1197; Conventions, 1212. Crime prevention and criminal justice, 1218: Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, 1218; Follow-up to the Twelfth UN Crime Congress, 1218; World crime trends and emerging issues, 1220; Integration and coordination, 1230; UN standards and norms, 1255. XV. Statistics 1260 Statistical Commission, 1260: Demographic and social statistics, 1260; Economic statistics, 1263; Natural resources and environment statistics, 1265; Other activities, 1265. PART FOUR
Legal questions I. International Court of Justice 1271 Judicial work of the Court, 1271: Contentious proceedings, 1271. Other questions, 1280: Trust Fund to Assist States in the Settlement of Disputes, 1280. II. International tribunals and court 1281 International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, 1281: The Chambers, 1282; Office of the Prosecutor, 1284; The Registry, 1285; Financing, 1285. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, 1287: The Chambers, 1287; Office of the Prosecutor, 1288; The Registry, 1288; Financing, 1289. Functioning of the Tribunals, 1291: Implementation of completion strategies, 1291; International Residual Mechanism, 1292. International Criminal Court, 1297: The Chambers, 1299. III. International legal questions 1304 Legal aspects of international political relations, 1304: International Law Commission, 1304; International State relations and international law, 1311; International terrorism, 1331; Diplomatic relations, 1335; Treaties and agreements, 1336. International economic law, 1337: Commission on International Trade Law, 1337. Other questions, 1348: Rule of law at the national and international levels, 1348; Strengthening the role of the United Nations, 1350; Host country relations, 1356.
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Institutional, administrative and budgetary questions I.
United Nations restructuring and institutional matters 1403 Restructuring matters, 1403: Programme of reform, 1403. Institutional matters, 1407: General Assembly, 1407; Security Council, 1411; Economic and Social Council, 1412. Coordination, monitoring and cooperation, 1417: Institutional mechanisms, 1417; Other matters, 1418. UN and other organizations, 1419: Cooperation, 1419; Participation in UN work, 1429. United Nations financing and programming 1433 Financial situation, 1433. UN budget, 1434: Budget for 2012–2013, 1434; Programme budget for 2014–2015, 1445. Contributions, 1462: Assessments, 1462. Accounts and auditing, 1464: Financial management practices, 1466; Review of UN administrative and financial functioning, 1467. Programme planning, 1467. II.
III. Administrative and staff matters 1470 Administrative matters, 1470: Managerial reform and oversight, 1470; Conference management, 1476; UN information systems, 1484; UN premises and property, 1487. Staff matters, 1491: Conditions of service, 1491; Human resources management, 1498; Staff safety and security, 1507; Other staff matters, 1512; Protection from sexual exploitation and abuse, 1519; Administration of justice, 1520; UN Joint Staff Pension Fund, 1524.
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Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice 1529
III. Structure of the United Nations 1544 IV. Agendas of the United Nations principal organs 1557 V.
United Nations information centres and services 1567
VI. Intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations 1569
Indices Subject index 1573 Index of resolutions and decisions 1608 Index of Security Council presidential statements 1611
About the 2013 edition of the Yearbook This sixty-seventh volume of the Yearbook of the United Nations continues the tradition of providing the most comprehensive coverage available of the annual activities and concerns of the United Nations. The present volume recounts how, in 2013, the United Nations addressed the mounting humanitarian crisis in the Middle East, where millions of people were displaced by the escalating civil war in the Syrian Arab Republic, and assisted those fleeing violence in other regions. It also highlights the Organization’s efforts to establish an inclusive agenda on international migration and regulate the international trade in conventional arms. This volume details the continuing work of the United Nations to resolve and prevent armed conflict, promote human rights, and secure a sustainable future for our planet and its people. Readers can locate information by using the Table of contents, the Subject index, the Index of resolutions and decisions and the Index of Security Council presidential statements. The volume also features six appendices: Appendix I comprises a roster of Member States; Appendix II reproduces the Charter of the United Nations and the Statute of the International Court of Justice; Appendix III presents the structure of the principal organs of the United Nations in 2013; Appendix IV provides the agenda for each session of the principal organs in 2013; Appendix V gives the addresses of United Nations information centres and services worldwide; and Appendix VI lists the addresses of the specialized agencies and other related organizations of the UN system with their respective heads as at December 2013.
substantive nature adopted in 2013 by the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council are reproduced or summarized under the relevant topic. Such texts are preceded by procedural details giving the date of adoption, meeting number and vote totals (in favour–against–abstaining), if any, and an indication of their approval by a sessional or subsidiary body prior to final adoption. The texts are followed by details of any recorded or roll-call vote. Major reports. Most reports of the SecretaryGeneral in 2013, along with those of main United Nations committees, regional and functional commissions, and Special Rapporteurs, as well as selected reports from other UN sources, such as seminars and expert and working groups, are summarized. Views of States. Written communications sent to the United Nations by Member States and circulated as documents of the principal organs have been summarized, in selected cases, under the relevant topics. Multilateral treaties. Information on signatories and parties to multilateral treaties and conventions has been taken from the series Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General (st/leg/ser/e) (see treaties.un.org).
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Structure and scope of articles The Yearbook is subject-oriented and divided into five parts covering political and security matters; human rights issues; economic and social questions; legal issues; and institutional, administrative and budgetary matters. Chapters summarize pertinent UN activities, including those of intergovernmental and expert bodies, as well as major reports and, in selected cases, the views of States in written communications. Activities of UN bodies. The Yearbook places the major activities of the principal organs of the United Nations and, on a selective basis, those of their subsidiary bodies in a narrative context of consideration, deliberation and action. Substantive action by the Security Council is analysed and brief reviews of the Council’s deliberations are given, particularly in cases where an issue was taken up but no resolution was adopted. The texts of all resolutions and decisions of a
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Abbreviations commonly used in the Yearbook ACABQ
Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions
OECD
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
AU
African Union
OHCHR
BNUB
United Nations Office in Burundi
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
BINUCA
United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic
OIOS
Office of Internal Oversight Services
OSCE
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
CARICOM
Caribbean Community
PA
Palestinian Authority
CEB
United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination
UNAIDS
Joint United Nations Programme on hiv/aids
UNAMA
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
UNAMI
United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq
UNAMID
African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur
CPC
Committee for Programme and Coordination
DPKO
Department of Peacekeeping Operations
DPRK
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
DRC
Democratic Republic of the Congo
UNCTAD
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
ECA
Economic Commission for Africa
ECE
Economic Commission for Europe
UNDOF
United Nations Disengagement Observer Force
ECLAC
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
UNDP
United Nations Development Programme
UNEP
United Nations Environment Programme
UNESCO
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNFICYP
United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus
UNFPA
United Nations Population Fund
UN-Habitat
United Nations Human Settlements Programme
UNHCR
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
UNICEF
United Nations Children’s Fund
UNIFIL
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon
UNIOGBIS
United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau
UNIPSIL
United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone
ECOWAS
Economic Community of West African States
ESCAP
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
ESCWA
Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
EU
European Union
FAO
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
HIV/AIDS
human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
IAEA
International Atomic Energy Agency
ICC
International Criminal Court
ICJ
International Court of Justice
ICRC
International Committee of the Red Cross
ICSC
International Civil Service Commission
ICTR
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
UNMIK
United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo
ICTY
International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
UNMIL
United Nations Mission in Liberia
IDPs
internally displaced persons
UNMIS
United Nations Mission in the Sudan
IFAD
International Fund for Agricultural Development
UNMISS
United Nations Mission in South Sudan
ILO
International Labour Organization
UNMIT
United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste
IMF
International Monetary Fund
IMO
International Maritime Organization
UNOCA
United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa
ITU
International Telecommunication Union
UNOCI
United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire
JIU
Joint Inspection Unit
UNODC
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
LDC
least developed country
UNOPS
United Nations Office for Project Services
MDGs
Millennium Development Goals
UNOWA
United Nations Office for West Africa
MINURCAT
United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad
UNRWA
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
MINURSO
United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara
UNSMIL
United Nations Support Mission in Libya
UNSOM
United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia
United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti
UNTSO
United Nations Truce Supervision Organization
MONUSCO
United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
UN-Women
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
NEPAD
New Partnership for Africa’s Development
UNWTO
World Tourism Organization
NGO
non-governmental organization
WFP
World Food Programme
NPT
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
WHO
World Health Organization
NSGTs
Non-Self-Governing Territories
WMDs
weapons of mass destruction
OAS
Organization of American States
WMO
World Meteorological Organization
OCHA
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
WTO
World Trade Organization
ODA
official development assistance
YUN
Yearbook of the United Nations
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Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization
Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization Following is the Secretary-General’s report on the work of the Organization [A/68/1], dated 19 August 2013, submitted to the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly. The Assembly took note of it on 9 October (decision 68/507).
Chapter I
Consultations on the post-2015 development framework brought in voices from all over the world, capturing the interconnectedness of social, economic and environmental challenges and the imperative of serving people while protecting the planet. The declaration of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the rule of law at the national and international levels, adopted on 24 September 2012, affirmed the importance of the rule of law in all three pillars of our work. The third successive year of natural disasters causing in excess of $100 billion in damage—including damage to United Nations Headquarters from storm Sandy—gave us a sobering glimpse of what the future may hold in store should we fail to take the challenge of climate change seriously. In the Sahel, millions of people continued to suffer from the corrosive impact of transnational organized crime, resource scarcity and political instability. Member States turned to the United Nations to develop a strategy that can bridge these many sources of instability and bring together the wide array of national, regional and international actors needed for an effective response. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a new framework agreement and a joint effort by the United Nations, the World Bank and all the countries in the region aim to address the root causes of repeated cycles of violence and to deliver peace, justice and development to the long-suffering people of that country. 5. Tragically, the deaths of nearly 100,000 Syrians and the displacement of millions were—and are—a stain on our collective conscience and a grim reminder that the costs of war are measured not only in lives lost but in economies and infrastructures shattered, precious historical sites ruined, fragile social bonds sundered and an entire region destabilized with potentially lasting consequences. I hope that soon we will find a lasting solution that will allow the people of the Syrian Arab Republic to begin the long process of recovery and rebuilding. More broadly, Member States and others with leverage must act more swiftly and decisively to avert and respond to repression and violence; we cannot allow ourselves to become inured to these events. For our part, the United Nations family has developed an action plan to respond more effectively to serious violations of human rights, drawing on the lessons of our failures in previous cases.
Introduction In the seventy years since the United Nations 1. was conceived, the world has changed profoundly and increasingly rapidly. New challenges have emerged. So have new opportunities. Unprecedented levels of interconnectedness mean that our problems are increasingly shared. But so are solutions. Information, ideas, technology, money and people flow across borders as never before. So too do crime, pollution, weapons, narcotics and disease. Easier access to technology carries enormous potential for positive change, but also for disruption. Capabilities that once belonged only to States are increasingly in the hands of private groups and individuals. These trends have fundamentally altered reality for billions of people, transforming patterns of development and the very nature of security. The challenges we face have changed dramatically, as have the means to address them. 2. Most of these changes have led to improvements in the human condition, but too many people have yet to feel that sense of progress and hope in their daily lives. People in rich and poor countries alike are nervous about poverty, unemployment, inequality, environmental degradation and unresponsive institutions. The largest generation of young people the world has ever known is hungry for opportunity, for jobs, for a voice in the decisions that affect them, for institutions and leaders that respond to their needs. They want to know that national and international institutions are on their side and can seize the opportunities of a world in flux. 3. Member States have recognized the need to adapt the Organization to these new realities, so that it can continue to make a positive difference in people’s lives. At the same time, the fundamental principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations remain as valid as the day they were signed. More than ever, people need a universal organization that brings together all Member States in pursuit of the four overarching goals identified in our founding document—peace, human rights, justice, and economic and social progress. 4. The work of the United Nations over the past year clearly illustrates these long-term trends. 3
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4 6. Having just marked the tenth anniversary of the bombing of the United Nations headquarters building in Baghdad, we increasingly recognize that this changing world is in some respects a more dangerous one for our own personnel. More than 75 colleagues gave their lives in the line of duty in the past year. The United Nations is committed to remaining present wherever we are needed, in keeping with the values and principles of the Charter, with the mandates given to us by Member States and with the hopes and expectations that millions of people around the world place in us. But we must do so responsibly and with due recognition of the risks involved. 7. This report details the Organization’s efforts to respond to these many challenges, priority being given to the eight areas of work identified by the General Assembly in the strategic framework for the biennium. Through my Five-Year Action Agenda and regular engagement with the General Assembly, the Security Council and other legislative bodies, I worked to ensure effective mandate delivery and to focus on areas where collective action can make the greatest difference.
Chapter II The work of the Organization A. Promotion of sustained economic growth and sustainable development 8. We are within a thousand days of the conclusion of the largest, most successful anti-poverty push in history, the Millennium Development Goals. As the deadline looms, efforts to achieve the unfinished business of the eight Millennium Development Goals are intensifying. Rather than seeing 2015 as an end point, however, we must view it as the beginning of a new era: an era in which we eradicate extreme poverty, protect the environment and promote economic opportunity for all. We must build on the successes of the Millennium Development Goals, persist in the effort to meet them where they have not been met, attend to the gaps and address new and emerging challenges. To that end, the Organization is supporting Member States in their efforts to define a bold, ambitious and universal post-2015 development agenda with sustainable development at its core. Recognizing the risk that climate change may pose to our development objectives, we are also supporting the negotiations to achieve a legally binding global climate agreement by 2015. 1. Accelerating progress on the Millennium Development Goals
9. The Millennium Development Goals have improved the lives of billions of people. Clear and easily understood, they helped to set global and national priorities and fuel action on the ground.
Governments, the international community, civil society, the private sector and individuals came together, aided by new technologies, scientific advances and partnerships. Consequently, global poverty is declining, access to improved water sources has expanded, 40 million more children are in primary school, more than 5 million children are surviving annually who would otherwise have died, more than 1.1 million people are alive who before would have died from malaria, and an estimated 8 million people in low- and middle-income countries are now receiving life-saving HIV treatment. 10. However, there are some goals on which we are noticeably lagging. Progress on others has been distressingly uneven. Unless we take resolute action, almost 1 billion people will still live in extreme poverty in 2015. Mothers will die needlessly in childbirth and children will suffer and die from preventable diseases. Poor sanitation—the goal where we lag most—will remain a daily challenge for billions. A great deal of work lies ahead to ensure that all children can complete primary education. Fifty-seven million are not in school and, as Malala Yousafzai reminded us so powerfully, many girls in particular must overcome almost insurmountable odds to get an education. Economic growth has been insufficiently inclusive, resulting in a significant jobs gap. Young people bear the brunt: 73 million of them worldwide are out of work, and many others face poor wages and working conditions. Although the Millennium Development Goal on reducing hunger may now be within reach, one in eight people worldwide still do not have enough to eat and progress has slowed or stalled in many regions. Meanwhile, global consumption and production exceed the Earth’s capacity: we currently consume 150 per cent of the Earth’s annual regenerative capacity, up from 65 per cent in 1990. 11. It is also clear that we need to think differently about the relationships between and within the goals. Failure to meet some targets undermines efforts to meet others. Broad-brush measurement of progress has masked significant and growing inequalities both within and across countries. The most vulnerable segments of society are too often left behind. Failure to achieve gender equality has negative consequences for other goals, which strongly depend on women’s empowerment and access to education, work, health care and decision-making. Failure to secure appropriate sanitation facilities can dramatically exacerbate health challenges, as we saw most tragically in the cholera epidemic in Haiti. Failure to nurture and protect our natural resource base has undermined the attainment of social, economic and environmental Millennium Development Goals, intensified poverty and resource degradation and contributed to deforestation, desertification and biodiversity loss. Geographically, southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa continue to suffer
Report of the Secretary-General from the highest rates of child and maternal mortality and the disparity between those two regions and the rest of the world has grown. Finally, and in spite of recent signs that the situation may not be as dire as we feared, a significant portion of vulnerable and conflict-affected countries have yet to achieve a single Millennium Development Goal. Even as we redouble efforts to meet the Goals, the post-2015 agenda must find ways to address the gaps and inequalities that have so significantly detracted from the overall effort. 12. Several important initiatives were launched in the past year to draw attention to and galvanize action—often from a wide variety of stakeholders—on goals with glaring lags or inequalities. In September 2012, I launched the Global Education First Initiative to spur international efforts to make education a top global priority. We have already secured over $1.5 billion in commitments. In January 2013, I appointed my first Envoy on Youth to promote and support the needs and concerns of young people. Initiatives to end preventable child deaths by 2035 and significantly expand access to family planning were launched as part of Every Woman Every Child. The Zero Hunger Challenge aspires to a future where every person enjoys the right to food, while the Scaling Up Nutrition movement focuses on maternal and child nutrition. In conjunction with the International Year of Water Cooperation, 2013, the General Assembly has undertaken a Sanitation Drive and the United Nations system is re-energizing its efforts in a Call to Action on Sanitation. We have also redoubled our efforts at the national and international levels to improve the available data for monitoring progress towards the Millennium Development Goals and are drawing attention to the importance of implementing existing commitments and of stronger accountability and monitoring mechanisms. 13. Since the Millennium Development Goals were agreed, the world has changed. The size of the world economy has more than doubled, much of the growth taking place in the global South. The world population has become larger, more urban, more connected and more mobile. By 2050, it is projected to reach 9.6 billion people, of whom 86 per cent will be living in what are now developing countries. While the populations of developed countries are ageing, in the developing world half of the population will be under 28 by 2015 and, in the poorest countries, half will be under 20. Civil society and levels of political participation have increased in strength. Young and digitally connected populations have been a major factor in movements for democracy and dignity worldwide, calling for decent work, equality and an end to corruption. These movements have had a dramatic political impact in countries where inequalities have risen in spite of economic growth and poverty reduction. The environmental impact of the past
5 decade’s economic and demographic changes is also dramatic, with rapid increases in total demand for water, food and other commodities and increased energy use with related rise in carbon dioxide emissions. In addition, there is a great deal more awareness of the impact of climate change, including the potential for future losses from natural disasters. Finally, the global aid landscape has begun to change in profound ways. Official development assistance (ODA) declined by 4 per cent from 2011 to 2012. ODA will remain an important source of support and serve as a significant catalyst in particular for the least developed countries. At the same time, more diverse sources and flows of funding will play an increasing role in the future development agenda. 2. Post-2015 United Nations development agenda
14. The post-2015 development agenda represents an unprecedented opportunity to meet new and anticipate future challenges, while finding more effective ways to meet existing goals. At the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, in June 2012, Member States confirmed their commitment to sustainable development in three interconnected dimensions: economic development (including the end of extreme poverty), social inclusion, and environmental sustainability. They agreed to build on the success of the Millennium Development Goals by developing a set of goals for sustainable development that are global in nature and universally applicable. The General Assembly has established an Open Working Group, with 30 members, to develop those goals, and this work is ongoing. Member States will also discuss strategy for financing sustainable development and consider options for improved sharing of technology. 15. In July 2012, I established a High-level Panel of Eminent Persons—27 individuals from government, civil society, academia and the private sector— in support of Member States’ efforts towards a post2015 development agenda. The Panel was charged with producing bold yet practical recommendations that would help to respond to the global challenges of the twenty-first century, building on the Millennium Development Goals and with a view to ending poverty and promoting sustainable development. At the heart of the Panel’s proposals are five transformational shifts. The new agenda must include everyone. It must put sustainable development at its core in order to drive prosperity, while addressing the threats to humanity from climate change and environmental degradation. Generating jobs must be a priority. Peace, security and freedom from violence are essential. A new global partnership is needed to implement the agenda. This is a universal agenda that requires deep transformations in the way our economies work and our societies are organized, both in the North and in the South.
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6 The recommendations of the Panel inform my own report on accelerating progress towards the Millennium Development Goals and advancing the development agenda beyond 2015, for the consideration of Member States in September 2013. My report also draws on other inputs, including from the scientific and technological community, the business sector, a broad set of consultations at the national, regional and global levels, and the views of the United Nations system. Overall, these efforts point to the importance of arriving at a single and coherent post-2015 agenda, firmly grounded in the principles of human rights, equality and sustainability, and applicable to all countries while taking into account regional, national and subnational circumstances and priorities. 16. Consultations on the post-2015 development agenda have been opened to people from all over the world. The consultations indicate that people want a global development agenda, backed by national policy action, which can empower them to realize the future they want. They want their leaders to take action to create the conditions for a more equitable and safer world. They want to see further progress on education, health, water and sanitation. 17. I look forward to the special event on the Millennium Development Goals, to be held in the General Assembly in September 2013, where these strands will begin to come together. This is an opportunity for a paradigm shift in international development. Accountability, mutual responsibilities and a clear understanding of different capabilities in responding to this paradigm shift will be essential to its implementation. 3. The need for action on climate change
18. Lifting people out of poverty and protecting the planet and its resources are two sides of the same coin. The poor and vulnerable suffer most, but no country is immune from the effects of climate change. The past decade has been the warmest on record. Extreme weather is on the rise. The cost in lives, livelihoods, infrastructure and resources is growing. New data to advance our understanding of the human causes of the warming of the planet will be available in the forthcoming fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 19. In the past year, the urgency of the challenge was further recognized by Member States. At the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Member States reaffirmed climate change as one of the greatest challenges of our time. At the eighteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Doha, Member States successfully launched a new commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol and agreed on a firm timetable to adopt a universal climate agreement by 2015. Developed
countries reiterated their commitment to deliver on promises for long-term climate finance support to developing countries. Recognizing the importance of political leadership, I note broad, positive responses to my offer to convene leaders in 2014 to mobilize the political will necessary for this universal climate agreement. The high-level meeting, planned for September 2014, will provide a platform for leaders to demonstrate political will, raise ambition, and catalyse action on the ground to reduce emissions and strengthen resilience. 20. Meanwhile, my Sustainable Energy for All initiative, a multi-stakeholder partnership of Governments, the private sector and civil society, is working towards universal energy access, a doubling of the rate of energy efficiency improvement, and a doubling of the share of renewables in the global energy mix by 2030. To date, tens of billions of dollars have been mobilized and more than 75 developing countries have opted into the initiative. Support for the initiative comes from all quarters, from small island States to emerging and developed economies. New leadership for the initiative is now in place, regional and thematic hubs have been created, and progress is being made. 21. The case for climate action has never been clearer or more compelling. Policy tools exist and, where applied, are generating concrete results. Some 118 countries around the world now have renewable energy policies or targets. More than half are developing countries. Thanks to the growing public and political support for tangible action, international agreements are being translated into action and public policy on the ground. Investment in clean energy has surpassed $1 trillion. However, more is needed. For the United Nations part, I am proud that renovations to the Secretariat building in New York are designed to reduce energy consumption by 50 per cent and that, as part of the wider “Greening the Blue� initiative, we are taking steps to lessen the greenhouse gas footprint of peace operations. The challenge of climate change and sustainable development will need to be met through the coordination of poverty elimination, economic development and environmental protection. 4. Conclusion
22. In the next two years, we face a series of milestones and deadlines that together provide a unique opportunity to inject political momentum and take tangible action on these interconnected challenges. In 2013, in addition to the special event on the Millennium Development Goals, we have the high-level dialogue on international migration and development, the high-level meeting on disability and development, and the fourth session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, which aims at a post2015 framework for disaster risk reduction. In 2014, the special session of the General Assembly on the
Report of the Secretary-General follow-up to the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development will be held, as will the 10-year Review Conference on the Implementation of the Almaty Programme of Action for the landlocked developing countries and the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States. I will also convene global leaders for a major summit on climate change. These processes culminate in 2015 with agreement on a new development agenda and the deadline for a comprehensive, binding climate change agreement. The United Nations will support Member States as they endeavour to make the most of each individual event and to ensure that the cumulative impact is far-reaching and fitting to the enormity of the challenges ahead. B. Maintenance of international peace and security 23. The past year clearly demonstrated the complexity of contemporary conflict and the challenges involved in mounting coherent, effective international responses. Multiple sources of instability interact in countries such as Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Mali and the countries of the Sahel, Somalia, the Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen. They include sectarianism; criminality; extremism; exclusion; corruption; pressures related to resources, demographics and the environment; weak State capacity and legitimacy; rampant human rights violations; unstable neighbours; the use of explosive weapons against civilians; and porous borders permitting illicit flows of weapons, narcotics and people. These factors, combined with technological innovation, have strengthened the hand of armed groups and criminal and extremist elements, providing them with enhanced means to do significant harm, including through asymmetric tactics. Such groups tend to be well equipped and well resourced, with unprecedented transnational reach, and are sometimes ideologically driven. Some of these environments pose substantially more complex challenges than has been the case in the past. 24. Civilians have paid an unacceptably heavy price in the past year, particularly in cases where the international community is divided and lacks the collective political will to act, such as that of the Syrian Arab Republic. The normative framework to protect civilians, including the concept of “responsibility to protect” and discussions about “responsibility while protecting”, has continued to be the subject of debate, not always matched by action. I have engaged the Organization in a reflection on strengthening our own capacity to respond to crisis situations and protect human rights through follow-up to the Internal Review Panel on United Nations action in Sri Lanka. We have agreed to reaffirm the vision of our collective responsibilities, reinvigorate our engagement with
7 Member States, develop more effective headquarters response mechanisms, and strengthen our country presence, human rights capacity and information management. I call on Member States to be ready to do their vital part, to muster the will to act in a united manner to end egregious violations of international humanitarian and human rights law. We cannot allow ourselves to become so accustomed to civilians bearing the brunt of violence that we lose our sense of outrage and our will to act. 25. The range of actors seeking to play a part in the response to these challenges continues to expand and diversify. It has become common for the United Nations to operate alongside or in formal partnership with other international and regional players. These arrangements have worked well where the actors involved have common goals, clear comparative advantages and complementary political leverage, and coordinate effectively. But more remains to be done to ensure that international, regional and subregional actors work together and apply lessons about effective burden-sharing in complex environments. 26. Throughout the past year, the United Nations acted through a variety of mechanisms, including 15 peacekeeping operations, 14 field-based special political missions, 10 special envoys and advisers, and many United Nations country teams around the world. The United Nations stepped up its efforts to improve the effectiveness of its activities in the area of peace and security, including through implementation of the civilian capacities initiative, the designation of a global focal point for police, justice and corrections in post-conflict and other crisis situations and the implementation of internal policies on peacekeeping transitions and on human rights due diligence in the provision of assistance to national security forces. 1. Conflict prevention and mediation
27. The United Nations was at the forefront of a variety of prevention and mediation endeavours during the past year, thanks in part to improvements in our mediation support capacity, new and stronger partnerships with the League of Arab States, the African Union, the European Union, the Organization of American States and the Organization for Islamic Cooperation, as well as strong political backing from Member States. The Organization was well positioned to respond rapidly to rising tensions through its regional offices in West Africa, Central Africa and Central Asia and through its standby team of mediation experts. In recognition of the continuing and regrettable underrepresentation of women in peace processes, the Organization also stepped up its efforts to build the capacity of women’s groups to engage in these processes, where possible. 28. In Africa, I appointed a Special Envoy—the first woman United Nations mediator—to support
8 implementation of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the region. I visited the region with the President of the World Bank to draw attention to the related challenges of peace, stability and development. Recognizing the interconnected security, governance, humanitarian and development challenges facing countries in the Sahel, the United Nations developed an integrated strategy for the region. The Organization also worked closely with the African Union and other partners towards the goal of restoring constitutional order in the Central African Republic, Guinea-Bissau and Mali following the unconstitutional changes of government and consequent instability in those countries. 29. Extensive mediation support was provided in Yemen to assist in implementing the negotiated, peaceful transfer of power and in launching the national dialogue. In Lebanon, the United Nations continued to support the efforts of the authorities to preserve security, stability and national unity. Facilitating progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process remained a top priority and I hope that the recent resumption of direct talks will lead to a peaceful settlement and a two-State solution. The Organization’s joint efforts with the League of Arab States to bring about an end to the violence in the Syrian Arab Republic and to launch a process leading to a political solution yielded little in the face of the continuing political impasse on the ground, in the region and in the Security Council, as well as tragic military escalation. Efforts to mitigate the regional consequences of the conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic, including the burden on neighbouring countries of the outpouring of refugees, were similarly insufficient given the magnitude of the crisis. 30. In Europe, I continued to offer my good offices to the parties in Cyprus to find a comprehensive settlement and also actively supported the Geneva international discussions on Georgia and the South Caucasus, altogether with the European Union and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. We also stepped up efforts to find a mutually acceptable solution to the “name issue” between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. In Central Asia, working in close partnership with the World Bank, the Organization fostered increasingly close cooperation on water management. In South America, where peace talks between the Government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia were launched in August 2012, the United Nations supported the contribution of civil society through dialogue mechanisms. 2. Democratic transitions and elections
31. There were some alarming threats to hardwon gains in democratic governance in the past year,
Yearbook of the United Nations, 2013 including restrictions on civil society and some reversals of constitutional order, most dramatically in Egypt. I urge all sides to concentrate on ending the violence and incitement, fostering genuinely inclusive reconciliation, and re-establishing the rule of law. There were also cases, such as Myanmar and Somalia, where tangible progress was made. The Organization offered support to political transitions in a wide array of cases. 32. Since September 2012, the Organization supported the preparation and conduct of elections in 55 Member States, at their request or with a mandate from the Security Council. In Afghanistan, we assisted the Independent Election Commission in reform of the electoral legal framework, voter registration, and capacity-building. Special attention was paid to ensuring broad participation to prevent disenfranchisement as a result of security challenges, thereby building confidence in the electoral processes due in 2014 and 2015. In Iraq, the United Nations continued to provide technical advice and to build the capacity of the Independent High Electoral Commission. Significant progress was made regarding the participation of women and the inclusion of persons with disabilities. 33. In Somalia, the Organization supported the finalization of the Provisional Constitution and the establishment of a new Federal Parliament, bringing an eight-year political transition to an end. In June 2013, a new United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia was established to provide political and strategic support to the Somali authorities as they work to consolidate peace and security and establish new federal structures, in advance of national elections scheduled for 2016. Sadly, some United Nations colleagues paid for these efforts with their lives and the people of Somalia continue to endure unacceptable levels of instability. The United Nations Support Mission in Libya supported the handover from the National Transitional Council to the elected General National Congress in August 2012. In addition, support was provided to the constitutional process, to elections for the drafting assembly and to the continued building and reform of the institutions of the new Libyan State. My Special Representative for West Africa contributed to dispelling the climate of mistrust between the Government and the opposition in Guinea and reopening talks on preparations for legislative elections. In Kenya, in the period leading to the general elections of March 2013, the United Nations maintained regular contacts with the key political leaders to promote respect for the rule of law. In Burundi, the United Nations facilitated the adoption of an inclusive road map for the preparation of the 2015 presidential elections. Through sustained engagement, the United Nations also promoted political dialogue and national reconciliation in Bangladesh, Maldives and Myanmar.
Report of the Secretary-General 3. Peacekeeping
34. The complexity of contemporary conflict poses challenges that go to the heart of peacekeeping. In the past year, the Organization was mandated to deploy peacekeeping missions in volatile and non-permissive environments, where hostilities were ongoing and political settlements had not yet been achieved. In some cases, counter-terrorism operations were under way. In the Syrian Arab Republic, lack of progress towards a political resolution and the intensification of armed violence limited the ability of the United Nations Supervision Mission in the Syrian Arab Republic to implement its mandate, which was not renewed beyond four months. The impact of the situation in that country was felt by other peacekeeping operations in the region. While exercising its important role in maintaining the 1974 ceasefire between Israel and the Syrian Arab Republic, the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force adjusted its operations and posture to continue implementing its mandate while minimizing the risk to personnel from ongoing clashes between members of the Syrian Arab Armed Forces and the armed opposition inside the area of separation. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon increased its vigilance in southern Lebanon. In May 2013, the Security Council authorized the deployment of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali, mandated, inter alia, to support a national political dialogue and electoral process, as well as the extension of State authority, to stabilize key population centres and protect civilians. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the capture of Goma in November 2012 by the armed group known as the 23 March Movement (M23) triggered regional and international reengagement, leading to the signature by 11 countries of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework. The Security Council authorized the establishment of an intervention brigade within the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tasked, on an exceptional basis and without creating a precedent or any prejudice to the agreed principles of peacekeeping, to conduct targeted offensive operations with the aim of neutralizing and disarming armed groups. 35. The tasks assigned to the Organization in Security Council resolutions 2098(2013) and 2100(2013) represent an evolution, not a revolution, in United Nations peacekeeping. Any use of force by United Nations peacekeepers must be in the context of a clear political process or political agreement and in keeping with international humanitarian law. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali and elsewhere, the core principles of peacekeeping will continue to apply on the understanding that impartiality does not mean neutrality in the face of atrocities, and that maintaining consent does not mean that spoilers can
9 prevent United Nations missions from implementing their mandate. Moreover, as United Nations peacekeeping deploys into new contexts, appropriate tools are needed to address new or intensified threats, including force enablers and multipliers, improved command and control and more effective information and analysis tools. 36. Other peacekeeping operations faced volatile security situations in the past year. The United Nations Mission in South Sudan continued to support the protection of civilians amid escalating intercommunal violence in Jonglei State. Despite these challenges, transitional political milestones were reached, including the completion of the national census and constitutional review. With the support of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei, the operationalization of the Joint Border Verification and Monitoring Mechanism and the Safe Demilitarized Border Zone in March 2013 contributed to improved relations between the Sudan and South Sudan. In Darfur, Sudan, evolving conflict dynamics allowed the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) to focus on areas with the highest security threats, while lowering the troop and police ceiling. Nevertheless, the intensification of violence in some parts of Darfur, including the targeting of UNAMID troops, has highlighted the need to increase the mission’s capacity to deter and address threats to civilians. 37. A number of peacekeeping operations began a process of rightsizing or drawdown. After 14 years of a Security Council-mandated presence in TimorLeste, the last United Nations mission, the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste, completed its mandate in December 2012. The United Nations and Timor-Leste will now enter into a new phase in their relationship with a focus on development and continued institution-building. In Liberia, the successful conduct of the second post-conflict election allowed the Organization to begin reducing the military component of the United Nations Mission in Liberia while increasing its police presence to enhance the capacity of the national law enforcement institutions. Similarly, progress in consolidating peace in Côte d’Ivoire enabled the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire to withdraw one battalion in 2013. In Haiti, improved security has allowed the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti to reduce its uniformed component and refocus efforts on the consolidation of political stability and the rule of law. 38. The capacity of special political and peacekeeping missions to address the specific needs of women and children was enhanced through deploying women advisers and child protection advisers and strengthening training. My Special Representatives increased advocacy at the national level to build capacity and strengthen prevention and response, including
10 through monitoring and reporting. With United Nations support, the Governments of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, South Sudan and Myanmar signed action plans to end conflict-related violations against children. 39. Partnerships with regional and subregional organizations, such as the African Union, the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Collective Security Treaty Organization, remained an important feature of United Nations peacekeeping efforts. This will continue as operations deploy to volatile environments. The United Nations continued to support the African Union’s capacity to plan, deploy and manage its peace support operations, including through the United Nations Office to the African Union. In Somalia, some 17,700 troops and police officers of the African Union Mission in Somalia were deployed and sustained with the Organization’s support to advance peace in the country. The United Nations also provided guidance and technical expertise to the African Union Commission on the operationalization of the African Standby Force and contributed to the development of key doctrinal and training material. The European Union’s approval of a plan of action to enhance its support to United Nations peacekeeping and the revitalization of the United Nations-European Union Steering Committee on Crisis Management were particularly noteworthy. 40. The United Nations continued to strengthen support mechanisms for peacekeeping operations, including a strategic guidance framework for international police and generic capability standards for infantry battalions and staff officers. There were improvements to the governance and management framework of the global field support strategy and its key performance indicators to help ensure that support to the field is faster, of higher quality and more effective. Vacancy rates for international staff in peacekeeping and special political missions dropped to 12.6 per cent in March 2013, down from a high of 33.8 per cent in 2008. 4. Peacebuilding
41. Recognizing the multiple sources of instability, the high risk of relapse and the long-term nature of peacebuilding, my report to the Security Council on peacebuilding in the aftermath of conflict sets out new priority directions, emphasizing the importance of inclusivity, institution-building and sustained international support. The challenging task facing the Peacebuilding Commission, the Peacebuilding Fund and the Peacebuilding Support Office was underlined in the past year by significant setbacks in several countries, notably the Central African Republic and Guinea-Bissau. In other cases, however, the Commission and the Fund were able to advance the
Yearbook of the United Nations, 2013 consolidation of peace, lending political and financial support to the effective and peaceful participation by political parties in elections in Sierra Leone, financing the retirement of 3,928 military personnel in Guinea, contributing to the convening of the Burundi partners’ conference, and supporting the first justice and security hub in Liberia. The Peacebuilding Fund was also used to support critical political transition or peace consolidation efforts in Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, the Niger, Somalia and Yemen. It raised more than $80 million in 2012, its highest amount since 2008. C. Development of Africa 42. Africa made significant development strides in the past year. Its economic dynamism is attributable to strengthened economic and political governance as well as an improved business climate and increased foreign capital flows, particularly from Africa’s new and emerging development partners. While these developments have reduced poverty levels and created a burgeoning African middle class, the continent continues to face significant challenges. Its economic growth has not been sufficiently inclusive or equitable and, despite significant progress on some Millennium Development Goals, levels of poverty, food insecurity, maternal and infant mortality and youth unemployment remain unacceptably high. Prospects for sustainable development are also threatened by challenges to peace, security, governance, the rule of law and the environment. 43. The Organization worked closely with the African Union and its New Partnership for Africa’s Development programme, including the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa, the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme and the African Peer Review Mechanism, as well as with African regional economic communities and Member States to address these challenges. United Nations support was provided to projects and programmes in infrastructure, water and sanitation, energy, environmental protection, information and communications technologies, transport, agriculture and food security, and democracy and governance. In recognition of the links between peace, security and economic development, the United Nations adopted a multidimensional approach. It also continued to support the African Union in implementing the Ten-Year Capacity-Building Programme in the specific areas of peace and security, post-conflict reconstruction and development, human rights, justice and reconciliation. At the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of the African Union in May 2013, I welcomed the changing narrative in Africa and pledged the continuing support of the United Nations to that continent. 44. Efforts are well under way to ensure that discussions on the post-2015 development agenda fully reflect Africa’s needs and priorities. To that end,
Report of the Secretary-General the United Nations worked with the African Union Commission and the African Development Bank to initiate national, regional and continental consultations with the aim of arriving at an African common position. Progress was also made on the establishment of a monitoring mechanism as mandated by the General Assembly in resolution 66/293, for which the United Nations will provide a secretariat. This step is vital for reviewing the implementation of all commitments made towards Africa’s development. D. Promotion and protection of human rights 45. The year 2013 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. I call for the renewed commitment of all stakeholders to live up to their responsibilities and ensure that human rights is a core purpose of this Organization, in deed and in action. People reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights during the past year, raising their voices around the world to demand freedom of expression, justice, accountability, an end to corruption and misrule, decent work and a decent life. They did so through peaceful protest, engagement with United Nations human rights mechanisms and through consultations on the post-2015 development agenda. I urge Member States to hear those voices and to ensure that they live up to their human rights responsibilities, not only to listen but to act. Our ability to hear individual voices was strengthened with the long-awaited tenth ratification and entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which provides for an individual communications procedure. Thirty-seven years after the equivalent Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights came into force, it is a landmark achievement. Yet there were too many cases in the past year of the opposite trend: civil society groups, human rights defenders, migrants and minorities faced growing pressures and restrictions on their rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly. 46. Member States also reaffirmed important commitments and principles in the past year. At the informal, interactive dialogue in the General Assembly on timely and decisive response in the context of the responsibility to protect, in September 2012, and in Human Rights Council resolution 22/22 on the prevention of genocide, in March 2013, they recognized their obligations to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. At the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the rule of law in September 2012, Member States also made a commitment to ensuring that impunity is not tolerated for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity or for violations of international humanitarian law and gross violations of human rights law. The intergovernmental human
11 rights treaty strengthening process also advanced during the year. Effective implementation of the United Nations human rights instruments remains essential to promoting human rights and preventing violations. I urge Member States to ensure the functioning and integrity of the system. 47. I regret that, in spite of these commitments, we have let too many people down. In the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, the Syrian Arab Republic and elsewhere, serious and massive violations of human rights were committed. United Nations bodies endeavoured to provide Member States with the necessary information to prompt action, making use of commissions of inquiry and other fact-finding missions. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights deployed a series of missions to Mali and neighbouring countries to gather information about the human rights situation. The High Commissioner published a study reporting the number of casualties in the Syrian Arab Republic from March 2011 to April 2013. She briefed the Security Council more often in the past year than ever before. The Human Rights Council extended the mandate of the commission of inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic for the third time. It established a fact-finding mission to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and a commission of inquiry for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The Human Rights Council also created new special procedures mandates for Belarus, Eritrea and Mali, and agreed on initiatives to protect journalists and human rights defenders. Reprisals against people who engage with the United Nations human rights mechanisms and restrictions on the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights also remain matters of serious concern. 48. Within the United Nations system, important steps were taken to integrate and mainstream human rights across all our activities and to hold our own personnel and those we support to the highest possible standards. I called on all stakeholders to ensure that international human rights standards and principles guide the post-2015 goals and objectives and on Member States to ensure that human rights shape policymaking across the United Nations. Measures were put in place to strengthen human rights capacities and accountabilities in resident coordinators’ offices and country teams. The human rights due diligence policy on United Nations support to nonUnited Nations security forces was disseminated to Member States and implemented in a wide variety of cases. In December 2012, I endorsed a new policy on human rights screening of United Nations personnel, outlining the principles and methodology by which the Secretariat will seek to ensure that all its personnel
12 will be screened for violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. E. Effective coordination of humanitarian assistance efforts 49. The humanitarian impact of man-made and natural disasters during the past year again tested the capacities of national and international actors to respond. We were reminded afresh of the importance of adherence to humanitarian principles, timely access to affected people and greater protection for civilians. We saw an intensification of some internal armed conflicts with millions of people displaced. Global displacement is greater than it has been in nearly 20 years. The humanitarian consequences of the fighting in the Syrian Arab Republic were particularly grave. There were also more than 300 natural disasters, including cyclones, floods, droughts and earthquakes, claiming an estimated 9,300 lives, affecting 106 million people, and causing $138 billion in economic damage. It was the third consecutive year in which economic disaster losses exceeded $100 billion. 50. In 2012, the United Nations and its partners appealed for $8.7 billion to assist 51 million people living in 16 countries. Funding for 2012 consolidated and flash appeals in dollar terms ($5.3 billion) and in proportion to requirements (63 per cent) was similar to 2011, though considerably less than in 2009 and 2010 ($7.0 billion and $7.2 billion respectively). The Central Emergency Response Fund received $427 million in donor funding for 2012. 51. Major global trends such as population growth, urbanization, uneven economic growth, increasing inequality, sudden or protracted political transitions and climate change suggest that humanitarian caseloads will continue to increase. Already, the consequences of disasters for national and regional development, as well as economic growth, have led many Governments to bolster national capacities for disaster management. People affected by emergencies also increasingly use technology to articulate their needs, to seek resources from their own communities, neighbours and Governments. Humanitarian actors can leverage technology to distribute assistance more quickly and cost-effectively and to map hazards for better coordination and planning. It will be essential to support innovation in the sector and for humanitarian organizations to harness the opportunities technology can provide. 52. Member States and humanitarian actors are still better at responding to crises than at preventing or preparing for them. Recognizing this, the United Nations brought resilience to the forefront of the humanitarian agenda in 2012 through closer collaboration between humanitarian and development agencies to manage risks and address the underlying vulnerabilities. Increased synergies between disaster risk
Yearbook of the United Nations, 2013 reduction, including preparedness, and climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts will be needed. 53. Given the changing humanitarian landscape, we must continue to adapt and update the international humanitarian system, making it more inclusive and interoperable, connecting and convening all actors who can and want to contribute to different aspects of preparedness, response, resilience and recovery. We must put a greater premium on evidence, innovation and partnerships, as well as on enhanced capacity, especially at the local level. More must be done to engage affected countries. Preparations are under way for a World Humanitarian Summit in 2015 or 2016 to take stock of the changing environment, agree on how to adapt and make humanitarian action fit for future challenges. F. Promotion of justice and international law 54. The past year was a landmark year for the promotion of justice and international law. The declaration of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the rule of law at the national and international levels, adopted in September 2012, affirmed that rule of law means that all persons, institutions and entities, public and private, including the State itself, are accountable to just, fair and equitable laws and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. The declaration also cemented the centrality of the rule of law to the work of the Organization across the three pillars of peace and security, development and human rights. 55. The United Nations provided rule of law assistance to more than 150Â Member States in the past year. Through the ad hoc tribunals and the United Nations-backed tribunals, we continued the important work of promoting accountability for serious crimes of international concern. The Special Tribunal for Lebanon indicted four individuals allegedly involved in the attack that killed the former Prime Minister of Lebanon, Rafiq Hariri, and 22 others and issued arrest warrants for them. As efforts to locate and arrest the four accused have not been successful to date, the Special Tribunal will proceed to try them in absentia. The Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone will commence functioning upon the closure of the Special Court. The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia are working on a second trial, involving two of the four surviving senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime. The Extraordinary Chambers however face significant funding challenges that could jeopardize the judicial proceedings. It is imperative that both the Government of Cambodia and Member States live up to their commitments to support the Extraordinary Chambers. The International Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda moved closer to finishing their cases and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals started operations at Arusha in
Report of the Secretary-General July 2012 and at The Hague in July 2013. It is crucial for international justice to be, and to be seen as, absolutely impartial if its reconciliation purposes are to be fully realized. 56. The United Nations continued to cooperate with the International Criminal Court pursuant to the Relationship Agreement between the two entities. I encouraged Member States to ratify the Rome Statute and its amendments and worked closely with the African Union to encourage all African Union members to accept the International Criminal Court as the centrepiece of the international criminal justice system. There are currently 122 States parties to the Rome Statute. Seven of those States have ratified the amendment on the crime of aggression. In the reporting period, the Prosecutor opened investigations into war crimes in Mali, the eighth country situation for the Court. United Nations operations and offices in Mali have been consulted by and have provided preliminary information to the Prosecutor. A court-wide memorandum of understanding between the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire and the Court was concluded in June. The Organization has provided logistical and other forms of assistance to the Court to the extent that this was consistent with the mandate of the particular United Nations operation or office. G. Disarmament 57. Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation remain high priorities. Yet there are no disarmament negotiations, no fissile material treaty, no entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. While parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons are emphasizing the humanitarian dimensions of nuclear disarmament, the conference mandated for 2012 on establishing a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction was not held. In addition, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea announced its third nuclear test in February 2013. Talks are also continuing over the need for the Islamic Republic of Iran to fulfil its obligations under relevant Security Council resolutions. 58. Our greatest institutional challenge is the deadlock in the Conference on Disarmament. This Organization cannot meaningfully advance the rule of law in disarmament when the world’s single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum is unable to adopt even a substantive programme of work. I continue to urge its members to end this stalemate and avoid any further erosion of its capability to fulfil its mandate. The General Assembly established an open-ended working group, which met in 2013, to examine ways of taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations. A group of governmental experts will soon focus on a fissile material cut-off treaty. The work of these groups may give the Conference new impetus.
13 59. I remain gravely concerned over allegations of chemical weapons use in the Syrian Arab Republic. I established a United Nations mission to investigate those allegations. Upon the acceptance by the Syrian Government of the modalities essential for the conduct of the mission, the team travelled to the Syrian Arab Republic to investigate three of the reported incidents, including Khan al-Assal. Other allegations and their related sites were discussed. I have also emphasized the responsibility of the Syrian Government to ensure the safety and security of any chemical weapons and related materials. 60. The effects of the unregulated trade in conventional arms are tragic: brutal crackdowns, armed conflict, rampant crime or violence and resulting human suffering. On 2 April 2013, the General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to adopt the Arms Trade Treaty, a historic diplomatic achievement. The Treaty will make it more difficult for weapons to be diverted into the illicit market. It will be a powerful new tool for preventing human rights abuses or violations of international humanitarian law. 61. The United Nations is responding to requests from Member States for assistance in implementing disarmament treaties. Its regional centres for peace and disarmament help with capacity-building measures for preventing the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons, while also assisting Member States and key stakeholders in implementing Security Council resolution 1540(2004) concerning the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their acquisition by non-State actors. H. Drug control, crime prevention and combating international terrorism in all its forms and manifestations 62. Events of the past year shed additional light on the corrosive impact of organized crime and drug trafficking on peace, security and development and on the inherent difficulties the United Nations and its partners face in effectively responding to such threats. In West Africa, Central Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean there has been a profound shift in the nature of the threat and a growing recognition of its impact. Other regions, such as Europe, are affected by these developments also. They continue to face challenges stemming from the demand, supply, production and trafficking of drugs. 63. Member States have increasingly turned to the United Nations to exert its leadership in combating these challenges. In the past year, the Organization took several steps to improve its response, taking a balanced and integrated approach to controlling drugs and combating crime while assisting Member States in fulfilling the need for justice, human rights protection, development, health, peace and security. Initiatives were taken to prevent illicit trafficking, for
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14 example, cooperation across shared borders and measures that address trafficking through sea ports, dry ports and air routes, and to provide regional threat assessments as the basis for crime-sensitive development programming in relevant regions. 64. The special session of the General Assembly on the world drug problem to be held in 2016 is an opportunity to explore new ways to address the increasingly problematic issue of drug trafficking. We should not wait until 2016, however. While international drug control policy remains a matter for Member States, the United Nations can provide an important venue for ensuring that these issues are not neglected in related discussions. For instance, issues relating to security and justice have emerged in the post-2015 consultations as a major concern for many middle-income countries, a concern not only of Governments but of great numbers of citizens. 65. The United Nations continued to assist Member States in building their response capacities, including through the ratification and implementation of international legal instruments. These include the 18 international legal instruments against terrorism, as well as the United Nations Convention against Corruption, which now has 166 States parties. Ten additional countries and territories became parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime in the past year. Work also continued to build the capacity of Member States to implement all four pillars of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. In September 2012, I chaired a high-level meeting on countering nuclear terrorism, with a specific focus on strengthening the legal framework, in which more than 130 Member States participated. The aim was to assist Member States in implementing their international obligations as they relate to countering the threat of nuclear terrorism and strengthening nuclear security. United Nations entities also focused on preventing the misuse of the Internet for terrorism purposes, examining ways that the Organization can support Member States in the legal, technical and counter-narrative aspects. The magnitude of the existing and emerging global threats of organized crime, drug trafficking and terrorism means that there is a need for more concerted efforts. Such issues require an integrated and multidisciplinary response encompassing security, development, good governance, human rights and the rule of law.
Chapter III Strengthening the Organization 66. The rapidly changing global environment described above is increasing demands on the United Nations, even as the available resources shrink. The United Nations must adapt in order to deliver
successfully. To that end, I continued to prioritize efforts to put in place a modern and accountable global organization able to deliver at the highest standards while minimizing administrative and support costs, streamlining and simplifying procedures, and harnessing the full potential of partnerships and of information and communications technology. 67. Staff members are and will always be the most valuable asset of the Organization. The Organization must be able to develop and deploy the most appropriate and qualified staff when and where there is a need. The mobility and career development framework now under consideration by Member States seeks to foster the skills and capacity of our staff and help the Organization to better manage our global workforce. Member States have welcomed my commitment to this approach and asked for further information, which I will submit at the sixty-eighth session. I look forward to a decision of the General Assembly later in 2013. In addition, to ensure that staff is equipped with the latest knowledge and skills, I am taking a comprehensive approach to the range of our learning, training and knowledge service activities as well as exploring possibilities for knowledge services consolidation. I continue to mainstream a results orientation into the working culture of the Organization, including through the results-based management concept that I presented to the General Assembly in 2013, our enterprise risk management initiative and efforts to increase implementation of the recommendations of oversight bodies. 68. Careful stewardship of the resources entrusted to the Organization by Member States—human, financial and material—is also a priority. Efforts to improve and integrate the management of these resources continued in the past year, with a focus on enterprise resource planning solutions through the Umoja project. By making available transparent, real-time information, Umoja will permit better and faster decision-making on administrative issues. It was officially launched in July 2013 in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon and the Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon. Meanwhile, the global field support strategy is currently piloting shared service delivery for peace operations in the field, which may in turn yield valuable lessons for the rest of the Secretariat. 69. To enhance transparency and accountability in the use of global resources and to enable Member States to access improved monitoring and decisionmaking information, we implemented the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) on 1 July 2013 in peacekeeping operations. These standards will be the basis for the financial statements of peacekeeping operations for the 2013–2014 fiscal period and from 2014 for the rest of the Secretariat.
Report of the Secretary-General 70. Across the Organization, we are finding ways to make maximum use of the potential of information and communications technologies, both in our substantive work and in our administrative and management systems, collectively referred to as the “digital Secretariat”. We are making use of affordable emerging technologies to facilitate informationsharing, collaboration and internal communication. Social media platforms are cost-effective tools for expanding our reach and we now have millions of followers on our major platforms in all official United Nations languages. Significant progress has also been made in digital dissemination of United Nations knowledge products. 71. As the Organization increasingly relies on information and communications technology, I am mindful of our vulnerability to cyber attacks. The Organization has strengthened the security of information and systems but we must do more. I am committed to ensuring the appropriate protection of the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the Organization’s information, and of the systems used for its storage, processing and transmission. 72. The capital master plan has also modernized the way we work, having introduced open and modern accommodation for staff and delegates working in the renovated Secretariat and Conference buildings. The open office environment and new technologies available encourage communication and collaboration among staff while reducing our carbon footprint through lowered energy consumption. At the General Assembly’s request, we are also examining the longterm accommodation requirements of the Organization in New York City. 73. In 2012, the United Nations continued to strengthen its security management system in order to enable the Organization to deliver its programmes and activities, including in areas with heightened security risks. This entailed strengthening crisis response capacity, restructuring security management training, modernizing information tools for security threat and risk analysis, developing practical policies and guidelines and enhancing collaboration with host Governments, as well as with governmental and nongovernmental organizations. Partnership 74. With the growing number and complexity of our mandates, there is a need to broaden our human, operational and financial resource base. The private sector, philanthropy, and civil society have dramatically expanded in size, sophistication and global reach, especially in developing countries. We must find ways to use the partnership tool more, and more effectively, to help us deliver on all our goals and mandates. As we look at ways to accelerate the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals,
15 and as we work on a framework to meet future global development challenges, it is imperative to match our ambitions with concrete ways to get us there. That is why I have submitted to the General Assembly my proposal for a new partnership facility to achieve greater accountability, coherence, efficiency and scale, and a more supportive enabling environment for United Nations partnership activity. Strengthening the Organization’s capacity for strategic partnership can ensure that the United Nations remains relevant at a time in which business, philanthropy and civil society are increasingly active, resourceful and vibrant in the global public goods space. 75. In the past year, we continued to make use of multi-stakeholder partnership initiatives to achieve key goals. These include Every Woman Every Child and Sustainable Energy for All. Our Women’s Empowerment Principles and Caring for Climate initiatives are the world’s largest business platforms for action on these issues. These initiatives include stakeholders from all relevant sectors and use the comparative advantages and core competences of each to catalyse wide-ranging changes in behaviour, achieving greater scale and impact because benefits accrue broadly. Partnerships such as these supplement traditional development assistance and have proved to leverage the increase of both official development assistance and non-traditional financial flows. The task at hand is however to move beyond consideration of financial flows only and adopt a vision which encompasses a range of contributions such as innovation, technology, research, human capacity and more to make progress on the Millennium Development Goals and serve as a model for achieving the post2015 development agenda. 76. The Global Compact has continued to serve as a powerful corporate citizenship initiative, with more than 7,500 companies in 140 countries committed to universal principles and with the potential to contribute significantly to achieving United Nations goals, in particular those related to the post-2015 global development agenda.
Chapter IV Conclusion 77. My report has provided an account of the progress of the Organization in the past year in delivering on the eight organizational priorities identified by Member States, while constantly adapting to a world in fundamental flux and looking ahead to a post-2015 agenda that meets the needs of people and the planet. I will continue to do my part to manage efforts to meet our existing mandates while anticipating and preparing for those that may come. I count on Member States to do the same and look forward to working with them to that end.
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Target 1.B
Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people
Millennium Development Goals, targets and indicators, 2013: statistical tables
Indicator 1.4
Goal 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Growth rate of gross domestic product (gdp) per person employed (a) Annual growth rate of gdp per person employed
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Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day
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Proportion of population living below $1.25 purchasing power parity (ppp) per daya, b (Percentage)
Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a b
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2010
46.7 5.2 56.5 12.2 24.9 11.7 60.2 51.5 52.0 45.3 5.1 42.0 9.8 64.6 53.2 29.6
36.5 5.0 57.9 11.9 27.0 11.2 35.6 43.1 36.3 35.5 5.0 34.4 19.5 61.3 52.2 29.5
22.0 1.4 48.4 5.5 28.1 4.5 11.6 29.7 21.5 14.3 3.6 35.0 3.5 46.2 33.0 29.4
26.9 2.6 52.3 8.7 29.1 7.8 16.3 37.7 29.3 19.0 4.6 43.1 7.2 53.4 40.9 32.0
High-income economies, as defined by the World Bank, are excluded. Estimates by the World Bank, April 2013.
Indicator 1.2
Poverty gap ratioa, b (Percentage)
Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1990
1999
2010
16.1 0.8 25.3 5.4 10.9 5.1 20.7 15.4 17.7 14.4 1.1 16.1 3.0 27.0 23.5 12.6
11.9 0.9 25.9 5.6 13.5 5.2 11.1 11.7 10.6 9.6 1.0 11.9 5.4 25.6 20.6 13.1
6.8 0.3 21.0 2.9 14.9 2.4 2.8 6.8 4.9 2.7 0.9 12.4 0.9 17.8 11.2 13.5
a The poverty gap ratio at $1.25 a day (2005 PPP) measures the magnitude of poverty. Expressed as a percentage of the poverty line, it is the result of multiplying the proportion of people who live below the poverty line by the difference between the poverty line and the average income of the population living under the poverty line. b High-income economies, as defined by the World Bank, are excluded.
Indicator 1.3
Share of poorest quintile in national consumption (Percentage)
No global or regional data are available.
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
0.8 1.4 1.2 0.8 -1.4 -0.7 -1.5 6.0 1.8 1.4 0.4 1.0 -3.0 -3.2 7.5 1.5 3.1 3.7 -2.1
1.9 3.8 1.7 1.5 1.4 1.9 1.3 6.5 1.8 2.0 -0.6 3.5 1.5 4.1 3.8 1.1 1.6 2.4 1.3
(b) Gdp per person employed (2005 United States dollars (ppp)) World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia Excluding China . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . a Preliminary data.
1991
2001
2012a
16 142 6 393 17 454 4 627 20 286 17 765 20 485 3 144 20 302 4 123 6 664 5 686 31 390 5 252 10 317 48 339 2 009 4 326 18 323
18 489 8 336 18 141 4 481 20 627 19 805 20 686 6 488 29 215 5 361 7 195 7 130 36 076 5 279 7 358 57 081 2 272 3 654 22 003
23 119 13 526 23 312 5 603 23 686 21 976 23 799 15 356 41 504 8 901 9 106 10 366 42 018 6 302 14 107 64 967 3 266 5 430 27 218
Indicator 1.5
Employment-to-population ratio (a) Total (Percentage) 1991 2000 2007 2012a
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
62.2 64.1 41.6 63.0 56.2 74.5 58.1
61.2 62.8 40.6 63.0 58.5 72.9 56.3
61.3 62.5 42.8 64.1 60.9 71.6 56.3
60.3 61.6 42.7 64.3 61.9 70.1 54.2
Report of the Secretary-General
17 1991 2000 2007 2012a
South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
68.1 47.6 66.7 56.5 56.6 70.1 66.8 54.7
66.9 44.4 67.2 56.6 55.8 69.1 66.8 55.4
66.2 43.2 68.3 57.3 56.8 69.5 68.2 57.4
67.0 45.3 68.2 58.9 55.1 69.4 68.7 57.9
(b) Men, women and youth, 2012a (Percentage) Men Women
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a
72.7 75.3 67.9 70.9 75.1 75.6 77.8 78.5 67.9 72.7 68.2 61.9 78.0 77.2 68.4
47.9 47.7 18.1 57.8 49.4 64.3 29.5 55.9 20.4 63.5 50.3 48.8 61.0 60.5 47.6
Youth
42.4 43.1 23.5 46.5 45.4 54.5 36.3 45.4 25.3 51.3 36.8 38.0 53.0 54.6 37.2
Preliminary data.
Indicator 1.6
Proportion of employed people living below $1.25 (ppp) per day (a) Total number of employed people living below $1.25 (ppp) per day (Millions)
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1991
2000
2012a
834.5 834.0 1.3 100.5 13.2 401.1 220.6 92.6 0.9 0.9 3.0 0.5 134.3 50.9 3.0
695.3 694.1 0.9 132.0 16.1 232.2 224.7 80.7 0.6 1.0 6.0 1.1 159.4 62.7 3.2
383.8 383.8 0.4 132.2 9.6 46.3 156.0 34.6 1.0 1.0 2.8 0.02 138.3 47.4 3.2
(b) Proportion of total employment (Percentage) 1991 2000 2012a
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
36.9 48.2 4.2 55.0 8.1 60.4 51.1 47.0 2.4
26.6 33.7 2.5 55.9 7.8 31.7 42.6 33.7 1.3
12.3 15.1 0.8 39.6 3.5 5.7 23.6 11.5 1.6
1991 2000 2012a
Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a
42.2 12.4 0.1 65.9 49.8 17.9
36.9 22.4 0.2 61.1 49.3 15.8
26.0 8.3 0.0 37.9 26.4 12.6
Preliminary data.
Indicator 1.7
Proportion of own-account and contributing family workers in total employment (a) Both sexes (Percentage) World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1991 2000
2010 2012a
54.6 67.7 37.5 83.1 34.9 66.9 80.0 68.2 43.4 74.6 44.7 11.3 86.6 74.3 32.3
50.2 59.6 34.8 77.6 31.9 51.6 77.3 61.8 24.8 76.9 41.0 10.4 81.9 72.4 36.3
53.1 64.3 32.6 81.7 35.8 58.9 80.2 65.1 34.7 73.4 53.2 11.3 85.9 77.0 34.8
49.2 58.2 34.3 76.8 31.5 49.3 75.6 60.9 24.1 76.5 39.6 10.1 81.2 71.9 36.4
(b) Men (Percentage) World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1991 2000
2010 2012a
52.2 63.5 33.4 78.3 34.3 61.0 76.8 63.7 36.3 69.2 47.3 11.5 83.3 71.4 32.1
49.3 57.1 30.5 70.8 31.7 48.2 75.2 58.8 21.0 70.8 39.7 11.5 76.7 67.9 37.5
51.3 60.9 29.1 76.3 35.3 53.9 77.3 61.3 29.5 67.4 52.5 11.7 81.8 73.2 35.6
48.4 56.0 30.1 70.0 31.3 46.4 73.6 58.0 20.5 70.4 38.4 11.2 76.0 66.4 37.7
(c) Women (Percentage) World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1991 2000
2010 2012a
58.2 74.6 54.7 89.5 36.0 74.1 88.4 74.2 67.8 81.3 41.3 10.9 90.8
51.5 63.5 50.4 85.9 32.4 55.7 83.2 66.0 39.6 84.0 42.6 9.1 88.5
55.8 69.8 46.7 88.4 36.7 65.0 87.7 70.4 54.2 80.4 54.1 10.7 91.2
50.4 61.8 49.5 85.1 31.9 52.9 81.2 64.8 37.2 83.6 41.1 8.8 87.9
Yearbook of the United Nations, 2013
18 1991 2000
2010 2012a
Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . 78.1 81.8 78.0 76.8 Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.6 33.5 34.6 34.5 a
Preliminary estimates.
Target 1.C
Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
Indicator 1.8
Prevalence of underweight children under 5 years of agea, b (a) Total (Percentage) 1990
2011
25 10 29 7 15 50 31 15 19 14 1
16 5 21 3 3 31 17 5 14 4 2
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b) By sex, 2006–2010c (Percentage)
Developing regionsd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Boys
Girls
Boy-togirl ratio
28 6 23 5 – 41 – – – 6
27 4 19 4 – 42 – – – 5
1.04 1.50 1.21 1.25 – 0.95 – – – 1.20
(c) By residence, 2006–2010c (Percentage) Developing regionsd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Rural
Urban
32 6 22 8 – 45 – 5 – 6
17 5 15 3 – 33 – 4 – 4
(d) By household wealth, 2006–2010c (Percentage) Poorest Richest quintile quintile
Developing regionsd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
38 7 28 – – 55
14 4 11 – – 20
Poorest Richest quintile quintile
South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
– – – 7
– – – 4
a The prevalence of underweight children is estimated according to World Health Organization (who) child growth standards. Unicef and who have initiated a process to harmonize anthropometric data used for the computation and estimation of regional and global averages and trend analysis. b Owing to differences in source data and estimation methodology, these prevalence estimates are not comparable to the averages published in previous editions of this report. c Data were calculated on the basis of the most recent surveys carried out during the period specified. d Excluding China.
Indicator 1.9
Proportion of population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption (Percentage) 1990– 1999– 1992 2001
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . .
18.6 23.2 3.8 32.2 14.6 28.5 13.6 20.8 10.4 26.8 26.4 29.6 6.6 13.6 13.9 1.8 37.3 34.7 25.4
15.0 18.3 3.3 30.0 11.6 21.4 11.0 14.4 14.0 21.2 21.0 20.0 8.0 15.5 15.8 1.5 34.6 34.4 20.3
2007– 2009
2010– 2012
12.9 15.5 2.7 26.5 8.7 18.6 8.1 11.8 14.5 18.8 18.1 13.2 9.4 11.9 9.2 1.2 30.5 28.1 17.4
12.5 14.9 2.7 26.8 8.3 17.8 7.7 11.5 11.7 17.6 17.8 10.9 10.1 12.1 7.4 1.3 30.6 27.1 16.9
Goal 2 Achieve universal primary education Target 2.A
Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling
Indicator 2.1
Net enrolment ratio in primary educationa (a) Total (Percentage) World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1990 2000 2005
2011
81.9 79.6 79.6 52.6 87.6 76.5 88.6 97.0 97.2 74.2
91.2 90.5 97.3 77.2 95.3 81.4 96.4 98.0 97.6 93.0
84.5 82.8 89.5 60.2 94.2 81.6 95.2 96.4 96.9 78.4
89.2 88.2 95.1 70.7 95.7 79.7 97.0 96.4 96.8 90.2
Report of the Secretary-General Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
19 1990 2000 2005
2011
66.2 93.0 83.1 69.5 – 95.9 52.7 55.5 76.5
67.1 92.7 85.9 – 94.6 97.3 59.1 64.1 81.2
76.8 92.9 90.1 – 94.5 96.7 72.8 72.8 78.7
79.2 95.6 92.1 – 94.5 97.3 80.8 82.6 80.1
(b) By sex (Percentage)
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . .
Boys
1990 Girls
Boys
2000 Girls
Boys
2011 Girls
86.2 84.6 87.9 58.0
77.5 74.5 71.0 47.2
87.4 86.1 92.4 64.2
81.5 79.3 86.5 56.2
92.1 91.5 99.1 79.2
90.3 89.4 95.4 75.2
88.8 76.1 89.9 99.8
86.4 77.0 87.2 94.1
94.8 81.3 96.0 96.3
93.5 81.9 94.5 96.6
94.9 81.6 96.0 97.9
95.6 81.3 96.8 98.0
96.9 97.6 96.9 97.0 97.5 97.7 82.8 65.1 85.0 71.3 94.1 91.6 74.7 94.2 87.6 73.5 – 96.0 59.0
57.4 91.6 78.4 65.2 – 95.9 46.3
72.7 93.7 90.8 – 95.0 97.3 62.8
61.2 91.7 80.7 – 94.2 97.2 55.4
82.7 95.1 94.5 – 95.1 97.1 82.6
75.5 96.1 89.6 – 93.9 97.5 78.8
62.9 48.0 69.1 59.0 85.7 79.4 77.1 75.8 81.9 80.5 81.1 79.0
a Defined as the number of pupils of the theoretical school age for primary education enrolled either in primary or in secondary school, expressed as a percentage of the total population in that age group.
Indicator 2.2
Proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who reach last grade of primary schoola, b (a) Total 1990b 2000b 2011b
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
80.5 77.6 73.1 52.2 83.5 72.7 84.2 107.8 95.2 63.0 56.3 85.5 78.8 58.3 – 97.2 40.8 53.0 71.0
82.4 80.2 84.3 53.6 97.0 76.7 98.6 100.2 98.1 68.3 61.2 90.8 80.2 65.1 96.6 97.2 45.8 54.7 75.8
90.6 89.4 95.6 69.2 101.5 77.7 103.2 – 99.7 – 68.2 100.5 89.2 – 100.2 99.9 63.7 66.1 76.8
(b) By sex Boys
1990b Girls
Boys
2000b Girls
Boys
2011b Girls
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.6 76.2 85.2 79.4 91.3 89.8 Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.5 72.4 83.4 76.8 90.3 88.4 Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.7 64.1 87.6 80.8 96.8 94.4 Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . 57.6 46.6 58.4 48.7 72.6 65.8 Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . 81.3 85.8 95.3 98.8 100.0 103.1 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.5 74.0 75.8 77.6 77.8 77.7 Latin America . . . . . . . . . . 82.0 86.6 96.8 100.4 101.6 104.9 Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 100.3 100.2 – – Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . 95.2 95.2 98.2 98.0 99.9 99.6 Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.8 52.5 75.1 61.0 – – Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . 63.2 49.0 66.2 55.9 71.8 64.4 South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . 86.1 84.8 91.1 90.5 99.8 101.2 Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85.1 72.3 85.7 74.5 92.4 85.8 – – Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.1 54.3 69.0 61.0 Caucasus and Central Asia . . – – 94.5 92.8 100.9 99.4 Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 97.2 97.2 99.6 100.3 Least developed countries . . . . . . 47.3 34.2 50.4 41.0 66.3 61.0 Landlocked developing countries 58.0 47.9 60.0 49.4 69.6 62.5 Small island developing States . . 71.0 71.1 76.0 75.6 77.8 75.9 a Since there are no regional averages for the official indicator the table displays the gross intake ratio at last grade of primary, which corresponds to the “total number of new entrants in the last grade of primary education, regardless of age, expressed as a percentage of the population of the theoretical entrance age to the last grade” (Global Education Digest 2009: Comparing Education Statistics across the World, Montreal, Canada, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Institute for Statistics, 2009), annex B. This explains figures over 100 per cent. b The primary completion rates correspond to school years ending in the years displayed.
Indicator 2.3
Literacy rate of women and men, aged 15 to 24 (a) Total (Percentage who can both read and write) World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1990a
2000a
2011a
83.4 80.2 67.5 65.5b 93.1b – 93.3b 94.6 – 59.6 53.7b 94.5 87.7 – 99.8b – 55.8b 64.3 –
87.2 85.0 79.4 68.3 96.3 – 96.6 98.9 – 73.8 67.1 96.4 91.6 74.8 99.8 – 64.5 68.3 88.3
89.5 87.9 89.2 69.5 97.1 89.8 97.6 99.6 – 80.7 79.7 97.5 93.8 77.2 99.9 99.6b 71.2 75.2 87.8
(b) By sex (Percentage who can both read and write) 1990a 2000a 2011a Men Women Men Women Men Women
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87.6 Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . 85.3
79.1 90.4 75.0 88.8
83.9 92.2 81.1 91.0
86.9 84.9
Yearbook of the United Nations, 2013
20 1990a 2000a 2011a Men Women Men Women Men Women
Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
77.2 72.9b
57.3 85.3 58.6b 75.1
73.4 92.8 61.9 75.7
85.5 63.8
92.8b – 92.9b 97.1
93.4b 95.9 – – 93.7b 96.2 91.9 99.2
96.7 – 97.0 98.6
96.8 90.0 97.3 99.7
97.3 89.7 97.9 99.6
– 69.8
– – 48.7 81.3
– – 65.6 86.8
– 74.9
60.4 96.1 87.7 72.6
83.0 97.6 95.9 74.8
76.2 97.4 91.6 79.7
60.2b 95.5 93.8 –
47.1b 93.5 81.3 –
99.8b – 64.1b
99.8b 99.8 – – 47.6b 71.5
99.9 99.8 –99.6b 58.0 75.9
99.9 99.6b 66.6
70.1
58.7 74.7
62.6 79.4
71.3
–
73.9 96.6 95.5 76.8
– 88.8
87.9 87.6
88.0
a The regional averages presented in this table are calculated using a weighted average of the latest available observed data point for each country or territory for the reference period. Unesco Institute for Statistics estimates have been used for countries with missing data. b Partial imputation due to incomplete country coverage (from 33 per cent to 60 per cent of population).
Goal 3 Promote gender equality and empower women Target 3.A
Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015
Indicator 3.1
Ratios of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education (a) Primary educationa 0.88 0.86 0.82 0.83 0.99 0.98 0.99 0.91 1.00 0.74 0.74 0.96 0.85 0.89 0.99 1.00 0.79 0.82 0.96
1990 2000
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
0.92 0.92 0.91 0.85 0.97 0.98 0.97 1.02 0.99 0.84 0.83 0.97 0.86 0.90 0.99 0.99 0.85 0.84 0.96
2011
0.97 0.97 0.94 0.93 0.97 0.96 0.97 1.04 0.99 0.98 0.93 0.99 0.93 – 0.98 0.99 0.94 0.94 0.96
0.83 0.76 0.76 0.76 1.06 1.09 1.06 0.76 0.96 0.59 0.60 0.90 0.66 0.87 – 1.01 0.58 0.87 1.06
0.92 0.89 0.95 0.81 1.07 1.06 1.07 0.94 0.99 0.76 0.88 0.97 0.76 – 0.98 1.01 0.80 0.85 1.04
2011
0.97 0.96 0.98 0.83 1.07 1.02 1.07 1.04 0.99 0.92 0.93 1.01 0.90 – 0.97 0.99 0.86 0.87 1.01
(c) Tertiary educationa 1990 2000
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a
1990 2000
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b) Secondary educationa
0.90 0.69 0.64 0.48 0.97 1.35 0.93 0.49 0.53 0.49 0.39 0.92 0.63 0.61 – 1.10 0.38 0.85 1.25
1.00 0.85 0.82 0.66 1.18 1.42 1.17 0.70 0.66 0.67 0.72 1.03 0.76 0.84 0.92 1.21 0.60 0.83 1.34
2011
1.08 0.98 1.07 0.61 1.27 – 1.25 1.08 0.80 0.77 0.90 1.06 0.89 – 1.06 1.29 0.62 0.78 1.44
Using gross enrolment ratios.
Indicator 3.2
Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector (Percentage of employees) 1990 2000 2005
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
35.3 29.1 19.2 23.7 38.1 38.1 15.3 13.5 40.1 34.6 14.9 33.1 43.1 44.5
37.6 31.8 18.9 27.8 41.9 39.7 18.4 17.1 42.3 36.9 16.9 35.6 43.2 46.1
38.4 32.6 18.6 29.7 43.1 40.8 18.0 18.1 43.9 36.8 17.6 35.6 43.8 46.8
2011
39.6 34.2 19.1 32.5 44.2 42.1 18.3 19.5 45.0 38.6 19.1 37.2 43.9 47.7
Report of the Secretary-General
21
Indicator 3.3
1990 2000
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliamenta (Percentage in single or lower houses only)
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a
1990 2000 2005
2013
12.8 11.9 2.6 9.6 11.9 22.2 8.7 20.2 17.8 5.7 6.0 10.4 4.5 1.2 – 16.1 8.7 14.2 15.2
20.8 19.5 17.6 21.0 24.5 30.3 22.3 19.8 15.6 18.5 20.4 18.0 12.2 3.0 17.7 23.9 21.0 23.5 21.9
13.6 12.3 3.3 12.6 15.2 20.6 13.2 19.9 14.6 6.8 5.9 12.3 4.2 3.6 7.0 16.3 9.9 7.8 14.0
15.9 14.2 8.5 14.2 19.0 26.0 16.4 19.4 17.2 8.8 9.0 15.5 3.9 3.0 9.9 19.8 13.0 13.4 17.9
As at 31 January 2013.
Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a
Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-5 mortality rate
Deaths of children before reaching the age of 1, per 1,000 live births.
(Percentage) 1990 2000
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
72 71 84 56 77 64 98 57 70 79 70 – 84
72 70 93 53 94 76 84 58 80 86 67 93 92
2011
84 83 96 74 94 76 99 77 89 86 64 95 92
Children aged 12 to 23 months who received at least one dose of measles vaccine.
Target 5.A
Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio
Under-5 mortality ratea
Indicator 5.1 1990 2000
2012
87 97 77 178 53 48 28 116 119 69 63 73 76 15 171
50 55 23 105 18 14 17 59 58 28 30 49 41 6 95
73 80 45 153 34 35 30 88 87 47 42 61 61 10 136
Deaths of children before reaching the age of 5, per 1,000 live births.
Indicator 4.2
Maternal mortality ratioa 1990 2000
1990 2000
61 67 59 107 42 38 17 83 88 48 50
51 56 37 94 28 29 22 65 66 35 33
2012
36 40 20 68 15 12 14 46 46 22 23
2010
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400 320 210 Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440 350 240 78 Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 120 Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850 740 500 Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 100 80 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 220 190 96 72 Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 61 37 53 64 45 Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590 400 220 Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . . . . . . 590 410 240 South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410 240 150 Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 110 71 Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 260 200 Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 62 46 Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 17 16 a
Infant mortality ratea
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
38 35 5 63
Proportion of 1-year-old children immunized against measlesa
Indicator 4.1
a
2012
Goal 5 Improve maternal health
Target 4.A
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
47 51 8 86
Indicator 4.3
a
Goal 4 Reduce child mortality
54 62 12 107
Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.
Indicator 5.2
Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel (Percentage) 1990 2000
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbeana . . . . . . . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
56 55 47 42 74 70 74
60 59 69 44 82 70 83
2011
67 66 82 48 90 70 91
Yearbook of the United Nations, 2013
22 1990 2000
Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a
94 30 17 42 59 – 97 – 31
2011
97 36 18 65 67 – 89 – 32
100 50 41 75 74 – 97 – 46
a b
Indicator 5.3
Contraceptive prevalence ratea, b (Percentage of women who are using any method of contraception among women aged 15 to 49, married or in union) 1990 2000
55.0 51.6 43.3 12.4 61.0 54.0 61.7 78.2 72.5 39.0 30.9 48.3 43.5 28.3 49.1 68.4 15.9 21.9 49.6
61.3 59.5 57.7 18.5 69.8 58.7 70.7 85.6 76.0 48.2 46.0 57.2 50.9 31.6 57.9 69.9 26.3 28.6 53.1
2011
63.2 62.1 62.8 25.1 72.8 60.7 73.7 83.6 75.0 56.2 51.9 62.9 57.8 36.9 58.3 70.1 35.9 37.6 55.2
The averages are based on the data available as at 10 April 2012. Data available prior to 1990 are used in the estimation of the regional averages.
Indicator 5.4
Adolescent birth ratea, b (Number of live births per 1,000 adolescent women aged 15 to 19)
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . .
2000
2010
72.1
63.6
The averages are based on the data available as at 10 April 2012. Data available prior to 1990 are used in the estimation of the regional averages.
Antenatal care coverage (at least one visit and at least four visits) (a) At least one visita (Percentage) 1990 2000
Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1990
77.2
Indicator 5.5
Including only deliveries in health-care institutions.
Target 5.B
a b
Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1990
2000
2010
59.3 64.3 43.1 125.4 90.6 79.8 91.5 15.3 4.1 88.4 120.8 53.7 62.8 84.0 44.4 33.8 133.2 107.8
51.0 55.3 33.2 121.7 87.5 77.8 88.2 5.8 3.2 58.5 75.7 40.4 50.5 64.5 28.3 25.6 119.8 106.5
48.6 52.4 29.2 117.8 78.9 68.4 79.7 6.0 2.3 45.6 62.0 43.2 48.4 62.2 32.2 21.7 114.9 97.7
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subregions of Africab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Central Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . North Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . West Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2011
63 63 50 69 74 85 73 70 53 27 79 54 – – 49
71 71 63 72 90 88 90 89 54 31 90 63 – – 56
81 81 79 79 96 92 96 94 71 60 93 77 – – 76
77 – 50 90 59
73 – 63 91 66
82 91 79 95 68
1990 2000
2011
(b) At least four visitsa (Percentage) World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
– 37 23 52 69 59 69 – 24 – 45 – – –
44 44 37 49 81 66 82 – 27 – 69 – – –
51 51 66 49 88 72 89 – 36 – 77 – – –
a
Defined as the percentage of women (15 to 49 years old) who received antenatal care during pregnancy from skilled health personnel. b Based on the subregional classification adapted by the Economic Commission for Africa.
Indicator 5.6
Unmet need for family planninga, b (Percentage of women who have an unmet need for family planning among women aged 15 to 49, married or in union) 1990 2000
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
15.3 16.6 22.6 27.4 17.2 19.3
12.9 13.5 14.0 26.6 12.8 18.5
2011
12.3 12.7 12.0 25.3 10.4 17.5
Report of the Secretary-General
23
Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a b
1990 2000
2011
17.0 5.6 21.5 25.5 18.8 21.9 27.7 18.6 10.5 28.7 26.8 20.1
9.9 3.7 15.2 18.1 12.8 16.0 25.3 14.1 9.9 23.6 23.7 18.8
12.3 3.1 17.7 20.7 15.6 19.6 27.0 14.4 9.9 26.7 26.3 19.6
The averages are based on the data available as at 28 March 2013. Data available prior to 1990 are used in the estimation of the regional averages.
Goal 6 Combat hiv/aids, malaria and other diseases Target 6.A
Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
Indicator 6.1
(a) Hiv incidence ratesa, b (Number of new hiv infections per year per 100 people aged 15 to 49) 2001
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia (including Oceania) . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subregions of Africac Central Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . North Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . West Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2011
0.08 (0.07:0.08) 0.06 (0.05:0.07) 0.09 (0.08:0.10) 0.06 (0.06:0.07) 0.01 (0.00:0.01) 0.01 (0.01:0.01) 0.61 (0.57:0.65) 0.37 (0.33:0.41) 0.04 (0.03:0.05) 0.03 (0.02:0.04) 0.11 (0.09:0.12) 0.06 (0.04:0.07) 0.03 (0.02:0.04) 0.03 (0.02:0.04) 0.01 (0.01:0.01) 0.01 (0.00:0.02) 0.03 (0.02:0.04) 0.02 (0.01:0.03) 0.03 (0.03:0.04) 0.01 (0.00:0.01) 0.03 (0.02:0.04) 0.03 (0.03:0.04)
0.03 (0.02:0.04) 0.01 (0.00:0.01) 0.06 (0.03:0.11) 0.03 (0.02:0.04)
0.55 (0.50:0.61) 0.37 (0.34:0.39) 0.01 (0.01:0.02) 1.91 (1.78:2.05) 0.33 (0.30:0.38)
0.33 (0.28:0.39) 0.26 (0.24:0.29) 0.02 (0.01:0.02) 1.02 (0.93:1.13) 0.24 (0.19:0.28)
a “Hiv prevalence among population aged 15 to 24 years” was chosen as a proxy indicator for the incidence rate when the indicators for the Millennium Declaration were developed. However, the estimated incidence rate among people 15 to 49 years is now available for all regions and from 60 countries. Therefore hiv incidence rate is presented here together with hiv prevalence data among population aged 15 to 49 years. b Lower and upper bounds in parentheses. c Based on the subregional classification adapted by the Economic Commission for Africa.
(b) Hiv prevalence among population aged 15 to 24 yearsa (Percentage) 1990
2001
2011
Adults Estimated Adults Estimated Adults (15+) (15+) (15+) adult adult living living living (15–49) (15–49) hiv with hiv hiv with hiv hiv with hiv preva- who are preva- who are preva- who are lence women lence women lence women
Estimated adult (15–49)
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . .
0.3 0.3 <0.1
43 48 49
0.8 0.9 <0.1
49 51 33
0.8 0.8 0.1
49 52 38
1990
2001
2011
Adults Estimated Adults Estimated Adults (15+) (15+) (15+) adult adult living living living (15–49) (15–49) hiv with hiv hiv with hiv hiv with hiv preva- who are preva- who are preva- who are lence women lence women lence women
Estimated adult (15–49)
Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India South-Eastern Asia (including Oceania) Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a
2.4
53
5.6
57
4.6
58
0.3 0.9 0.2 <0.1
34 48 31 24
0.5 1.2 0.4 <0.1
35 53 31 27
0.4 1.0 0.4 0.1
35 52 32 28
<0.1 <0.1
26 28
<0.1 0.3
28 35
<0.1 0.2
29 36
<0.1
35
<0.1
17
0.1
19
0.2 <0.1 0.2
15 39 32
0.4 <0.1 0.7
30 33 46
0.4 <0.1 0.6
33 41 48
<0.1 0.2 1.6
14 16 52
0.1 0.4 2.3
16 24 57
0.3 0.5 1.9
20 26 58
2.9
53
4.0
57
2.8
57
0.7
48
1.0
52
0.9
52
Trend data for the actual indicator 6.1 “Hiv prevalence among population aged 15 to 24 years” is available from only 35 countries, almost exclusively sub-Saharan Africa, and is therefore not presented here.
Indicator 6.2
Condom use at last high-risk sex,a 2007–2012b Women
Men
Percentage Number Percentage Number who used a of countries who used a of countries covered by condom at last covered by condom at last the surveys high-risk sex the surveys high-risk sex
Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . a
b
27 – 2 –
34.1 – 22.2 –
21 4 2 1
54.7 25.6 37.2 76.2
Percentage of young women and men aged 15 to 24 reporting the use of a condom during sexual intercourse with a non-regular (non-marital and non-cohabiting) sexual partner in the past 12 months, among those who had such a partner in the past 12 months. Data were calculated on the basis of the most recent surveys carried out during the period specified.
Indicator 6.3
Proportion of population aged 15 to 24 years with comprehensive correct knowledge of hiv/aids,a 2007–2012b Women
Men
Percentage Number Percentage Number who have of countries who have of countries covered by comprehensive covered by comprehensive the surveys knowledge the surveys knowledge
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . a
b
77 32 6
21.3 28.2 17.2
59 27 3
32.8 37.0 33.7
5 6
8.8 23.1
2 4
– 24.3
Percentage of young women and men aged 15 to 24 who correctly identify the two major ways of preventing the sexual transmission of hiv (using condoms and limiting sex to one faithful, uninfected partner), who reject two common local misconceptions, and who know that a healthy-looking person can transmit the aids virus. Data were calculated on the basis of the most recent surveys carried out during the period specified.
Yearbook of the United Nations, 2013
24 Indicator 6.4
(b) Deaths (Number of deaths per 100,000 population)
Ratio of school attendance of orphans to school attendance of non-orphans aged 10 to 14 years,a 2007–2012b
2010
Ratio of school attendance of orphans to Number of countries school attendance of non-orphans with data
Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 0.95 2 0.72 Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a Ratio of the current school attendance rate of children aged 10 to 14 both of whose biological parents have died to the current school attendance rate of children aged 10 to 14 both of whose parents are still alive and who currently live with at least one biological parent. b Data were calculated on the basis of the most recent surveys carried out during the period specified.
Target 6.B
a
Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for hiv/aids for all those who need it
For populations at risk of malaria in malaria endemic countries.
Proportion of children under 5 sleeping under insecticide-treated bednets, 2008‑2012a (a) Totalb
Proportion of population with advanced hiv infection with access to antiretroviral drugsa
(Percentage)
(Percentage) 2010
2011
47 47 31 48 64 59 64 28 4 32 11 53 20 15 46 55 57
54 55 36 56 68 67 68 38 5 41 14 56 20 19 52 66 70
Worldb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia and Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
b
– 88 2 0 4 6 7 43 0 67 69 26
Indicator 6.7
Indicator 6.5
a
Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Antiretroviral treatment coverage among people with CD4 cell counts at or below 350 cells/mm. Including low- and middle-income economies, as defined by the World Bank.
Target 6.C
37a
(b) By residenceb (Percentage) Sub-Saharan Africa (34 countries) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a b
Urban
Rural
36
41
Data were calculated on the basis of the most recent surveys carried out during the period specified. Calculation includes data available as of March 2013.
Indicator 6.8
Proportion of children under 5 with fever who are treated with appropriate antimalarial drugs, 2008–2012a (a) Totalb (Percentage) Sub-Saharan Africa (35 countries) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b) By
37
residenceb
(Percentage) Sub-Saharan Africa (35 countries) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a b
Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
Urban
Rural
48
39
Data were calculated on the basis of the most recent surveys carried out during the period specified. Calculation includes data available as of March 2013.
Indicator 6.9
Indicator 6.6
Incidence and death rates associated with malariaa (a) Incidence (Number of new cases per 1,000 population) 2010
Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Sub-Saharan Africa (39 countries) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
– 264 15 0 33 36 24 178 0 214 218 96
Incidence, prevalence and death rates associated with tuberculosisa (a) Incidence (Number of new cases per 100,000 population, including hiv-infected) 1990
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . .
2002
2011
147 (135:159) 148 (139:156) 125 (120:130) 179 (165:194) 174 (164:184) 147 (141:153) 64
(55:73)
55
(49:61)
51
(45:57)
251 (196:306) 322 (268:376) 264 (245:284) 90 (76:103)
57
(53:61)
43
(40:45)
94 (68:120)
91 (79:104)
75
(64:85)
89 (75:104)
54
(50:59)
40
(37:43)
157 (125:188) 105 (92:119)
81
(72:90)
207 (178:236) 206 (189:223) 181 (167:195) 246 (209:282) 238 (216:260) 210 (192:228) 53
(46:59)
38
(35:41)
26
(25:34)
Report of the Secretary-General
25
1990
Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States
2002
2011
245 (171:318) 265 (178:353) 261 (173:349) 132 (122:142) 291 (267:315) 116 (107:125) 29
(28:31)
38
(35:40)
25
(23:27)
288 (256:321) 281 (258:304) 235 (222:248) 269 (230:309) 314 (276:352) 197 (181:212) 113 (92:134) 121 (105:137) 112 (96:127)
(b) Prevalence (Number of existing cases per 100,000 population, including hiv-infected) 1990
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States
2002
2011
268 (243:294) 246 (223:271) 170 (150:192) 330 (299:362) 292 (264:320) 201 (176:225) 111 (66:156)
78 (47:109)
74 (44:103)
388 (249:528) 380 (270:490) 298 (249:348) 147 (102:192)
77
(58:96)
54
(40:68)
156 (80:232) 129 (72:185) 101 (56:147) 146 (98:195)
73
(53:93)
50
451 (385:516) 407 (344:469) 264 (194:334) 548 (401:696) 477 (357:597) 329 (249:408) 52
(35:68)
34
(24:44)
518 (192:843) 408 (128:687) 401 (116:687) 265 (185:345) 585 (407:762) 180 (128:232) 42
(33:52)
54
(37:71)
32
(21:42)
514 (406:621) 430 (357:503) 332 (278:386) 360 (305:414) 394 (339:449) 268 (215:321) 200 (131:270) 177 (120:234) 158 (103:213)
(c) Deaths (Number of deaths per 100,000 population, excluding hiv-infected) World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries Small island developing States . . a
1990
2002
2011
24 (20:28)
21 (18:25)
14 (12:17)
30 (25:35)
25 (21:30)
17 (14:19)
9 (2.2:16)
6.2 (2.1:10)
5.2
42 (28:57)
37 (25:49)
27 (21:32)
8.9 (7.2:11)
(2:8.5)
5 (4.3:5.6)
3.4 (2.9:3.9)
10
(4:16)
12 (5.2:19)
9 (4.1:14)
8.8
(7:11)
4.4
(4:4.9)
3 (2.6:3.4)
18 (16:20)
7.3 (6.1:8.5)
3.6 (3.3:3.9)
42 (28:55)
41 (28:53)
26 (18:34)
54 (34:73)
45 (29:61)
28 (20:37) 2.1 (1.2:3.1)
(33:47) 60
(56:65)
51
(44:61) 69
(64:75) 81
(76:87)
11
(9:16) 51
(45:59) 65
(57:75)
55
(47:66) 71
(66:78) 83
(78:90)
23
(20:29) 34
(30:40) 90 (81:100)
71
(62:82) 42
(39:45) 58
(54:63)
48
(42:56) 32
(29:35) 70
(65:77)
80
(72:92) 77
(71:83) 76
(72:82)
25
(20:36) 56
(42:82) 62
(47:94)
37
(34:40) 29
(27:31) 63
(58:68)
78
(75:82) 77
(72:83) 84
(78:90)
24
(21:27) 33
(31:36) 57
(54:61)
34
(29:39) 37
(33:42) 63
(59:69)
21
(18:26) 53
(47:62) 65
(57:76)
(Percentage) Â
1994 2000
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a b
75 75 80 60 65 74 65 88 74 82 72 61 73b 68 66 57 67
Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources
39 (7.9:69)
8.1 (7.6:8.7)
20 (19:22)
8.9 (8.2:9.6)
(3:3)
4.7 (4.7:4.8)
3.2 (3.2:3.2)
Proportion of land area covered by forest
58 (43:72)
45 (34:55)
32 (25:39)
(Percentage)
32 (26:39)
29 (24:34)
18 (15:21)
17 (9.3:24)
17 (10:23)
15 (8.7:20)
(dots smear-positive case detection rate: percentage)a 1990
2000
2011
48
(45:52) 41
(39:44) 67
(64:69)
47
(43:51) 40
(37:42) 66
(63:69)
57
(50:67) 75
(68:84) 74
(66:84)
87 87 86 82 76 82 75 95 89 90 85 63 74 63 85 82 78
Target 7.A
39 (9.1:69)
Proportion of tuberculosis cases detected and cured under directly observed treatment short course (a) New cases detected under directly observed treatment short course (dots)
2010
Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability
4.3 (2.7:5.9)
Indicator 6.10
69 69 88 71 76 72 77 92 42 86 77 76 79 66 77 75 73
Lower and upper bounds in parentheses. The number refers to 1996 data.
8 (4.2:12)
3
2011
(26:40) 39
58 (15:102)
Lower and upper bounds in parentheses.
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2000
32
(b) Patients successfully treated under directly observed treatment short course
(36:65)
226 (209:243) 168 (146:190) 115 (100:129)
74 (46:103)
1990
Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . .
Indicator 7.1
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1990
2000
2010
32.0 29.4 1.4 31.2 52.0 25.8 52.3 16.4 15.2 14.1 7.8 56.9 2.8
31.4 28.2 1.4 29.5 49.6 28.1 49.9 18.0 14.0 14.1 7.3 51.3 2.9
31.0 27.6 1.4 28.1 47.4 30.3 47.6 20.5 12.8 14.5 7.1 49.3 3.3
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26 Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1990
2000
2010
67.5 3.9 36.3 32.7 19.3 64.6
65.1 3.9 36.6 31.0 18.2 63.7
62.5 3.9 36.7 29.6 17.1 62.7
Indicator 7.2
Carbon dioxide emissions, total, per capita and per $1Â gdp (ppp) (a) Totala (Millions of tons) 2005
2010
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 550 23 841 27 852 Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 727 9 936 13 525 Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 330 395 462 554 635 Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . 1 006 1 330 1 491 84 99 105 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 922 1 231 1 386 Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 991 3 979 6 387 531 574 597 Eastern Asia excluding China . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 993 1 709 2 072 Southern Asia excluding India 303 522 661 423 774 1 000 South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615 926 1 149 6 7 11 Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asiab . . . . . 0 327 386 Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 824 13 904 14 327 Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . 61 111 157 50 398 458 Landlocked developing countries . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . 139 160 151 Annex I countriesc, d, e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 986 14 436 14 917
1990
2000
31 387 17 791 464 711 1 701 137 1 564 8 975 688 2 824 815 1 216 1 418 11 472 13 596 213 563 168 14 158
Latin America and the Caribbean . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asiab . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . Annex I countriesc, d, e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2005
2010
0.31 0.52 0.30 0.87 0.45 0.61 0.54 0.46 0.55 0.26 1.72 0.45 0.19 0.91 0.39 0.46
0.30 0.48 0.30 0.94 0.38 0.55 0.52 0.46 0.56 0.37 1.32 0.41 0.20 0.74 0.30 0.43
0.28 0.55 0.27 0.83 0.37 0.49 0.30 0.44 0.57 0.24 1.09 0.37 0.20 0.64 0.23 0.38
Total carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels (expressed in millions of tons of CO2) include emissions from solid fuel consumption, liquid fuel consumption, gas fuel consumption, cement production and gas flaring (United States Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center). b The 1990 column shows 1992 data. c Includes all annex I countries that report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; non-annex I countries do not have annual reporting obligations. d National reporting to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that follows the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change guidelines is based on national emission inventories and covers all sources of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. It can be calculated as the sum of emissions for the sectors of energy, industrial processes, agriculture and waste. e Excluding emissions/removals from land use, land-use change and forestry.
Indicator 7.3
Consumption of ozone-depleting substances (Tons of ozone depletion potential) 1986
(Tons) 1990
2000
2005
2010
4.08 3.91 4.30 4.57 1.66 2.03 2.57 3.16 1.91 2.33 2.57 2.80 0.91 0.83 0.84 0.83 2.29 2.57 2.70 2.90 2.76 2.87 2.88 3.63 2.26 2.55 2.68 2.85 2.46 2.95 4.60 6.30 7.42 7.31 7.40 8.30 0.83 1.17 1.31 1.66 0.94 1.28 1.49 1.70 0.95 1.48 1.79 2.05 4.85 5.73 6.32 6.85 1.00 0.96 1.25 1.09 7.33 4.59 5.25 6.10 12.37 11.67 11.79 10.90 0.12 0.17 0.21 0.26 0.26 1.21 1.25 1.37 3.20 3.15 2.74 2.85 12.76 11.75 11.88 11.02
(c) Per $1Â gdp (ppp) (Kilograms) World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2000
a
(b) Per capita
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asiab . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . Annex I countriesc, d, e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1990
0.31 0.54 0.31 1.45 0.45 0.58 0.46 0.41 0.49 0.29 2.31 0.58 0.14 0.20 0.54 0.59
1990
2000
2005
2010
0.60 0.63 0.43 0.55
0.50 0.59 0.49 0.53
0.49 0.61 0.48 0.47
0.47 0.58 0.43 0.41
2000
2011
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 667 551 1 121 310 210 735 Developing regions . . . . . . . . 280 530 236 892 208 013 Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . 14 214 6 203 8 129 Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . 36 347 23 449 9 597 Latin America and the Caribbean 78 663 76 048 31 104 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . 2 216 2 177 1 669 76 448 73 871 29 435 Latin America . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 445 103 217 105 762 Eastern Asia excluding China 25 436 12 904 14 885 Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . 13 473 3 338 28 161 Southern Asia excluding India . 6 159 3 338 9 466 South-Eastern Asia . . . . . 17 926 21 108 16 831 Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . 16 349 3 481 8 299 Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 47 129 Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . 11 607 2 738 928 Developed regions . . . . . . . . . 1 228 998 828 590 25 364 3 494 1 457 4 813 Least developed countries Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 616 3 354 2 395 Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 419 7 162 2 147
31 837 39 037 860 1 640
a
1990a
4 834 117 4 717 23 510 2 211 2 320 836 2 255 3 598 19 132 -1 458 767 350 274
For years prior to the entry into force of the reporting requirement for a group of substances, missing country consumption values have been estimated at the base year level. This applies to substances in annexes B, C and E to the Montreal Protocol, whose years of entry into force are 1992, 1992 and 1994, respectively.
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Indicator 7.4
1990 2000
Proportion of fish stocks within safe biological limits (Percentage) 1990 2000 2009
Not fully exploited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.3 25.4 12.7 Fully exploited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.0 47.2 57.4 Overexploited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.6 27.4 29.9
Indicator 7.5
Proportion of total water resources useda (Percentage) Circa 2006
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a
9.2 7.4 89.0 3.2 2.0 15.2 1.9 19.8 20.8 52.9 53.3 7.8 54.9 0.06 55.1 10.0 4.5 12.9 1.5
Defined as surface water and groundwater withdrawal as a percentage of total actual renewable water resources.
Target 7.B
Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss
Indicator 7.6
Proportion of terrestrial and marine areas protected (a) Terrestrial and marinea, b (Percentage of total territorial area) 1990 2000
2012
Worldc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.3 11.3 14.0 Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.8 10.5 13.8 Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.9 3.7 6.9 Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.7 11.5 15.2 Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.7 13.9 20.3 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2 4.0 5.9 Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.9 14.3 20.9 Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.5 14.4 15.4 Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.9 11.5 11.9 Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.1 5.7 6.1 Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.5 6.4 7.1 South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4 6.9 9.4 Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.7 14.4 14.7 Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.6 1.3 4.0 Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.8 3.0 3.6 Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.1 12.3 14.0 Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.0 9.7 12.4 Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.0 11.3 13.6 Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 2.8 5.1
(b) Terrestriala, b (Percentage of total surface area) 1990 2000
Worldc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2012
8.9 11.9 14.6
2012
Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.6 11.6 14.9 Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.0 3.7 6.9 Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.0 11.8 15.4 Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.0 14.4 21.2 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.2 10.0 13.5 Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.0 14.5 21.3 Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.0 14.9 16.0 Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.0 12.2 12.6 Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.4 6.0 6.5 Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.9 6.9 7.5 South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.4 12.6 14.1 Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.0 15.5 15.7 Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.0 3.1 5.2 Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.8 3.0 3.6 Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.2 12.4 14.0 Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.5 10.2 12.9 Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.0 11.3 13.6 Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.7 6.5 8.7
(c) Marinea, b (Percentage of total territorial waters) 1990 2000
Worldc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2012
4.6 6.8 9.7 1.6 3.0 5.9 2.3 3.7 6.2 1.5 3.3 7.5 5.8 9.3 11.9 0.9 1.8 3.0 7.7 12.3 15.4 0.8 1.4 1.8 2.1 2.1 2.4 1.0 1.4 1.6 0.6 1.1 1.7 0.5 1.2 4.8 0.7 2.1 3.3 0.2 0.8 3.7 0.2 0.9 0.9 8.3 11.8 13.9 0.9 2.1 4.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4 1.3 3.6
a Differences in figures when compared to the statistical annex of previous reports are due to new available data, revised methodologies, and revised Millennium Development Goal regions. b Protected areas whose year of establishment is unknown are included in all years. c Including territories that are not considered in the calculations of developed and developing region aggregates. d Excluding territorial water claims within inland seas made by some landlocked developing countries.
Indicator 7.7 Proportion of species threatened with extinctiona (Percentage of species not expected to become extinct in the near future) World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1988
1990 2000
2012
92.1 92.4 98.0 93.6 93.0 96.1 95.8 93.2 97.8
92.1 92.4 98.0 93.6 93.0 96.1 95.8 93.2 97.7
91.3 91.7 96.9 93.3 92.1 95.6 95.2 92.4 96.8
91.7 92.1 97.5 93.4 92.9 95.9 95.5 92.4 97.3
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1990 2000
2012
Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.6 91.6 91.3 91.2 Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.1 98.1 97.7 97.1 Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93.9 93.9 93.6 93.1 a Red List Index of species survival for vertebrate biodiversity (mammals, birds and amphibians). The Red List Index is an index of the proportion of species expected to remain extant in the near future without additional conservation action, ranging from 1.0 (equivalent to all species being categorized as “of least concern” on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List) to zero (equivalent to all species having gone extinct).
Target 7.C Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
Indicator 7.8 Proportion of population using an improved drinking water source
Target 7.D
By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers
Indicator 7.10
Proportion of urban population living in slumsa (Percentage)
Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceaniab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a
(Percentage) 1990 2011 Total Urban Rural Total Urban Rural
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . .
76 70 87 49
95 93 94 83
62 59 80 36
89 87 92 63
96 95 95 84
81 79 89 51
85 68
94 97
64 56
94 92
97 98
82 85
96 72
97 90
93 66
98 90
100 95
91 88
78 71 85 50
94 90 95 92
72 62 69 37
87 89 90 56
93 94 96 95
84 84 78 45
89 98
97 99
81 94
86 99
96 100
79 97
2012
32.7 13.3 61.7 23.5 28.2 35.0 31.0 24.6 24.1
39.3 20.3 65.0 29.2 37.4 45.8 39.6 20.6 24.1
Represented by the urban population living in households with at least one of the following four characteristics: lack of access to improved drinking water; lack of access to improved sanitation; overcrowding (three or more persons per room) and dwellings made of non‑durable material. Half of the urban dwellers using pit latrines are considered to be using improved sanitation. Trend data are not available for Oceania.
Goal 8 Develop a global partnership for development Target 8.A
Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction—both nationally and internationally.
Target 8.B
Address the special needs of the least developed countries Includes tariff- and quota-free access for least developed countries’ exports; enhanced programme of debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries (hipc) and cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance (oda) for countries committed to poverty reduction.
Target 8.C
Indicator 7.9 Proportion of population using an improved sanitation facility (Percentage) 1990 2011 Total Urban Rural Total Urban Rural
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . .
b
1990 2000
46.2 34.4 70.0 33.7 43.7 57.2 49.5 22.5 24.1
49 36 72 26
77 65 92 43
29 21 54 19
64 57 90 30
80 74 94 42
47 43 84 24
68 27
80 53
38 16
82 67
87 76
63 57
– 24
– 56
– 12
– 41
– 64
– 30
41 47 80 36
72 69 94 77
28 37 59 23
58 71 88 36
75 81 96 78
48 62 71 24
91 95
96 97
86 90
96 96
96 97
95 92
Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States (through the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and the outcome of the twenty-second special session of the General Assembly)
Target 8.D
Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term
Official development assistance Indicator 8.1
Net oda, total and to the least developed countries, as a percentage of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development/Development Assistance Committee donors’ gross national income (a) Annual total assistancea (Billions of current United States dollars) 1990 2000 2005 2007 2009
2010
2011 2012b
All developing countries . . . . . . . . 52.8 54.0 107.9 104.3 119.8 128.3 133.7 125.7
Report of the Secretary-General
29
1990 2000 2005 2007 2009
2010
a b
–
Including non-oda debt forgiveness but excluding forgiveness of debt for military purposes. Preliminary data.
(b) Share of oecd/dac donors’ gross national income (Percentage) 1990 2002 2005 2007 2009
2010
2011 2012a
All developing countries . . . . . . . . 0.32 0.22 0.32 0.27 0.31 0.32 0.31 0.29 Least developed countries . . . . . . . . 0.09 0.06 0.08 0.08 0.10 0.11 0.10 – a
Preliminary data.
Indicator 8.2
Proportion of total bilateral, sector-allocable oda of oecd/dac donors to basic social services (basic education, primary health care, nutrition, safe water and sanitation) 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009
2011
Percentage of bilateral, sector-allocable aid . . . . 10.1 14.0 15.7 16.0 19.9 21.2 18.7 Billions of United States dollars . . . 2.9 3.5 5.8 8.2 12.4 17.0 14.7
Indicator 8.3
Proportion of bilateral official development assistance of oecd/dac donors that is untieda 1990 2003 2005 2007 2009
2010
2012
Percentage of aid that is untied . . . . . . . . . . 67.6 91.1 91.4 83.9 84.5 83.7 84.6 Billions of United States dollars . . . 16.3 30.1 49.0 60.3 71.3 74.6 65.1 a Excluding technical cooperation and administrative costs as well as oda for which the tying status is not reported. The percentage of bilateral oda, excluding technical cooperation and administrative costs, with reported tying status was 99.6 per cent in 2008.
of which, preferentialb. . . . . . . . . Northern Africa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa. . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . Eastern Asia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia. . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia. . . . Least developed countries. . . . . . . . of which, preferentialb. . . . . . . . . Excluding arms and oil Developing countriesa. . . . . . . . . . . . of which, preferentialb. . . . . . . . . Northern Africa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa. . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . Eastern Asia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia. . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia. . . . Least developed countries. . . . . . . . of which, preferentialb. . . . . . . . .
2011
17 52 78
15 57 80
18 97 93
17 97 96
17 97 99
66 35 47 59 34 85 91 68 29
75 52 48 75 39 83 84 76 42
94 62 58 77 66 89 94 83 28
94 67 72 80 96 91 94 89 27
95 69 74 82 97 97 99 91 30
54 20 20 88
65 17 26 83
75 22 95 91
77 20 95 93
80 20 95 97
73 35 41 60 35 82 90 78 35
81 52 46 76 44 79 69 70 35
93 62 58 77 87 87 84 80 49
93 67 63 79 93 89 82 80 52
95 69 67 81 94 97 91 83 53
a Including least developed countries. b The true preference margin is calculated by subtracting from the total duty-free access all products receiving duty-free treatment under the most-favoured nation regime. The indicators are based on the best available treatment, including regional and preferential agreements.
Indicator 8.7 Average tariffs imposed by developed countries on agricultural products and textiles and clothing from developing countries (Percentage)
Indicator 8.4
1996 2000 2005
Oda received in landlocked developing countries as a proportion of their gross national incomes 1990 2003 2005 2007 2009
2010
2012
Percentage of recipients’ gross national incomes 10.2 8.2 7.0 5.9 6.0 5.1 3.4 Billions of United States dollars . . . 7.0 12.2 15.1 19.9 25.0 25.1 25.7
Indicator 8.5
Oda received in small island developing States as a proportion of their gross national incomes 1990 2003 2005 2007 2009
Percentage of recipients’ gross national incomes Billions of United States dollars . . .
1996 2000 2005 2007
2011 2012b
Least developed countries . . . . . . . . 15.1 13.8 25.9 32.3 37.4 43.8 44.6
2010
2011
1.9
1.5
1.8
1.8
3.2
4.9
4.1
2.1
1.8
2.5
3.3
4.2
6.8
5.3
Market access Indicator 8.6
Proportion of total developed country imports (by value and excluding arms) from developing countries and least developed countries, admitted free of duty (Percentage) 1996 2000 2005 2007
Excluding arms Developing countriesa. . . . . . . . . . . .
53
63
75
81
2011
83
Agricultural goods Developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Textiles Developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clothing Developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2011
10.4 9.2 8.8 7.2 6.6 7.3 7.2 6.0 7.4 6.2 6.2 3.2 12.0 10.3 9.7 7.5 9.3 9.5 10.7 10.0 5.4 5.3 4.5 5.5 11.3 10.1 9.1 8.9 8.2 7.5 5.0 5.3 11.5 9.4 8.7 2.9 4.7 3.8 3.4 3.0 3.8 3.6 3.0 1.0 7.3 8.0 3.9 4.7 7.3 7.1 9.1 9.1 5.9 7.3 4.6
6.6 7.2 3.4 3.5 6.6 6.5 8.4 8.2 5.4 6.3 4.1
5.3 4.4 2.9 1.5 5.8 6.1 6.0 4.6 4.9 5.8 3.2
4.9 3.7 2.9 1.2 5.5 5.5 5.3 4.4 4.9 5.6 3.2
11.5 10.8
8.4
7.9
Yearbook of the United Nations, 2013
30 1996 2000 2005
Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
11.9 8.5 8.8 12.0 10.2 14.2 12.6 8.8 12.9 8.2
2011
11.1 8.0 5.3 7.9 1.6 2.6 7.8 1.3 1.2 11.5 11.0 10.7 9.6 8.6 8.5 13.5 10.5 9.2 11.8 8.5 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.8 11.8 11.5 10.7 7.8 6.4 6.7
Indicator 8.8
Agricultural support estimate for oecd countries as a percentage of their gross domestic product 1990 2003 2005 2007 2009
2010
2011
As percentage of oecd countries’ gdp . . . . . . . . . 2.38 1.07 1.04 0.89 0.96 0.93 0.95 Billions of United States dollars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 338 368 351 377 384 407
17.6 20.7 17.2 20.8 10.6 – 17.6 9.3 16.7 27.8 14.0 – 16.8 14.3 13.9
2010
2011
9.5 3.3 2.4 2.2 19.9 7.7 6.3 6.2 8.0 15.0 11.5 12.8 20.3 7.5 6.1 6.0 4.9 0.6 0.7 0.8 6.5 4.1 4.3 1.5 13.9 3.6 2.8 7.0 11.6 9.9 8.9 7.0 6.5 4.2 3.3 3.7 16.1 8.8 8.1 7.9 6.0 2.0 1.5 2.8 8.6 1.1 1.1 1.1 11.5 5.1 3.8 3.6 8.7 2.0 1.8 1.3 8.8 9.3 6.2 8.1
a Including countries reporting to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System. Aggregates are based on available data and for some years might exclude countries that do not have data on exports of goods and services and net income from abroad.
Target 8.E
Indicator 8.9
In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable, essential drugs in developing countries
Proportion of oda provided to help build trade capacitya 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009
2011
Trade policy and regulations and trade-related adjustmentb . . . 1.0 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.9 0.9 Economic infrastructure . . . . . . . . . 21.5 14.8 17.2 13.6 15.1 16.2 Building productive capacity . . . . 16.0 13.4 12.8 13.3 12.8 14.2 Total aid for trade . . . . . . . . . . 38.5 29.0 30.7 27.7 28.8 31.4 a Aid for trade proxies as a percentage of bilateral sector-allocable oda, world. b Reporting of trade-related adjustment data started in 2007. Only Canada and the European Commission reported.
Proportion of population with access to affordable essential drugs on a sustainable basis No global or regional data are available.
Target 8.F
In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications Number of fixed telephone lines per 100 inhabitants
Indicator 8.10
Total number of countries that have reached their heavily indebted poor countries (hipc) decision points and number that have reached their hipc completion points (cumulative) 2000a 2012b
Reached completion point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reached decision point but not completion point . . . . . . . Yet to be considered for decision point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Total eligible countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1 21 12 34
35 1 3 39
a Data for 2000 are status as at the end of the year. b Including only countries that are hipc in 2012. Data for 2012 reflect status as of March 2013.
Indicator 8.11
Debt relief committed under heavily indebted poor countries and multilateral debt relief initiativesa (Billions of United States dollars, cumulative)
To countries that reached decision or completion point
2000
2012
32
94
Expressed in end-2011 net present value terms. Commitment status as of December 2012.
Indicator 8.12
Debt service as a percentage of exports of goods and servicesa 1990 2000 2009
Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Indicator 8.13
Indicator 8.14
Debt sustainability
a
1990 2000 2009
Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . .
19.7 11.9 39.8 15.3
3.7 4.8
2010
2011
3.0 3.8
3.1 3.9
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1995 2000
2011
12.1 4.1 4.5 1.1 9.1 9.0 9.1 5.5 33.0 1.5 2.2 2.9 13.1 4.7 9.0 43.0 0.3 2.7 10.3
17.3 11.5 10.5 1.4 18.3 10.7 18.8 23.2 49.0 4.2 8.1 11.1 15.2 6.0 14.4 43.8 1.0 3.9 12.2
16.0 7.9 7.2 1.4 14.7 11.3 14.9 13.7 43.0 3.2 3.5 4.8 17.1 5.2 8.8 49.4 0.5 2.8 13.0
Indicator 8.15
Cellular subscribers per 100 inhabitants 1995 2000
2011
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.6 12.1 Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.4 5.4 Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <0.1 2.8 Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1 1.7 Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.8 12.3
85.5 78.2 106.1 53.3 107.1
Report of the Secretary-General
31 1995 2000
Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a
1.2 0.8 0.5 3.4 <0.1 <0.1 0.7 0.6 0.2 <0.1 6.4 <0.1a <0.1 1.5
2011
59.0 110.6 74.8 95.7 69.0 61.5 102.5 98.2 43.9 108.2 119.2 42.5 55.5 66.4
1995 2000
2011
a
6.5 32.5
The number refers to 1996 data.
b
The number refers to 1998 data.
The number refers to 1996 data.
Indicator 8.16 Internet users per 100 inhabitants World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1995 2000
7.5 12.6 9.9 50.2 0.4 0.5 4.2 13.1 2.4 1.3 40.0 0.3 1.1 11.0
0.8
Developing regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eastern Asia excluding China . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Southern Asia excluding India . . . . . . . . . . . . South-Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caucasus and Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Least developed countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landlocked developing countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Small island developing States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2011
<0.1 2.1 24.3 <0.1 0.7 35.0 0.1 0.5 12.6 0.1 3.9 38.8 <0.1 2.9 27.8 0.1 4.0 39.7 <0.1 3.7 39.9 1.1 28.6 59.7 <0.1 0.5 10.0 <0.1a 0.3 9.6 <0.1 2.4 23.6 <0.1 3.2 34.4 <0.1 1.8 8.8 <0.1 0.5 32.2 3.2 25.0 70.2 <0.1b <0.1 6.0 <0.1a 0.3 11.6 0.4 5.2 27.2
Sources: Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Millennium Development Goal Indicators and Millennium Development Goal Indicators Database (http://mdgs.un.org). Notes: Except where indicated, regional groupings are based on United Nations geographical regions, with some modifications necessary to create, to the extent possible, homogeneous groups of countries for analysis and presentation. The regional composition adopted for 2010 reporting on Millennium Development Goal indicators is available at http://mdgs.un.org. Commonwealth of Independent States comprises Belarus, the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation and Ukraine in Europe, and Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in Asia. Where shown, “Developed regions” comprises Europe (except Commonwealth of Independent States countries), Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and the United States of America. Developed regions always include transition countries in Europe. For some Millennium Development Goal indicators, data are presented separately for smaller subregions in Africa, based on the classification adopted by the Economic Commission for Africa.
Appendices
Appendix I
Roster of the United Nations (There were 193 Member States as at 31 December 2013.) Member State
Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andorra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Antigua and Barbuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bahamas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barbados . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Belarus1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bolivia (Plurinational State of) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bosnia and Herzegovina2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brunei Darussalam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cabo Verde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Central African Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Comoros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Congo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Date of admission
19 Nov. 1946 14 Dec. 1955 8 Oct. 1962 28 July 1993 1 Dec. 1976 11 Nov. 1981 24 Oct. 1945 2 Mar. 1992 1 Nov. 1945 14 Dec. 1955 2 Mar. 1992 18 Sep. 1973 21 Sep. 1971 17 Sep. 1974 9 Dec. 1966 24 Oct. 1945 27 Dec. 1945 25 Sep. 1981 20 Sep. 1960 21 Sep. 1971 14 Nov. 1945 22 May 1992 17 Oct. 1966 24 Oct. 1945 21 Sep. 1984 14 Dec. 1955 20 Sep. 1960 18 Sep. 1962 14 Dec. 1955 20 Sep. 1960 9 Nov. 1945 16 Sep. 1975 20 Sep. 1960 20 Sep. 1960 24 Oct. 1945 24 Oct. 1945 5 Nov. 1945 12 Nov. 1975 20 Sep. 1960 2 Nov. 1945
On 19 September 1991, the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic informed the United Nations that it had changed its name to Belarus. The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was an original Member of the United Nations, the Charter having been signed on its behalf on 26 June 1945 and ratified 19 October 1945, until its dissolution following the establishment and subsequent admission, as new Members, of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia, the Republic of Slovenia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Slovenia were admitted as Members of the United Nations on 22 May 1992. On 8 April 1993, the General Assembly decided to admit as a Member of the United Nations the state provisionally referred to for all purposes within the United Nations as “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, pending settlement of the difference that had arisen over its name. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was admitted as a Member of the United Nations on 1 November 2000. On 12 February 2003, it informed the United Nations that it had changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro, effective 4 February 2003. In a letter dated 3 June 2006, the President of the Republic of Serbia informed the Secretary-General that the membership of Serbia and Montenegro was being continued by the Republic of Serbia following Montenegro’s declaration of independence from Serbia on 3 June 2006. On 28 June 2006, Montenegro was accepted as a United Nations Member State by the General Assembly. 3 Czechoslovakia, an original Member of the United Nations from 24 October 1945, changed its name to the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic on 20 April
Member State
Côte d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Croatia2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Czech Republic3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Democratic People’s Republic of Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Democratic Republic of the Congo 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dominican Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Egypt5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . El Salvador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Germany6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Honduras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Indonesia7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Iran (Islamic Republic of) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Date of admission
20 Sep. 1960 22 May 1992 24 Oct. 1945 20 Sep. 1960 19 Jan. 1993 17 Sep. 1991 20 Sep. 1960 24 Oct. 1945 20 Sep. 1977 18 Dec. 1978 24 Oct. 1945 21 Dec. 1945 24 Oct. 1945 24 Oct. 1945 12 Nov. 1968 28 May 1993 17 Sep. 1991 13 Nov. 1945 13 Oct. 1970 14 Dec. 1955 24 Oct. 1945 20 Sep. 1960 21 Sep. 1965 31 July 1992 18 Sep. 1973 8 Mar. 1957 25 Oct. 1945 17 Sep. 1974 21 Nov. 1945 12 Dec. 1958 17 Sep. 1974 20 Sep. 1966 24 Oct. 1945 17 Dec. 1945 14 Dec. 1955 19 Nov. 1946 30 Oct. 1945 28 Sep. 1950 24 Oct. 1945 21 Dec. 1945
1990. It was dissolved on 1 January 1993 and succeeded by the Czech Republic and Slovakia, both of which became Members of the United Nations on 19 January 1993. The Republic of Zaire informed the United Nations that, effective 17 May 1997, it had changed its name to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Egypt and Syria, both of which became Members of the United Nations on 24 October 1945, joined together—following a plebiscite held in those countries on 21 February 1958—to form the United Arab Republic. On 13 October 1961, Syria, having resumed its status as an independent State, also resumed its separate membership in the United Nations; it changed its name to the Syrian Arab Republic on 14 September 1971. The United Arab Republic continued as a Member of the United Nations and reverted to the name Egypt on 2 September 1971. Through accession of the German Democratic Republic to the Federal Republic of Germany on 3 October 1990, the two German States (both of which had become Members of the United Nations on 18 September 1973) united to form one sovereign State. As from that date, the Federal Republic of Germany has acted in the United Nations under the designation Germany. On 20 January 1965, Indonesia informed the Secretary-General that it had decided to withdraw from the United Nations. On 19 September 1966, it notified the Secretary-General of its decision to resume participation in the activities of the United Nations. On 28 September 1966, the General Assembly took note of that decision, and the President invited the representatives of Indonesia to take their seats in the Assembly.
Appendix I
1528 Member State
Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kiribati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lao Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Democratic Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liechtenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Malaysia8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maldives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marshall Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Micronesia (Federated States of) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Montenegro2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Myanmar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nauru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Papua New Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Date of admission
14 Dec. 1955 11 May 1949 14 Dec. 1955 18 Sep. 1962 18 Dec. 1956 14 Dec. 1955 2 Mar. 1992 16 Dec. 1963 14 Sep. 1999 14 May 1963 2 Mar. 1992 14 Dec. 1955 17 Sep. 1991 24 Oct. 1945 17 Oct. 1966 2 Nov. 1945 14 Dec. 1955 18 Sep. 1990 17 Sep. 1991 24 Oct. 1945 20 Sep. 1960 1 Dec. 1964 17 Sep. 1957 21 Sep. 1965 28 Sep. 1960 1 Dec. 1964 17 Sep. 1991 27 Oct. 1961 24 Apr. 1968 7 Nov. 1945 17 Sep. 1991 28 May 1993 27 Oct. 1961 28 June 2006 12 Nov. 1956 16 Sep. 1975 19 Apr. 1948 23 Apr. 1990 14 Sep. 1999 14 Dec. 1955 10 Dec. 1945 24 Oct. 1945 24 Oct. 1945 20 Sep. 1960 7 Oct. 1960 27 Nov. 1945 7 Oct. 1971 30 Sep. 1947 15 Dec. 1994 13 Nov. 1945 10 Oct. 1975 24 Oct. 1945 31 Oct. 1945 24 Oct. 1945 24 Oct. 1945 14 Dec. 1955 21 Sep. 1971
On 16 September 1963, Sabah (North Borneo), Sarawak and Singapore joined with the Federation of Malaya (which became a Member of the United Nations on 17 September 1957) to form Malaysia. On 9 August 1965, Singapore became an independent State; on 21 September 1965, it became a Member of the United Nations. 9 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was an original Member of the United Nations from 24 October 1945. On 24 December 1991, the President of the Russian Federation informed the Secretary-General that the membership of the USSR in all United Nations organs was being continued by the Russian Federation. 10 The Republic of South Sudan formally seceded from the Sudan on 9 July 2011 as a result of an internationally monitored referendum held in January 2011, and
Member State
Republic of Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Republic of Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Russian Federation9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saint Kitts and Nevis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saint Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saint Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . San Marino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sao Tome and Principe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Serbia2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Seychelles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Singapore8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Slovakia3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Slovenia2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Solomon Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South Sudan10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Swaziland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Syrian Arab Republic5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia2 . . . . . . . . Timor-Leste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Trinidad and Tobago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuvalu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . United Arab Emirates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . United Republic of Tanzania11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . United States of America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vanuatu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Viet Nam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yemen12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Date of admission
17 Sep. 1991 2 Mar. 1992 14 Dec. 1955 24 Oct. 1945 18 Sep. 1962 23 Sep. 1983 18 Sep. 1979 16 Sep. 1980 15 Dec. 1976 2 Mar. 1992 16 Sep. 1975 24 Oct. 1945 28 Sep. 1960 1 Nov. 2000 21 Sep. 1976 27 Sep. 1961 21 Sep. 1965 19 Jan. 1993 22 May 1992 19 Sep. 1978 20 Sep. 1960 7 Nov. 1945 14 July 2011 14 Dec. 1955 14 Dec. 1955 12 Nov. 1956 4 Dec. 1975 24 Sep. 1968 19 Nov. 1946 10 Sep. 2002 24 Oct. 1945 2 Mar. 1992 16 Dec. 1946 8 Apr. 1993 27 Sep. 2002 20 Sep. 1960 14 Sep. 1999 18 Sep. 1962 12 Nov. 1956 24 Oct. 1945 2 Mar. 1992 5 Sep. 2000 25 Oct. 1962 24 Oct. 1945 9 Dec. 1971 24 Oct. 1945 14 Dec. 1961 24 Oct. 1945 18 Dec. 1945 2 Mar. 1992 15 Sep. 1981 15 Nov. 1945 20 Sep. 1977 30 Sep. 1947 1 Dec. 1964 25 Aug. 1980
was admitted as a new Member State by the United Nations General Assembly on 14 July 2011. was admitted to the United Nations on 14 December 1961, Zanzibar on 16 December 1963. Following ratification, on 26 April 1964, of the Articles of Union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar, the two States became represented as a single Member: the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar; it changed its name to the United Republic of Tanzania on 1 November 1964. 12 Yemen was admitted to the United Nations on 30 September 1947, Democratic Yemen on 14 December 1967. On 22 May 1990, the two countries merged and were thereafter represented as one Member of the United Nations under the designation Yemen. 11 Tanganyika
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Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice Charter of the United Nations Note: The Charter of the United Nations was signed on 26 June 1945, in San Francisco, at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, and came into force on 24 October 1945. The Statute of the International Court of Justice is an integral part of the Charter. Amendments to Articles 23, 27 and 61 of the Charter were adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 1963 and came into force on 31 August 1965. A further amendment to Article 61 was adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 1971 and came into force on 24 September 1973. An amendment to Article 109, adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 1965, came into force on 12 June 1968. The amendment to Article 23 enlarges the membership of the Security Council from 11 to 15. The amended Article 27 provides that decisions of the Security Council on procedural matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of nine members (formerly seven) and on all other matters by an affirmative vote of nine members (formerly seven), including the concurring votes of the five permanent members of the Security Council.
The amendment to Article 61, which entered into force on 31 August 1965, enlarges the membership of the Economic and Social Council from 18 to 27. The subsequent amendment to that Article, which entered into force on 24 September 1973, further increases the membership of the Council from 27 to 54. The amendment to Article 109, which relates to the first paragraph of that Article, provides that a General Conference of Member States for the purpose of reviewing the Charter may be held at a date and place to be fixed by a two-thirds vote of the members of the General Assembly and by a vote of any nine members (formerly seven) of the Security Council. Paragraph 3 of Article 109, which deals with the consideration of a possible review conference during the tenth regular session of the General Assembly, has been retained in its original form in its reference to a “vote of any seven members of the Security Council”, the paragraph having been acted upon in 1955 by the General Assembly, at its tenth regular session, and by the Security Council.
WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
Chapter I PURPOSES AND PRINCIPLES
AND FOR THESE ENDS to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours, and to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples, HAVE RESOLVED TO COMBINE OUR EFFORTS TO ACCOMPLISH THESE AIMS Accordingly, our respective Governments, through representatives assembled in the city of San Francisco, who have exhibited their full powers found to be in good and due form, have agreed to the present Charter of the United Nations and do hereby establish an international organization to be known as the United Nations.
Article 1 The Purposes of the United Nations are: 1. To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace; 2. To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace; 3. To achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; and 4. To be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.
Article 2 The Organization and its Members, in pursuit of the Purposes stated in Article 1, shall act in accordance with the following Principles: 1. The Organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its Members. 2. All Members, in order to ensure to all of them the rights and benefits resulting from membership, shall fulfil in good faith the obligations assumed by them in accordance with the present Charter.
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Article 3 The original Members of the United Nations shall be the states which, having participated in the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco or having previously signed the Declaration by United Nations of 1 January 1942, sign the present Charter and ratify it in accordance with Article 110.
Article 4 1. Membership in the United Nations is open to all other peace-loving states which accept the obligations contained in the present Charter and, in the judgment of the Organization, are able and willing to carry out these obligations. 2. The admission of any such state to membership in the United Nations will be effected by a decision of the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council.
Article 5 A Member of the United Nations against which preventive or enforcement action has been taken by the Security Council may be suspended from the exercise of the rights and privileges of membership by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council. The exercise of these rights and privileges may be restored by the Security Council.
Article 6 A Member of the United Nations which has persistently violated the Principles contained in the present Charter may be expelled from the Organization by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council. Chapter III ORGANS
Article 7 1. There are established as the principal organs of the United Nations: a General Assembly, a Security Council, an Economic and Social Council, a Trusteeship Council, an International Court of Justice, and a Secretariat. 2. Such subsidiary organs as may be found necessary may be established in accordance with the present Charter.
Article 8 The United Nations shall place no restrictions on the eligibility of men and women to participate in any capacity and under conditions of equality in its principal and subsidiary organs.
Chapter IV THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Composition
Article 9
1. The General Assembly shall consist of all the Members of the United Nations. 2. Each Member shall have not more than five representatives in the General Assembly.
Functions and Powers Article 10 The General Assembly may discuss any questions or any matters within the scope of the present Charter or relating to the powers and functions of any organs provided for in the present Charter, and, except as provided in Article 12, may make recommendations to the Members of the United Nations or to the Security Council or both on any such questions or matters.
Article 11 1. The General Assembly may consider the general principles of co-operation in the maintenance of international peace and security, including the principles governing disarmament and the regulation of armaments, and may make recommendations with regard to such principles to the Members or to the Security Council or to both. 2. The General Assembly may discuss any questions relating to the maintenance of international peace and security brought before it by any Member of the United Nations, or by the Security Council, or by a state which is not a Member of the United Nations in accordance with Article 35, paragraph 2, and, except as provided in Article 12, may make recommendations with regard to any such questions to the state or states concerned or to the Security Council or to both. Any such question on which action is necessary shall be referred to the Security Council by the General Assembly either before or after discussion. 3. The General Assembly may call the attention of the Security Council to situations which are likely to endanger international peace and security. 4. The powers of the General Assembly set forth in this Article shall not limit the general scope of Article 10.
Article 12 1. While the Security Council is exercising in respect of any dispute or situation the functions assigned to it in the present Charter, the General Assembly shall not make any recommendation with regard to that dispute or situation unless the Security Council so requests. 2. The Secretary-General, with the consent of the Security Council, shall notify the General Assembly at each session of any matters relative to the maintenance of international peace and security which are being dealt with by the Security Council and shall similarly notify the General Assembly, or the Members of the United Nations if the General Assembly is not in session, immediately the Security Council ceases to deal with such matters.
Article 13 1. The General Assembly shall initiate studies and make recommendations for the purpose of: a. promoting international co-operation in the political field and encouraging the progressive development of international law and its codification; b. promoting international co-operation in the economic, social, cultural, educational and health fields, and assisting in the realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion.
Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice 2. The further responsibilities, functions and powers of the General Assembly with respect to matters mentioned in paragraph 1 (b) above are set forth in Chapters IX and X.
Article 14 Subject to the provisions of Article 12, the General Assembly may recommend measures for the peaceful adjustment of any situation, regardless of origin, which it deems likely to impair the general welfare or friendly relations among nations, including situations resulting from a violation of the provisions of the present Charter setting forth the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations.
Article 15 1. The General Assembly shall receive and consider annual and special reports from the Security Council; these reports shall include an account of the measures that the Security Council has decided upon or taken to maintain international peace and security. 2. The General Assembly shall receive and consider reports from the other organs of the United Nations.
Article 16 The General Assembly shall perform such functions with respect to the international trusteeship system as are assigned to it under Chapters XII and XIII, including the approval of the trusteeship agreements for areas not designated as strategic.
Article 17 1. The General Assembly shall consider and approve the budget of the Organization. 2. The expenses of the Organization shall be borne by the Members as apportioned by the General Assembly. 3. The General Assembly shall consider and approve any financial and budgetary arrangements with specialized agencies referred to in Article 57 and shall examine the administrative budgets of such specialized agencies with a view to making recommendations to the agencies concerned.
Voting Article 18 1. Each member of the General Assembly shall have one vote. 2. Decisions of the General Assembly on important questions shall be made by a two-thirds majority of the members present and voting. These questions shall include: recommendations with respect to the maintenance of international peace and security, the election of the non-permanent members of the Security Council, the election of the members of the Economic and Social Council, the election of members of the Trusteeship Council in accordance with paragraph 1 (c) of Article 86, the admission of new Members to the United Nations, the suspension of the rights and privileges of membership, the expulsion of Members, questions relating to the operation of the trusteeship system, and budgetary questions. 3. Decisions on other questions, including the determination of additional categories of questions to be decided by a two thirds majority, shall be made by a majority of the members present and voting.
Procedure
Article 20
The General Assembly shall meet in regular annual sessions and in such special sessions as occasion may require. Special sessions shall be convoked by the Secretary-General at the request of the Security Council or of a majority of the Members of the United Nations.
Article 21 The General Assembly shall adopt its own rules of procedure. It shall elect its President for each session.
Article 22 The General Assembly may establish such subsidiary organs as it deems necessary for the performance of its functions. Chapter V THE SECURITY COUNCIL
Composition
Article 231
1. The Security Council shall consist of fifteen Members of the United Nations. The Republic of China, France, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America shall be permanent members of the Security Council. The General Assembly shall elect ten other Members of the United Nations to be nonpermanent members of the Security Council, due regard being specially paid, in the first instance to the contribution of Members of the United Nations to the maintenance of international peace and security and to the other purposes of the Organization, and also to equitable geographical distribution. 2. The non-permanent members of the Security Council shall be elected for a term of two years. In the first election of the non-permanent members after the increase of the membership of the Security Council from eleven to fifteen, two of the four additional members shall be chosen for a term of one year. A retiring member shall not be eligible for immediate re-election. 3. Each member of the Security Council shall have one representative.
Functions and Powers
Article 24
1. In order to ensure prompt and effective action by the United Nations, its Members confer on the Security Council primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security, and agree that in carrying out its duties under this responsibility the Security Council acts on their behalf. 2. In discharging these duties the Security Council shall act in accordance with the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations. The specific powers granted to the Security Council 1
Article 19 A Member of the United Nations which is in arrears in the payment of its financial contributions to the Organization shall have no vote in the General Assembly if the amount of its arrears equals or exceeds the amount of the contributions due from it for the preceding two full years. The General Assembly may, nevertheless, permit such a Member to vote if it is satisfied that the failure to pay is due to conditions beyond the control of the Member.
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Amended text of Article 23, which came into force on 31 August 1965. The text of Article 23 before it was amended read as follows: 1. The Security Council shall consist of eleven Members of the United Nations. The Republic of China, France, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America shall be permanent members of the Security Council. The General Assembly shall elect six other Members of the United Nations to be non-permanent members of the Security Council, due regard being specially paid in the first instance to the contributions of Members of the United Nations to the maintenance of international peace and security and to the other purposes of the Organization, and also to equitable geographical distribution. 2. The non-permanent members of the Security Council shall be elected for a term of two years. In the first election of the non-permanent members, however, three shall be chosen for a term of one year. A retiring member shall not be eligible for immediate re-election. 3. Each member of the Security Council shall have one representative.
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Article 25 The Members of the United Nations agree to accept and carry out the decisions of the Security Council in accordance with the present Charter.
Article 26 In order to promote the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion for armaments of the world’s human and economic resources, the Security Council shall be responsible for formulating, with the assistance of the Military Staff Committee referred to in Article 47, plans to be submitted to the Members of the United Nations for the establishment of a system for the regulation of armaments.
Voting
Article 27 2
1. Each member of the Security Council shall have one vote. 2. Decisions of the Security Council on procedural matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of nine members. 3. Decisions of the Security Council on all other matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of nine members including the concurring votes of the permanent members; provided that, in decisions under Chapter VI, and under paragraph 3 of Article 52, a party to a dispute shall abstain from voting.
Procedure
Article 28
1. The Security Council shall be so organized as to be able to function continuously. Each member of the Security Council shall for this purpose be represented at all times at the seat of the Organization. 2. The Security Council shall hold periodic meetings at which each of its members may, if it so desires, be represented by a member of the government or by some other specially designated representative. 3. The Security Council may hold meetings at such places other than the seat of the Organization as in its judgment will best facilitate its work.
Article 29 The Security Council may establish such subsidiary organs as it deems necessary for the performance of its functions.
Article 30 The Security Council shall adopt its own rules of procedure, including the method of selecting its President.
Article 31 Any Member of the United Nations which is not a member of the Security Council may participate, without vote, in the discussion of any question brought before the Security Council whenever the latter considers that the interests of that Member are specially affected. 2
Amended text of Article 27, which came into force on 31 August 1965. The text of Article 27 before it was amended read as follows: 1. Each member of the Security Council shall have one vote. 2. Decisions of the Security Council on procedural matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of seven members. 3. Decisions of the Security Council on all other matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of seven members including the concurring votes of the permanent members; provided that, in decisions under Chapter VI, and under paragraph 3 of Article 52, a party to a dispute shall abstain from voting.
Article 32 Any Member of the United Nations which is not a member of the Security Council or any state which is not a Member of the United Nations, if it is a party to a dispute under consideration by the Security Council, shall be invited to participate, without vote, in the discussion relating to the dispute. The Security Council shall lay down such conditions as it deems just for the participation of a state which is not a Member of the United Nations. Chapter VI PACIFIC SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES
Article 33 1. The parties to any dispute, the continuance of which is likely to endanger the maintenance of international peace and security, shall, first of all, seek a solution by negotiation, enquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement, resort to regional agencies or arrangements, or other peaceful means of their own choice. 2. The Security Council shall, when it deems necessary, call upon the parties to settle their dispute by such means.
Article 34 The Security Council may investigate any dispute, or any situation which might lead to international friction or give rise to a dispute, in order to determine whether the continuance of the dispute or situation is likely to endanger the maintenance of international peace and security.
Article 35 1. Any Member of the United Nations may bring any dispute, or any situation of the nature referred to in Article 34, to the attention of the Security Council or of the General Assembly. 2. A state which is not a Member of the United Nations may bring to the attention of the Security Council or of the General Assembly any dispute to which it is a party if it accepts in advance, for the purposes of the dispute, the obligations of pacific settlement provided in the present Charter. 3. The proceedings of the General Assembly in respect of matters brought to its attention under this Article will be subject to the provisions of Articles 11 and 12.
Article 36 1. The Security Council may, at any stage of a dispute of the nature referred to in Article 33 or of a situation of like nature, recommend appropriate procedures or methods of adjustment. 2. The Security Council should take into consideration any procedures for the settlement of the dispute which have already been adopted by the parties. 3. In making recommendations under this Article the Security Council should also take into consideration that legal disputes should as a general rule be referred by the parties to the International Court of Justice in accordance with the provisions of the Statute of the Court.
Article 37 1. Should the parties to a dispute of the nature referred to in Article 33 fail to settle it by the means indicated in that Article, they shall refer it to the Security Council. 2. If the Security Council deems that the continuance of the dispute is in fact likely to endanger the maintenance of international peace and security, it shall decide whether to take action under Article 36 or to recommend such terms of settlement as it may consider appropriate.
Article 38 Without prejudice to the provisions of Articles 33 to 37, the Security Council may, if all the parties to any dispute so request,
Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice make recommendations to the parties with a view to a pacific settlement of the dispute. Chapter VII ACTION WITH RESPECT TO THREATS TO THE PEACE, BREACHES OF THE PEACE, AND ACTS OF AGGRESSION
Article 39 The Security Council shall determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression and shall make recommendations, or decide what measures shall be taken in accordance with Articles 41 and 42, to maintain or restore international peace and security.
Article 40 In order to prevent an aggravation of the situation, the Security Council may, before making the recommendations or deciding upon the measures provided for in Article 39, call upon the parties concerned to comply with such provisional measures as it deems necessary or desirable. Such provisional measures shall be without prejudice to the rights, claims or position of the parties concerned. The Security Council shall duly take account of failure to comply with such provisional measures.
Article 41 The Security Council may decide what measures not involving the use of armed force are to be employed to give effect to its decisions, and it may call upon the Members of the United Nations to apply such measures. These may include complete or partial interruption of economic relations and of rail, sea, air, postal, telegraphic, radio and other means of communication, and the severance of diplomatic relations.
Article 42 Should the Security Council consider that measures provided for in Article 41 would be inadequate or have proved to be inadequate, it may take such action by air, sea or land forces as may be necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security. Such action may include demonstrations, blockade, and other operations by air, sea, or land forces of Members of the United Nations.
Article 43 1. All Members of the United Nations, in order to contribute to the maintenance of international peace and security, undertake to make available to the Security Council, on its call and in accordance with a special agreement or agreements, armed forces, assistance and facilities, including rights of passage, necessary for the purpose of maintaining international peace and security. 2. Such agreement or agreements shall govern the numbers and types of forces, their degree of readiness and general location, and the nature of the facilities and assistance to be provided. 3. The agreement or agreements shall be negotiated as soon as possible on the initiative of the Security Council. They shall be concluded between the Security Council and Members or between the Security Council and groups of Members and shall be subject to ratification by the signatory states in accordance with their respective constitutional processes.
Article 44 When the Security Council has decided to use force it shall, before calling upon a Member not represented on it to provide armed forces in fulfilment of the obligations assumed under Article 43, invite that Member, if the Member so desires, to participate in the decisions of the Security Council concerning the employment of contingents of that Member’s armed forces.
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Article 45 In order to enable the United Nations to take urgent military measures, Members shall hold immediately available national airforce contingents for combined international enforcement action. The strength and degree of readiness of these contingents and plans for their combined action shall be determined, within the limits laid down in the special agreement or agreements referred to in Article 43, by the Security Council with the assistance of the Military Staff Committee.
Article 46 Plans for the application of armed force shall be made by the Security Council with the assistance of the Military Staff Committee.
Article 47 1. There shall be established a Military Staff Committee to advise and assist the Security Council on all questions relating to the Security Council’s military requirements for the maintenance of international peace and security, the employment and command of forces placed at its disposal, the regulation of armaments, and possible disarmament. 2. The Military Staff Committee shall consist of the Chiefs of Staff of the permanent members of the Security Council or their representatives. Any Member of the United Nations not permanently represented on the Committee shall be invited by the Committee to be associated with it when the efficient discharge of the Committee’s responsibilities requires the participation of that Member in its work. 3. The Military Staff Committee shall be responsible under the Security Council for the strategic direction of any armed forces placed at the disposal of the Security Council. Questions relating to the command of such forces shall be worked out subsequently. 4. The Military Staff Committee, with the authorization of the Security Council and after consultation with appropriate regional agencies, may establish regional sub-committees.
Article 48 1. The action required to carry out the decisions of the Security Council for the maintenance of international peace and security shall be taken by all the Members of the United Nations or by some of them, as the Security Council may determine. 2. Such decisions shall be carried out by the Members of the United Nations directly and through their action in the appropriate international agencies of which they are members.
Article 49 The Members of the United Nations shall join in affording mutual assistance in carrying out the measures decided upon by the Security Council.
Article 50 If preventive or enforcement measures against any state are taken by the Security Council, any other state, whether a Member of the United Nations or not, which finds itself confronted with special economic problems arising from the carrying out of those measures shall have the right to consult the Security Council with regard to a solution of those problems.
Article 51 Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security. Measures taken by Members in the exercise of this right of self-defence shall be immediately reported to the Security Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security.
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Article 52 1. Nothing in the present Charter precludes the existence of regional arrangements or agencies for dealing with such matters relating to the maintenance of international peace and security as are appropriate for regional action, provided that such arrangements or agencies and their activities are consistent with the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations. 2. The Members of the United Nations entering into such arrangements or constituting such agencies shall make every effort to achieve pacific settlement of local disputes through such regional arrangements or by such regional agencies before referring them to the Security Council. 3. The Security Council shall encourage the development of pacific settlement of local disputes through such regional arrangements or by such regional agencies either on the initiative of the states concerned or by reference from the Security Council. 4. This Article in no way impairs the application of Articles 34 and 35.
Article 53 1. The Security Council shall, where appropriate, utilize such regional arrangements or agencies for enforcement action under its authority. But no enforcement action shall be taken under regional arrangements or by regional agencies without the authorization of the Security Council, with the exception of measures against any enemy state, as defined in paragraph 2 of this Article, provided for pursuant to Article 107 or in regional arrangements directed against renewal of aggressive policy on the part of any such state, until such time as the Organization may, on request of the Governments concerned, be charged with the responsibility for preventing further aggression by such a state. 2. The term enemy state as used in paragraph 1 of this Article applies to any state which during the Second World War has been an enemy of any signatory of the present Charter.
Article 54 The Security Council shall at all times be kept fully informed of activities undertaken or in contemplation under regional arrangements or by regional agencies for the maintenance of international peace and security. Chapter IX INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CO-OPERATION
Article 55 With a view to the creation of conditions of stability and well-being which are necessary for peaceful and friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, the United Nations shall promote: a. higher standards of living, full employment, and conditions of economic and social progress and development; b. solutions of international economic, social, health, and related problems; and international cultural and educational co-operation; and c. universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion.
Article 57 1. The various specialized agencies, established by intergovernmental agreement and having wide international responsibilities, as defined in their basic instruments, in economic, social, cultural, educational, health, and related fields, shall be brought into relationship with the United Nations in accordance with the provisions of Article 63. 2. Such agencies thus brought into relationship with the United Nations are hereinafter referred to as specialized agencies.
Article 58 The Organization shall make recommendations for the coordination of the policies and activities of the specialized agencies.
Article 59 The Organization shall, where appropriate, initiate negotiations among the states concerned for the creation of any new specialized agencies required for the accomplishment of the purposes set forth in Article 55.
Article 60 Responsibility for the discharge of the functions of the Organization set forth in this Chapter shall be vested in the General Assembly and, under the authority of the General Assembly, in the Economic and Social Council, which shall have for this purpose the powers set forth in Chapter X. Chapter X THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL
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1. The Economic and Social Council shall consist of fiftyfour Members of the United Nations elected by the General Assembly. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, eighteen members of the Economic and Social Council shall be elected each year for a term of three years. A retiring member shall be eligible for immediate re-election. 3. At the first election after the increase in the membership of the Economic and Social Council from twenty-seven to fifty-four members, in addition to the members elected in place of the nine members whose term of office expires at the end of that year, twenty-seven additional members shall be elected. Of these twenty-seven additional members, the term of office of nine members so elected shall expire at the end of one year, and of nine other members at the end of two years, in accordance with arrangements made by the General Assembly. 4. Each member of the Economic and Social Council shall have one representative. 3
Article 56 All Members pledge themselves to take joint and separate action in co-operation with the Organization for the achievement of the purposes set forth in Article 55.
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Amended text of Article 61, which came into force on 24 September 1973. The text of Article 61 as previously amended on 31 August 1965 read as follows: 1. The Economic and Social Council shall consist of twenty-seven Members of the United Nations elected by the General Assembly. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, nine members of the Economic and Social Council shall be elected each year for a term of three years. A retiring member shall be eligible for immediate re-election. 3. At the first election after the increase in the membership of the Economic and Social Council from eighteen to twenty-seven members, in addition to the members elected in place of the six members whose term of office expires at the end of that year, nine additional members shall be elected. Of these nine additional members, the term of office of three members so elected shall expire at the end of one year, and of three other members at the end of two years, in accordance with arrangements made by the General Assembly. 4. Each member of the Economic and Social Council shall have one representative.
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1. The Economic and Social Council may make or initiate studies and reports with respect to international economic, social, cultural, educational, health, and related matters and may make recommendations with respect to any such matters to the General Assembly, to the Members of the United Nations, and to the specialized agencies concerned. 2. It may make recommendations for the purpose of promoting respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all. 3. It may prepare draft conventions for submission to the General Assembly, with respect to matters falling within its competence. 4. It may call, in accordance with the rules prescribed by the United Nations, international conferences on matters falling within its competence.
Article 63 1. The Economic and Social Council may enter into agreements with any of the agencies referred to in Article 57, defining the terms on which the agency concerned shall be brought into relationship with the United Nations. Such agreements shall be subject to approval by the General Assembly. 2. It may co-ordinate the activities of the specialized agencies through consultation with and recommendations to such agencies and through recommendations to the General Assembly and to the Members of the United Nations.
Article 64 1. The Economic and Social Council may take appropriate steps to obtain regular reports from the specialized agencies. It may make arrangements with the Members of the United Nations and with the specialized agencies to obtain reports on the steps taken to give effect to its own recommendations and to recommendations on matters falling within its competence made by the General Assembly. 2. It may communicate its observations on these reports to the General Assembly.
Article 65 The Economic and Social Council may furnish information to the Security Council and shall assist the Security Council upon its request.
Article 66 1. The Economic and Social Council shall perform such functions as fall within its competence in connection with the carrying out of the recommendations of the General Assembly. 2. It may, with the approval of the General Assembly, perform services at the request of Members of the United Nations and at the request of specialized agencies. 3. It shall perform such other functions as are specified elsewhere in the present Charter or as may be assigned to it by the General Assembly.
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1. Each member of the Economic and Social Council shall have one vote. 2. Decisions of the Economic and Social Council shall be made by a majority of the members present and voting.
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Article 69 The Economic and Social Council shall invite any Member of the United Nations to participate, without vote, in its deliberations on any matter of particular concern to that Member.
Article 70 The Economic and Social Council may make arrangements for representatives of the specialized agencies to participate, without vote, in its deliberations and in those of the commissions established by it, and for its representatives to participate in the deliberations of the specialized agencies.
Article 71 The Economic and Social Council may make suitable arrangements for consultation with non-governmental organizations which are concerned with matters within its competence. Such arrangements may be made with international organizations and, where appropriate, with national organizations after consultation with the Member of the United Nations concerned.
Article 72 1. The Economic and Social Council shall adopt its own rules of procedure, including the method of selecting its President. 2. The Economic and Social Council shall meet as required in accordance with its rules, which shall include provision for the convening of meetings on the request of a majority of its members. Chapter XI DECLARATION REGARDING NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES
Article 73 Members of the United Nations which have or assume responsibilities for the administration of territories whose peoples have not yet attained a full measure of self-government recognize the principle that the interests of the inhabitants of these territories are paramount, and accept as a sacred trust the obligation to promote to the utmost, within the system of international peace and security established by the present Charter, the well-being of the inhabitants of these territories and, to this end: a. to ensure, with due respect for the culture of the peoples concerned, their political, economic, social, and educational advancement, their just treatment, and their protection against abuses; b. to develop self-government, to take due account of the political aspirations of the peoples, and to assist them in the progressive development of their free political institutions, according to the particular circumstances of each territory and its peoples and their varying stages of advancement; c. to further international peace and security; d. to promote constructive measures of development, to encourage research, and to co-operate with one another and, when and where appropriate, with specialized international bodies with a view to the practical achievement of the social, economic, and scientific purposes set forth in this Article; and e. to transmit regularly to the Secretary-General for information purposes, subject to such limitation as security and constitutional considerations may require, statistical and other information of a technical nature relating to economic, social, and educational conditions in the territories for which they are respectively responsible other than those territories to which Chapters XII and XIII apply.
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The Economic and Social Council shall set up commissions in economic and social fields and for the promotion of human rights, and such other commissions as may be required for the performance of its functions.
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Article 75 The United Nations shall establish under its authority an international trusteeship system for the administration and supervision of such territories as may be placed thereunder by subsequent individual agreements. These territories are hereinafter referred to as trust territories.
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The basic objectives of the trusteeship system, in accordance with the Purposes of the United Nations laid down in Article 1 of the present Charter, shall be: a. to further international peace and security; b. to promote the political, economic, social, and educational advancement of the inhabitants of the trust territories, and their progressive development towards self-government or independence as may be appropriate to the particular circumstances of each territory and its peoples and the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned, and as may be provided by the terms of each trusteeship agreement; c. to encourage respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion, and to encourage recognition of the interdependence of the peoples of the world; and d. to ensure equal treatment in social, economic, and commercial matters for all Members of the United Nations and their nationals, and also equal treatment for the latter in the administration of justice, without prejudice to the attainment of the foregoing objectives and subject to the provisions of Article 80.
Article 77 1. The trusteeship system shall apply to such territories in the following categories as may be placed thereunder by means of trusteeship agreements: a. territories now held under mandate; b. territories which may be detached from enemy states as a result of the Second World War; and c. territories voluntarily placed under the system by states responsible for their administration. 2. It will be a matter for subsequent agreement as to which territories in the foregoing categories will be brought under the trusteeship system and upon what terms.
Article 78 The trusteeship system shall not apply to territories which have become Members of the United Nations, relationship among which shall be based on respect for the principle of sovereign equality.
2. Paragraph 1 of this Article shall not be interpreted as giving grounds for delay or postponement of the negotiation and conclusion of agreements for placing mandated and other territories under the trusteeship system as provided for in Article 77.
Article 81 The trusteeship agreement shall in each case include the terms under which the trust territory will be administered and designate the authority which will exercise the administration of the trust territory. Such authority, hereinafter called the administering authority, may be one or more states or the Organization itself.
Article 82 There may be designated, in any trusteeship agreement, a strategic area or areas which may include part or all of the trust territory to which the agreement applies, without prejudice to any special agreement or agreements made under Article 43.
Article 83 1. All functions of the United Nations relating to strategic areas, including the approval of the terms of the trusteeship agreements and of their alteration or amendment, shall be exercised by the Security Council. 2. The basic objectives set forth in Article 76 shall be applicable to the people of each strategic area. 3. The Security Council shall, subject to the provisions of the trusteeship agreements and without prejudice to security considerations, avail itself of the assistance of the Trusteeship Council to perform those functions of the United Nations under the trusteeship system relating to political, economic, social, and educational matters in the strategic areas.
Article 84 It shall be the duty of the administering authority to ensure that the trust territory shall play its part in the maintenance of international peace and security. To this end the administering authority may make use of volunteer forces, facilities, and assistance from the trust territory in carrying out the obligations towards the Security Council undertaken in this regard by the administering authority, as well as for local defence and the maintenance of law and order within the trust territory.
Article 85 1. The functions of the United Nations with regard to trusteeship agreements for all areas not designated as strategic, including the approval of the terms of the trusteeship agreements and of their alteration or amendment, shall be exercised by the General Assembly. 2. The Trusteeship Council, operating under the authority of the General Assembly, shall assist the General Assembly in carrying out these functions. Chapter XIII THE TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL
Article 79 The terms of trusteeship for each territory to be placed under the trusteeship system, including any alteration or amendment, shall be agreed upon by the states directly concerned, including the mandatory power in the case of territories held under mandate by a Member of the United Nations, and shall be approved as provided for in Articles 83 and 85.
Article 80 1. Except as may be agreed upon in individual trusteeship agreements, made under Articles 77, 79 and 81, placing each territory under the trusteeship system, and until such agreements have been concluded, nothing in this Chapter shall be construed in or of itself to alter in any manner the rights whatsoever of any states or any peoples or the terms of existing international instruments to which Members of the United Nations may respectively be parties.
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1. The Trusteeship Council shall consist of the following Members of the United Nations: a. those Members administering trust territories; b. such of those Members mentioned by name in Article 23 as are not administering trust territories; and c. as many other Members elected for three-year terms by the General Assembly as may be necessary to ensure that the total number of members of the Trusteeship Council is equally divided between those Members of the United Nations which administer trust territories and those which do not. 2. Each member of the Trusteeship Council shall designate one specially qualified person to represent it therein.
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The General Assembly and, under its authority, the Trusteeship Council, in carrying out their functions, may: a. consider reports submitted by the administering authority; b. accept petitions and examine them in consultation with the administering authority; c. provide for periodic visits to the respective trust territories at times agreed upon with the administering authority; and d. take these and other actions in conformity with the terms of the trusteeship agreements.
Article 88 The Trusteeship Council shall formulate a questionnaire on the political, economic, social, and educational advancement of the inhabitants of each trust territory, and the administering authority for each trust territory within the competence of the General Assembly shall make an annual report to the General Assembly upon the basis of such questionnaire.
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1. Each member of the Trusteeship Council shall have one vote. 2. Decisions of the Trusteeship Council shall be made by a majority of the members present and voting.
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1. The Trusteeship Council shall adopt its own rules of procedure, including the method of selecting its President. 2. The Trusteeship Council shall meet as required in accordance with its rules, which shall include provision for the convening of meetings on the request of a majority of its members.
Article 91 The Trusteeship Council shall, when appropriate, avail itself of the assistance of the Economic and Social Council and of the specialized agencies in regard to matters with which they are respectively concerned. Chapter XIV THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
Article 92 The International Court of Justice shall be the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. It shall function in accordance with the annexed Statute, which is based upon the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice and forms an integral part of the present Charter.
Article 93 1. All Members of the United Nations are ipso facto parties to the Statute of the International Court of Justice. 2. A state which is not a Member of the United Nations may become a party to the Statute of the International Court of Justice on conditions to be determined in each case by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council.
Article 94 1. Each Member of the United Nations undertakes to comply with the decision of the International Court of Justice in any case to which it is a party. 2. If any party to a case fails to perform the obligations incumbent upon it under a judgment rendered by the Court, the other party may have recourse to the Security Council, which may, if it deems necessary, make recommendations or decide upon measures to be taken to give effect to the judgment.
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Article 95 Nothing in the present Charter shall prevent Members of the United Nations from entrusting the solution of their differences to other tribunals by virtue of agreements already in existence or which may be concluded in the future.
Article 96 1. The General Assembly or the Security Council may request the International Court of Justice to give an advisory opinion on any legal question. 2. Other organs of the United Nations and specialized agencies, which may at any time be so authorized by the General Assembly, may also request advisory opinions of the Court on legal questions arising within the scope of their activities. Chapter XV THE SECRETARIAT
Article 97 The Secretariat shall comprise a Secretary-General and such staff as the Organization may require. The Secretary-General shall be appointed by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council. He shall be the chief administrative officer of the Organization.
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The Secretary-General shall act in that capacity in all meetings of the General Assembly, of the Security Council, of the Economic and Social Council, and of the Trusteeship Council, and shall perform such other functions as are entrusted to him by these organs. The Secretary-General shall make an annual report to the General Assembly on the work of the Organization.
Article 99 The Secretary-General may bring to the attention of the Security Council any matter which in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security.
Article 100 1. In the performance of their duties the Secretary-General and the staff shall not seek or receive instructions from any government or from any other authority external to the Organization. They shall refrain from any action which might reflect on their position as international officials responsible only to the Organization. 2. Each Member of the United Nations undertakes to respect the exclusively international character of the responsibilities of the Secretary-General and the staff and not to seek to influence them in the discharge of their responsibilities.
Article 101 1. The staff shall be appointed by the Secretary-General under regulations established by the General Assembly. 2. Appropriate staffs shall be permanently assigned to the Economic and Social Council, the Trusteeship Council, and, as required, to other organs of the United Nations. These staffs shall form a part of the Secretariat. 3. The paramount consideration in the employment of the staff and in the determination of the conditions of service shall be the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity. Due regard shall be paid to the importance of recruiting the staff on as wide a geographical basis as possible. Chapter XVI MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Article 102 1. Every treaty and every international agreement entered into by any Member of the United Nations after the present Charter comes into force shall as soon as possible be registered with the Secretariat and published by it.
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Article 103 In the event of a conflict between the obligations of the Members of the United Nations under the present Charter and their obligations under any other international agreement, their obligations under the present Charter shall prevail.
Article 104 The Organization shall enjoy in the territory of each of its Members such legal capacity as may be necessary for the exercise of its functions and the fulfilment of its purposes.
Article 105 1. The Organization shall enjoy in the territory of each of its Members such privileges and immunities as are necessary for the fulfilment of its purposes. 2. Representatives of the Members of the United Nations and officials of the Organization shall similarly enjoy such privileges and immunities as are necessary for the independent exercise of their functions in connection with the Organization. 3. The General Assembly may make recommendations with a view to determining the details of the application of paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article or may propose conventions to the Members of the United Nations for this purpose. Chapter XVII TRANSITIONAL SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS
Article 106 Pending the coming into force of such special agreements referred to in Article 43 as in the opinion of the Security Council enable it to begin the exercise of its responsibilities under Article 42, the parties to the Four-Nation Declaration, signed at Moscow, 30 October 1943, and France, shall, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 5 of that Declaration, consult with one another and as occasion requires with other Members of the United Nations with a view to such joint action on behalf of the Organization as may be necessary for the purpose of maintaining international peace and security.
Article 107 Nothing in the present Charter shall invalidate or preclude action, in relation to any state which during the Second World War has been an enemy of any signatory to the present Charter, taken or authorized as a result of that war by the Governments having responsibility for such action. Chapter XVIII AMENDMENTS
held at a date and place to be fixed by a two-thirds vote of the members of the General Assembly and by a vote of any nine members of the Security Council. Each Member of the United Nations shall have one vote in the conference. 2. Any alteration of the present Charter recommended by a two-thirds vote of the conference shall take effect when ratified in accordance with their respective constitutional processes by two thirds of the Members of the United Nations including all the permanent members of the Security Council. 3. If such a conference has not been held before the tenth annual session of the General Assembly following the coming into force of the present Charter, the proposal to call such a conference shall be placed on the agenda of that session of the General Assembly, and the conference shall be held if so decided by a majority vote of the members of the General Assembly and by a vote of any seven members of the Security Council. Chapter XIX RATIFICATION AND SIGNATURE
Article 110 1. The present Charter shall be ratified by the signatory states in accordance with their respective constitutional processes. 2. The ratifications shall be deposited with the Government of the United States of America, which shall notify all the signatory states of each deposit as well as the Secretary-General of the Organization when he has been appointed. 3. The present Charter shall come into force upon the deposit of ratifications by the Republic of China, France, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America, and by a majority of the other signatory states. A protocol of the ratifications deposited shall thereupon be drawn up by the Government of the United States of America which shall communicate copies thereof to all the signatory states. 4. The states signatory to the present Charter which ratify it after it has come into force will become original Members of the United Nations on the date of the deposit of their respective ratifications.
Article 111 The present Charter, of which the Chinese, French, Russian, English, and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall remain deposited in the archives of the Government of the United States of America. Duly certified copies thereof shall be transmitted by that Government to the Governments of the other signatory states. In faith whereof the representatives of the Governments of the United Nations have signed the present Charter. Done at the city of San Francisco the twenty-sixth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and forty-five.
Article 108 Amendments to the present Charter shall come into force for all Members of the United Nations when they have been adopted by a vote of two thirds of the members of the General Assembly and ratified in accordance with their respective constitutional processes by two thirds of the Members of the United Nations, including all the permanent members of the Security Council.
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Amended text of Article 109, which came into force on 12 June 1968. The text of Article 109 before it was amended read as follows: 1. A General Conference of the Members of the United Nations for the purpose of reviewing the present Charter may be held at a
date and place to be fixed by a two-thirds vote of the members of the General Assembly and by a vote of any seven members of the Security Council. Each Member of the United Nations shall have one vote in the conference. 2. Any alteration of the present Charter recommended by a twothirds vote of the conference shall take effect when ratified in accordance with their respective constitutional processes by two thirds of the Members of the United Nations including all the permanent members of the Security Council. 3. If such a conference has not been held before the tenth annual session of the General Assembly following the coming into force of the present Charter, the proposal to call such a conference shall be placed on the agenda of that session of the General Assembly, and the conference shall be held if so decided by a majority vote of the members of the General Assembly and by a vote of any seven members of the Security Council.
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Statute of the International Court of Justice Article 1 The International Court of Justice established by the Charter of the United Nations as the principal judicial organ of the United Nations shall be constituted and shall function in accordance with the provisions of the present Statute. Chapter I ORGANIZATION OF THE COURT
Article 2 The Court shall be composed of a body of independent judges, elected regardless of their nationality from among persons of high moral character, who possess the qualifications required in their respective countries for appointment to the highest judicial offices, or are jurisconsults of recognized competence in international law.
Article 3 1. The Court shall consist of fifteen members, no two of whom may be nationals of the same state. 2. A person who for the purposes of membership in the Court could be regarded as a national of more than one state shall be deemed to be a national of the one in which he ordinarily exercises civil and political rights.
Article 4 1. The members of the Court shall be elected by the General Assembly and by the Security Council from a list of persons nominated by the national groups in the Permanent Court of Arbitration, in accordance with the following provisions. 2. In the case of Members of the United Nations not represented in the Permanent Court of Arbitration, candidates shall be nominated by national groups appointed for this purpose by their governments under the same conditions as those prescribed for members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration by Article 44 of the Convention of The Hague of 1907 for the pacific settlement of international disputes. 3. The conditions under which a state which is a party to the present Statute but is not a Member of the United Nations may participate in electing the members of the Court shall, in the absence of a special agreement, be laid down by the General Assembly upon recommendation of the Security Council.
Article 5 1. At least three months before the date of the election, the Secretary-General of the United Nations shall address a written request to the members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration belonging to the states which are parties to the present Statute, and to the members of the national groups appointed under Article 4, paragraph 2, inviting them to undertake, within a given time, by national groups, the nomination of persons in a position to accept the duties of a member of the Court. 2. No group may nominate more than four persons, not more than two of whom shall be of their own nationality. In no case may the number of candidates nominated by a group be more than double the number of seats to be filled.
Article 6 Before making these nominations, each national group is recommended to consult its highest court of justice, its legal faculties and schools of law, and its national academies and national sections of international academies devoted to the study of law.
Article 7 1. The Secretary-General shall prepare a list in alphabetical order of all the persons thus nominated. Save as provided in Article 12, paragraph 2, these shall be the only persons eligible.
2. The Secretary-General shall submit this list to the General Assembly and to the Security Council.
Article 8 The General Assembly and the Security Council shall proceed independently of one another to elect the members of the Court.
Article 9 At every election, the electors shall bear in mind not only that the persons to be elected should individually possess the qualifications required, but also that in the body as a whole the representation of the main forms of civilization and of the principal legal systems of the world should be assured.
Article 10 1. Those candidates who obtain an absolute majority of votes in the General Assembly and in the Security Council shall be considered as elected. 2. Any vote of the Security Council, whether for the election of judges or for the appointment of members of the conference envisaged in Article 12, shall be taken without any distinction between permanent and non-permanent members of the Security Council. 3. In the event of more than one national of the same state obtaining an absolute majority of the votes both of the General Assembly and of the Security Council, the eldest of these only shall be considered as elected.
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If, after the first meeting held for the purpose of the election, one or more seats remain to be filled, a second and, if necessary, a third meeting shall take place.
Article 12 1. If, after the third meeting, one or more seats still remain unfilled, a joint conference consisting of six members, three appointed by the General Assembly and three by the Security Council, may be formed at any time at the request of either the General Assembly or the Security Council, for the purpose of choosing by the vote of an absolute majority one name for each seat still vacant, to submit to the General Assembly and the Security Council for their respective acceptance. 2. If the joint conference is unanimously agreed upon any person who fulfils the required conditions, he may be included in its list, even though he was not included in the list of nominations referred to in Article 7. 3. If the joint conference is satisfied that it will not be successful in procuring an election, those members of the Court who have already been elected shall, within a period to be fixed by the Security Council, proceed to fill the vacant seats by selection from among those candidates who have obtained votes either in the General Assembly or in the Security Council. 4. In the event of an equality of votes among the judges, the eldest judge shall have a casting vote.
Article 13 1. The members of the Court shall be elected for nine years and may be re-elected; provided, however, that of the judges elected at the first election, the terms of five judges shall expire at the end of three years and the terms of five more judges shall expire at the end of six years. 2. The judges whose terms are to expire at the end of the above-mentioned initial periods of three and six years shall be chosen by lot to be drawn by the Secretary-General immediately after the first election has been completed. 3. The members of the Court shall continue to discharge their duties until their places have been filled. Though replaced, they shall finish any cases which they may have begun.
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3. Members of the Court shall be bound, unless they are on leave or prevented from attending by illness or other serious reasons duly explained to the President, to hold themselves permanently at the disposal of the Court.
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Vacancies shall be filled by the same method as that laid down for the first election, subject to the following provision: the Secretary-General shall, within one month of the occurrence of the vacancy, proceed to issue the invitations provided for in Article 5, and the date of the election shall be fixed by the Security Council.
1. If, for some special reason, a member of the Court considers that he should not take part in the decision of a particular case, he shall so inform the President. 2. If the President considers that for some special reason one of the members of the Court should not sit in a particular case, he shall give him notice accordingly. 3. If in any such case the member of the Court and the President disagree, the matter shall be settled by the decision of the Court.
Article 15 A member of the Court elected to replace a member whose term of office has not expired shall hold office for the remainder of his predecessor’s term.
Article 16 1. No member of the Court may exercise any political or administrative function, or engage in any other occupation of a professional nature. 2. Any doubt on this point shall be settled by the decision of the Court.
Article 17 1. No member of the Court may act as agent, counsel, or advocate in any case. 2. No member may participate in the decision of any case in which he has previously taken part as agent, counsel, or advocate for one of the parties, or as a member of a national or international court, or of a commission of enquiry, or in any other capacity. 3. Any doubt on this point shall be settled by the decision of the Court.
Article 18 1. No member of the Court can be dismissed unless, in the unanimous opinion of the other members, he has ceased to fulfil the required conditions. 2. Formal notification thereof shall be made to the SecretaryGeneral by the Registrar. 3. This notification makes the place vacant.
Article 19 The members of the Court, when engaged on the business of the Court, shall enjoy diplomatic privileges and immunities.
Article 20 Every member of the Court shall, before taking up his duties, make a solemn declaration in open court that he will exercise his powers impartially and conscientiously.
Article 21 1. The Court shall elect its President and Vice-President for three years; they may be re-elected. 2. The Court shall appoint its Registrar and may provide for the appointment of such other officers as may be necessary.
Article 22 1. The seat of the Court shall be established at The Hague. This, however, shall not prevent the Court from sitting and exercising its functions elsewhere whenever the Court considers it desirable. 2. The President and the Registrar shall reside at the seat of the Court.
Article 23 1. The Court shall remain permanently in session, except during the judicial vacations, the dates and duration of which shall be fixed by the Court. 2. Members of the Court are entitled to periodic leave, the dates and duration of which shall be fixed by the Court, having in mind the distance between The Hague and the home of each judge.
Article 25 1. The full Court shall sit except when it is expressly provided otherwise in the present Statute. 2. Subject to the condition that the number of judges available to constitute the Court is not thereby reduced below eleven, the Rules of the Court may provide for allowing one or more judges, according to circumstances and in rotation, to be dispensed from sitting. 3. A quorum of nine judges shall suffice to constitute the Court.
Article 26 1. The Court may from time to time form one or more chambers, composed of three or more judges as the Court may determine, for dealing with particular categories of cases; for example, labour cases and cases relating to transit and communications. 2. The Court may at any time form a chamber for dealing with a particular case. The number of judges to constitute such a chamber shall be determined by the Court with the approval of the parties. 3. Cases shall be heard and determined by the chambers provided for in this Article if the parties so request.
Article 27 A judgment given by any of the chambers provided for in Articles 26 and 29 shall be considered as rendered by the Court.
Article 28 The chambers provided for in Articles 26 and 29 may, with the consent of the parties, sit and exercise their functions elsewhere than at The Hague.
Article 29 With a view to the speedy dispatch of business, the Court shall form annually a chamber composed of five judges which, at the request of the parties, may hear and determine cases by summary procedure. In addition, two judges shall be selected for the purpose of replacing judges who find it impossible to sit.
Article 30 1. The Court shall frame rules for carrying out its functions. In particular, it shall lay down rules of procedure. 2. The Rules of the Court may provide for assessors to sit with the Court or with any of its chambers, without the right to vote.
Article 31 1. Judges of the nationality of each of the parties shall retain their right to sit in the case before the Court. 2. If the Court includes upon the Bench a judge of the nationality of one of the parties, any other party may choose a person to sit as judge. Such person shall be chosen preferably from among those persons who have been nominated as candidates as provided in Articles 4 and 5. 3. If the Court includes upon the Bench no judge of the nationality of the parties, each of these parties may proceed to choose a judge as provided in paragraph 2 of this Article.
Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice 4. The provisions of this Article shall apply to the case of Articles 26 and 29. In such cases, the President shall request one or, if necessary, two of the members of the Court forming the chamber to give place to the members of the Court of the nationality of the parties concerned, and, failing such, or if they are unable to be present, to the judges specially chosen by the parties. 5. Should there be several parties in the same interest, they shall, for the purpose of the preceding provisions, be reckoned as one party only. Any doubt upon this point shall be settled by the decision of the Court. 6. Judges chosen as laid down in paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of this Article shall fulfil the conditions required by Articles 2, 17 (paragraph 2), 20, and 24 of the present Statute. They shall take part in the decision on terms of complete equality with their colleagues.
Article 32 1. Each member of the Court shall receive an annual salary. 2. The President shall receive a special annual allowance. 3. The Vice-President shall receive a special allowance for every day on which he acts as President. 4. The judges chosen under Article 31, other than members of the Court, shall receive compensation for each day on which they exercise their functions. 5. These salaries, allowances, and compensation shall be fixed by the General Assembly. They may not be decreased during the term of office. 6. The salary of the Registrar shall be fixed by the General Assembly on the proposal of the Court. 7. Regulations made by the General Assembly shall fix the conditions under which retirement pensions may be given to members of the Court and to the Registrar, and the conditions under which members of the Court and the Registrar shall have their travelling expenses refunded. 8. The above salaries, allowances, and compensation shall be free of all taxation.
Article 33
The expenses of the Court shall be borne by the United Nations in such a manner as shall be decided by the General Assembly. Chapter II COMPETENCE OF THE COURT
Article 34 1. Only states may be parties in cases before the Court. 2. The Court, subject to and in conformity with its Rules, may request of public international organizations information relevant to cases before it, and shall receive such information presented by such organizations on their own initiative. 3. Whenever the construction of the constituent instrument of a public international organization or of an international convention adopted thereunder is in question in a case before the Court, the Registrar shall so notify the public international organization concerned and shall communicate to it copies of all the written proceedings.
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Article 36 1. The jurisdiction of the Court comprises all cases which the parties refer to it and all matters specially provided for in the Charter of the United Nations or in treaties and conventions in force. 2. The states parties to the present Statute may at any time declare that they recognize as compulsory ipso facto and without special agreement, in relation to any other state accepting the same obligation, the jurisdiction of the Court in all legal disputes concerning: a. the interpretation of a treaty; b. any question of international law; c. the existence of any fact which, if established, would constitute a breach of an international obligation; d. the nature or extent of the reparation to be made for the breach of an international obligation. 3. The declarations referred to above may be made unconditionally or on condition of reciprocity on the part of several or certain states, or for a certain time. 4. Such declarations shall be deposited with the SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the parties to the Statute and to the Registrar of the Court. 5. Declarations made under Article 36 of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice and which are still in force shall be deemed, as between the parties to the present Statute, to be acceptances of the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice for the period which they still have to run and in accordance with their terms. 6. In the event of a dispute as to whether the Court has jurisdiction, the matter shall be settled by the decision of the Court.
Article 37 Whenever a treaty or convention in force provides for reference of a matter to a tribunal to have been instituted by the League of Nations, or to the Permanent Court of International Justice, the matter shall, as between the parties to the present Statute, be referred to the International Court of Justice.
Article 38 1. The Court, whose function is to decide in accordance with international law such disputes as are submitted to it, shall apply: a. international conventions, whether general or particular, establishing rules expressly recognized by the contesting states; b. international custom, as evidence of a general practice accepted as law; c. the general principles of law recognized by civilized nations; d. subject to the provisions of Article 59, judicial decisions and the teachings of the most highly qualified publicists of the various nations, as subsidiary means for the determination of rules of law. 2. This provision shall not prejudice the power of the Court to decide a case ex aequo et bono, if the parties agree thereto. Chapter III PROCEDURE
Article 35
Article 39
1. The Court shall be open to the states parties to the present Statute. 2. The conditions under which the Court shall be open to other states shall, subject to the special provisions contained in treaties in force, be laid down by the Security Council, but in no case shall such conditions place the parties in a position of inequality before the Court. 3. When a state which is not a Member of the United Nations is a party to a case, the Court shall fix the amount which that party is to contribute towards the expenses of the Court. This provision shall not apply if such state is bearing a share of the expenses of the Court.
1. The official languages of the Court shall be French and English. If the parties agree that the case shall be conducted in French, the judgment shall be delivered in French. If the parties agree that the case shall be conducted in English, the judgment shall be delivered in English. 2. In the absence of an agreement as to which language shall be employed, each party may, in the pleadings, use the language which it prefers; the decision of the Court shall be given in French and English. In this case the Court shall at the same time determine which of the two texts shall be considered as authoritative. 3. The Court shall, at the request of any party, authorize a language other than French or English to be used by that party.
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Article 50
1. Cases are brought before the Court, as the case may be, either by the notification of the special agreement or by a written application addressed to the Registrar. In either case the subject of the dispute and the parties shall be indicated. 2. The Registrar shall forthwith communicate the application to all concerned. 3. He shall also notify the Members of the United Nations through the Secretary-General, and also any other states entitled to appear before the Court.
The Court may, at any time, entrust any individual, body, bureau, commission, or other organization that it may select, with the task of carrying out an enquiry or giving an expert opinion.
Article 41
1. The Court shall have the power to indicate, if it considers that circumstances so require, any provisional measures which ought to be taken to preserve the respective rights of either party. 2. Pending the final decision, notice of the measures suggested shall forthwith be given to the parties and to the Security Council.
Article 42 1. The parties shall be represented by agents. 2. They may have the assistance of counsel or advocates before the Court. 3. The agents, counsel, and advocates of parties before the Court shall enjoy the privileges and immunities necessary to the independent exercise of their duties.
Article 43 1. The procedure shall consist of two parts: written and oral. 2. The written proceedings shall consist of the communication to the Court and to the parties of memorials, counter- memorials and, if necessary, replies; also all papers and documents in support. 3. These communications shall be made through the Registrar, in the order and within the time fixed by the Court. 4. A certified copy of every document produced by one party shall be communicated to the other party. 5. The oral proceedings shall consist of the hearing by the Court of witnesses, experts, agents, counsel, and advocates.
Article 44 1. For the service of all notices upon persons other than the agents, counsel, and advocates, the Court shall apply direct to the government of the state upon whose territory the notice has to be served. 2. The same provision shall apply whenever steps are to be taken to procure evidence on the spot.
Article 45 The hearing shall be under the control of the President or, if he is unable to preside, of the Vice-President; if neither is able to preside, the senior judge present shall preside.
Article 51 During the hearing any relevant questions are to be put to the witnesses and experts under the conditions laid down by the Court in the rules of procedure referred to in Article 30.
Article 52 After the Court has received the proofs and evidence within the time specified for the purpose, it may refuse to accept any further oral or written evidence that one party may desire to present unless the other side consents.
Article 53 1. Whenever one of the parties does not appear before the Court, or fails to defend its case, the other party may call upon the Court to decide in favour of its claim. 2. The Court must, before doing so, satisfy itself, not only that it has jurisdiction in accordance with Articles 36 and 37, but also that the claim is well founded in fact and law.
Article 54 1. When, subject to the control of the Court, the agents, counsel, and advocates have completed their presentation of the case, the President shall declare the hearing closed. 2. The Court shall withdraw to consider the judgment. 3. The deliberations of the Court shall take place in private and remain secret.
Article 55 1. All questions shall be decided by a majority of the judges present. 2. In the event of an equality of votes, the President or the judge who acts in his place shall have a casting vote.
Article 56 1. The judgment shall state the reasons on which it is based. 2. It shall contain the names of the judges who have taken part in the decision.
Article 57 If the judgment does not represent in whole or in part the unanimous opinion of the judges, any judge shall be entitled to deliver a separate opinion.
Article 58
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The judgment shall be signed by the President and by the Registrar. It shall be read in open court, due notice having been given to the agents.
The hearing in Court shall be public, unless the Court shall decide otherwise, or unless the parties demand that the public be not admitted.
The decision of the Court has no binding force except between the parties and in respect of that particular case.
1. Minutes shall be made at each hearing and signed by the Registrar and the President. 2. These minutes alone shall be authentic.
The judgment is final and without appeal. In the event of dispute as to the meaning or scope of the judgment, the Court shall construe it upon the request of any party.
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Article 48 The Court shall make orders for the conduct of the case, shall decide the form and time in which each party must conclude its arguments, and make all arrangements connected with the taking of evidence.
Article 49
The Court may, even before the hearing begins, call upon the agents to produce any document or to supply any explanations. Formal note shall be taken of any refusal.
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Article 61 1. An application for revision of a judgment may be made only when it is based upon the discovery of some fact of such a nature as to be a decisive factor, which fact was, when the judgment was given, unknown to the Court and also the party claiming revision, always provided that such ignorance was not due to negligence. 2. The proceedings for revision shall be opened by a judgment of the Court expressly recording the existence of the new fact,
Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice recognizing that it has such a character as to lay the case open to revision, and declaring the application admissible on this ground. 3. The Court may require previous compliance with the terms of the judgment before it admits proceedings in revision. 4. The application for revision must be made at latest within six months of the discovery of the new fact. 5. No application for revision may be made after the lapse of ten years from the date of the judgment.
Article 62 1. Should a state consider that it has an interest of a legal nature which may be affected by the decision in the case, it may submit a request to the Court to be permitted to intervene. 2. It shall be for the Court to decide upon this request.
Article 63 1. Whenever the construction of a convention to which states other than those concerned in the case are parties is in question, the Registrar shall notify all such states forthwith. 2. Every state so notified has the right to intervene in the proceedings; but if it uses this right, the construction given by the judgment will be equally binding upon it.
Article 64 Unless otherwise decided by the Court, each party shall bear its own costs. Chapter IV ADVISORY OPINIONS
Article 65 1. The Court may give an advisory opinion on any legal question at the request of whatever body may be authorized by or in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations to make such a request. 2. Questions upon which the advisory opinion of the Court is asked shall be laid before the Court by means of a written request containing an exact statement of the question upon which an opinion is required, and accompanied by all documents likely to throw light upon the question.
Article 66 1. The Registrar shall forthwith give notice of the request for an advisory opinion to all states entitled to appear before the Court. 2. The Registrar shall also, by means of a special and direct communication, notify any state entitled to appear before the Court or international organization considered by the Court, or,
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should it not be sitting, by the President, as likely to be able to furnish information on the question, that the Court will be prepared to receive, within a time limit to be fixed by the President, written statements, or to hear, at a public sitting to be held for the purpose, oral statements relating to the question. 3. Should any such state entitled to appear before the Court have failed to receive the special communication referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article, such state may express a desire to submit a written statement or to be heard; and the Court will decide. 4. States and organizations having presented written or oral statements or both shall be permitted to comment on the statements made by other states or organizations in the form, to the extent, and within the time limits which the Court, or, should it not be sitting, the President, shall decide in each particular case. Accordingly, the Registrar shall in due time communicate any such written statements to states and organizations having submitted similar statements.
Article 67 The Court shall deliver its advisory opinions in open court, notice having been given to the Secretary-General and to the representatives of Members of the United Nations, of other states and of international organizations immediately concerned.
Article 68 In the exercise of its advisory functions the Court shall further be guided by the provisions of the present Statute which apply in contentious cases to the extent to which it recognizes them to be applicable. Chapter V AMENDMENT
Article 69 Amendments to the present Statute shall be effected by the same procedure as is provided by the Charter of the United Nations for amendments to that Charter, subject however to any provisions which the General Assembly upon recommendation of the Security Council may adopt concerning the participation of states which are parties to the present Statute but are not Members of the United Nations.
Article 70 The Court shall have power to propose such amendments to the present Statute as it may deem necessary, through written communications to the Secretary-General, for consideration in conformity with the provisions of Article 69.
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Structure of the United Nations GENERAL ASSEMBLY The General Assembly is composed of all Member States of the United Nations.
• Rapporteur: Justin Kisoka (Tanzania)
SESSIONS
First Committee • Chairperson: Ibrahim O. A. Dabbashi (Libya) • Vice-Chairpersons: Miloš Nikolić (Montenegro), Fernando Luque (Ecuador), Peter Winkler (Germany) • Rapporteur: Khodadad Seifi Pargou (Iran)
• Resumed sixty-seventh session: 22 January–16 September • Sixty-eighth session: 17 September–27 December (suspended) OFFICERS Resumed sixty-seventh session
• President: Vuk Jeremić (Serbia) • Vice-Presidents: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, China, Congo, France, Ghana, Honduras, Israel, Kenya, Lebanon, Nepal, Netherlands, Palau, Peru, Russian Federation, Sierra Leone, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States Sixty-eighth session
• President: John William Ashe (Antigua and Barbuda)1 • Vice-Presidents2: Botswana, Cameroon, Chile, China, France, Gua temala, Guinea, Malaysia, Monaco, Romania, Russian Federation, Solomon Islands, South Sudan, Spain, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom, United States The Assembly has four types of committees: (1) Main Commit tees; (2) procedural committees; (3) standing committees; (4) sub sidiary and ad hoc bodies. In addition, it convenes conferences to deal with specific subjects.
MAIN COMMITTEES By resolution 47/233, the General Assembly rationalized its Com mittee structure as follows: • Disarmament and International Security Committee (First Committee); • Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee); • Economic and Financial Committee (Second Committee); • Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee (Third Committee); • Administrative and Budgetary Committee (Fifth Committee); • Legal Committee (Sixth Committee). The General Assembly may constitute other committees, on which all Members of the United Nations have the right to be represented. OFFICERS OF THE MAIN COMMITTEES Resumed sixty-seventh session
Fourth Committee3 • Chairperson: Nelson Messone (Gabon) • Vice-Chairpersons: Maratee Nalita Andamo (Thailand), Mrs. Ayesha Borland (Belize), Mr. Dimitrios Felopoulos (Greece) • Rapporteur: Zulfi Ismaili (The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) Fifth Committee3 • Chairperson: Miguel Berger (Germany) • Vice-Chairpersons: João Augusto Costa Vargas (Brazil), Anna Reich (Hungary), Bilal Taher Muhammad Wilson (Saudi Arabia) Elected on 14 June 2013 (General Assembly dec. 67/420). Elected on 14 June 2013 (General Assembly dec. 67/421 A & B). 3 One of the Main Committees that met during the resumed session.
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Fourth Committee • Chairperson: Carlos Enrique García González (El Salvador) • Vice-Chairpersons: Mafiroane Motanyane (Lesotho), Christina Rafti (Cyprus), Francesco Santillo (Italy) • Rapporteur: Michal Komada (Slovakia) Second Committee • Chairperson: Abdou Salam Diallo (Senegal) • Vice-Chairpersons: Waruna Sri Dhanapala (Sri Lanka), Oana Maria Rebedea (Romania), Farrah Brown (Jamaica) • Rapporteur: Juliet Hay (New Zealand) Third Committee • Chairperson: Stephan Tafrov (Bulgaria) • Vice-Chairpersons: Mario von Haff (Angola), Thorvardur Atli Thórsson (Iceland), Maya Dagher (Lebanon) • Rapporteur: Adriana Murillo Ruin (Costa Rica) Fifth Committee • Chairperson: Janne Taalas (Finland) • Vice-Chairpersons: Carlos Alejandro Funes (El Salvador), Joanna Fiodorow (Republic of Poland), Kodjovi Dosseh (Togo) • Rapporteur: Ken Siah (Singapore) Sixth Committee • Chairperson: Palitha T. B. Kohona (Sri Lanka) • Vice-Chairpersons: Ibrahim Salem (Egypt), Nikolas Johannes Stuerchler Gonzenbach (Switzerland), Leandro Vieira Silva (Brazil) • Rapporteur: Tofig Musayev (Azerbaijan)
PROCEDURAL COMMITTEES General Committee The General Committee consists of the President of the General Assembly, as Chairperson, the 21 Vice-Presidents and the Chair persons of the six Main Committees. Credentials Committee The Credentials Committee consists of nine members appointed by the General Assembly on the proposal of the President. Resumed s ixty-seventh session
Angola, China, Peru, Russian federation, Seychelles, Sweden, Thai land, Trinidad and Tobago, United States Sixty-eighth session5
Belgium, China, Colombia, Gabon, Guyana, Russian Federation, Singapore, Tanzania, United States
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Elected on 1 October 2013 (General Assembly dec. 68/402). Appointed on 17 September 2013 (General Assembly dec. 68/401).
Structure of the United Nations STANDING COMMITTEES The two standing committees consist of experts appointed in their individual capacity for three-year terms. Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) • To serve until 31 December 2013: Vinay Kumar (India)6, Peter Maddens (Belgium), Carlos Ruiz Massieu (Mexico), Richard Moon (United Kingdom), Toshihiro Aiki (Japan)7, Zhang Wanhai (China) • To serve until 31 December 2014: Bruno Brant (Brazil), Pavel Chernikov (Russian Federation), Dietrich Lingenthal (Germany), Jean Christian Obame (Gabon), David Traystman (United States) • To serve until 31 December 2015: Mohanad Al-Musawi (Iraq), Jasminka Dinić (Croatia), Babou Sene (Senegal), Tesfa Alem Seyoum (Eritrea). On 13 November 2013 (dec. 68/407 A), the General Assembly ap pointed the following persons for a three-year term beginning on 1 January 2014 to fill vacancies occurring on 31 December 2013: Toshihiro Aiki (Japan), Richard Moon (United Kingdom), Carlos Ruiz Massieu (Mexico), Devesh Uttam (India), Catherine Vendat (France), Zhang Wanhai (China). Committee on Contributions • To serve until 31 December 2013: Joseph Acakpo-Satchivi (Benin), Gordon Eckersley (Australia), Bernardo Greiver del Hoyo (Uruguay), Juan Ndong Mbomio Mangue (Equatorial Guinea), Pedro Luis Pedroso Cuesta (Cuba), Thomas Schlesinger (Austria) • To serve until 31 December 2014: Thomas David Smith (United Kingdom)8, Nikolay Lozinskiy (Russian Federation), Gönke Roscher (Germany), Henrique da Silveira Sardinha Pinto (Brazil), Sun Xudong (China), Yoo Daejong (Republic of Korea) • To serve until 31 December 2015: Andrzej T. Abraszewski (Poland); Syed Yawar Ali (Pakistan), Ihor V. Humennyi (Ukraine), Susan M. McLurg (United States), Josiel Motumisi Tawana (South Africa), Kazuo Watanabe (Japan) On 13 November 2013 (dec. 68/408 A), the General Assembly ap pointed the following persons for a three-year term beginning on 1 January 2014 to fill the vacancies occurring on 31 December 2013: Jean Pierre Diawara (Guinea), Gordon Eckersley (Australia), Bernardo Greiver del Hoyo (Uruguay), Ali A. Ali Kurer (Libya), Pedro Luis Pedroso Cuesta (Cuba), Ugo Sessi (Italy).
SUBSIDIARY AND AD HOC BODIES The following is a list of subsidiary and ad hoc bodies functioning in 2013, including the number of members, dates of meetings/ sessions in 2013, document numbers of reports (which generally provide specific information on membership) and relevant deci sion numbers pertaining to elections. Ad Hoc Committee on the Administration of Justice at the United Nations • Session: Did not meet in 2013 • Membership: Open to all Member States of the United Nations or member States of the specialized agencies or of IAEA Ad Hoc Committee on Criminal Accountability of United Nations Officials and Experts on Mission • Session: Did not meet in 2013 • Membership: Open to all States Members of the United Nations or members of the specialized agencies or of IAEA Ad Hoc Committee established by General Assembly resolution 51/210 of 17 December 1996 • Session: Did not meet in 2013 6
Appointed on 8 March 2013 (General Assembly dec. 67/407 B) to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Namgya C. Khampa. 7 Appointed on 12 August 2013 (General Assembly dec. 67/407 C) to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Akira Sugiyama. NneNne Iwuji-Eme. 8 Appointed on 21 May 2013 (General Assembly dec. 67/408 B) to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of NneNne Iwuji-Eme.
1545 • Membership: Open to all Member States of the United Nations or member States of the specialized agencies or of IAEA Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean • Meeting: 455th, New York, 11 July • Chairperson: Palitha T. B. Kohona (Sri Lanka) • Membership: 43 • Report: A/68/29 Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters • Sessions: Fifty-ninth, New York, 27 February–1 March; sixtieth, Geneva, 26–28 June • Chairperson: Hewa M. G. S. Palihakkara (Sri Lanka) • Membership: 14 (plus 1 ex-officio member), fifty-seventh session; 15 (plus 1 ex-officio member), fifty-eight session • Report: A/68/206 Advisory Committee on the United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law • Session: Forty-eight, New York, 8 and 10 October • Chairperson: Ken Kanda (Ghana) • Membership: 25 • Report: A/68/521 Board of Auditors • Session: Sixty-seventh (regular), New York, 23–24 July • Chairperson: Amyas Morse (United Kingdom ) • Membership: 3 • Decision: GA 68/410 Committee on Conferences • Sessions: New York, 29 April (organizational), 3–9 September (substantive) • Chairperson: Chamithri Jayanika Rambukwella (Sri Lanka) • Membership: 19 • Report: A/68/32 • Decisions: GA 67/415 B & C, 68/414 A Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People • Meetings: Throughout the year • Chairperson: Abdou Salam Diallo (Senegal) • Membership: 26 • Report: A/68/35 • Decision: GA 67/422 Committee on Information • Session: Thirty-fifth, New York, 22 April–2 May • Chairperson: Lyutha Al-Mughairy (Oman) • Membership: 114 • Report: A/68/21 Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space • Session: Fifty-sixth, Vienna, 12–21 June • Chairperson: Yasushi Horikawa (Japan) • Membership: 74 • Report: A/68/20 Committee for Programme and Coordination (CPC) • Sessions: Fifty-third, New York, 25 April (organizational); 3–28 June (substantive) • Chairperson: Rashid Bayat Mokhtari (Iran) • Membership: 31 • Report: A/68/16 • Decision: GA 67/404 B, 68/404 A Committee on Relations with the Host Country • Meetings: New York, 31 January, 30 April, 31 July, 7 October and 1 November • Chairperson: Nicholas Emiliou (Cyprus) • Membership: 19 (including the United States as host country) • Report: A/68/26
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1546 Committee for the United Nations Population Award • Chairperson: Edita Hrdá (Czech Republic) • Membership: 10 (plus the Secretary-General and the UNFPA Executive Director as ex-officio members) • Report: A/68/229 Disarmament Commission • Sessions: New York, 4 December (organizational); 1–19 April (substantive) • Chairperson: Christopher Grima (Malta) • Membership: All Member States of the United Nations • Report: A/68/42 High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation • Session: Did not meet in 2013 • Membership: All Member States of the United Nations Human Rights Council • Sessions: Twenty-second, twenty-third and twenty-fourth (regular), 25 February–22 March, 27 May–14 June and 9–27 September, all in Geneva • President: Remigiusz Achilles Henczel (Poland) • Membership: 47 • Reports: A/68/53 & Add.1 & Corr.1 • Decision: GA 68/406 Independent Audit Advisory Committee • Sessions: Twenty-first, 4–6 February; twenty-second, 10–12 April; twenty-third, 1–3 July; twenty-fourth, 11–13 December, all in New York • Chairperson: Joseph Christopher Mihm, Jr. (United States) • Membership: 5 • Reports: A/68/273, A/69/304 • Decision: GA 68/412 A International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) • Sessions: Seventy-sixth, New York, 25 February–8 March; seventyseventh, London, 22 July–2 August • Chairperson: Kingston P. Rhodes (Sierra Leone) • Membership: 15 • Report: A/68/30 • Decisions: GA 67/410 B, 68/411 Advisory Committee on Post Adjustment Questions • Session: Thirty-fifth, Geneva, 22–29 April • Chairperson: Wolfgang Stöckl (Germany) • Membership: 6 International Law Commission • Session: Sixty-fifth, Geneva, 6 May–7 June, 8 July–9 August • Chairperson: Bernd H. Niehaus (Costa Rica) • Membership: 34 • Report: A/68/10 Investments Committee • Chairperson: William J. McDonough (United States) • Membership: 9 (plus ad hoc members) • Decision: GA 68/409 Joint Advisory Group on the International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO • Session: Forty-seventh, Geneva, 6–7 May • Chairperson: Karen Pierce (United Kingdom) • Membership: Open to all member States of UNCTAD and all member States of WTO • Report: ITC/AG(XLVII)/251 Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) • Chairpersons: Istvan Posta (Hungary) • Membership: 11 • Report: A/68/34
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme
• Session: Sixty-fourth, 30 September–4 October • Chairperson: Alicia Arango Olmos (Colombia) • Membership: 87 • Report: A/68/12/Add.1 • High Commissioner: António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres (Portugal) Panel of External Auditors • Meeting: Fifty-fourth, Vienna, 9–10 December • Membership: Members of the UN Board of Auditors and the appointed external auditors of the specialized agencies and IAEA Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization • Meetings: New York, 19–27 February • Chairperson: Jean-Francis Zinsou (Benin) • Membership: Open to all Member States of the United Nations • Report: A/68/33 Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories • Chairperson: Palitha T.B. Kohona (Sri Lanka) • Membership: 3 • Report: A/68/379 Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations • Session: New York, 19 February–15 March, 27 March and 6 September • Chairperson: U. Joy Ogwu (Nigeria) • Membership: 148 • Report: A/67/19 Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples • Sessions: New York, 21 February and 1 April (first part); 10, 12, 17, 18, 20–21 June (second part) • Chairperson: Diego Morejón (Ecuador) • Membership: 29 • Report: A/68/23 United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) • Session: Forty-sixth, Vienna, 8–26 July • Chairperson: Michael Schöll (Switzerland) • Membership: 60 • Report: A/68/17 United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine • Membership: 3 • Report: A/68/335 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) • Session: Did not meet in 2013 • Membership: Open to all Member States of the United Nations or member States of the specialized agencies or of IAEA • Secretary-General of UNCTAD: Supachai Panitchpakdi (Thailand) (until August), Mukhisa Kituyi9 (Kenya) (from September) Trade and Development Board
• Sessions: Twenty-seventh (special), 22 March; fifty-seventh (executive), 26–28 June; sixtieth (annual), 16–27 September, all in Geneva 9
Confirmed the appointment on 10 June 2013 (General Assembly dec. 67/419).
Structure of the United Nations • President: Triyono Wibowo (Indonesia) (sixtieth annual); Jüri Seilenthal (Estonia) and Mukhtar Tileuberdi (Kazakhstan) (fiftyseventh executive) • Membership: Open to all members States of UNCTAD • Reports: A/68/15 (Part II-IV) & Corr.1 Investment, Enterprise and Development Commission
• Session: Fifth, Geneva, 29 April–3 May • Chairperson: Mikhail Khvostov (Belarus) • Membership: Open to all members States of UNCTAD • Report: TD/B/C.II/22 Trade and Development Commission
• Session: Fifth, Geneva, 17–21 June • Chairperson: Reza Najafi (Iran) • Membership: Open to all members States of UNCTAD • Report: TD/B/C.I/31 Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy
• Session: Thirteenth, Geneva, 8–10 July • Chairperson: Hebert Tassano Velaochaga (Peru) • Membership: Open to all members States of UNCTAD • Report: TD/B/C.I/CLP/25 Working Party on the Strategic Framework and the Programme Budget
• Sessions: Sixty-fourth, 4–6 March; sixty-fifth, 2–4 September; sixty-sixth, 2–4 December, all in Geneva • Chairpersons: Thanh T. Nguyen (Viet Nam) (sixty-fourth); Mikhail Khvostov (Belarus) (sixty-fifth); Carmen Elena Castillo-Gallandat (El Salvador) (sixty-sixth) • Membership: Open to all members States of UNCTAD • Reports: TD/B/WP/250, TD/B/WP/255, TD/B/WP/257/Rev.1 United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) Executive Board
• Sessions: New York, First (regular), 23–24 January; first (resumed regular), 8 February; annual, 25–27 June; second (regular), 16–18 September • President: Normans Penke (Latvia) • Reports: UNW/2013/2, UNW/2013/5, UNW/2013/10 • Executive Director: Michelle Bachelet (Chile), Phumzile MlamboNgcuka (South Africa) (from August) United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum
• Session: Twenty-seventh and first (universal), Nairobi, Kenya, 18–22 February • President: Hassan Abdelgadir Hilal (Sudan) • Membership: 58 • Report: A/68/25 • Executive Director: Achim Steiner (Germany/Brazil) United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) Governing Council
• Session: Twenty-fourth, Nairobi, Kenya, 15–19 April • Membership: 58 • Decision: ESC 2013/201 B • President: Uhuru Kenyatta (Kenya) • Executive Director of UN-Habitat: Joan Clos (Spain) United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) Board of Trustees
• Sessions: Fifty-ninth, New York, 27 February–1 March; sixtieth, Geneva, 26–28 June • Chairperson: Desmond Bowen (United Kingdom) • Membership: 14 (plus 1 ex-officio member), fifty-ninth session; 15 (plus 1 ex-officio member), sixtieth session • Report: A/68/206 • Director of UNIDIR: Theresa Hitchens (United States)
1547 United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Board of Trustees
• Session: Fifty-third, Geneva, 18–19 April • Chairperson: Henri Lopes (Congo) • Membership: 16 • Report: UNITAR/BT/53/3 • Executive Director: Sally Fegan-Wyles (Ireland) United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board • Session: Fifty-ninth, New York, 15–19 July • Chairperson: P.R.O. Owade (Kenya) • Membership: 33 • Report: A/69/9 • Chief Executive Officer: Sergio B. Arvizú (Mexico) United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Advisory Commission of UNRWA
• Meeting: Amman, Jordon, 16–17 June • Chairperson: Ramón Ansoain (Spain) • Membership: 24 • Report: A/68/13 Working Group on the Financing of UNRWA
• Meeting: New York, 24 June, 2 July and 6, 13 and 16 August • Chairperson: Y. Halit Çevik (Turkey) • Membership: 9 • Report: A/68/388 • Commissioner-General of UNRWA: Filippo Grandi (Italy) United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation • Session: Sixtieth, Vienna, 27–31 May • Chairpersons: Carl-Magnus Larsson (Australia), Emil Bédi (Slovakia) and Yoshiharu Yonekura (Japan) • Membership: 21 • Report: A/68/46 & Corr.1 United Nations Staff Pension Committee • Membership: 8 United Nations University (UNU) Council of the United Nations University
• Sessions: Fifty-ninth, Tokyo, 22–24 April; sixtieth, New York, 21–22 November • Chairperson: Mohamed Hassan (Sudan) • Membership: 24 (plus 3 ex-officio members and the UNU Rector) • Rector of the University: David M. Malone (Canada) • Report: E/2013/88 United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations Board of Trustees
• Session: Twenty-sixth, Geneva, 11–15 February • Chairperson: Dalee Sambo Dorough (United States) • Membership: 5 • Report: A/69/278 United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture Board of Trustees
• Session: Thirty-sixth, Geneva, 15–19 October • Chairperson: Mercedes Doretti (Argentina) • Membership: 5 • Report: A/68/282 United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery Board of Trustees
• Session: Eighteenth, Geneva, 18–22 November • Chairperson: Virginia Herrera Murillo (Costa Rica) • Membership: 5 • Report: A/69/290
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SECURITY COUNCIL The Security Council consists of 15 Member States of the United Nations (five permanent members and ten non-permanent mem bers), in accordance with the provisions of Article 23 of the United Nations Charter as amended in 1965. MEMBERS
• Permanent members: China, France, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, United States • Non-permanent members: Argentina, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Guatemala, Luxembourg, Morocco, Pakistan, Republic of Korea, Rwanda, Togo On 17 October 2013 (dec. 68/403), the General Assembly elected Chad, Chile, Lithuania, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia for a two-year term beginning on 1 January 2014, to replace Azerbaijan, Guate mala, Morocco, Pakistan and Togo whose terms of office expired on 31 December 2013. On 6 December, the Assembly elected Jor dan to fill the vacancy arising from the decision of Saudi Arabia not to assume its seat on the Council.
International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) • President: Theodor Meron (United States) • Under-Secretary-General, Prosecutor: Serge Brammertz (Belgium) • Assistant Secretary-General, Registrar: John Hocking (Australia) International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) • President: Vagn Joensen (Denmark) • Under-Secretary-General, Prosecutor: Hassan Bubacar Jallow (Gambia) • Assistant Secretary-General, Registrar: Bongani Majola (South Africa)
ADVISORY SUBSIDIARY BODY Peacebuilding Commission (PBC)10 Organizational Committee
PRESIDENT
The presidency of the Council rotates monthly, according to the English alphabetical listing of its Member States. The following served as President during 2013: Month January February March April May June July August September October November December
1540 Committee • Chairperson: Kim Sook (Republic of Korea) (January-September), Oh Joon (Republic of Korea) (September-December)
Member Pakistan Republic of Korea Russian Federation Rwanda Togo United Kingdom United States Argentina Australia Azerbaijan China France
Representative Mohammad Masood Khan Kim Sook Vitaly Churkin Eugène-Richard Gasana Kodjo Menan Mark Lyall Grant Rosemary DiCarlo María Cristina Perceval Gary Quinlan Agshin Mehdiyev Liu Jieyi Gérard Araud
MILITARY STAFF COMMITTEE The Military Staff Committee consists of the chiefs of staff of the permanent members of the Security Council or their representa tives. It meets fortnightly.
STANDING COMMITTEES Each of the three standing committees of the Security Council is composed of representatives of all Council members: • Committee of Experts (to examine the provisional rules of procedure of the Council and any other matters entrusted to it by the Council); • Committee on the Admission of New Members; • Committee on Council Meetings Away from Headquarters.
SUBSIDIARY BODIES Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) • Chairperson: Mohammed Loulichki (Morocco) • Membership: 15 United Nations Compensation Commission Governing Council
• Sessions: Seventy-fifth, 30 April–2 May; seventy-sixth, 19–21 November, all in Geneva • President: Peter Woolcott (Australia) • Membership: 15 • Reports: S/2013/305, S/2013/726
• Session: Seventh, New York, 1 January–31 December • Chairperson: Ranko Vilović (Republic of Croatia) • Membership: 31 • Report: A/68/729 • Decisions: GA 67/414 B, 68/415; ESC 2013/201 A & F
PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) • Head of Mission and Chief of Staff: Major General Juha Kilpiä (Finland) (until June); Major General Michael Finn (Ireland) (from July) United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) • Chief Military Observer and Head of Mission: Major General Young-Bum Choi (Republic of Korea) United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Lisa M. Buttenheim (United States) • Force Commander: Major General Chao Liu (China) United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) • Head of Mission and Force Commander: Major General Iqbal Singh Singha (India) United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) • Head of Mission and Force Commander: Major General Paolo Serra (Italy) United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Wolfgang Weisbrod-Weber (Germany) • Force Commander: Major General Abdul Hafiz (Bangladesh) (until July); Major General Imam Edy Mulyono (Indonesia) United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Farid Zarif (Afghanistan) • OSCE Head of Mission in Kosovo: Jean-Claude Schlumberger (France) • Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Robert E. Sorenson (United States) 10 Also
an advisory subsidiary body of the General Assembly.
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United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Roger A. Meece (United States) (until July); Martin Kobler (Germany) • Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Abdallah Wafy (Niger) • Force Commander: Lieutenant General Carlos Alberto Dos Santos Cruz (Brazil)
• Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Abdoulaye Bathily (Senegal)
United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Karin Landgren (Sweden) • Deputy Special Representative for Recovery and Governance: Aeneas Chapinga Chuma (Zimbabwe) (from November) • Deputy Special Representative for Rule of Law: Tamrat Samuel (Eritrea) • Force Commander: Major General Leonard Muriuki Ngondi (Kenya)
United Nations Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS)12 • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNPOS: Augustine P. Mahiga (Tanzania) • Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia: Peter de Clercq (Netherlands)
United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Aïchatou Mindaoudou Souleymane (Niger) • Principal Deputy Special Representative: Arnauld Antoine Akodjènou (Benin) • Deputy Special Representative: Ndolamb Ngokwey (Democratic Republic of the Congo); M’Baye Babacar Cissé (Senegal) (from November) • Force Commander: Major General Muhammad Iqbal Asi (Pakistan) United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Sandra Honoré (Trinidad and Tobago) • Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Carl Alexandre (United States) • Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator: Nigel Fisher (Canada) (until July); Peter de Clercq (Netherlands) (from August) • Force Commander: Lieutenant General Edson Leal Pujol (Brazil) United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Hilde Johnson (Norway) • Deputy Special Representative (Political): Raisedon Zenenga (Zimbabwe) • Deputy Special Representative and Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator: Toby Lanzer (United Kingdom) • Force Commander: Major General Delali Johnson Sakyi (Ghana) African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) • AU-UN Joint Special Representative for Darfur and Head of Mission: Mohamed ibn Chambas (Ghana) • Deputy Joint Special Representative for Operations and Management: Aïchatou Mindaoudou Souleymane (Niger) (until March); Joseph Mutaboba (Rwanda) • Force Commander: Lieutenant General Patrick Nyamvumba (Rwanda) (until March); Lieutenant General Paul Ignace Mella (Tanzania) • Police Commissioner: Syed Kaleem Imam (Pakistan); Brigadier Hester Adriana Paneras (South Africa) (from June) United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) • Head of Mission and Force Commander: Major General Yohannes Gebremeskel Tesfamariam (Ethiopia) United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA)11 • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head MINUSMA: Albert Gerard (Bert) Koenders (Netherlands)
POLITICAL, PEACEBUILDING AND OTHER MISSIONS United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) • Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia and Head of UNSOM: Nicholas Kay (United Kingdom) • Deputy Special Representative: Peter de Clercq (Netherlands) (until October); Fatiha Serour (Algeria) (from November)
United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS) • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNIOGBIS: José Ramos-Horta (Timor-Leste) Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) • Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority: Robert H. Serry (Netherlands) • Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process: James W. Rawley (United States) United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (BINUCA) • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of BINUCA: Margaret Vogt (Nigeria); Lieutenant General Babacar Gaye (Senegal) (from June) • Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Bo Schack (Denmark) Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator of the Secretary-General for Lebanon (UNSCOL) • Special Coordinator of the Secretary-General for Lebanon: Derek Plumbly (United Kingdom) • Deputy Special Coordinator for Lebanon: Ross Stewart Mountain (New Zealand) Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa (UNOWA) • Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Said Djinnit (Algeria) United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Ján Kubis (Slovakia) • Deputy Special Representative: Mark Bowden (United Kingdom) • Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General (Political): Nicholas Haysom (South Africa) United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) • Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq: Martin Kobler (Germany); Nickolay Mladenov (Bulgaria) (from August) • Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Political Affairs: György Busztin (Hungary) • Deputy Special Representative for Humanitarian, Reconstruction and Development Affairs: Jacqueline Badcock (United Kingdom) United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL) • Executive Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Office: Jens Anders Toyberg-Frandzen (Denmark) 12 Mandate
11 Established
on 25 April 2013 (Security Council res. 2100(2013)).
ended on 3 June 2013 and the mission was succeeded by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) (Security Coun cil res. 2102(2013)).
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United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNOCA: Abou Moussa (Chad)
United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA) • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNRCCA: Miroslav Jenča (Slovakia)
United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Tarek Mitri (Lebanon)
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL The Economic and Social Council consists of 54 Member States of the United Nations, elected by the General Assembly, each for a three-year term, in accordance with the provisions of Article 61 of the United Nations Charter as amended in 1965 and 1973.
The inter-agency United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination also reports to the Council.
MEMBERS
Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice • Session: Twenty-second, Vienna, 22–26 April and 12–13 December • Chairperson: Xolisa Mfundiso Mabhongo (South Africa) • Membership: 40 • Report: E/2013/30 & Add.1
• To serve until 31 December 2013: Bulgaria, Cameroon, China, Denmark, Ecuador, Gabon, Latvia, Malawi, Mexico, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Senegal, Sweden, United Kingdom. • To serve until 31 December 2014: Austria, Belarus, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Japan, Lesotho, Libya, Nigeria, Portugal. • To serve until 31 December 2015: Albania, Benin, Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Haiti, Italy, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritius, Nepal, San Marino, South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, United States. On 30 October 2013 (decision 68/405), the General Assembly elected Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Botswana, China, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Georgia, Guatemala, Kazakhstan, New Zealand, Panama, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Serbia, Sweden, Togo, and United Kingdom as members of the Economic and Social Council for a three-year term of office beginning on 1 January 2014 to fill the vacancies occur ring on 31 December 2013. On 18 November, the Assembly elected Germany, Greece, Italy and Portugal as members of the Council for the remainder of the terms of office of Ireland, Turkey, Netherlands and Spain, respectively, beginning on 1 January 2014. SESSIONS
• Organizational session: New York, 28 January, 12–15 and 28 February • Resumed organizational session: New York, 25 April and 6 May • Special high-level meeting with the Bretton Woods institutions, WTO and UNCTAD: New York, 22 April • Substantive session: Geneva, 1–26 July • Resumed substantive session: New York, 22 October, 6–8 November, 16 December and 14 January 2014 OFFICERS
• President: Néstor Osorio (Colombia) • Vice-Presidents: Daffa-Alla Elhag Ali Osman (Sudan), Mohammad Masood Khan (Pakistan), Ferit Hoxha (Albania) and Martin Sajdik (Austria).
SUBSIDIARY AND OTHER RELATED ORGANS SUBSIDIARY ORGANS
The Economic and Social Council may, at each session, set up com mittees or working groups, of the whole or of limited membership, and refer to them any item on the agenda for study and report. Other subsidiary organs reporting to the Council consist of func tional commissions, regional commissions, standing committees, expert and ad hoc bodies.
FUNCTIONAL COMMISSIONS
Commission on Narcotic Drugs • Session: Fifty-sixth, Vienna, 11–15 March and 12–13 December • Chairperson: Antonio García Revilla (Peru) • Membership: 53 • Reports: E/2013/28 & Add.1 • Decision: ESC 2013/201 A Commission on Population and Development • Session: Forty-sixth, New York, 22–26 April • Chairperson: Vlad Lupan (Republic of Moldova) • Membership: 47 • Report: E/2013/25 • Decisions: ESC 2013/201 A & E Commission on Science and Technology for Development • Session: Fifteenth, Geneva, 3–7 June • Intersessional panel: 7–9 January • Chairperson: Miguel Palomino de la Gala (Peru) • Membership: 43 • Report: E/2013/31 & Corr.1 Commission for Social Development • Session: Fifty-first, New York, 6–15 February • Chairperson: Sewa Lamsal Adhikari (Nepal) • Membership: 46 • Report: E/2013/26 • Decision: ESC 2013/201 E Commission on the Status of Women • Session: Fifty-seventh, New York, 4–15 March • Chairperson: Marjon V. Kamara (Liberia) • Membership: 45 • Report: E/2013/27 • Decisions: ESC 2013/201 B & E Commission on Sustainable Development • Session: Twenty, New York, 20 September • Chairperson: Bektas Mukhamejanov (Kazakhstan) • Membership: 53 • Report: E/2013/29 Statistical Commission • Session: Forty-fourth, New York, 26 February–1 March • Chairperson: Gabriella Vukovich (Hungary)
Structure of the United Nations • Membership: 24 • Report: E/2013/24 United Nations Forum on Forests • Session: Tenth, New York, 8–19 April • Chairperson: Mario Ruales Carranza (Ecuador) • Membership: Open to all Member States of the United Nations and members of the specialized agencies • Report: E/2013/42
REGIONAL COMMISSIONS Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) • Session: The forty-sixth session of the Commission/Sixth Joint Annual Meetings of the AU and ECA Conference of Ministers, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 26–27 March • Chairperson: Désiré Guedon (Gabon) • Membership: 53 Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) • Session: Sixty-fifth, Geneva, 9–11 April • Chairperson: Uglješa Ugi Zvekić (Serbia) • Membership: 56 • Report: E/2013/37 Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) • Session: Did not meet in 2013 • Membership: 44 members; 9 associate members Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) • Session: Sixty-ninth, Bangkok, Thailand, 25 April–1 May • Chairperson: Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão (Timor-Leste) • Membership: 53 members, 9 associate members • Report: E/2013/39 Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) • Session: Did not meet in 2013 • Membership: 17
STANDING COMMITTEES Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations • Sessions: New York, 21–30 January and 8 February (regular); 20–29 May and 7 June (resumed) • Chairperson: Suljuk Mustansar Tarar (Pakistan) • Membership: 19 • Report: E/2013/32 Committee for Programme and Coordination (CPC) • Sessions: Fifty-third, New York, 25 April (organizational); 3–28 June (substantive) • Chairperson: Rashid Bayat Mokhtari (Iran) • Membership: 34 • Report: A/68/16 • Decisions: ESC 2013/201 B, C & E
EXPERT BODIES Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters • Session: Ninth, Geneva, 21–25 October • Chairperson: Armando Lara Yaffar (Mexico) • Membership: 25 • Report: E/2013/45 • Decision: ESC 2013/201 D Committee for Development Policy • Session: Fifteenth, New York, 18–22 March • Chairperson: José Antonio Ocampo (Colombia) • Membership: 24 • Report: E/2013/33
1551 Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights • Sessions: Forty-eighth, 30 April–18 May; forty-ninth, 12–30 No vember, all in Geneva, • Chairpersons: Ariranga Govindasamy Pillay (Mauritius) • Membership: 18 • Report: E/2013/22 Committee of Experts on Public Administration • Session: Twelfth, New York, 15–19 April • Chairperson: Najat Zarrouk (Morocco) • Membership: 24 • Report: E/2013/44 • Decision: ESC 2013/201 E Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals • Session: Did not meet in 2013 • Membership: 66 Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting • Session: Thirtieth, Geneva, 6–8 November • Chairperson: David Szafran (Belgium) • Membership: 34 • Report: TD/B/C.II/ISAR/68 • Decision: ESC 2013/201 B Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues • Session: Twelfth, New York, 20–31 May • Chairperson: Paul Kanyinke Sena (Kenya) • Membership: 16 • Report: E/2013/43 • Decisions: ESC 2013/201 B & C United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names • Session: Did not meet in 2013 • Membership: Representatives of the 24 geographical/linguistic divisions of the Group of Experts
AD HOC BODY United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) • Sessions: First, Madrid, 5 April; second, New York, 25 November • Chairperson: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon • Membership: 29 • Reports: CEB/2013/1, CEB/2013/2
OTHER RELATED BODIES Joint United Nations Programme on Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (UNAIDS) Programme Coordinating Board
• Meetings: Thirty-second, 25–27 June; thirty-third, 17–19 Decem ber, all in Geneva • Chairperson: Lov Verma (India), Rajesh Ranjan (India) • Membership: 22 • Reports: UNAIDS/PCB(32)/13.13, UNAIDS/PCB(33)/13.23 • Decisions: ESC 2013/201 B & E • Executive Director of UNAIDS: Michel Sidibé (Mali) United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Executive Board
• Sessions: First and second (regular), 5–8 February and 3–6 September; annual, 18–21 June, all in New York • President: Jarmo Viinanen (Finland) • Membership: 36 • Report: E/2013/34/Rev.1 • Decision: ESC 2013/201 B • Executive Director of UNICEF: Anthony Lake (United States)
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United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
E xecutive Board
• Session: Fifty-first, Geneva, 15 March • Chairperson: Maureen O’Neil (Canada) • Membership: 11 • Reports: Board/13/3, Board/14/3 • Director of UNRISD: Sarah Cook (United Kingdom)
• Sessions: First and second (regular), 28 January–1 February and 9–13 September; annual, 3–14 June; all in New York • President: Roble Olhaye (Djibouti) • Membership: 36 • Report: E/2013/35 • Decision: ESC 2013/201 B • Administrator of UNDP: Helen Clark13 (New Zealand) • Associate Administrator of UNDP: Rebeca Grynspan (Costa Rica) • Executive Director of UNFPA: Babatunde Osotimehin (Nigeria) • Executive Director of UNOPS: Jan Mattsson (Sweden) United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) The UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS Executive Board acts as the Executive Board of the Fund. • Managing Director: Helen Clark (UNDP Administrator) • Report: DP/2013/33
67/418).
United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) Board of Trustees
• Membership: 7 (plus 4 ex-officio members) • Director of UNICRI: Jonathan Lucas (Seychelles) United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC) Board of Governors
• Chairperson: Susanna Malcorra (Argentina) • Membership: 8 (plus 3 ex-officio members) • Director: Jafar Javan (United States) World Food Programme (WFP)
United Nations Volunteers (UNV) • Report: DP/2013/34
13 Confirmed
Board of Directors
Executive Board
the appointment on 12 April 2013 (General Assembly dec.
• Sessions: First and second (regular), 18–19 February and 4–7 November; annual, 3–6 June, all in Rome • President: Vladimir Kuznetsov (Russian Federation) • Membership: 36 • Report: E/2013/36 • Decisions: ESC 2013/201 A & D • Executive Director of WFP: Ertharin Cousin (United States)
TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL The Trusteeship Council suspended operation on 1 Novem ber 1994, following the independence, on 1 October 1994 of Palau, the last remaining United Nations trust territory. The General Assembly, in resolution 60/1 of 16 September 2005,
considering that the Council no longer met and had no re maining functions, decided that Chapter XIII of the United Nations Charter and references to the Council in Chapter XII should be deleted.
INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE JUDGES OF THE COURT The International Court of Justice consists of 15 Judges elected for nine-year terms by the General Assembly and the Security Council. Judge
Country of nationality
Hisashi Owada, President Peter Tomka, Vice-President Xue Hanqin Giorgio Gaja Dalveer Bhandari Joan E. Donoghue Julia Sebutinde Ronny Abraham Kenneth Keith Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor Mohamed Bennouna Leonid Skotnikov Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf Christopher Greenwood
Japan Slovakia China Italy India United States Uganda France New Zealand Mexico Morocco Russian Federation Brazil Somalia United Kingdom
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• Registrar: Philippe Couvreur (Belgium) • Deputy Registrar: Jean Pelé Fomété (Cameroon) Chamber of Summary Procedure • Members: Peter Tomka, Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor, Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, Xue Hanqin, Joan E. Donoghue • Substitute members: Leonid Skotnikov, Giorgio Gaja Parties to the Court’s Statute All Members of the United Nations are ipso facto parties to the Statute of the International Court of Justice. States accepting the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court Declarations made by the following States, several with reserva tions, accepting the Court’s compulsory jurisdiction (or made under the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Jus tice and deemed to be an acceptance of the jurisdiction of the International Court), were in force at the end of 2010: Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Botswana, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Cyprus, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Ireland, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg,
Structure of the United Nations Madagascar, Malawi, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Senegal, Slovakia, Somalia, Spain, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Timor-Leste, Togo, Uganda and Uruguay. United Nations organs and specialized and related agencies authorized to request advisory opinions from the Court • Authorized by the United Nations Charter to request opinions on any legal question: General Assembly, Security Council • Authorized by the General Assembly in accordance with the Charter to request opinions on legal questions arising within the scope of their activities: Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, Interim Committee of the General Assembly, ICAO, IDA, IFC, IFAD, ILO, IMO, IMF, ITU, UNESCO, UNIDO, World Bank, WHO, WIPO, WMO. Committees of the Court Budgetary and Administrative Committee
• Members: Peter Tomka (Chairperson), Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor, Ronny Abraham, Mohamed Bennouna, Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, Christopher Greenwood, Xue Hanqin Library Committee
• Members: Mohamed Bennouna (Chairperson), Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade, Giorgio Gaja, Dalveer Bhandari Rules Committee
• Members: Ronny Abraham (Chairperson), Kenneth Keith, Leonid Skotnikov, Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade, Joan E. Donoghue, Giorgio Gaja
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 Na tions and are thus related to the Organization and its work. 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 on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) • Sessions: Fify-fourth, 11 February–1 March; fify-fifth, 8–26 July; fify-six, 30 September–10 October, all in Geneva • Chairperson: Nicole Ameline (France) • Membership: 23 • Reports: A/68/38, A/69/38 Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) • Sessions: Eighty-second, 11 February–1 March; eighty-third, 12–31 August, all in Geneva • Chairperson: Alexei S. Avtonomov (Russian Federation) • Membership: 18 • Reports: A/68/18, A/69/18 Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families • Sessions: Eighteenth 15–26 April; nineteenth 9–13 September, all in Geneva • Chairperson: Abdelhamid El Jamri (Morocco) • Membership: 14 • Reports: A/68/48, A/69/48 Committee on the Rights of the Child • Sessions: Sixty-second, 14 January–1 February; sixty-third, 27 May– 14 June; sixty-fourth, 16 September–4 October, all in Geneva, • Chairperson: Kirsten Sandberg (Norway) • Membership: 18 • Report: A/69/41
1553 Committee against Torture • Sessions: Fiftieth, 6–31 May; fifty-first, 28 October–22 November; all in Geneva • Chairperson: Claudio Grossman (Chile) • Membership: 10 • Reports: A/68/44, A/69/44 Conference on Disarmament • Meetings: Geneva, 21 January–29 March, 13 May–28 June, 29 July– 13 September • President: Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland • Membership: 65 • Report: A/68/27 Human Rights Committee • Sessions: 107th, 11–28 March; 108th, 8–26 July; 109th, 14 October– 1 November, all in Geneva • Chairperson: Nigel Rodley (United Kingdom) • Membership: 18 • Reports: A/68/40 (Vol. I & Vol. II (Part 1 & 2)), A/69/40 (Vol. I & Vol. II (Part 1 & 2)) International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) • Sessions: 106th, 4–8 February; 107th, 6–17 May; 108th, 29 October– 15 November, all in Vienna • President: Raymond Yans (Belgium) • Membership: 13 • Report: E/INCB/2013/1 • Decisions: ESC 2013/201 B & D
PRINCIPAL MEMBERS OF THE UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT Secretariat • Secretary-General: Ban Ki-moon • Deputy Secretary-General: Jan Eliasson Executive Office of the Secretary-General • Under-Secretary-General, Chef de Cabinet: Susana Malcorra • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Chef de Cabinet: Kim Won-soo • Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Planning: Robert C. Orr Office of Internal Oversight Services • Under-Secretary-General: Carman L. Lapointe Office of Legal Affairs • Under-Secretary-General, Legal Counsel: Miguel de Serpa Soares • Assistant Secretary-General: D. Stephen Mathias Department of Political Affairs • Under-Secretary-General: Jeffrey D. Feltman • Assistant Secretary-General: Tayé-Brook Zerihoun Office for Disarmament Affairs • Under-Secretary-General, High Representative: Angela Kane Department of Peacekeeping Operations • Under-Secretary-General: Hervé Ladsous • Assistant Secretaries-General: Edmond Mulet • Assistant Secretary-General, Military Adviser: Lieutenant General Babacar Gaye (until July), Lieutenant General Maqsood Ahmed (from August) Department of Field Support • Under-Secretary-General: Ameerah Haq • Assistant Secretary-General: Anthony Banbury Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs • Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Emergency Relief Coordinator: Valerie Amos • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator: Catherine Bragg (until February), Kyung-wha Kang (from March)
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1554 Department of Economic and Social Affairs • Under-Secretary-General: Wu Hongbo • Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development: Shamshad Akhtar • Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs: Thomas Stelzer (until June), Thomas Gass (from September)
United Nations Office at Nairobi • Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi: Sahle-Work Zewde International Court of Justice Registry • Assistant Secretary-General, Registrar: Philippe Couvreur
SECRETARIATS OF SUBSIDIARY ORGANS, SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVES AND OTHER RELATED BODIES
Department for General Assembly and Conference Management • Under-Secretary-General: Jean-Jacques Graisse, Tegegnework Gettu (from March) • Assistant Secretary-General: Franz Baumann
Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) • Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director: Michael Smith, Jean-Paul Laborde (from June)
Department of Public Information • Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information and Coordinator for Multilingualism: Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal
International Civil Service Commission • Under-Secretary-General, Chairperson: Kingston Papie Rhodes • Assistant Secretary-General, Vice-Chairperson: Wolfgang Stöckl
Department of Safety and Security • Under-Secretary-General: Kevin Kennedy (Acting)
International Trade Centre • Executive Director: Patricia Francis, Arancha González (from September)
Department of Management • Under-Secretary-General: Yukio Takasu Office of Programme Planning, Budget and Accounts
• Assistant Secretary-General, Controller: María Eugenia Casar Office of Human Resources Management
• Assistant Secretary-General: Catherine Pollard Office of Central Support Services
• Assistant Secretary-General: Warren Sach, Stephen Cutts (from April) Capital Master Plan Project
• Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director: Michael Adler stein Office of Information and Communications Technology • Assistant Secretary-General, Chief Information Technology Officer: Choi Soon-Hong, Atefeh Riazi (from May) Office of the United Nations Ombudsman • Assistant Secretary-General, Ombudsman: Johnston Barkat Peacebuilding Support Office • Assistant Secretary-General: Judy Cheng-Hopkins United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund • Assistant Secretary-General, Chief Executive Officer: Bernard G. Cochemé Economic Commission for Africa • Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: Carlos Lopes Economic Commission for Europe • Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: Ján Kubiš Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean • Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: Alicia Bárcena Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific • Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: Noeleen Heyzer Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia • Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: Rima Khalaf
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS • Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director: Michel Sidibé • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director: Luiz Loures • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director, Management and Governance: Jan Beagle • Assistant Secretary-General, Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa: Asha-Rose Mtengeti Migiro, Speciosa Wandira-Kasibwe (from August) • Under-Secretary-General, Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific: Prasada Rao • Assistant Secretary-General, Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean: John Edward Greene Office of the Administration of Justice • Executive Director: Linda Taylor Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States • Under-Secretary-General, High Representative: Gyan Chandra Acharya Office of the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Malaria • Assistant Secretary-General, Special Envoy: Ray Chambers Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Africa • Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser: Maged Abdelfatah Abdelaziz Office of the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General for Myanmar • Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser: Vijay Nambiar Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa • Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative: Said Djinnit Office of the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide • Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser: Francis Deng (until July), Adama Dieng (from August)
United Nations Office at Geneva • Under-Secretary-General, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva: Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Michael Møller (Acting from November)
Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict • Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative: Leila Zerrougui
United Nations Office at Vienna • Under-Secretary-General, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna and Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: Yury Fedotov
Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Violence against Children • Assistant Secretary-General, Special Representative: Marta Santos Pais
Structure of the United Nations Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights • Under-Secretary-General, High Commissioner: Navanethem Pillay • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy High Commissioner: Kyungwha Kang, Flavia Pansieri (from March) • Assistant Secretary-General (New York Office): Ivan Šimonović Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees • Under-Secretary-General, High Commissioner: António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy High Commissioner: Alexander Aleinikoff • Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant High Commissioner (Protection): Erika Feller • Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant High Commissioner (Operations): Janet Lim Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East • Under-Secretary-General, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the SecretaryGeneral to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority: Robert H. Serry • Deputy Special Coordination: James W. Rawley
1555 Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict • Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative: Zainab Hawa Bangura Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Migration • Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative: Peter Sutherland Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Sudan and South Sudan • Under-Secretary-General, Special Envoy: Haile Menkerios Special Court for Sierra Leone • Under-Secretary-General, Prosecutor: Brenda Hollis • Assistant Secretary-General, Registrar: Binta Mansaray Special Tribunal for Lebanon • Under-Secretary-General, Prosecutor: Daniel Bellemare, Norman Farrell (from February) • Assistant Secretary-General, Registrar: Herman von Hebel (Netherlands) Staff-Management Coordination Committee • Assistant Secretary-General, President: Veronica Luard
Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Greece-FYROM Talks • Under-Secretary-General, Personal Envoy: Matthew Nimetz
United Nations Alliance of Civilizations • Under-Secretary-General, High Representative: Nassir Abdulaziz al-Nasser
Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Western Sahara • Under-Secretary-General, Personal Envoy: Christopher Ross
United Nations Children’s Fund • Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director: Anthony Lake • Deputy Executive Director/External Relations: Johanna (Yoka) Brandt • Deputy Executive Director/Programmes: Geeta Rao Gupta • Deputy Executive Director/Management: Martin Mogwanja
Personal Representative of the Secretary-General on the Border Controversy between Guyana and Venezuela • Under-Secretary-General: Norman Girvan Secretary-General’s High-level Coordinator for compliance by Iraq with its obligations regarding the repatriation or return of all Kuwaiti and third country nationals or their remains, as well as the return of all Kuwaiti property, including archives seized by Iraq • Under-Secretary-General, High-Level Coordinator: Gennady P. Tarasov Senior UN System Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza • Assistant Secretary-General, Senior UN System Coordinator: David Nabarro Special Advisers to the Secretary-General • Under-Secretary-General, Special Advisers: Joseph V. Reed; Iqbal Riza Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Cyprus • Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser: Alexander Downer Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Innovative Financing for Development • Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser: Philippe Douste-Blazy Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on Legal Issues related to Piracy off the Coast of Somalia • Special Adviser: Jack Lang Special Adviser to the Secretary-General and Mediator in the border dispute between Equatorial Guinea and Gabon • Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser: Nicolas Michel Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the implementation of Security Council resolution 1559(2004) • Under-Secretary-General, Special Envoy: Terje Roed-Larsen Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Food Security and Nutrition • Special Representative: David Nabarro
United Nations Compensation Commission • Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: Mojtaba Kazazi United Nations Conference on Trade and Development • Under-Secretary-General, Secretary-General of UNCTAD: Supachai Panitchpakdi • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Secretary-General: Petko Draganov United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity • Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: Luc Gnacadja United Nations Development Programme • Under-Secretary-General, Administrator: Helen Clark13 • Under-Secretary-General, Associate Administrator: Rebeca Grynspan • Assistant Administrator and Director, Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery: Jordan Ryan • Assistant Administrator and Director, Bureau External Relations and Advocacy: Sigrid Kaag • Assistant Administrator and Director, Bureau of Management: Jens Wandel • Assistant Administrator and Director, Bureau for Development Policy: Olav Kjørven • Assistant Administrator and Director of Regional Bureau for Africa: Tegegnework Gettu, Abdoulaye Mar Dieye (from July) • Assistant Administrator and Director of Regional Bureau for Arab States: Sima Sami Bahous • Assistant Administrator and Director of Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific: Haoliang Xu (from September) • Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States: Ayse Cihan Sultanoğlu (from April)
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1556 • Assistant Administrator and Director of Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean: Heraldo Muñoz United Nations Environment Programme • Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director: Achim Steiner • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director: Amina Mohamed, Ibrahim Thiaw (from August) • Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Secretary United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: Christiana Figueres United Nations Global Compact • Executive Director: Georg Kell United Nations Human Settlements Programme • Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director: Joan Clos • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director: Aisa Kirabo Kacyira United Nations Institute for Training and Research • Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director: Sally Fegan-Wyles United Nations International School • Assistant Secretary-General, Special Representative: Michael Adlerstein United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction • Assistant Secretary-General, Special Representative: Margareta Wahlström United Nations Office for Project Services • Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director: Jan Mattsson United Nations Office for Partnerships • Executive Director: Roland Rich
United Nations Office of the Special Envoy to Haiti • Special Envoy: William J. Clinton • Deputy Special Envoy: Paul Farmer United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace • Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser: Wilfried Lemke United Nations Population Fund • Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director: Babatunde Osotimehin • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director (Manage ment): Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director (Programme): Kate Gilmore United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East • Under-Secretary-General, Commissioner-General: Filippo Grandi • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Commissioner-General: Margot B. Ellis United Nations University • Under-Secretary-General, Rector: Konrad Osterwalder, David M. Malone (from March) World Food Programme • Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director: Ertharin Cousin • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director: Amir Mahmoud Abdulla • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director for Hunger Solutions: Sheila Sisulu
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Agendas of the United Nations principal organs This appendix lists the items on the agendas of the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council during 2013. For the Assembly, the column headed “Allocation” indicates the assignment of each to plenary meetings or committees.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY Agenda items remaining for consideration at the resumed sixty-seventh session (22 January–16 September 2013) [decision 67/554, A/67/49 (Vol.ll)] Item No. Title
9. Report of the Economic and Social Council. 11. Implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on hiv/aids and the Political Declarations on Hiv/aids. 12. Sport for peace and development. 13. 2001–2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa. 14. Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields. 15. Culture of peace. 17. Information and communications technologies for development. 19. Follow-up to and implementation of the outcome of the 2002 International Conference on Financing for Development and the 2008 Review Conference. 20. Sustainable development:
30. 31. 33. 34.
35. 36. 37. 39. 40.
(a) Implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development and of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development; (b) Follow-up to and implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States; (g) Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its twelfth special session; (h) Harmony with Nature. Report of the Security Council. Report of the Peacebuilding Commission. Prevention of armed conflict. Protracted conflicts in the guam area and their implications for international peace, security and development. Zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic. The situation in the Middle East. Question of Palestine. The situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan. Question of the Comorian island of Mayotte.
Item No. Title
Allocation
Plenary Plenary
Plenary Plenary Plenary
Plenary Plenary, 2nd Plenary, 2nd
Plenary, 2nd
Allocation
42. The situation in Central America: progress in fashioning a region of peace, freedom, democracy and development.
Plenary
43. Question of Cyprus.
Plenary
44. Armed aggression against the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Plenary
45. Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas).
Plenary
46. The situation of democracy and human rights in Haiti.
Plenary
47. Armed Israeli aggression against the Iraqi nuclear installations and its grave consequences for the established international system concerning the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and international peace and security.
Plenary
48. Consequences of the Iraqi occupation of and aggression against Kuwait.
Plenary
54. Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects.
4th
56. Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations.
4th
60. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.
Plenary, 4th
63. New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support:
Plenary
(a) New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support; (b) Causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa. 70. Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance:
Plenary Plenary Plenary Plenary
Plenary
(a) Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations; (b) Assistance to the Palestinian people; (c) Special economic assistance to individual countries or regions.
Plenary Plenary Plenary Plenary
74. Report of the International Criminal Court.
Plenary
94. General and complete disarmament:
Plenary, 1st
(b) Towards an arms trade treaty: establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms.
Plenary
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Allocation
103. Crime prevention and criminal justice.
Plenary, 3rd
106. Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization.
Plenary
107. Report of the Secretary-General on the Peacebuilding Fund.
Plenary
110. Elections to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other elections:
Plenary
Item No. Title
(a) Election of seven members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination; (b) Election of thirty members of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law; (c) Election of five members of the Organizational Committee of the Peacebuilding Commission. 111. Appointments to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other appointments:
Plenary, 5th
(a) Appointment of members of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions; (b) Appointment of members of the Committee on Contributions;
122.
124.
(d) Appointment of members of the International Civil Service Commission; (f) Appointment of members of the Committee on Conferences; (g) Confirmation of the appointment of the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme;
125.
(h) Confirmation of the appointment of the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. 112. Admission of new Members to the United Nations.
Plenary
113. Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit.
Plenary
114. Follow-up to the commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.
Plenary
115. Implementation of the resolutions of the United Nations.
Plenary
116. Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly.
Plenary, 1st, 4th, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th
117. Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters.
Plenary
118. Strengthening of the United Nations system:
Plenary
128.
(a) Strengthening of the United Nations system; (b) Central role of the United Nations system in global governance. 119. United Nations reform: measures and proposals.
Plenary
120. Multilingualism.
Plenary
121. Cooperation between the United Nations and regional and other organizations:
Plenary
(a) Cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union; (b) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization; (e) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community;
126.
(g) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries; (i) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Community of Central African States; (p) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; (q) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of American States; (r) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation; (s) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Pacific Islands Forum; (v) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Southern African Development Community. Follow-up to the recommendations on administrative management and internal oversight of the Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme. International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994. International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991. International residual mechanism for criminal tribunals. Financial reports and audited financial statements, and reports of the Board of Auditors: (a) United Nations; (b) United Nations peacekeeping operations; (c) International Trade Centre; (d) United Nations University; (e) Capital master plan; (f) United Nations Development Programme; (g) United Nations Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fund; (h) United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; (i) United Nations Institute for Training and Research; (j) Voluntary funds administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; (k) Fund of the United Nations Environment Programme; (l) United Nations Population Fund; (m) United Nations Human Settlements Programme; (n) United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; (o) United Nations Office for Project Services; (p) International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994;
Allocation
Plenary
Plenary
Plenary
Plenary 5th
Agendas of the United Nations principal organs Item No. Title
Allocation
(q) International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991; (r) United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women). 129. Review of the efficiency of the administrative 5th and financial functioning of the United Nations. 130. Programme budget for the biennium 2012–2013. 5th 131. Programme planning. Plenary, 1st, 4th, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th 132. Improving the financial situation of the United 5th Nations. 133. Pattern of conferences. 5th 134. Scale of assessments for the apportionment 5th of the expenses of the United Nations. 135. Human resources management. 5th 136. Joint Inspection Unit. 5th 137. United Nations common system. 5th 138. United Nations pension system. 5th 139. Administrative and budgetary coordination of 5th the United Nations with the specialized agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency. 140. Report on the activities of the Office of Internal 5th Oversight Services. 141. Administration of justice at the United Nations. 5th, 6th 142. Financing of the International Criminal 5th Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994. 143. Financing of the International Tribunal for 5th the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991. 144. Financing of the International Residual 5th Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. 145. Scale of assessments for the apportionment 5th of the expenses of the United Nations peacekeeping operations. 146. Administrative and budgetary aspects of the 5th financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations. 147. Financing of the United Nations Interim 5th Security Force for Abyei. 148. Financing of the United Nations Mission in 5th the Central African Republic and Chad. 149. Financing of the United Nations Operation in 5th Côte d’Ivoire. 150. Financing of the United Nations 5th Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus. 151. Financing of the United Nations Organization 5th Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 152. Financing of the United Nations Mission in 5th East Timor. 153. Financing of the United Nations Integrated 5th Mission in Timor-Leste.
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Allocation
154. Financing of the United Nations Observer 5th Mission in Georgia. 155. Financing of the United Nations Stabilization 5th Mission in Haiti. 156. Financing of the United Nations Interim 5th Administration Mission in Kosovo. 157. Financing of the United Nations Mission 5th in Liberia. 158. Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping 5th forces in the Middle East: (a) United Nations Disengagement Observer Force; (b) United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. 159. Financing of the United Nations Mission 5th in South Sudan. 160. Financing of the United Nations Mission 5th in the Sudan. 161. Financing of the United Nations Supervision 5th Mission in the Syrian Arab Republic. 162. Financing of the United Nations Mission 5th for the Referendum in Western Sahara. 163. Financing of the African Union-United Nations 5th Hybrid Operation in Darfur. 164. Financing of the activities arising from Security 5th Council resolution 1863(2009). 171. Financing of the United Nations Multidimensional 5th Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali. Agenda of the sixty-eight session, first part (17 September–27 December 2013) [A/68/49 (Vol.l), Annex l] Item No. Title
1. Opening of the session by the President of the General Assembly. 2. Minute of silent prayer or meditation. 3. Credentials of representatives to the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly: (a) Appointment of the members of the Credentials Committee; (b) Report of the Credentials Committee. 4. Election of the President of the General Assembly. 5. Election of the officers of the Main Committees.
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6. Election of the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly. 7. Organization of work, adoption of the agenda Plenary and allocation of items: reports of the General Committee. 8. General debate. Plenary A. Promotion of sustained economic growth and sustainable development in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and recent United Nations conferences 9. Report of the Economic and Social Council. Plenary Plenary 10. Implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on Hiv/aids and the Political Declarations on Hiv/aids. 11. Sport for peace and development: building a Plenary peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal. 12. Global road safety crisis. Plenary 13. 2001–2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Plenary Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa. 14. Integrated and coordinated implementation Plenary of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields.
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15. Culture of peace. 16. Information and communications technologies for development. 17. Macroeconomic policy questions: (a) International trade and development; (b) International financial system and development; (c) External debt sustainability and development; (d) Commodities. 18. Follow-up to and implementation of the outcome of the 2002 International Conference on Financing for Development and the 2008 Review Conference. 19. Sustainable development: (a) Implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development and of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development; (b) Follow-up to and implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States; (c) International Strategy for Disaster Reduction; (d) Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind; (e) Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa; (f) Convention on Biological Diversity; (g) Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its first universal session; (h) Harmony with Nature; (i) Sustainable mountain development; (j) The role of the international community in the prevention of the radiation threat in Central Asia. 20. Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). 21. Globalization and interdependence:
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(a) Role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence; (b) Science and technology for development; (c) Development cooperation with middle-income countries; (d) Culture and development; (e) International migration and development. 22. Groups of countries in special situations: 2nd (a) Follow-up to the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries; (b) Comprehensive 10-year Review Conference on the Implementation of the Almaty Programme of Action.
Item No. Title
23. Eradication of poverty and other development issues: (a) Implementation of the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2017); (b) Women in development; (c) Human resources development. 24. Operational activities for development: (a) Operational activities for development of the United Nations system; (b) South-South cooperation. 25. Agriculture development, food security and nutrition. 26. Towards global partnerships. 27. Social development: (a) Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly; (b) Social development, including questions relating to the world social situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family; (c) Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing; (d) United Nations Literacy Decade: education for all. 28. Advancement of women: (a) Advancement of women; (b) Implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women and of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly. 174. United Nations University. B. Maintenance of international peace and security 29. Report of the Security Council. 30. Report of the Peacebuilding Commission. 31. Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies. 32. The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict. 33. Prevention of armed conflict: (a) Prevention of armed conflict; (b) Strengthening the role of mediation in the peaceful settlement of disputes, conflict prevention and resolution. 34. Protracted conflicts in the guam area and their implications for international peace, security and development. 35. The situation in the Middle East. 36. Question of Palestine. 37. The situation in Afghanistan. 38. The situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan. 39. Question of the Comorian island of Mayotte. 40. Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba. 41. The situation in Central America: progress in fashioning a region of peace, freedom, democracy and development. 42. Question of Cyprus. 43. Armed aggression against the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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44. Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas). 45. The situation of democracy and human rights in Haiti. 46. Armed Israeli aggression against the Iraqi nuclear installations and its grave consequences for the established international system concerning the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and international peace and security. 47. Consequences of the Iraqi occupation of and aggression against Kuwait. 48. Assistance in mine action. 49. Effects of atomic radiation. 50. International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space. 51. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. 52. Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories. 53. Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects. 54. Comprehensive review of special political missions. 55. Questions relating to information. 56. Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations. 57. Economic and other activities which affect the interests of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories. 58. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples by the specialized agencies and the international institutions associated with the United Nations. 59. Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories. 60. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. 61. Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources. 62. Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, questions relating to refugees, returnees and displaced persons and humanitarian questions. C. Development of Africa 63. New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support: (a) New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support; (b) Causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa. D. Promotion of human rights 64. Report of the Human Rights Council.
Plenary Plenary
(a) Promotion and protection of the rights of children;
Plenary
(b) Follow-up to the outcome of the special session on children.
65. Promotion and protection of the rights of children:
Item No. Title
66. Rights of indigenous peoples:
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(a) Rights of indigenous peoples; (b) Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People. Plenary 4th 4th 4th 4th 4th
67. Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance:
3rd
(a) Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance; (b) Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action. 68. Right of peoples to self-determination.
3rd
69. Promotion and protection of human rights:
3rd
(a) Implementation of human rights instruments; 4th 4th 4th 4th
(b) Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms; (c) Human rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs and representatives; (d) Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. E. Effective coordination of humanitarian assistance efforts
4th
4th
4th
2nd
70. Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance: (a) Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations; (b) Assistance to the Palestinian people; (c) Special economic assistance to individual countries or regions; (d) Strengthening of international cooperation and coordination of efforts to study, mitigate and minimize the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster. 71. Assistance to survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, particularly orphans, widows and victims of sexual violence.
3rd
Plenary
Plenary, 3rd 3rd
Plenary
Plenary
F. Promotion of justice and international law 72. Report of the International Court of Justice.
Plenary
73. Report of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994.
Plenary
74. Report of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991.
Plenary
75. Report of the International Criminal Court.
Plenary
76. Oceans and the law of the sea:
Plenary
(a) Oceans and the law of the sea;
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(b) Sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995 Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, and related instruments.
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(b) Further measures in the field of disarmament for the prevention of an arms race on the seabed and the ocean floor and in the subsoil thereof; (c) Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities;
77. Responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts.
6th
78. Criminal accountability of United Nations officials and experts on mission.
6th
(d) Follow-up to nuclear disarmament obligations agreed to at the 1995, 2000 and 2010 Review Conferences of the Parties to the Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons; (e) Transparency in armaments;
79. Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its forty-sixth session. 80. United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law.
6th
81. Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its sixty-third and sixty-fifth sessions.
6th
82. Diplomatic protection.
6th
83. Consideration of prevention of transboundary harm from hazardous activities and allocation of loss in the case of such harm.
6th
84. Report of the Special Committee on the Charter 6th of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization. 85. The rule of law at the national and international levels.
6th
86. The scope and application of the principle of universal jurisdiction.
6th
87. The law of transboundary aquifers.
6th
G. Disarmament 88. Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Plenary
89. Reduction of military budgets:
1st
(a) Reduction of military budgets; (b) Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures.
(f) National legislation on transfer of arms, military equipment and dual-use goods and technology; (g) Problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus; (h) Treaty on the South-East Asia NuclearWeapon-Free Zone (Bangkok Treaty); (i) Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes; (j) Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction; (k) Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons; (l) Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: accelerating the implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments; (m) Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control; (n) Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proliferation; (o) Relationship between disarmament and development; (p) Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons and collecting them;
90. Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace.
1st
91. African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty.
1st
92. Consolidation of the regime established by the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco).
1st
93. Review of the implementation of the Declaration on the Strengthening of International Security.
1st
94. Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security.
1st
95. Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East.
1st
96. Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons.
1st
97. Prevention of an arms race in outer space.
1st
98. Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament.
1st
(z) United action towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons;
99. General and complete disarmament:
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(aa) Nuclear disarmament;
(a) Notification of nuclear tests;
(q) Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction; (r) Reducing nuclear danger; (s) Decreasing the operational readiness of nuclear weapons systems; (t) Women, disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control; (u) Treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices; (v) Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction; (w) Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations; (x) Regional disarmament; (y) The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects;
(bb) Confidence-building measures in the regional and subregional context;
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(cc) Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels; (dd) The Arms Trade Treaty; (ee) Missiles; (ff) Convening of the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament. 100. Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly:
1st
(a) United Nations regional centres for peace and disarmament; (b) Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons; (c) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific; (d) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean; (e) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa; (f) Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa. 101. Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special session:
1st
(a) Report of the Conference on Disarmament; (b) Report of the Disarmament Commission. 102. The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East.
1st
103. Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects.
1st
104. Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region.
1st
105. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.
1st
106. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction.
1st
107. Revitalizing the work of the Conference on Disarmament and taking forward multilateral disarmament negotiations.
1st
H. Drug control, crime prevention and combating international terrorism in all its forms and manifestations 108. Crime prevention and criminal justice.
3rd
109. International drug control.
3rd
110. Measures to eliminate international terrorism.
6th
I. Organizational, administrative and other matters 111. Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization.
Plenary
112. Report of the Secretary-General on the Peacebuilding Fund.
Plenary
113. Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations.
Plenary
114. Elections to fill vacancies in principal organs:
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(a) Election of five non-permanent members of the Security Council; (b) Election of eighteen members of the Economic and Social Council.
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115. Elections to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other elections: (a) Election of seven members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination; (b) Election of two members of the Organizational Committee of the Peacebuilding Commission; (c) Election of fourteen members of the Human Rights Council; (d) Election of the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme; (e) Election of the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme. 116. Appointments to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other appointments: (a) Appointment of members of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions; (b) Appointment of members of the Committee on Contributions; (c) Confirmation of the appointment of members of the Investments Committee; (d) Appointment of a member of the Board of Auditors; (e) Appointment of members of the International Civil Service Commission; (i) Appointment of members of the Commission; (ii) Designation of the Vice-Chair of the Commission; (f) Appointment of members of the Independent Audit Advisory Committee; (g) Appointment of members of the Committee on Conferences; (h) Appointment of a member of the Joint Inspection Unit; (i) Approval of the appointment of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. 117. Admission of new Members to the United Nations. 118. Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit. 119. The United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. 120. Follow-up to the commemoration of the twohundredth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. 121. Implementation of the resolutions of the United Nations. 122. Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly.
123. Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters. 124. Strengthening of the United Nations system. 125. United Nations reform: measures and proposals. 126. Interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the InterParliamentary Union. 127. Global health and foreign policy.
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128. International Criminal Tribunal for the Plenary Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994. 129. International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Plenary Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991. 130. International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. 131. Financial reports and audited financial statements, and reports of the Board of Auditors:
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146. Financing of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals.
5th
147. Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations.
5th
148. Financing of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei.
5th
149. Financing of the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad.
5th
150. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire.
5th
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151. Financing of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus.
5th
5th
152. Financing of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
5th
153. Financing of the United Nations Mission in East Timor.
5th
154. Financing of the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste.
5th
155. Financing of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti.
5th
156. Financing of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo.
5th
157. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Liberia.
5th
158. Financing of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali.
5th
159. Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the Middle East:
5th
(a) United Nations peacekeeping operations; (b) Capital master plan; (c) United Nations Development Programme; (d) United Nations Capital Development Fund; (e) United Nations Children’s Fund; (f) United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; (g) Voluntary funds administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; (h) United Nations Population Fund; (i) United Nations Office for Project Services; (j) United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women). 132. Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations.
5th
133. Programme budget for the biennium 2012–2013.
5th
134. Proposed programme budget for the biennium 2014–2015.
5th
135. Programme planning.
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(a) United Nations Disengagement Observer Force; (b) United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. 160. Financing of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan.
5th
161. Financing of the United Nations Mission in the Sudan.
5th
162. Financing of the United Nations Supervision Mission in the Syrian Arab Republic.
5th
136. Improving the financial situation of the United Nations.
5th
163. Financing of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara.
5th
137. Pattern of conferences.
5th
5th
138. Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations.
5th
164. Financing of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur.
5th
165. Financing of the activities arising from Security Council resolution 1863(2009).
5th
139. Human resources management. 140. Joint Inspection Unit.
5th
166. Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country.
6th
167. Observer status for the Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking States in the General Assembly.
6th
168. Observer status for the International Conference of Asian Political Parties in the General Assembly.
6th
169. Observer status for the International Chamber of Commerce in the General Assembly.
6th
170. Observer status for the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law in the General Assembly.
6th
171. Observer status for the International AntiCorruption Academy in the General Assembly.
6th
172. Observer status for the Pan African Intergovernmental Agency for Water and Sanitation for Africa in the General Assembly.
6th
173. Observer status for the Global Green Growth Institute in the General Assembly.
6th
141. United Nations common system.
5th
142. Report on the activities of the Office of Internal Oversight Services.
5th
143. Administration of justice at the United Nations.
5th, 6th
144. Financing of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994.
5th
145. Financing of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991.
5th
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SECURITY COUNCIL Questions considered during 2013
Title
Title
Briefing by the President of the International Court of Justice. Briefing by the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Meeting of the Security Council with the troop- and policecontributing countries [unficyp, undof, unifil, minurso, monusco, unmil, unoci, minustah, unmiss, unamid]. Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts. Briefings by Chairmen of subsidiary bodies of the Security Council. The situation in Côte d’Ivoire. Security Council mission. The promotion and strengthening of the rule of law in the maintenance of international peace and security. Non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction Central African region. Reports of the Secretary-General on the Sudan and South Sudan. Post-conflict peacebuilding. The situation concerning Iraq. Non-proliferation. Peace consolidation in West Africa. Non-proliferation/Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Maintenance of international peace and security [conflict prevention and natural resources, security sector reform: challenges and opportunities]. Peace and security in Africa [general issues, Sahel region]. Cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations in maintaining international peace and security. The situation in Libya. The situation in Mali.
The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. The situation in the Middle East. The situation in Cyprus. The situation concerning Western Sahara. United Nations peacekeeping operations. The situation between Iraq and Kuwait. The situation in Liberia. The situation in Somalia. The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Security Council resolutions 1160(1998), 1199(1998), 1203(1998), 1239(1999) and 1244(1999). International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991. International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January 1994 and 31 December 1994. The question concerning Haiti. The situation in Burundi. The situation in Afghanistan. The situation in Sierra Leone. The situation in the Great Lakes region. The situation concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The situation in the Central African Republic. Children and armed conflict.
Other matters considered during 2013
The situation in Guinea-Bissau.
Title
Protection of civilians in armed conflict.
Annual report of the Security Council to the General Assembly. Items relating to Security Council documentation and working methods and procedure.
Small arms. Women and peace and security.
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL Agenda of the organizational and resumed organizational session for 2013 (28 January, 12–15 and 28 February, 25 April and 6 May) Item No. Title
1. Election of the Bureau. 2. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters. 3. Basic programme of work of the Council. 4. Elections, nominations, confirmations and appointments. Agenda of the substantive and resumed substantive sessions of 2011 (1–26 July, 22 October, 6–8 November and 16 December) 1. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters. High-level segment 2. High-level segment: (a) High-level policy dialogue with international financial and trade institutions; (b) Annual ministerial review; Theme: “Science, technology and innovation, and the potential of culture, for promoting sustainable development and achieving the Millennium Development Goals”;
Item No. Title
(c) Thematic discussion: Theme: “The contribution of the Economic and Social Council to the elaboration of the post2015 development agenda as a principal body for policy review, policy dialogue and recommendations on issues of economic and social development and for the follow-up to the Millennium Development Goals”. Operational activities segment 3. Operational activities of the United Nations for international development cooperation: (a) Follow-up to policy recommendations of the General Assembly and the Council; (b) Reports of the Executive Boards of the United Nations Development Programme/United Nations Population Fund/United Nations Office for Project Services, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, and the World Food Programme; (c) South-South cooperation for development.
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Coordination segment 4. The role of the United Nations system in implementing the ministerial declaration of the high-level segment of the 2012 substantive session of the Economic and Social Council. 6. Implementation of and follow-up to major United Nations conferences and summits: (a) Follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development. 10. Regional cooperation: Dialogue with the executive secretaries of the regional commissions on the theme “Regional perspectives on the post2015 development agenda”. Humanitarian affairs segment 5. Special economic, humanitarian and disaster relief assistance. General segment 6. Implementation of and follow-up to major United Nations conferences and summits: (b) Review and coordination of the implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011–2020. 7. Coordination, programme and other questions: (a) Reports of coordination bodies; (b) Proposed programme budget for the biennium 2014–2015; (c) Mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system; (d) Long-term programme of support for Haiti; (e) Joint United Nations Programme on Hiv/aids (UNaids); (f) African countries emerging from conflict; (g) Tobacco or health; (h) Calendar of conferences and meetings in the economic, social and related fields. 8. Implementation of General Assembly resolutions 50/227, 52/12 B, 57/270 B and 60/265.
9. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples by the specialized agencies and the international institutions associated with the United Nations. 10. Regional cooperation. 11. Economic and social repercussions of the Israeli occupation on the living conditions of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan. 12. Non-governmental organizations. 13. Economic and environmental questions: (a) Sustainable development; (b) Science and technology for development; (c) Statistics; (d) Human settlements; (e) Environment; (f) Population and development; (g) Public administration and development; (h) International cooperation in tax matters; (i) United Nations Forum on Forests; (j) Assistance to third States affected by the application of sanctions; (k) Cartography; (l) Women and development; (m) Transport of dangerous goods. 14. Social and human rights questions: (a) Advancement of women; (b) Social development; (c) Crime prevention and criminal justice; (d) Narcotic drugs; (e) United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; (f) Comprehensive implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action; (g) Human rights; (h) Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. 15. United Nations research and training institutes.
Appendix V
United Nations information centres and services (as at 14 November 2017) ACCRA. United Nations Information Centre Gamal Abdel Nasser/Liberia Roads (P.O. Box GP 2339) Accra, Ghana Serving: Ghana, Sierra Leone ALGIERS. United Nations Information Centre 41 Rue Mohamed Khoudi, El Biar El Biar, 16030 El Biar, Alger (Boite Postale 444, Hydra-Alger 16035) Algiers, Algeria Serving: Algeria ANKARA. United Nations Information Centre Yıldız Kule, Yukarı Dikmen Mahallesi, Turan Güneş Bulvarı, No:106 06550 Cankaya Ankara, Turkey Serving: Turkey ANTANANARIVO. United Nations Information Centre 159, rue Damantsoa, Ankorahotra (Boite Postale 1348) Antananarivo, Madagascar Serving: Madagascar ASUNCIÓN. United Nations Information Centre World Trade Center Asunción Aviadores del Chaco 2050 (Casilla de Correo 1107) Asunción, Paraguay Serving: Paraguay BEIRUT. United Nations Information Centre/ United Nations Information Service, Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia UN House, Riad El-Solh Square (P.O. Box 11-8575-4656) Beirut, Lebanon Serving: Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syrian Arab Republic, ESCWA BOGOTÁ. United Nations Information Centre Calle 100 No. 8A-55, Piso 10 Edificio World Trade Center-Torre C (Apartado Aéro 058964) Bogota 2, Colombia Serving: Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela BRAZZAVILLE. United Nations Information Centre Avenue Foch, Case Ortf 15 (Boite Postale 13210) Brazzaville, Congo Serving: Congo BRUSSELS. Regional United Nations Information Centre Residence Palace Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 155 Quartier Rubens, Block C2 1040 Brussels, Belgium Serving: Andorra, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holy See, Iceland, Ireland, Italy,
Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, European Union BUENOS AIRES. United Nations Information Centre Junín 1940, 1er. Piso 1113 Buenos Aires, Argentina Serving: Argentina, Uruguay BUJUMBURA. United Nations Information Centre 13 Avenue de la Révolution (Boite Postale 2160) Bujumbura, Burundi Serving: Burundi CAIRO. United Nations Information Centre 1 Osiris Street, Garden City (P.O. Box 262) Cairo, Egypt Serving: Egypt, Saudi Arabia CANBERRA. United Nations Information Centre Level 1, 7 National Circuit, Barton, ACT 2600 (P.O. Box 5366, Kingston, ACT 2604) Canberra, Australia Serving: Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu COLOMBO. United Nations Information Centre 202/204 Bauddhaloka Mawatha (P.O. Box 1505, Colombo) Colombo 7, Sri Lanka Serving: Sri Lanka DAKAR. United Nations Information Centre Parcelle N° 20 Route du King Fahd (ex. Méridien President) en face Hôtel le LITTORAL (Boite Postale 154) Dakar, Senegal Serving: Cabo Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mauritania, Senegal DAR ES SALAAM. United Nations Information Centre 182 Mzinga Way, Oysterbay (P.O. Box 9224) Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania Serving: United Republic of Tanzania DHAKA. United Nations Information Centre IDB Bhaban (8th floor) Sher-e-Banglanagar (G.P.O. Box 3658, Dhaka-1000) Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh Serving: Bangladesh GENEVA. United Nations Information Service United Nations Office at Geneva Palais des Nations 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland Serving: Switzerland
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1568 MANAMA. United Nations Information Centre United Nations House Bldg. 69, Road 1901, Hoora 319 (P.O. Box 26004) Manama, Bahrain Serving: Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates MANILA. United Nations Information Centre GC Corporate Plaza (formerly Jaka II Building) (5th floor) 150 Legaspi Street, Legaspi Village Makati City, 1229 (P.O. Box 7285 ADC (DAPO)) 1300 Domestic Road, Pasay City Metro Manila, Philippines Serving: Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands
PORT OF SPAIN. United Nations Information Centre 2nd floor, Bretton Hall, 16 Victoria Avenue (P.O. Box 130) Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago Serving: Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Netherlands Antilles, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago PRAGUE. United Nations Information Centre Zelezna 24 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic Serving: Czech Republic
MEXICO CITY. United Nations Information Centre Montes Urales 440 (3rd floor) Colonia Lomas de Chapultepec Mexico City, D.F. 11000, Mexico Serving: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico
PRETORIA. United Nations Information Centre Metropark Building, 351 Francis Baard Street (P.O. Box 12677), Tramshed Pretoria, South Africa 0126 Serving: South Africa
MOSCOW. United Nations Information Centre 9 Leontievsky Pereulok Moscow 125009, Russian Federation Serving: Russian Federation
RABAT. United Nations Information Centre 13 Avenue Ahmed Balafrej (Boite Postale 601) Casier ONU, Rabat-Chellah Rabat, Morocco Serving: Morocco
NAIROBI. United Nations Information Centre United Nations Office, Gigiri (P.O. Box 67578-00200) Nairobi, Kenya Serving: Kenya, Seychelles, Uganda NEW DELHI. United Nations Information Centre 55 Lodi Estate New Delhi 110 003, India Serving: Bhutan, India OUAGADOUGOU. United Nations Information Centre 14 Avenue de la Grande Chancellerie Secteur no. 4 (Boite Postale 135, Ouagadougou 01) Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Serving: Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger PANAMA CITY. United Nations Information Centre UN House Building 128 (1st floor) Ciudad del Saber, Clayton (P.O. Box 0819-01082) Panama City, Panama Serving: Panama
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TUNIS. United Nations Information Centre 41 Bis, Av. Louis Braille, Cité El Khadra (Boite Postale 863) 1003 Tunis, Tunisia Serving: Tunisia VIENNA. United Nations Information Service, United Nations Office at Vienna Vienna International Centre Wagramer Strasse 5 (P.O. Box 500, A-1400 Vienna) A-1220 Vienna, Austria Serving: Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia WARSAW. United Nations Information Centre ul. Piękna 19 00-549 Warszawa, Poland Serving: Poland WASHINGTON, D.C. United Nations Information Centre 1775 K Street, N.W., Suite 400 Washington, D.C. 20006 United States of America Serving: United States of America WINDHOEK. United Nations Information Centre UN House 38–44 Stein Street, Klein (Private Bag 13351) Windhoek, Namibia Serving: Namibia YANGON. United Nations Information Centre 6 Natmauk Road Tamwe Township (P.O. Box 230) Yangon, Myanmar Serving: Myanmar YAOUNDÉ. United Nations Information Centre Immeuble Tchinda Rue 2044, Derrière camp SIC TSINGA (Boite Postale 836) Yaoundé, Cameroon Serving: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon
Note: For more information on unics, please visit the website: unic.un.org.
Appendix VI
Intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations (respective heads as at December 2013)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Vienna International Centre P.O. Box 100, A-1400 Vienna, Austria Telephone: (43) (1) 2600-0 Fax: (43) (1) 2600-7 E-mail: official.mail@iaea.org Internet: www.iaea.org Director General: Yukiya Amano (Japan) IAEA Office at the United Nations One United Nations Plaza, Room DC1-1155 New York, NY 10017, U.S.A. Telephone: (1) (212) 963-6010/6011 Fax: (1) (917) 367-4046 E-mail: iaeany@un.org International Labour Organization (ILO) 4, route des Morillons CH-1211 Geneva 22, Switzerland Telephone: (41) (0) (22) 799-6111 Fax: (41) (0) (22) 798-8685 E-mail: ilo@ilo.org Internet: www.ilo.org Director General: Guy Ryder (United Kingdom) ILO Office at the United Nations One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza 885 Second Avenue, 30th floor New York, NY 10017, U.S.A. Telephone: (1) (212) 697-0150 Fax: (1) (212) 697-5218 E-mail: newyork@ilo.org Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00153 Rome, Italy Telephone: (39) (06) 57051 Fax: (39) (06) 570 53152 E-mail: FAO-HQ@fao.org Internet: www.fao.org Director General: José Graziano da Silva (Brazil) FAO Office at the United Nations One United Nations Plaza, Room DC1-1125 New York, NY 10017, U.S.A. Telephone: (1) (212) 963-6036 Fax: (1) (212) 963-5425 E-mail: FAO-LON@fao.org United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) UNESCO House 7, place de Fontenoy 75352 Paris 07-SP, France Telephone: (33) (0) (1) 45-68-1000 Fax: (33) (0) (1) 45-67-1690 E-mail: info@unesco.org Internet: www.unesco.org Director General: Irina Bokova (Bulgaria) UNESCO Office at the United Nations Two United Nations Plaza, Room DC2-900 New York, NY 10017, U.S.A.
Telephone: (1) (917) 810-9035 Fax: (1) (212) 963-8014 E-mail: newyork@unesco.org World Health Organization (WHO) Avenue Appia, 20 CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland Telephone: (41) (22) 791-2111 Fax: (41) (22) 791-3111 E-mail: info@who.int Internet: www.who.int Director General: Dr. Margaret Chan (China) WHO Office at the United Nations One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza 885 Second Avenue, 26th floor New York, NY 10017, U.S.A. Telephone: (1) (646) 626-6060 Fax: (1) (646) 626-6080 E-mail: wun@whoun.org World Bank (IBRD, IDA and IFC) 1818 H Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20433, U.S.A. Telephone: (1) (202) 473-1000 Fax: (1) (202) 477-6391 E-mail: eds01@worldbank.org Internet: www.worldbank.org President: Jim Yong Kim (United States) Office of the Special Representative to the United Nations One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza 885 Second Avenue, 26th floor New York, NY 10017, U.S.A. Telephone: (1) (212) 317-4720 Fax: (1) (212) 317-4733 E-mail: aarceaga@worldbank.org
Universal Postal Union (UPU) Weltpost Strasse, 4 Case Postale 312 3000 Berne 15, Switzerland Telephone: (41) (31) 350-3111 Fax: (41) (31) 350-3110 E-mail: info@upu.int Internet: www.upu.int Director General: Bishar Abdirahman Hussein (Kenya) International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Place des Nations CH-1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland Telephone: (41) (22) 730-5111 Fax: (41) (22) 733-7256 E-mail: itumail@itu.int Internet: www.itu.int Secretary-General: Hamadoune Toure (Mali) World Meteorological Organization (WMO) 7 bis, avenue de la Paix Case postale 2300 CH-1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland Telephone: (41) (0) (22) 730-8111 Fax: (41) (0) (22) 730-8181 E-mail: cpa@wmo.int Internet: public.wmo.int President: David Grimes (Canada) Secretary-General: Michel Jarraud (France) WMO Office at the United Nations Two United Nations Plaza, DC2-2525 New York, NY 10017, U.S.A. Telephone: (1) (212) 963-9444 E-mail: pegerton@wmo.int
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 700 19th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20431, U.S.A. Telephone: (1) (202) 623-7000 Fax: (1) (202) 623-4661 E-mail: publicaffairs@imf.org Internet: www.imf.org Managing Director: Christine Lagarde (France)
International Maritime Organization (IMO) 4, Albert Embankment London SE1 7SR, United Kingdom Telephone: (44) (0) (20) 7735-7611 Fax: (44) (0) (20) 7587-3210 E-mail: info@imo.org Internet: www.imo.org Secretary-General: Koji Sekimizu (Japan)
IMF Office at the United Nations One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza 885 Second Avenue, 26th floor New York, NY 10017, U.S.A. Telephone: (1) (212) 317-4720 Fax: (1) (212) 317-4733
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) 34, chemin des Colombettes CH-1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland Telephone: (41) (22) 338-9111 Fax: (41) (22) 733-5428 E-mail: wipo.mail@wipo.int Internet: www.wipo.int Director General: Francis Gurry (Australia)
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) 999 Robert-Bourassa Boulevard Montreal, Quebec, H3C 5H7, Canada Telephone: (1) (514) 954-8219 Fax: (1) (514) 954-6077 E-mail: icaohq@icao.int Internet: www.icao.int Secretary-General: Raymond Benjamin (France)
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1570 International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Via Paolo di Dono, 44 00142 Rome, Italy Telephone: (39) (06) 54591 Fax: (39) (06) 504 3463 E-mail: ifad@ifad.org Internet: www.ifad.org President: Kanayo F. Nwanze (Nigeria) IFAD Office at the United Nations Two United Nations Plaza Rooms DC2-1128/1129 New York, NY 10017, U.S.A. Telephone: (1) (212) 963-0546 Fax: (1) (212) 963-2787 E-mail: ifad@un.org United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Vienna International Centre Wagramer Strasse, 5 P.O. Box 300, A-1400 Vienna, Austria Telephone: (43) (1) 26026-0 Fax: (43) (1) 269-2669 E-mail: unido@unido.org Internet: www.unido.org Director General: Li Yong (China)
UNIDO Office in New York One United Nations Plaza Room DC1-1118 New York, NY 10017, U.S.A. Telephone: (1) (212) 963-6890/6885 Fax: (1) (212) 963-7904 E-mail: office.newyork@unido.org World Trade Organization (WTO) Centre William Rappard Rue de Lausanne, 154 CH-1211 Geneva 21, Switzerland Telephone: (41) (0) (22) 739-5111 Fax: (41) (0) (22) 731-4206 E-mail: enquiries@wto.org Internet: www.wto.org Director General: Robert Azevêdo (Brazil) World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Poeta Joan Maragall, 42 28020 Madrid, Spain Telephone: (34) (91) 567-8100 Fax: (34) (91) 571-3733 E-mail: omt@unwto.org Internet: www.unwto.org Secretary-General: Taleb Rifai (Jordan)
Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) Vienna International Centre P.O. Box 1200 A-1400 Vienna, Austria Telephone: (43) (1) 26030 6200 Fax: (43) (1) 26030 5823 E-mail: info@ctbto.org Internet: www.ctbto.org Executive Secretary: Lassina Zerbo (Burkina Fasso) Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Johan de Wittlaan 32 2517 JR-The Hague The Netherlands Telephone: (31) (70) 416 3300 Fax: (31) (70) 306 3535 E-mail: public.affairs@opcw.org Internet: www.opcw.org Director General: Ahmet Üzümcü (Turkey) Note: For more information on liaison, regional, subregional and country offices maintained by any of these organizations, please visit their respective websites.
Indices
Subject index Bold capital letters are used for main subject entries (e.g. DEVELOPMENT) and chapter topics (e.g. DISARMAMENT), as well as country names (e.g. AFGHANISTAN), region names (e.g. AFRICA) and principal UN organs (e.g. GENERAL ASSEMBLY). Capital letters are used to highlight major issues (e.g. POVERTY), as well as the names of territories (e.g. MONTSERRAT), subregions (e.g. CENTRAL AMERICA), specialized agencies (e.g. WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION) and regional commissions (e.g. ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA). Regular text is used for single and cross-reference entries (e.g. arms embargo, mercenaries). An asterisk (*) preceding a page number or range of page numbers indicates the presence of a text, reproduced in full, of a General Assembly, Security Council or Economic and Social Council resolution or decision, or a Security Council presidential statement. United Nations bodies are listed alphabetically and may also appear under related entries.
A Abkhazia see Georgia ABU MUSA 354 abuse see sexual exploitation and abuse Abyei Area, political and security questions *223–232 Action Plan on Youth 1035, 1058, 1417 administration, UN see institutional, administrative and budgetary questions AFGHANISTAN Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee 325–327 humanitarian assistance 878 human rights 743–744 International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) 320–325 political and security questions *298–327 sanctions 325–327 terrorism 59 United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) 320 AFRICA see also specific regions and countries by name capacity development 950 children and armed conflict Central African Republic 144 Central African Republic and Chad 144–145 Chad 246–247 Côte d’Ivoire 168 Democratic Republic of the Congo 121 Somalia 264–265 Sudan–South Sudan 232–235 crime prevention and criminal justice *1236–1238 development planning and administration 951 Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) *951–954 economic trends 946 Europe-Africa fixed link *947–948 gender and women in development 950–951 humanitarian assistance 874–878 Burkina Faso 875–876 Central Africa 874–875 Central African Republic 874
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Chad 874 Democratic Republic of the Congo 874–875 Djibouti 877 Horn of Africa 877–878 Kenya 877 Mali 876 Mauritania 876 Niger 876 Somalia 877–878 Southern Africa 876–877 South Sudan 875 Sudan 875 West Africa 875–876 Zimbabwe 876–877 human rights 733–742 Central African Republic 733–734 Côte d’Ivoire 734–735 Democratic Republic of the Congo 735–736 Eritrea 736–737 Guinea 737–738 Libya 738 Mali 738–739 Somalia 739–740 South Sudan 741–742 Sudan 741 industrial development 912 innovations, technologies and management of natural resources 948–949 International Decade for People of African Descent *625–626 International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) 1214–1215 macroeconomic policy 946–947 nuclear-weapon-free zones *498 Peacebuilding Commission Burundi 128 Central African Republic 144 Guinea 206–207 Guinea-Bissau 192 Liberia 177–178 peacekeeping operations 65–66 piracy *155–157, *260–264
1574 political and security questions *84–286 Abyei Area *223–232 arms embargo, Democratic Republic of the Congo 121–122 Burundi *124–128 Cameroon–Nigeria 205–206 causes of conflict in Africa *91–95 Central Africa and Great Lakes region 100–124 Central African Republic *128–144 Central African Republic and Chad 144–145 Chad 246–247 conflict prevention and resolution *85–90 cooperation with African Union 91 Côte d’Ivoire 157–170 Darfur *209–223 Democratic Republic of the Congo *106–120 drug trafficking, Sahel region *152–155 durable peace in Africa, promotion of *91–95 Eritrea 269–273 Guinea 206–207 Guinea-Bissau 184–192 Horn of Africa 207–273 Liberia 170–180 Libya *273–278 Mali 192–205 Mauritania 207 Mauritius–United Kingdom 286 North Africa 273–280 Office of Special Adviser on Africa 99–100 piracy and armed robbery *155–157, *260–264 political declaration on peaceful resolution of conflicts in Africa *88–90 promotion of peace in Africa *85–90 Rwanda *145–146 Sahel region 149–155 Security Council mission 90 Sierra Leone 180–184 Somalia *247–269 South Sudan *236–246 Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions 106 Sudan–South Sudan 207–236 sustainable development in Africa, promotion of *91–95 terrorism, combatting *95–99 UNOWA 157 UNOCA 100–106 West Africa 146–207 Western Sahara 280–286 refugees and displaced persons *1158–1163 regional economic and social activities *945–954 regional integration and trade 947–948 sanctions Côte d’Ivoire *164–168 Eritrea *269–273 Guinea-Bissau 192 Liberia *174–177 Libya 279–280 Somalia 265–266 Sudan *217–221 social development 951 statistics 949–950 subregional activities for development 951 technical cooperation 950 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) 1020 women in development 950–951 African Union, cooperation with the United Nations *1425–1429 African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) 67, *209–217, *221–223 AGEING PERSONS *1047–1053 human rights 722–723
Yearbook of the United Nations, 2013 Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing *1047–1049 Second World Assembly on Ageing *1049–1053 AGRICULTURE see also food; humanitarian assistance agricultural technology for development *789–792 food security and agriculture development *1186–1191 statistics 1263 AIDS see HIV/AIDS ALGERIA, terrorist attack in 59 AMERICAN SAMOA, decolonization *555–562 AMERICAS human rights 742–743 Bolivia 742 Colombia 742 Guatemala 742 Haiti 743 International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) 1215 peacekeeping operations 66 political and security questions 287–297 Central America 287–288 Cuba–United States *296–297 Guatemala *287–288 Gulf of Fonseca zone of peace 288 Haiti *288–296 International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) *287–288 United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) *294–296 refugees and displaced persons 1163–1164 ANGUILLA, decolonization *555–562 anti-personnel mines Convention on the Prohibition of Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction *519–521 aquifers, law of transboundary aquifers *1313–1316 ARAB STATES see also specific countries by name human rights *620–621 League of Arab States (LAS) 354 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) 1021 arbitrary detention, human rights 676–677 arbitration and conciliation, international 1338–1339 armed conflict see also children and armed conflict human rights children *719–722 protection of civilians in *46–49, 670 women and *1108–1115 armed robbery, West Africa *155–157 ARMENIA, political and security questions 367–368 arms and weapons see specific type of weapon arms control see disarmament; non-proliferation; nuclearweapon-free zones arms embargo, Democratic Republic of the Congo 121–122 Arms Trade Treaty *507–509 ASIA AND THE PACIFIC see also specific regions and countries by name Centre for Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization *955–957 children and armed conflict Myanmar 353–354 Yemen 351–352 disaster risk reduction 958 Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) *954–963 economic trends 954–955 environment and development 958 humanitarian assistance 878–879 Afghanistan 878 Occupied Palestinian Territory 878 Philippines 878–879 Syria 879 Yemen 879
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human rights *620–621, 743–756 Afghanistan 743–744 Cambodia 744–745 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea *745–748 Iran *748–752 Myanmar *752–755 Sri Lanka 755–756 Yemen 756 inclusive development 955 information and communications technology 958 International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) 1216, 1217 landlocked developing countries 955 least developed countries 955 macroeconomic policy 955 peacekeeping operations 66 policy issues 954–955 political and security questions *298–354 Afghanistan *298–327 Cambodia 352–353 children and armed conflict 351–354 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea *338–346 Iran *346–349 Iraq *327–331 Iraq–Kuwait *332–336 Myanmar 353–354 Timor-Leste *336–338 United Arab Emirates–Iran 354 Yemen *349–351 poverty reduction 955 refugees and displaced persons 1164 regional economic and social activities 954–963 social development 958–959 statistics 959 technical cooperation 962 trade and investment *955–957 transport 957–958 Treaty on South-East Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone *498–499 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) 1021 atmosphere 1004–1005 atomic radiation see also radiation and radioactive materials, effects of *574–576 AZERBAIJAN, political and security questions 367–368
B bacteriological (biological) weapons Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (Biological Weapons Convention) (BWC) *502–504 disarmament *502–504 Bali Ministerial Declaration 908, 909 Basel Convention on Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 1003–1004 BELARUS, human rights 756–757 BERMUDA, decolonization *555–562 BINUCA see United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (BINUCA) biodiversity and ecosystem services 988–989 biological weapons see bacteriological (biological) weapons disarmament *502–504 birth registration, right to recognition and 719 BNUB see United Nations Office in Burundi (BNUB) BOLIVIA, human rights 742 BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA political and security questions *355–361
civilian aspects *356–360 economic reform 357 European Union Force (EUFOR) 360–361 judicial reform 357 media development 357–358 military and police aspects 360–361 Office of High Representative 356 peace agreement, implementation of *356–361 return of refugees and displaced persons *358–360 refugees and displaced persons *358–360 BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS, decolonization *555–562 Broadband Commission for Digital Development *811–815 budget, UN see institutional, administrative and budgetary questions BURKINA FASO, humanitarian assistance 875–876 BURUNDI financing 128 Peacebuilding Commission 128 political and security questions *124–128 United Nations Office in Burundi (BNUB) 128 business registers 1263
C CAMBODIA human rights 744–745 political and security questions 352–353 CAMEROON–NIGERIA Cameroon–Nigeria Mixed Commission 205–206 financing 206 political and security questions 205–206 capital punishment 670 CARIBBEAN see Caribbean Community; Latin America and the Caribbean; specific country names Caribbean Community (CARICOM) *1419–1421 CARTOGRAPHY 984–985 CAYMAN ISLANDS, decolonization *555–562 CCPCJ see Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) CDP see Committee for Development Policy (CDP) CEB see United Nations Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) CEDAW see Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) CENTRAL AFRICA AND GREAT LAKES REGION see also specific country names arms embargo, Democratic Republic of the Congo 121–122 children and armed conflict Central African Republic 144 Central African Republic and Chad 144–145 Democratic Republic of the Congo 121 disarmament *532–535 humanitarian assistance 874–875 human rights *619–620 Peacebuilding Commission Burundi 128 Central African Republic 144 political and security questions *100–124 arms embargo, Democratic Republic of the Congo 121–122 Burundi 124–128 Central African Republic *128–144 Central African Republic and Chad 144–145 Democratic Republic of the Congo *106–120 financing 105 Rwanda *145–146 Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions 106
1576 UN Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) *100–106 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) 1021 CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC see also Central African Republic and Chad BINUCA 144 children and armed conflict 144 financing 144 humanitarian assistance 874 human rights 733–734 Peacebuilding Commission 144 political and security questions *128–144 CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC AND CHAD children and armed conflict 144–145 MINURCAT 145 political and security questions 144–145 CENTRAL AMERICA see also specific country names International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) 1215 political and security questions *287–288 Guatemala *287–288 Gulf of Fonseca zone of peace 288 regional economic and social activities 976 sustainable tourism in *792–794 CENTRAL ASIA radiation threat, role of international community in averting *981–982 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) 1021 Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) 867–874 CERF see Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) CFC see Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) CHAD see also Central African Republic and Chad children and armed conflict 246–247 humanitarian assistance 874 political and security questions 246–247 chemicals and waste 990–991, *1007–1008 chemical weapons Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction *504–507 disarmament *504–507 Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), 2013 Nobel Peace Prize 506–507 Syrian Arab Republic *441–451 Chernobyl disaster aftermath *889–892 CHILDREN 1137–1148 see also children and armed conflict; youth; United Nations Childrens’ Fund (UNICEF), specific country names birth registration and right to recognition 719 Convention on the Rights of the Child 597, *602–611, 749, 758, 1138–1140 economic and social questions 1137–1148 exploitation and abuse, protection from 1144 food, agriculture and nutrition 1194 the girl child *1119–1125 health, right of children to highest standard of 719 HIV/AIDS and children 1144 humanitarian action 1145 human rights *602–611, 717–722 marriages, child, early and forced *718–719 mortality 719 pornography 717–718 prostitution 717–718 promotion and protection of rights of children *1138–1139, 1144–1145 recognition, right to 719 right of children to highest standard of health 719 rights of children policy advocacy and partnerships for children’s rights 1144–1145 promotion and protection of *1138–1139
Yearbook of the United Nations, 2013 sale of children 717–718 violence against 717, *1258–1259 young child survival and development 1143 children and armed conflict Africa 121, 144–145, 168, 232–235, 246–247, 264–265 Asia and the Pacific 351–352, 353–354 Central African Republic 144 Central African Republic and Chad 144–145 Chad 246–247 Côte d’Ivoire 168 Democratic Republic of the Congo 121 human rights *719–722 Myanmar 353–354 Somalia 264–265 Sudan–South Sudan 232–235 Yemen 351–352 CICIG see International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS *599–600, 628–659 see also human rights civilian private security services 1255 civilians in armed conflict, human rights 670 Climate Center Technology and Network 989–990 climate change, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 1004–1005 cluster munitions, disarmament 519 CND see Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) COLOMBIA, human rights 742 colonies and colonialism see decolonization commercial fraud 1344 Commission for Social Development 1041–1042 Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) *1218–1220 Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) 1197–1211 Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) *801–806 Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) *781–789 Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf 1376–1377 Committee for Development Policy (CDP) *816–818 Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 1126–1127 commodities, international trade *915–919 Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) 918–919 communication technologies see information and communication technologies (ICTs) Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) 1424 Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries (CPLP) *1424–1425 competition law and policy 937 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) *477–478 conferences see specific conference by name or subject confidence-building measures, disarmament *527–528 conflict diamonds *39–43 conflict prevention, international peace and security *39–43 conscientious objection to military service 677–678 consular missions and representatives, protection of 1335 contract law, international 1344 conventional weapons see also disarmament anti-personnel mines *519–521 Arms Trade Treaty *507–509 cluster munitions 519 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects and Protocols *517–519 Amended Protocol II on Mines, Booby-traps and Other Devices *517–519 Protocol V on explosive remnants of war 517 Convention on the Prohibition of Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction *519–521
Subject index disarmament *507–525 explosive remnants of war 517 mines, booby-traps and other devices *517–519 practical disarmament 521 regional and subregional levels, conventional arms control at *530–531 small arms *509–517 transparency in armaments *521–525 conventions see specific convention by name or subject Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking States 1431 corruption, United Nations Convention against Corruption *1239–1243 CÔTE D’IVOIRE children and armed conflict 168 financing *168–170 human rights 734–735 political and security questions *157–170 sanctions *164–168 UNOCI 168–170 Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) *55–59 covenants see human rights CPLP see Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries (CPLP) CRIME PREVENTION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE *1218–1259 see also International Criminal Court (ICC); international drug control; terrorism Africa *1236–1238 children, violence against *1258–1259 civilian private security services 1255 Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) *1218–1220 conventions 1239–1243 crime data collection *1221–1223 crime prevention and criminal justice programme network 1236–1238 cultural property, trafficking in *1226–1228 cybercrime 1229 data collection *1221–1223 economic fraud and identity-related crime *1229–1230 environmental issues 1223 financial flows, illicit 1228 fraudulent medicines, trafficking in 1229 human settlements 1014 integration and coordination 1230–1255 international cooperation in transnational organized crime and corruption 1238–1239 medicines, fraudulent 1229 organized crime, transnational 1238–1239 piracy 1254 prisoners, treatment of *1255–1258 protected species, trafficking in *1224–1226 rule of law *1243–1245 standards and norms 1255–1259 statistics *1221–1223, 1261–1262 technical cooperation *1230–1236 tourism sector, criminal and terrorist threats to 1255 trafficking cultural property *1226–1228 drugs, Sahel region *152–155 fraudulent medicines 1229 persons *1245–1252 precious metals *1223–1224 protected species *1224–1226 Trafficking in Persons, United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat *1246–1247 United Nations African Institute for Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders *1236–1238 United Nations Convention against Corruption *1239–1243 United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 1239
1577 United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons *1246–1247, *1247–1249 United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute 1236 violence against children *1258–1259 against women *1106–1108, 1258 world crime trends and emerging issues 1220–1229 criminal justice see crime prevention and criminal justice CSD see Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) CSTD see Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) CTBT see Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) CTC see Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) CUBA embargo imposed by United States against Cuba *297 political and security questions *296–297 United States–Cuba political and security questions *296–297 CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT *1066–1078 alliance of civilizations 1070 culture of peace *1065–1070 interreligious and intercultural understanding *1067–1070 Olympic ideal *1073–1075 sport for development and peace *1072–1075 world against violence and violent extremism *1070–1072 cultural diversity, human rights *708–711 cultural issues see social policy and cultural issues cultural property, trafficking in *1226–1228 cultural rights 682–731, *707–711 covenant on *600–601 culture of peace *1065–1070 cybercrime 1229 CYPRUS human rights 757 political and security questions *369–375 UNFICYP *369–375
D dangerous goods, international transport of *941–944 DARFUR *209–223 African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) 67 data collection see also statistics crime prevention and criminal justice *1221–1223 debt, foreign 693–695 Decade for Eradication of Colonialism 542–549 Decade for Eradication of Poverty *794–798 decolonization *542–566 American Samoa *555–562 Anguilla *555–562 Bermuda *555–562 British Virgin Islands *555–562 Cayman Islands *555–562 Decade for Eradication of Colonialism *542–549 Declaration on Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples *543–549 dissemination of information on decolonization *564–566 economic activities affecting NSGTs *563–564 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 549–550 French Polynesia *550–551 Gibraltar 551 Guam *555–562 information dissemination of *564–566
1578 from territories *566 island Territories *555–562 military activities and arrangements in colonial countries 562–563 Montserrat *555–562 New Caledonia *552–553 Pitcairn *555–562 Puerto Rico 549 Saint Helena *555–562 territories under review 549–562 Tokelau *553–554 Turks and Caicos Islands *555–562 United States Virgin Islands *555–562 Virgin Islands *555–562 visiting missions 564 Western Sahara 554–555 democratic and equitable international order, human rights *688–691 DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA (DPRK) human rights *745–748 non-proliferation *338–346, 494 political and security questions *338–346 sanctions committee 345–346 DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO arms embargo 121–122 children and armed conflict 121 financing *123–124 humanitarian assistance 874–875 human rights 735–736 MONUSCO 122–124 political and security questions *106–120 demographic and social statistics 1260–1262 desertification and drought *1001–1003 detention, arbitrary 676–677 DEVELOPING COUNTRIES economic and technical cooperation among *859–861 against international trade, coercive economic measures *919 DEVELOPMENT see also economic and social questions; international economic relations; international finance; social policy and cultural issues; sustainable development; United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD XIII); United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); specific country names disarmament, relationship between disarmament and development *466–467 gender and women in 950–951 international financial system and *920–940 right to development *683–687 diamonds, conflict *39–43 diplomatic relations *1335–1336 disabled persons see persons with disabilities disappearance of persons 612–613, 670–671 DISARMAMENT 462–539 see also non-proliferation; nuclear weapons; terrorism Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters 468 advisory services 529 Africa *532–537 Arms Trade Treaty *507–509 Asia and the Pacific *537–538 bacteriological (biological) weapons *502–504 Central Africa *532–535 chemical weapons *504–507 cluster munitions 519 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) *477–478 Conference on Disarmament *464–465 confidence-building measures in outer space activities *527–528 regional disarmament *531–535
Yearbook of the United Nations, 2013 conventional weapons *507–525 Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction *504–507 Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (Biological Weapons Convention) (BWC) *502–504 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects and Protocols *517–519 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction *519–521 development, disarmament and *466–467 Disarmament Commission *463–466 environmental norms *528–529 fellowships, training and advisory services 529 information programme 529 International Court of Justice advisory opinion *479–480 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons 462 Latin America and the Caribbean *538–539 military expenditures, transparency in *524–525 multilateral disarmament agreements 465–466 non-proliferation *467–468, 481–488 nuclear disarmament *468–481 nuclear weapons see nuclear weapons Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) 506–507 Nobel Peace Prize 506–507 outer space, prevention of arms race in *525–528 regional disarmament *529–539 science and technology and disarmament 529 seabed and ocean floor, prevention of arms race on 528 small arms *509–517 High-level Security Council meeting on *509–512 UN Programme of Action on illicit trade in *512–517 studies, research and training 529 training 529 transparency in armaments *521–525 in outer space activities *527–528 Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco) *499–500 United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) 529 United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) 463 UN machinery 462–465 UN role in disarmament 466–481 women and disarmament and arms control *467–468, 1115–1116 DISASTERS AND DISASTER RESPONSE 880–895 see also humanitarian assistance; specific natural disasters by name Asia and the Pacific, disaster risk reduction 958 Chernobyl disaster aftermath *889–892 Hurricane Sandy (storm) aftermath 880 international cooperation *880–885 International Strategy for Disaster Reduction *885–892 mine action, assistance in *892–895 oil slick in Lebanon *1009–1011 space-system-based disaster management support 569 Super Typhoon Haiyan 862, 879, 880 discrimination see also human rights; racism and racial discrimination against women 601 displaced persons see refugees and displaced persons DJIBOUTI, humanitarian assistance 877
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DPRK see Democratic People’s Republic of Korea DRC see Democratic Republic of the Congo drought see desertification and drought drugs see international drug control
E EAST ASIA, International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) 1216 EASTERN AFRICA, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) 1020 EASTERN EUROPE, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) 1021 EAST JERUSALEM, political and security questions *387–389, *396–402 EAST TIMOR see Timor-Leste ECA see Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) ECE see Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) economic, social and cultural rights see human rights Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) 959 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL 1412–1417 see also economic and social questions budget and *1438–1439, *1459–1460 sessions and meetings 1416–1417 strengthening of *1412–1416 themes of Council segments and meetings *1416–1417 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL QUESTIONS *767–1268 see also population; specific regional commissions and economic and social topics Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti *906–907 Africa, regional economic and social activities 945–954 assistance disasters and disaster response 880–895 humanitarian assistance 862–879 special economic assistance 895–907 Caribbean, regional economic and social activities 976–977 cartography 984–985 children 1137–1148 see also children Committee for Development Policy (CDP) *816–818 cooperation in the economic, social and related fields 945–954 crime prevention and criminal justice 1218–1259 cultural development 1066–1078 developing countries, economic and technical cooperation among *859–861 development development policy and international economic cooperation 769–835 international financial system and *920–940 international trade and 908–919 public administration and *816–818 disasters and disaster response 880–895 see also disasters and disaster response drug control, international 1197–1217 economic trends Africa 946 Asia and the Pacific 954–955 Europe 963 Latin America and the Caribbean 973 Western Asia 977 energy 979–983 see also energy environment 986–1013 see also environment Asia and the Pacific 958 Europe 964 Europe, regional economic and social activities 963–973 Europe-Africa fixed link through the Strait of Gibraltar *947–948 food, agriculture and nutrition 1185–1194 see also food gender equality see gender and gender equality Haiti, special economic assistance *906–907 health 1171–1185
humanitarian assistance 862–879 human resources development *1078–1086 human settlements 1013–1019 international cooperation in tax matters *938–940 international drug control 1197–1217 international economic law *1337–1348 international economic relations 770–816 see also international economic relations international financial system and development *920–940 international trade and development 908–919 international transport 940–944 landlocked developing countries *832–835, 955 Latin America and the Caribbean, regional economic and social activities 973–977 least developed countries (LDCs) 820–828, 955 macroeconomic policy Africa 946–947 Asia and the Pacific 955 Latin America and the Caribbean 974 Mexico and Central America, regional economic and social activities 976 natural resources 983–984 see also natural resources Africa 948–949 Latin America and the Caribbean 975 Western Asia 977 operational activities for development *836–861 population *1020–1034 public administration *818–820 refugees and displaced persons *1149–1170 regional economic and social activities *945–978 small island developing States (SIDS) *828–832 social development Africa 951 Asia and the Pacific 958–959 Latin America and the Caribbean 974–975 Western Asia 977–978 social policy *1035–1065 South-South cooperation and triangular cooperation *859–861 special economic assistance *895–907 African economic recovery and development *895–905 Haiti *906–907 statistics *1260–1268 Africa 949–950 Asia and the Pacific 959 Europe 964 Latin America and the Caribbean 976 Western Asia 978 subregional activities 951, 976–977 sustainable development 975, 977 see also sustainable development system-wide activities 836–842 tax matters, international cooperation in *938–940 technical cooperation 842–858 Africa 948–949, 950 Asia and the Pacific 962 audit and oversight 856 country and regional programmes 857 field visits 857–858 joint matters 855 UNDP 842–852 UNFPA 852–853 UNOPS 853–855 transport Asia and the Pacific 957–958 Europe 963 United Nations Fund for International Partnerships (UNFIP) 858 United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) 858–859
1580 United Nations Office for Partnerships, cooperation 858–859 Western Asia, regional economic and social activities 977–978 women *1087–1136 technologies 950–951 Western Asia, advancement of 978 ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA (ECA) *951–954 ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE (ECE) *964–973 ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN 973–977 economic fraud *1229–1230 economic rights 682–731 covenant on *600–601 ecosystems see environment and environmental protection EDUCATION human resources development 1084–1086 human rights education 623–624 right to education 711 statistics 1261 electoral processes, human rights *663–666 electronic commerce, legal questions 1343–1344 embargoes Cuba, embargo imposed by United States against *297 Democratic Republic of the Congo, arms embargo 121–122 emergencies see disasters and disaster response; specific type of emergency employment, statistics 1262 ENERGY *979–983 see also nuclear energy economic and social questions 979–983 Europe 963–964 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) *979–981 new and renewable sources of energy 982–983 nuclear energy *979–981 radiation threat in Central Asia *981–982 radioactive waste *981–982 renewable sources of 982–983 Sustainable Energy for All 982–983 transit of energy *983 enforced disappearance 612–613 ENVIRONMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION *986–1013 see also climate change; natural resources; sustainable development; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); waste and waste management; water resources Asia and the Pacific 958 atmosphere 1004–1005 Basel Convention on Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 1003–1004 biodiversity and ecosystem services 988–989 chemicals and waste 990–991, *1007–1008 Climate Center Technology and Network 989–990 climate change 1004–1005 Convention on Biological Diversity *998–1001 desertification and drought *1001–1003 disarmament, observance of environmental norms in drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control *528–529 drought *1001–1003 Europe 964 forests 1005 Global Environment Facility (GEF) 994 green economy 988 harmony with nature *1011–1013 human rights 711–712 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 1004–1005 international conventions and mechanisms 994–997 international environmental governance 989 international water quality guidelines 988 marine ecosystems 1007–1008 mountains *1005–1007
Yearbook of the United Nations, 2013 oceans 989 oil slick in Lebanon *1009–1011 Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade 1003–1004 state of the environment 990 statistics 1265 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) 1004 sustainable consumption and production 987 terrestrial ecosystems 1005–1007 trust funds 991 United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (UNCCD) *1001–1003 United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) *986–994 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) *995–997 UN system coordination and cooperation 989 Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol 997 waste 990–991, *1007–1008 see also waste World Wildlife Day *1008–1009 equal political participation 663 ERITREA human rights 736–737 political and security questions *269–273 sanctions *269–273 ESCAP see Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) EULEX see European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) Eurasian Connectivity Alliance 816 EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN see also specific regions and countries by name Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), reform *964–973 economic trends 963 energy 963–964 environment 964 forestry 963 housing and land 964 human rights 756–757 Belarus 756–757 Cyprus 757 International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) 1217 peacekeeping operations 66 political and security questions *355–376 Armenia and Azerbaijan 367–368 Bosnia and Herzegovina 355–361 Cyprus *369–375 Georgia *365–367 Greece, relations with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 364 Kosovo 361–364 Organization for Democracy and Economic Development (GUAM) 376 security and cooperation in Mediterranean region *375–376 the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 364 programme and organizational questions *964–973 refugees and displaced persons Bosnia and Herzegovina *358–360 Georgia *365–366 regional economic and social activities 963–973 statistics 964 trade 963 transport 963 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) 1021 European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) 362 excessively injurious weapons Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed
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to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects and Protocols *517–519 exploitation see sexual exploitation and abuse extradition 671–672
F FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS), decolonization 549–550 family *1061–1066 International Year of the Family, twentieth anniversary *1061–1066 FAO see Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) financial matters see international finance; international trade; legal questions financial flows, crime prevention and criminal justice 1228 fissile material, nuclear weapons 475 FOOD *1185–1194 agriculture development and food security *1186–1191 children 1194 economic and social questions 1185–1194 food aid 1185–1186 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 1186 Food Assistance Convention (FAC) 1185–1186 food security 1186–1193 human rights, right to food *699–703 International Year of Pulses *1193 International Year of Quinoa 1191–1192 maternal, infant and young child nutrition 1194 nutrition 1193–1194 World Food Programme (WFP) 1185 World Soil Day and International Year of Soils *1192–1193 FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS (FAO) 1186 Food Assistance Convention (FAC) 1185–1186 foreign debt 693–695 forests 963, 1005 The Former Yugoslavia, International Tribunal for 1281–1287 THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA (FYROM) Greece, relations with 364 political and security questions 364 fraud commercial fraud 1344 trafficking in fraudulent medicines 1229 freedom see human rights FRENCH POLYNESIA, decolonization *550–551 FYROM see the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)
G Gaza conflict, follow-up to 2009 Fact-Finding Mission 765 GEF see Global Environment Facility (GEF) gender and gender equality see also United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-WOMEN); women Africa, development 950–951 human settlements 1014 killing of women and girls, gender-related *1106–1108 statistics 1262 UNDP 845 UNICEF 1142, 1144 GENERAL ASSEMBLY *1407–1411 agenda 1410 credentials of representatives to *1411
programme of work for Assembly Committees for 2014 1410–1411 revitalization of work of *1407–1410 sessions and meetings 1410 genocide 613 GEORGIA political and security questions *365–367 refugees and displaced persons *365–366 UNOMIG *366–367 GIBRALTAR, decolonization 551 girls see gender and gender equality; women Global Environment Facility (GEF) 994 global geospatial information management 984–985, 1268 Global Green Growth Institute *1431 globalization and interdependence *772–773 human rights *691–693 Latin America and the Caribbean 973 global public health *1181–1184 global warming see climate change Golan Heights see Syrian Golan good governance, human rights and 596 THE GREATER TUNB, LESSER TUNB and ABU MUSA 354 GREAT LAKES REGION see Central Africa and Great Lakes region GREECE, relations with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 364 green economy 988 GUAM, decolonization *555–562 GUATEMALA human rights 742 International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) *287–288 political and security questions *287–288 GUINEA human rights 737–738 Peacebuilding Commission 206–207 political and security questions 206–207 GUINEA-BISSAU constitutional order, restoration of *189–191 financing 192 Peacebuilding Commission 192 political and security questions *184–192 sanctions 192 UNIOGBIS 192 Gulf of Fonseca zone of peace 288
H Habitat II see United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) Habitat III see United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) Hague Code of Conduct (HCOC) against Ballistic Missile Proliferation 488 HAITI Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti *906–907 humanitarian assistance 879–880 human rights 743 political and security questions *288–296 special economic assistance *906–907 United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) *294–296 Haiyan (typhoon) 843, 862, 879, 880, 1149, 1158, 1164 HEALTH 1171–1185 see also HIV/AIDS; water and sanitation AIDS prevention and control 1171–1174 global public health *1181–1184 human rights, right to health 704–707, 719 Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) *1172–1174
1582 malaria *1177–1181 non-communicable diseases, prevention and control of *1174–1175 Roll Back Malaria initiative *1177–1181 Sanitation for All *1176–1177 statistics 1261 tobacco 1175–1176 Herzegovina see Bosnia and Herzegovina High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development 640, 641, 1020, *1025–1027, 1116, 1246 HIV/AIDS children and 1144 international drug control 1209–1210 refugees and displaced persons 1156–1157 HORN OF AFRICA see also specific country names children and armed conflict Chad 246–247 Somalia 264–265 Sudan–South Sudan 232–235 humanitarian assistance 877–878 piracy, Somalia *260–264 political and security questions *207–273 Abyei Area *223–232 Chad 246–247 Darfur *209–223 Eritrea *269–273 piracy *260–264 Somalia 247–269 South Sudan *236–246 Sudan–South Sudan *207–236 sanctions Eritrea *269–273 Somalia 265–266 Sudan–South Sudan *217–221 host country relations *1356–1358 housing censuses 1260–1261 Europe 964 human rights, right to adequate housing 704 human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) see HIV/AIDS HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE *862–879 see also disasters and disaster response; refugees and displaced persons Afghanistan 878 Burkina Faso 875–876 Central Africa 874–875 Central African Republic 874 Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) 867–874 Chad 874 coordination 862–867 Democratic Republic of the Congo 874–875 Djibouti 877 Economic and Social Council humanitarian affairs segment *862–867 emergency humanitarian assistance, strengthening of coordination of *869–874 food aid 1185–1186 Haiti 879–880 Horn of Africa 877–878 Kenya 877 Mali 876 Mauritania 876 mobilization of resources *867–874 Niger 876 Occupied Palestinian Territory 878 Philippines 878–879 resource mobilization *867–874 Somalia 877–878 Southern Africa 876–877
Yearbook of the United Nations, 2013 South Sudan 875 Sudan 875 Super Typhoon Haiyan 862, 879 Syria 879 UN and other humanitarian personnel 867 West Africa 875–876 Yemen 879 Zimbabwe 876–877 HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT *1078–1086 education 1084–1086 research and training institutes 1081–1084 United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) *1082 United Nations Literacy Decade *1084–1086 United Nations System Staff College *1083–1084 United Nations University (UNU) *1082–1083 HUMAN RIGHTS *591–763 see also gender and gender equality; racism and racial discrimination; specific rights administration of justice 659–660 advisory services and technical cooperation 618 Africa 733–742 Central African Republic 733–734 Côte d’Ivoire 734–735 Democratic Republic of the Congo 735–736 Eritrea 736–737 Guinea 737–738 Libya 738 Mali 738–739 Somalia 739–740 South Sudan 741–742 Sudan 741 African Descent, International Decade for People of *625–626 albinism and 705 Americas 742–743 Bolivia 742 Colombia 742 Guatemala 742 Haiti 743 anniversary of Universal Declaration 626 arbitrary detention 676–677 armed conflict children and *719–722 civilians in 670 Asia and the Pacific *620–621, *743–756 Afghanistan 743–744 Cambodia 744–745 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea *745–748 Iran *748–752 Myanmar *752–755 Sri Lanka 755–756 Yemen 756 capital punishment 670 Central Africa *619–620 children *717–722 armed conflict, children and *719–722 birth registration and right to recognition 719 Convention on the Rights of the Child 597, *602–611, 749, 758, 1138–1140 health, right of children to highest standard of health 719 marriages, child, early and forced *718–719 mortality, child 719 pornography, child 717–718 prostitution, child 717–718 recognition, right to 719 right to recognition 719 sale of 717–718 violence against 717 civil and political rights *599–600, 628–659
Subject index civilians in armed conflict 670 Civil Society Space 666 conscientious objection to military service 677–678 contemporary forms of racism *632–635 Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 597, 601–602 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 601, *1125–1127 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 597, 613 application of (Croatia v. Serbia), ICJ proceedings 1271–1272 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 597, 612, 727, 738, 977, 1054, 1056, 1140 Convention on the Rights of the Child 597, *602–611, 749, 758, 1138–1140 country situations 732–763 cultural diversity *708–711 cultural rights *600–601, 682–731, *707–711 democratic and equitable international order *688–691 detention, arbitrary 676–677 development, right to *683–687 digital age, right to privacy in *667–668 disabilities, persons with 612 disappearance of persons 612–613, 670–671 economic, social and cultural rights *600–601, 682–731 education, right to 711 education in human rights 623–624 electoral processes *663–666 enforced disappearance 612–613 environmental and scientific concerns 711–712 equal political participation 663 Europe and the Mediterranean 756–757 Belarus 756–757 Cyprus 757 expression, freedom of *666–668 extraditions, extralegal 671–672 extreme poverty 699 food, right to *699–703 foreign debt 693–695 freedom of expression *666–668 freedom of peaceful assembly and association 669–670 freedom of religion or belief *649–655 gender see education; gender and gender equality; population; women general aspects 613–615, 732–733 genocide 613 globalization *691–693 good governance 596 health, right to 704–707, 719 housing, right to adequate 704 Human Rights Council *591–595 Advisory Committee 594–595 complaint procedure 595 election of Council members 592 non-cooperation of State under review 593–594 report of *591–592 sessions *591–592 universal periodic review 592–594 Voluntary Fund 594 human rights defenders, women *635–639 independence of judges and lawyers 662–663 indigenous peoples *727–731 instruments *597–602 internally displaced persons, protection of and assistance to *723–727 International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries *657–659 International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 597, *612–613, 756
1583 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 599 International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 597, 611–612 international cooperation in *615–616, *617–618 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 597, *599–600 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 597, *600–601, 682–683, 744, 749, 1460 International Decade for People of African Descent *625–626 international solidarity and 687–688 International Year of Human Rights Learning *624–625 journalists, safety of *668–669 mainstreaming human rights 597 marriages, child, early and forced *718–719 mercenaries *656–659 Middle East *757–765 migrant workers 611–612, *640–645 military service, conscientious objection to 677–678 minorities, discrimination against *645–649 mortality, child 719 national human rights institutions *621–623 nationality, right to 663 national policies and 618 nature of all human rights and fundamental freedoms 597 non-repatriation of funds of illicit origin 694–695 Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights 595–596 older persons 722–723 Palestinians, right to self-determination *655–656 peace, right to 682 peaceful assembly and association, freedom of 669–670 persons with disabilities 612, 727 political participation, equal 663 political rights *599–600 pornography, child 717–718 post-disaster and post-conflict situations 683 poverty 699 prevention, role of 597 privacy in digital age, right to *667–668 promotion of 591–626 prostitution, child 717–718 protection of human rights 627–731 racism and racial discrimination 599, *628–659 contemporary forms of racism *632–635 freedom of religion or belief *649–655 human rights defenders *635–639 mercenaries *656–659 minorities, discrimination against *645–649 Nazism, combatting glorification of *632–635 Palestinians, right to self-determination *655–656 protection of migrants *640–645 self-determination 655 sports and combating discrimination 629–631 World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (2001), follow-up to 628–631 recognition, right to 719 regional arrangements 619–621 religion or belief, freedom of *649–655 reprisals for cooperation with human rights bodies 640 rule of law, democracy and human rights 659–670 rural area workers, rights of 703–704 safety of journalists *668–669 sale of persons children 717–718 slavery and related issues *712–714 trafficking in women and girls 715–716
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1584 scientific concerns 711–712 self-determination 655–656 slavery and related issues *712–714 Social Forum 698–699 South-West Asia and Arab Region *620–621 special procedures 627–628 sports and combating discrimination 629–631 strengthening action to promote human rights *615–616 technical cooperation 618 terrorism *678–682 torture and cruel treatment 601–602, *672–676 toxic waste 712 traditional values 682 trafficking in women and girls 715–716 transatlantic slave trade *712–714 transnational corporations 695–696 treaty body system 614–615 truth, right to *660–662 unilateral coercive measures and *696–698 United Nations Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights 618 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, sixty-fifth anniversary of 626 UN machinery 591–597 violence against children 717 based on religion or belief *653–655 against women 714–715 water and sanitation *705–707 women 601, *635–639, 714–717, 1118–1119 discrimination against women in law and in practice 716–717 elimination of discrimination against 601 human rights defenders *635–639 trafficking in women and girls 715–716 violence against women 714–715 World Programme for Human Rights Education 623–624 Human Rights Council *591–595, 1460 HUMAN SETTLEMENTS *1013–1019 basic services, urban 1013 country activities 1015 creation of improved economic opportunities 1015 crime prevention, urban 1014 economic and social questions *1013–1019 gender equality 1014 Global Housing Strategy 1014 regional technical support 1014 slums, eradication of 1014 sustainable urban development 1014–1015 United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) 1015 United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) *1016–1019 United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) 1013–1016 urbanization and sustainable urban development 1014–1015 urban planning 1014 World Cities Day 1013 youth and sustainable urban development 1015 Hurricane Sandy (storm) aftermath 880, 1439
I IAEA see International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) IANWGE see United Nations Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) ICC see International Criminal Court (ICC)
ICESDF see Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing (ICESDF) ICJ see International Court of Justice (ICJ) ICP see International Comparison Programme (ICP) ICSC see International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) ICTR see International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) ICTs see information and communication technologies (ICTs) ICTY see International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) identity-related crimes *1229–1230 ILC see International Law Commission (ILC) immunity, jurisdictional 1331 INCB see International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) INDIAN OCEAN, Declaration as zone of peace *541–542 indigenous peoples *727–731 informal sector statistics 1264 INFORMATION Committee on Information 578–587 decolonization dissemination of information on decolonization *564–566 information from territories *566 Department of Public Information (DPI) *578–587 library services 580 multilingualism 579 news services 579 outreach services *579–587 political and security questions 578–587 strategic communications services 578–579 information security *576–578 information and communication technologies (ICTs) Asia and the Pacific 958 international economic relations *811–815 information programme, disarmament 529 infrastructure, Latin America and the Caribbean 975 innovation see science and technology insolvency law, international *1341–1343 INSTITUTIONAL, ADMINISTRATIVE AND BUDGETARY QUESTIONS *1401–1524 accounts and auditing 1464–1467 financial management practices 1466–1467 Independent Audit Advisory Committee 1467 International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) 1466–1467 review of UN administrative and financial functioning 1467 administrative matters *1470–1491 Addis Ababa office/conference facilities 1490–1491 additional office/conference facilities 1490–1491 capital master plan 1487–1488 conference management 1476–1484 enterprise resource planning 1485–1487 external oversight 1474–1476 flexible workspace 1489–1490 Geneva office/conference facilities 1490 headquarters accommodation needs 1488–1490 information and communications technology 1484–1485 internal oversight *1471–1474 Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) *1474–1476 managerial reform and oversight 1470–1476 Office of Internal Oversight Services, report of *1471–1472, *1473–1474 organizational resilience management system 1476 oversight 1471–1476, 1474–1476 premises and property 1487–1491 procurement 1470 United Nations information systems 1484–1487 after-service health insurance *1497–1498 budget *1434–1462 contingency fund 1460–1461 Economic and Social Council action *1438–1439, *1459–1460
Subject index exchange and inflation, effects of changes in rates of 1460 final appropriations *1434–1438 Human Rights Council action 1460 special political missions, good offices and other political initiatives *1438, 1459 special subjects *1439–1445, *1451–1462 storm Sandy, expenditures in aftermath of 1439 unforeseen and extraordinary expenses *1461 working capital fund *1461–1462 capital master plan 1487–1488 compensation package 1494 conditions of service *1491–1498 conference management *1476–1484 Committee on Conferences *1476–1484 documentation and publications 1478 integrated management 1477–1478 meetings management 1477 pattern of conferences *1478–1484 translation and interpretation 1478 contingency fund 1460–1461 contributions *1462–1464 Article 19 *1462–1463 assessments 1462–1464 multi-year payment plans 1463 non-member States, assessment of 1463–1464 cooperation with other organizations *1419–1429 African Union *1425–1429 Caribbean Community *1419–1421 Community of Latin America and Caribbean States 1424 Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries *1424–1425 Inter-Parliamentary Union and national parliaments 1424 Organization of Islamic Cooperation *1421–1424 Pacific Islands Forum *1429 dependents’ allowances 1495 disciplinary matters 1505–1506 Economic and Social Council 1412–1417 sessions and meetings 1416–1417 strengthening of *1412–1416 themes of Council segments and meetings *1416–1417 enterprise resource planning 1485–1487 Ethics Office 1506–1507 financial management practices 1466–1467 financial situation 1433–1434 financing and programming *1433–1469 flexible workspace 1489–1490 follow-up to international conferences 1418 General Assembly *1407–1411 agenda 1410 credentials of representatives to *1411 programme of work for Assembly Committees for 2014 1410–1411 revitalization of work of *1407–1410 sessions and meetings 1410 Geneva office/conference facilities 1490 headquarters accommodation needs 1488–1490 Independent Audit Advisory Committee 1467 information and communications technology 1484–1485 institutional matters 1407–1411 institutional mechanisms 1417–1418 International Civil Service Commission (ISCS) *1491–1494 International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) 1466–1467 Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) *1474–1476 mandatory age of separation 1494 multilingualism *1513–1516 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), participation in UN work 1431–1432 observer status *1429–1431
1585 Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking States 1431 Global Green Growth Institute *1431 International Anti-Corruption Academy *1430 International Chamber of Commerce 1431 International Conference of Asian Political Parties 1431 International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) *1430 Palestine 1430 Pan African Intergovernmental Agency for Water and Sanitation for Africa *1430–1431 Office of Internal Oversight Services, report of *1471–1472, *1473–1474 participation in UN work, other organizations 1429–1432 non-governmental organizations 1431–1432 observer status 1429–1431 pension schemes for international judges, review of 1497 premises and property 1487–1491 procurement 1470 programme coordination 1418 programme evaluation 1468–1469 programme planning *1467–1469 regulations and rules, amendments to 1506 restructuring matters *1403–1407 accountability architecture *1403–1404 global governance, UN central role in *1404–1407 programme of reform 1403–1407 strengthening of UN system 1404–1407 Security Council 1411–1412 review of membership 1411 session 1411–1412 staff matters *1491–1524 administration of justice *1520–1523 after-service health insurance *1497–1498 base/floor salary scale 1494–1495 compensation package 1494 conditions of service *1491–1498 critical incidents 1517 dependents’ allowances 1495 education grant 1495 hardship 1496 health insurance, after-service *1497–1498 human resources management *1498–1507 International Civil Service Commission (ISCS) *1491– 1494 judges, pension 1497 lump-sum payments in lieu of entitlement 1518 mandatory age of separation 1494 mobility 1496, 1512–1513 Montreal, conditions of employment in 1496 multilingualism *1513–1516 net remuneration margin 1495 Office of Ombudsman and Mediation services 1523– 1524 Paris, conditions of employment in 1496 pension schemes for international judges 1497 post adjustment 1495–1496 professional and higher categories, conditions of service 1494–1496 recruitment of staff 1516–1517 review of individual consultancies 1517–1518 safety and security of staff *1507–1512 salary scale 1494–1495 security evaluation allowance 1496–1497 sexual exploitation and abuse, protection from 1519–1520 travel-related expenses 1518–1519 United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund 1524 United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) 1417–1418 United Nations Information systems 1484–1487
1586 United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund 1524 working capital fund *1461–1462 workspace, flexible 1489–1490 integrated economic statistics 1264 Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing (ICESDF) 781 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 1004–1005 internally displaced persons (IDPs) see also refugees and displaced persons Bosnia and Herzegovina *358–360 Georgia *365–366 human rights *723–727 International Anti-Corruption Academy, observer status *1430 INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (IAEA) *979–981 International Chamber of Commerce, observer status 1431 International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) *1491–1494 International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) *287–288 International Comparison Programme (ICP) 1264 International Conference of Asian Political Parties, observer status 1431 International Conference on Financing for Development *928–937 International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries *657–659 International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 597, *612–613, 756 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 599 International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 597, 611–612 international cooperation disasters and disaster response *880–885 in human rights *615–616 in tax matters *938–940 world drug problem, international cooperation against *1198–1211 INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE (ICJ) 1271–1280 contentious proceedings 1271–1280 disarmament, advisory opinion *479–480 judicial work of the Court 1271–1280 Trust Fund to Assist States in Settlement of Disputes 1280 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 597, *599–600 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 597, *600–601, 682–683, 744, 749, 1460 INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (ICC) *1297–1303 The Chambers 1299–1303 international cooperation 1303 investigations 1302 new arrests, warrants and summonses 1299–1300 Office of the Prosecutor 1302–1303 ongoing cases, trials and appeals 1300–1302 preliminary examination 1302 Registry 1302–1303 report of *1297–1299 INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR RWANDA (ICTR) *1287–1291 ad litem judges 1288 chambers 1287–1288 completion strategies 1292 extension of terms of office and ad litem judges 1288 Financing *1289–1291 judges of the Court 1288 new arrests 1288 Office of the Prosecutor 1288 ongoing cases, trials and appeals 1288 Registry 1288–1289 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons 462 International Day of Sport for Development and Peace *1073
Yearbook of the United Nations, 2013 International Decade for People of African Descent *625–626 INTERNATIONAL DRUG CONTROL *1197–1217 Alternative Development, United Nations Guiding Principles on *1205–1298 Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) 1197–1211 conventions 1212–1217 HIV/AIDS and other blood-borne diseases 1209–1210 illicit cultivation, manufacture and trafficking 1211–1212 International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) 1214–1217 Africa 1214–1215 Americas 1215 Asia 1217 Central America and the Caribbean 1215 East and South-East Asia 1216 Europe 1217 North America 1215 Oceania 1217 South America 1215 South Asia 1216 West Asia 1216–1217 treaties, drug control 1212–1214 United Nations Guiding Principles on Alternative Development *1205–1298 world drug problem, international cooperation against *1198–1211 INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS *770–816 Agenda 21, sustainable development *786–789 agricultural technology for development *789–792 Broadband Commission for Digital Development *811–815 Central America, sustainable tourism and sustainable development in *792–794 Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) *801–806 Commission on Sustainable Development *781–789 Conference on Sustainable Development 779–781 Decade for the Eradication of Poverty *794–798 development and international economic cooperation *771–779 economic and social trends 770–771 Eurasian Connectivity Alliance 816 finance see international finance globalization and interdependence *772–773 happiness and well-being 779 human security 779 information and communications technologies for development *811–815 innovation, science and technology for development 800–806 intergenerational solidarity, sustainable development 787–789 Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing (ICESDF) 781 International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies 2015 *816 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 811 middle-income countries, development cooperation with *773–775 partnerships, development through *775–778 poverty, eradication of 794–800 science, technology and innovation for development *800–806 social trends, economic and 770–771 statistics 1266 sustainable development *779–794 Agenda 21 *786–789 agricultural technology for development *789–792 Central America, sustainable tourism in *792–794 Commission on Sustainable Development *781–789 Conference on Sustainable Development 779–781 intergenerational solidarity 787–789 Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing (ICESDF) 781
Subject index UNDP 843–844 technology, science and innovation for development 800–806 trade see international trade Trans-Eurasian region, connectivity and telecommunications transit routes in *815–816 World Summit on the Information Society *807–811 INTERNATIONAL FINANCE *920–940 competition law and policy 937 debt situation of developing countries *923–928 development, financing for 928–937 external debt sustainability and development *924–928 International Conference on Financing for Development *928–937 international cooperation in tax matters *938–940 International Standards of Accounting and Reporting 938 special high-level meeting of the Economic and Social Council *928–936 International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), observer status *1430 INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION (ILC) *1304–1311 armed conflict, protection of environment in relation to 1307–1308 atmosphere, protection of 1308 customary international law 1306–1307 extraditition 1308 immunity of State officials 1306 most-favoured-nation clause 1308 prosecution 1308 protection of environment in relation to armed conflict 1307–1308 protection of persons in event of disasters 1306 provisional application of treaties 1307 report *1309–1311 treaties 1305–1307 international legal questions see legal questions International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) *1214–1217 international organizations, treaties involving 1331 INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY *35–83 see also peacekeeping operations; political and security questions; terrorism armed conflict, protection of civilians in *46–49 conflict diamonds *39–43 conflict prevention *39–43 journalists, protection of 49 maintenance of international peace and security 35–39 natural resources, conflict prevention and 39 1970 Declaration 43 Organization of Islamic Cooperation *38–39 peacemaking and peacebuilding see peacebuilding; peacekeeping operations promotion of international peace and security 35–52 protection issues *45–49 regional organizations, United Nations and *36–39 responsibility to protect 45–46 security sector reform (SSR) 35–36 special political missions *49–52 comprehensive review of *49–50 roster of 2013 political missions and offices 50–52 threats to international peace and security *52–60 see also terrorism international political relations, legal aspects of 1304–1358 International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) 1466–1467 International Seabed Authority 1374–1375 International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (ISAR) 938 International Strategy for Disaster Reduction *885–892 International Support Group for Lebanon 377, 421–422, 423, 427 international terrorism see terrorism
1587 INTERNATIONAL TRADE *908–919 Africa, industrial development in 912 coercive economic measures *919 commodities *915–919 Common Fund for Commodities 918–919 development, international trade and 908–919 evaluation 912–913 International Trade Centre 914–915 Investment, Enterprise and Development Commission 913–914 LDC-IV, implementation of outcome from 912 multilateral trading system *908–911 Public Symposium 915 Trade and Development Board 911–913 Trade and Development Commission 913 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development 911–915 Working Party on the Strategic Framework and Programme Budget 914 INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT dangerous goods, transport of *941–944 maritime transport 940–941 INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA (ICTY) 1281–1287 ad litem judges *1283–1284 chambers 1282–1284 completion strategies 1291–1292 financing *1285–1287 judges 1283–1284 new arrests and indictments 1282 Office of the Prosecutor 1284–1285 ongoing cases, trials and appeals 1282 Registry 1285 terms of office, extension of *1283–1284 International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea 1375–1376 INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS AND COURTS *1281–1303 completion strategies 1291–1292 functioning of tribunals *1291–1297 international residual mechanism 1292–1297 International Criminal Court (ICC) 1297–1303 International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) 1287–1291 International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals *1294–1297 International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) 1281–1287 International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea 1375–1376 International Year of Human Rights Learning *624–625 International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies 2015 *816 International Year of Pulses *1193 International Year of Quinoa 1191–1192 International Year of Water Cooperation 979, 984–985 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 811 Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) 1424 IPCC see Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) IPSAS see International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) IPU see Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) IRAN human rights *748–752 non-proliferation *346–349, 494 political and security questions 346–349, 354 Sanctions Committee *347–349 United Arab Emirates and 354 IRAQ political and security questions *327–331 Post-Development Fund mechanism 331–332 terrorism 59 UN Iraq escrow account 332
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1588 United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) 331 IRAQ–KUWAIT mediation of bilateral issues *332–336 political and security questions *332–336 UN Compensation Commission and Fund 336 ISAR see International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (ISAR) Islamic Republic of Iran see Iran islands see small island developing states ISLAND TERRITORIES, decolonization *555–562 ISRAEL see also Middle East; Middle East Peace Process; Occupied Palestinian Territory; Palestine human rights, territories occupied by Israel 763–765 settlements in occupied Palestinian Territory *387–389
J JERUSALEM, political and security questions *389–390 JIU see Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) *1474–1476 Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 1172–1174 journalists human rights *668–669 protection of 49 public information and news services 579 judges independence of 662–663 International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) 1288 International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia *1283–1284 pensions 1497 jurisdiction immunity of States and their property 1331 universal *1311–1312
K KENYA humanitarian assistance 877 terrorism 59 KOSOVO European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) 362 KFOR 364 political and security questions *361–364 UNMIK *362–364 KUWAIT, mediation of bilateral issues with Iraq *332–336
L LANDLOCKED DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Asia and the Pacific 955 economic and social questions *832–835 LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN see also Americas; Central America; specific country names disarmament *538–539 economic trends 973 financing for development 974 global economy, regional integration and cooperation 973 humanitarian assistance 879–880 infrastructure 975 innovation 973–974 International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) 1215 macroeconomic policies and growth 974
mainstreaming the gender perspective in regional development 975 natural resources 975 nuclear-weapon-free zones *499–500 population and development 975 production and innovation 973–974 public administration 975–976 regional economic and social activities 973–977 social development and equality 974–975 statistics 976 subregional activities 976–977 sustainable development and human settlements 975 Treaty for Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean *499–500 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) 1021 LAW OF THE SEA *1359–1400 agreement relating to implementation of Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1359 assessment of global marine environment 1377 Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf 1376–1377 conservation and management of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks *1359–1374 International Seabed Authority 1374–1375 International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea 1375–1376 marine biological resources 1377 Meeting of States Parties 1359 piracy 1378 ratification 1359 signatures 1359 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1359–1374 United Nations Division for Ocean Affairs (UN-Oceans) *1378–1400 United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process 1378 lawyers, independence of 662–663 League of Arab States (LAS) 354 LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES (LDCs) Asia and the Pacific 955 economic and social questions *820–828, 955 follow-up to fourth UN conference on LDCs *822–828 graduation of countries from LDC category *821–822 list of 820–822 Programme of Action (2011–2020) *825–828 LEBANON see also Middle East International Support Group for Lebanon 377, 421–423, 427 oil slick in *1009–1011 political and security questions *421–431 Resolution 1559(2004) 422 Resolution 1701(2006) and UNIFIL activities *423–431 Special Tribunal for Lebanon 431 terrorism 60 UNIFIL *423–431 LEGAL QUESTIONS *1269–1400 arbitration and conciliation 1338–1339 consular missions and representatives, protection of 1335 contract law, international 1344 convention on international terrorism 1331–1332 diplomatic relations *1335–1336 economic law, international *1337–1348 electronic commerce 1343–1344 fraud, commercial 1344 host country relations *1356–1358 immunity, jurisdictional 1331 insolvency law *1341–1343 International Court of Justice (ICJ) 1271–1280 International Criminal Court (ICC) *1297–1303 International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) 1287–1291 International Law Commission (ILC) *1304–1311 international liability *1312–1313
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international organizations, treaties involving 1331 international political relations 1304–1358 international terrorism *1331–1335 International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia 1281–1287 international tribunals and court *1281–1303 jurisdiction immunity of States and their property 1331 universal jurisdiction *1311–1312 law of the sea 1359–1400 law of transboundary aquifers *1313–1316 law of treaties 1316 liability, international *1312–1313 micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises 1344 online dispute resolution 1343 political relations, legal aspects of 1331–1337 procurement 1343 protection of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives 1335 publication of treaties 1336 public-private partnerships 1344–1345 reservation to treaties *1316–1331 responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts *1312 rule of law at national and international levels *1348–1350 security interests *1339–1341 Special Committee on United Nations Charter *1350–1354 special missions 1331 State relations and international law *1311–1331 strengthening role of United Nations 1350–1356 succession of States 1331 teaching and study of international law *1354–1356 technical cooperation, international economic law 1345 terrorism, international 1331–1335 treaty law and practice 1316, 1336–1337 advice and capacity-building in treaty law and practice 1337 international organizations, treaties involving 1331 interpretation of 1305–1306 multilateral treaties deposited with Secretary-General 1336–1337 provisional application of 1307 registration and publication of treaties 1336 reservation to treaties *1316–1331 United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) *1337–1348 wrongful acts, responsibility of States for *1312 liability, international *1312–1313 LIBERIA financing *178–180 Peacebuilding Commission 177–178 political and security questions *170–180 sanctions *174–177 UNMIL *178–180 library services, public information 580 LIBYA human rights 738 ICC activities 278–279 political and security questions *273–278 sanctions 279–280 terrorism 59–60 UNSMIL 278 Literacy Decade of United Nations (2003–2012) *1084–1086
M MACEDONIA see the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia macroeconomic policy
Africa 946–947 Asia and the Pacific 955 Latin America and the Caribbean 974 Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing *1047–1049 malaria *1177–1181 MALI African-led International Support Mission in Mali (AFISMA) 201 financing *202–205 humanitarian assistance 876 human rights 738–739 logistical support to military effort 201 political and security questions *192–205 terrorism 60 United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) 35, 60, 68, 147, 202–205, 738, 1410 management see Institutional, Administrative and Budgetary Questions maps and map-making see cartography marine biological resources 1377 marine ecosystems 1007–1008 see also environment and environmental protection; water resources maritime international transport 940–941 maritime law see law of the sea marriages, child, early and forced *718–719 MAURITANIA humanitarian assistance 876 political and security questions 207 MAURITIUS–UNITED KINGDOM, political and security questions 286 medicines see also drugs fraudulent 1229 mercenaries *656–659 MEXICO, regional economic and social activities 976 MIDDLE EAST see also Middle East Peace Process; Occupied Palestinian Territory; Palestine; specific country names chemical weapons *441–451 diplomatic efforts 378–379 displaced persons, Palestinians *416–417 human rights 757–765 Gaza Conflict, follow-up to the 2009 Fact-Finding Mission on 765 Israel, territories occupied by 763–765 occupied Syrian Golan 764–765 Syrian Arab Republic *757–763 non-proliferation *495–496 nuclear weapons nuclear-weapon-free zones *500–502 risk of nuclear proliferation *495–496 peacekeeping operations 66 Peace Process 378–403 political and security questions *377–461 refugees and displaced persons *420–421, 1164–1165 women, Palestinian *417–420 Middle East Peace Process *378–403 see also Occupied Palestinian Territory; Palestine assistance to Palestinians 407–421 Committee on Exercise of Inalienable Rights of Palestinian People *403–407 diplomatic efforts 378–379 displaced persons, Palestinians *416–417 Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat *405–406 East Jerusalem *387–389, *396–402 economic and social repercussions of Israeli occupation in Occupied Palestinian Territory *396–402 Fourth Geneva Convention *402–403 human rights of Palestinian people, Israeli practices affecting *390–396
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1590 Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian Territory *387–389 Jerusalem *389–390 Occupied Palestinian Territory 379–403 occupied Syrian Golan *387–389, *396–402 Palestine, issues related to 403–421 peaceful settlement of question of Palestine *382–386 permanent sovereignty of Palestinian people in occupied Palestinian Territory *397–402 property rights and revenues, refugees’ *420–421 refugees, property rights and their revenues *420–421 special information programme on question of Palestine *406–407 status of Palestine in the United Nations 382 UNCTAD assistance to Palestinians *408–411 UNRWA *411–412 women, Palestinian *417–420 middle-income countries, development cooperation with *773–775 migrants and migrant workers see also refugees and displaced persons High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development 640, 641, 1020, *1025–1027, 1116, 1246 human rights 611–612, *640–645 International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 611–612 population and migration *1024–1027 violence against women migrant workers *1101–1106 military matters colonial countries, military activity in 562–563 conscientious objection to military service 677–678 disarmament, transparency of arms expenditures *524–525 mine action, assistance in *892–895 see also anti-personnel mines minorities see also racism and racial discrimination human rights *645–649 MINURCAT see United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT) MINURSO see United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) MINUSMA see United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) MINUSTAH see United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) MONTSERRAT, decolonization *555–562 MONUSCO see United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) mountains *1005–1007 multilateral disarmament agreements 465–466 non-proliferation *491–493 multilingualism *1513–1516 public information 579 munitions see disarmament; weapons MYANMAR children and armed conflict 353–354 human rights *752–755 political and security questions 353–354
N names, standardization of geographical names 985 national account statistics 1263 nationality, right to a 663 natural disasters see disasters and disaster response; specific type of disaster NATURAL RESOURCES 983–984 Africa, innovations, technologies and management 948–949 aquifers, law of transboundary aquifers *1313–1316 conflict prevention and 39 economic and social questions 983–984
Latin America and the Caribbean 975 UN-Water 983–984 water resources 983–984 aquifers, law of transboundary aquifers *1313–1316 International Year of Water Cooperation 979, 984–985 law of transboundary aquifers *1313–1316 United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (UNCCD) *1001–1003 Western Asia, integrated management for sustainable development 977 NEPAD see New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) NEW CALEDONIA, decolonization *552–553 New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) *895–905 new sources of energy 982–983 news services, public information 579 NGOs see non-governmental organizations (NGOs) NIGER humanitarian assistance 876 terrorism 60 non-communicable diseases, prevention and control of *1174–1175 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), participation in UN work 1431–1432 non-proliferation *481–488 Asia and the Pacific *338–346, *346–349 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea *338–346, 494 dumping of radioactive wastes, prohibition of *497–498 Hague Code of Conduct (HCOC) against Ballistic Missile Proliferation 488 IAEA safeguards 494–496 Iran *346–349, 494 Middle East, risk of nuclear proliferation in *495–496 missiles 488 multilateralism in disarmament and non-proliferation *491–493 non-proliferation treaty *481–488 2015 review conference *481–486 follow-up to disarmament obligations of NPT Review Conferences *486–488 implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments *482–484 total elimination of nuclear weapons, united action towards *484–486 nuclear-weapon-free zones (NWFZs) *498–502 radioactive waste *496–498 Syrian Arab Republic 496 weapons of mass destruction *488–491 new types of WMDs 489–490 Security Council Committee on WMDs 488–489 terrorism and WMDs 489–490, *490–491 women and *467–468 non-self-governing territories (NSGTs) see decolonization NORTH AFRICA see also specific country names political and security questions *273–280 Libya *273–278 Mauritius–United Kingdom 286 sanctions, Libya 279–280 Western Sahara *280–286 refugees and displaced persons 1164–1165 NORTH AMERICA, International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) 1215 NSGTs see decolonization nuclear disarmament see nuclear weapons nuclear energy *979–981 Treaty on South-East Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone *498–499 NUCLEAR WEAPONS Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) *477–478 conference on disarmament *472–475 disarmament *468–481
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Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) *477–478 conference on disarmament *472–475 fissile material 475 General Assembly High-level meeting on nuclear disarmament *470–472 humanitarian approach to nuclear disarmament 481 nuclear-weapon-free zones 498–502 prohibition of use of nuclear weapons *480–481 security assurances *475–477 fissile material 475 General Assembly High-level meeting on nuclear disarmament *470–472 humanitarian approach to nuclear disarmament 481 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons 462 Middle East *500–502 non-proliferation see nuclear-weapon-free zones nuclear-weapon-free zones (NWFZs) *498–502 African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty *498 Asia *498–499 Middle East *500–502 South Pacific 502–504 Treaty for Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean *499–500 Treaty on South-East Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone *498–499 prohibition of use of nuclear weapons *480–481 risk of nuclear proliferation *495–496 security assurances *475–477 Nukunonu, Fakaofo and Atafu see Tokelau NUTRITION see food; humanitarian assistance
O observer status *1429–1431 Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking States 1431 Global Green Growth Institute *1431 International Anti-Corruption Academy *1430 International Chamber of Commerce 1431 International Conference of Asian Political Parties 1431 International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) *1430 Palestine 1430 Pan African Intergovernmental Agency for Water and Sanitation for Africa *1430–1431 OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY see also Middle East; Palestine humanitarian assistance 878 political and security questions 379–403, *387–389 Occupied Syrian Golan human rights 764–765 political and security questions *387–389, *396–402, *453 OCEANIA, International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) 1217 oceans 989 chemical munitions waste dumped at sea *1007–1008 disarmament, prevention of arms race on ocean floor 528 environmental 989 oceans and seas see law of the sea Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights 595–596 Office of Internal Oversight Services, report of *1471–1472 Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon (UNSCOL) 51 Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) 50–51 OIC see Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) oil slick in Lebanon *1009–1011 Olympic ideal, sport for development and peace *1073–1075
online dispute resolution 1343 OPCW-UN *443–451 Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 1460 Organization for Democracy and Economic Development-GUAM 376 Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) 506–507 Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) *38–39 cooperation with United Nations *1421–1424 organized crime, crime prevention and criminal justice 1238–1239 OUTER SPACE disarmament, prevention of arms race in *525–528 Legal Subcommittee 570–572 national legislation relevant to peaceful exploration and use of outer space *571–572 peaceful uses of 567–574 scientific and technical issues 568–570 Scientific and Technical Subcommittee 567–572 space-system-based disaster management support 569 space weather 569–570 treaties *570–572 UNISPACE III recommendations 568 United Nations Programme on Space Applications 567–568 UN system coordination *572–574 outreach services, public information *579–587
P Pacific Islands Forum, cooperation with United Nations *1429 PALESTINE see also Middle East; Middle East Peace Process; Occupied Palestinian Territory assistance to Palestinians 407–421 Committee on Exercise of Inalienable Rights of Palestinian People *403–407 displaced persons, Palestinians *416–417 Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat *405–406 human rights *655–656, 1118–1119 Middle East Peace Process 403–421 observer status 1430 political and security questions *403–421 property rights and revenues, refugees’ *420–421 right to self-determination *655–656 special information programme on question of Palestine *406–407 UNCTAD assistance to Palestinians *408–411 UNRWA *411–412 women, Palestinian *417–420, 1118–1119 Pan African Intergovernmental Agency for Water and Sanitation for Africa *1430–1431 partnerships development through *775–778 peace, right to 682 Peacebuilding Commission 44–45 Burundi 128 Central African Republic 144 Guinea 206–207 Guinea-Bissau 192 Liberia 177–178 Peacebuilding Fund 45 women’s economic empowerment 45 peaceful assembly and association, freedom of 669–670 PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS *60–65 see also specific country and mission names accounts and auditing 78 administrative aspects of peacekeeping operations *68–83 Africa 65–66 Americas 66
1592 Asia 66 closed missions, funds for 78 comprehensive review of peacekeeping *65 conduct and discipline 63–64 contingent-owned equipment, reimbursement for *78–79 criminal accountability of UN staff and experts on mission *81–83 Europe and the Mediterranean 66 financial aspects of *68–83 global field support strategy, reimbursement issues 79–80 Logistics Base at Brindisi, Italy *80–81 management of peacekeeping assets *80–81 Middle East 66 oversight activities 64 personnel matters *81–83 reimbursement issues *78–80 roster of 2013 operations 66–68 Security Council Working Group on Peacekeeping Operations 64 sexual exploitation and abuse in 63–64 Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations *65 support account for peacekeeping operations *69–77 UN Logistics Base *80–81 women in peacekeeping 64 Working Group on Peacekeeping Operations 64 peacemaking see Peacebuilding Commission; peacekeeping operations persistent organic pollutants see Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) persons with disabilities *1053–1058 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 612 equalization of opportunities 1054 high-level meeting on disability and development *1056–1058 human rights 612, 727 mainstreaming disability in development agenda *1054–1056 World Programme of Action 1053–1054 THE PHILIPPINES, humanitarian assistance 878–879 piracy *155–157 crime prevention and criminal justice 1254 law of the sea 1378 Somalia *260–264 PITCAIRN, decolonization *555–562 POLITICAL AND SECURITY QUESTIONS see also disarmament; information; international peace and security; outer space; peacebuilding; peacekeeping operations; terrorism; specific regions and country names Abyei Area *223–232 Afghanistan *298–327 Africa 84–286 Americas 287–297 armed robbery, West Africa *155–157 Armenia and Azerbaijan 367–368 arms see disarmament arms embargo, Democratic Republic of the Congo 121–122 Asia and the Pacific 298–354 atomic radiation, effects of *574–576 Bosnia and Herzegovina 355–361 Burundi *124–128 Cambodia 352–353 Cameroon–Nigeria 205–206 Central Africa and Great Lakes region 100–124 Central African Republic *128–144 Central African Republic and Chad 144–145 Central America 287–288 Chad 246–247 chemical weapons *441–451 children and armed conflict Asia and the Pacific 351–352, 353–354 Central African Republic 144
Yearbook of the United Nations, 2013 Central African Republic and Chad 144–145 Chad 246–247 Côte d’Ivoire 168 Democratic Republic of the Congo 121 Myanmar 353–354 Somalia 264–265 Sudan–South Sudan 232–235 Yemen 351–352 conflict prevention and resolution *85–90 cooperation with African Union 91 Côte d’Ivoire *157–170 Cuba–United States *296–297 Cyprus *369–375 Darfur *209–223 decolonization 542–566 democracies, support for 540 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 338–346 Democratic Republic of the Congo *106–120 diplomatic efforts 378–379 disarmament 462–539 drug trafficking, Sahel region *152–155 durable peace in Africa, promotion of *91–95 East Jerusalem *387–389, *396–402 embargo imposed by United States against Cuba *297 Eritrea *269–273 Europe and the Mediterranean 355–376 financing 105 general aspects of international peace and security 540 Georgia *365–367 Greece, relations with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) 364 Guatemala *287–288 Guinea 206–207 Guinea-Bissau *184–192 Gulf of Fonseca zone of peace 288 Haiti *288–296 Horn of Africa 207–273 Indian Ocean, implementation of Declaration of as zone of peace *541–542 information *578–587 information and telecommunications see information Information Security *576–578 Iran *346–349 Iraq *327–331 Iraq–Kuwait 332–336 Israeli settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territory *387–389 Jerusalem *389–390 Kosovo 361–364 Lebanon *421–431 Liberia *170–180 Libya *273–278 Mali *192–205 Mauritania 207 Mauritius–United Kingdom 286 Middle East *377–461 Myanmar 353–354 non-proliferation 481–488 Asia and the Pacific *338–346, *346–349 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea *338–346 Iran *346–349 North Africa 273–280 nuclear-weapon-free zones *498–502 Occupied Palestinian Territory *379–403, *387–389 occupied Syrian Golan *387–389, *396–402, *453 Office of the Special Adviser on Africa 99–100 Palestine, issues related to *403–421 Peacebuilding Commission Burundi 128
Subject index Central African Republic 144 Guinea 206–207 Guinea-Bissau 192 Liberia 177–178 peaceful uses of outer space 567–574 piracy *155–157, *260–264 political declaration on peaceful resolution of conflicts in Africa *88–90 promotion of peace in Africa *85–90 public information *578–587 refugees and displaced persons Bosnia and Herzegovina *358–360 Georgia *365–366 Middle East *420–421 Palestinians *416–417 regional aspects of international peace and security 540–542 regional issues 146–157 Rwanda *145–146 Sahel region *149–155 sanctions Afghanistan 325–327 Asia and the Pacific 325–327, 345–346, *347–349 Côte d’Ivoire *164–168 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 345–346 Eritrea *269–273 Guinea-Bissau 192 Iran *347–349 Liberia *174–177 Libya 279–280 Somalia 265–266 Sudan–South Sudan *217–221 Security Council mission 90 Sierra Leone *180–184 Somalia *247–269 South Atlantic *540–541 South Sudan *236–246 Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions 106 Sudan–South Sudan 207–236 support for democracies 540 sustainable development in Africa, promotion of *91–95 Syrian Arab Republic *431–461 Syrian Golan *387–389, *396–402, *451–461 telecommunications, developments in context of international security *577–578 terrorism see also terrorism combatting *95–99 Timor-Leste *336–338 United Arab Emirates–Iran 354 United Nations Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) *100–106 West Africa 146–207 Western Sahara *280–286 women, Palestinian *417–420 Yemen *349–351 the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 364 zones of peace cooperation of South Atlantic *540–541 Indian Ocean, implementation of Declaration of as zone of peace *541–542 political participation human rights 663 women 1115 political relations, legal aspects of 1331–1337 political rights covenant *599–600 pollution see environment and environmental protection POPs see Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) POPULATION *1020–1034
1593 Arab States 1021 Asia and the Pacific 1021 Commission on Population and Development 1022–1024 Conference on Population and Development *1020–1022 development, population and 1020–1024 Eastern and Southern Africa 1020 Eastern Europe and Central Asia 1021 High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development 1020, 1023 international migration and development *1024–1027 Latin America and the Caribbean 975, 1021 migration *1024–1027 United Nations Population Division 1032–1034 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) 1027–1032 Western and Central Africa 1021 pornography, child 717–718 POVERTY human rights 699 international economic relations, eradication of poverty 794–800 reduction, Asia and the Pacific 955 women *1091–1100 price statistics 1264 privacy in digital age, right to *667–668 private security services 1255 prostitution, children 717–718 protection issues *45–49 public information see information PUERTO RICO, decolonization 549
R racism and racial discrimination *628–659 see also human rights contemporary forms of racism *632–635 freedom of religion or belief *649–655 human rights defenders *635–639 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 599 mercenaries *656–659 minorities, discrimination against *645–649 Nazism, combatting glorification of *632–635 Palestinians, right to self-determination *655–656 protection of migrants *640–645 reprisals for cooperation with human rights bodies 640 self-determination, universal realization of right of peoples to 655 sports and combating discrimination 629–631 World Conference 2001 628–631 radiation and radioactive materials atomic radiation *574–576 Central Asia, averting radiation threat in *981–982 non-proliferation, radioactive waste *496–498 United Nations Scientific Committee on Effects of Atomic Radiation 994 waste, radioactive *981–982 recognition, right to 719 REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS Africa *1158–1163 Americas 1163–1164 Asia and the Pacific 1164 Bosnia and Herzegovina *358–360 community-based protection 1156 economic and social questions *1149–1170 Europe 1165–1166 Georgia *365–366 HIV/AIDS, refugees and 1156–1157
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1594 Middle East *420–421, 1164–1165 North Africa 1164–1165 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) *1149–1170 Palestinians *416–417 property rights and their revenues *420–421 protection and assistance for refugees 1154–1158 regional activities 1158–1166 Super Typhoon Haiyan 1149 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) *1149–1170 women refugees 1155–1156 REGIONAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES see specific regions and regional commissions religion freedom of religion or belief *649–655 interreligious and intercultural understanding *1067–1070 renewable sources of energy 982–983 resilience building, UNDP 844 returnees see refugees and displaced persons rights see human rights Roll Back Malaria initiative *1177–1181 Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade 1003–1004 rule of law crime prevention and criminal justice *1243–1245 human rights and democracy 659–670 at national and international levels *1348–1350 rural areas improvement of situation of women in *1097–1100 rights of rural area workers 703–704 RUSSIAN FEDERATION, terrorism 60 RWANDA assistance to survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda *145–146 International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) 1287–1291 completion strategies 1292 political and security questions 145–146
S SAHEL REGION drug trafficking, combatting *152–155 Integrated Strategy for the Sahel *150–152 political and security questions 149–155 SAINT HELENA, decolonization *555–562 sale of persons children 717–718 slavery and related issues *712–714 trafficking in women and girls 715–716 sanctions Afghanistan 325–327 Asia and the Pacific 325–327, 345–346, *347–349 Côte d’Ivoire *164–168 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 345–346 Eritrea *269–273 Guinea-Bissau 192 Iran *347–349 Liberia *174–177 Libya 279–280 Somalia 265–266 Sudan–South Sudan *217–221 sanitation see water and sanitation SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY see also information and communication technologies (ICTs); Internet Africa 948–949
agricultural technology for development *789–792 for development 800–806 disarmament and 529 human rights 711–712 international economic relations *789–792, 800–806 Latin America and the Caribbean 973–974 outer space 567–570 see also outer space statistics of 1264 seabed and ocean floor, prevention of arms race on 528 SECRETARIAT, UNITED NATIONS see United Nations security see political and security questions security assurances, nuclear weapons *475–477 SECURITY COUNCIL 1411–1412 review of membership and related matters 1411 session 1411–1412 security sector reform (SSR) 35–36 self-determination French Polynesia *550 right of peoples to 655–656 service statistics 1264 sexual exploitation and abuse in peacekeeping operations 63–64 staff protection from 1519–1520 sexual violence in conflict peacekeeping operations 64 women, sexual violence and armed combat *1111–1115 SIDs see small island developing States (SIDs) SIERRA LEONE political and security questions *180–184 Special Court for Sierra Leone and Residual Special Court 183–184 UNIPSIL 183 slavery and related issues *712–714 small arms assistance to States for curbing illicit small arms traffic *514–516 disarmament *509–517 High-level Security Council meeting on *509–512 illicit small arms traffic *512–517 stockpile management *516–517 United Nations Programme of Action on illicit trade in small arms *512–517 small island developing States (SIDs), economic and social questions *828–832 social and cultural rights 682–731 covenant on *600–601 social development *1035–1047 Asia and the Pacific 958–959 Commission for Social Development 1041–1042 cooperatives in social development *1046–1047 global development agenda, social dimension in *1042–1045 promotion of social integration through social inclusion *1043–1045 report on world social situation 1045 social inclusion, promotion of social integration through *1043–1045 United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) 1045–1046 Western Asia 977–978 SOCIAL POLICY AND CULTURAL ISSUES *1035–1065 see also social development ageing persons 1047–1053 family 1061–1066 International Year of the Family, twentieth anniversary *1061–1066 persons with disabilities 1053–1058 social development 1035–1047 World programme of Action for Youth *1058–1061 youth *1058–1061
Subject index SOMALIA African Union Mission in Somalia 266–269 children and armed conflict 264–265 financing 266, *268–269 humanitarian assistance 877–878 human rights 739–740 piracy *260–264 political and security questions *247–269 sanctions 265–266 terrorism 60 United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) 52, *252–253, 266 United Nations Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS) 266 SOUTH AMERICA, International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) 1215 SOUTH ATLANTIC, political and security questions *540–541 SOUTH-EAST ASIA International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) 1216 Treaty on South-East Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone *498–499 SOUTHERN AFRICA see also specific country names humanitarian assistance 876–877 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) 1020 South Pacific, nuclear-weapon-free zone 502–504 South-South cooperation, economic and social questions *859–861 SOUTH SUDAN see also Sudan and South Sudan humanitarian assistance 875 human rights 741–742 political and security questions *236–246 UNMISS 244–246 SOUTH-WEST ASIA, human rights *620–621 space see outer space Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations *65 special economic assistance see economic and social questions special missions 1331 special political missions *49–52 comprehensive review of *49–50 roster of 2013 political missions and offices 50–52 sports combating discrimination 629–631 for development and peace 1072–1075 SRI LANKA, human rights 755–756 staff of United Nations see institutional, administrative and budgetary questions Statistical Commission see STATISTICS STATISTICS 1260–1268 crime prevention and criminal justice *1221–1223 fundamental principles of official statistics *1265–1266 Statistical Commission 1260–1268 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) 1004 Strait of Gibraltar, Europe-Africa fixed link *947–948 strategic communications services 578–579 studies, research and training, disarmament 529 succession of States 1331 SUDAN–SOUTH SUDAN see also Darfur Abyei Area *223–232 children and armed conflict 232–235 Darfur *209–223 financing *232–235, *235–236 humanitarian assistance 875 human rights 741 ICC Prosecutor 217 political and security questions *207–236 sanctions *217–221 UNAMID 221–223 UNISFA 232 UNMIS 235–236 Super Typhoon Haiyan 843, 862, 879, 880, 1149, 1158, 1164 sustainable consumption and production 987
1595 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT see also development; human settlements Agenda 21 *786–789 agricultural technology for development *789–792 Central America *792–794 Commission on Sustainable Development *781–789 intergenerational solidarity 787–789 Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing (ICESDF) 781 international economic relations 779–794 Latin America and the Caribbean 975 mountain development *1006–1007 UNDP 843–844 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) 779–781 Western Asia, integrated management of natural resources for 977 Sustainable Energy for All Global Action Agenda 982–983 SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC humanitarian assistance 879 human rights *757–763 non-proliferation 496 occupied Syrian Golan *387–389, *396–402, *451–461 Office of Joint Special Representative 440–441 OPCW-UN joint mission for elimination of chemical weapons programme in *443–451 political and security questions *431–461 terrorism 60 UNDOF *454–461 United Nations Mission to Investigate Allegations of Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria 442–443 UNSMIS *441 UNTSO 461
T TDB see Trade and Development Board (TDB) technical cooperation see also economic and social questions Africa 948–949, 950 Asia and the Pacific 962 crime prevention and criminal justice *1230–1236 human rights 618 international economic law 1345 technology see science and technology telecommunications, international security *577–578 terrestrial ecosystems 1005–1007 territories see decolonization; Occupied Palestinian Territory TERRORISM 2013 terrorist attacks 59–60 Afghanistan 59 Algeria 59 comprehensive approach to counter-terrorism *52–54 convention on international terrorism 1331–1332 Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) *55–59 human rights *678–682 international terrorism 52 Iraq 59 Kenya 59 Lebanon 60 Libya 59–60 Mali 60 measures to eliminate international terrorism 55 Niger 60 Russian Federation 60 Somalia 60 Syrian Arab Republic 60 Turkey 60
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1596 Yemen 60 Third United Nations Conference on Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNISPACE III) 568 TIMOR-LESTE political and security questions *336–338 United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) *336–338 United Nations Mission in East Timor (UNAMET) 336 tobacco 1175–1176 TOKELAU, decolonization *553–554 torture and cruel treatment 601–602, *672–676 tourism Central America, sustainable tourism in *792–794 criminal and terrorist threats 1255 toxic waste see also waste and waste management human rights 712 trade see also international trade Asia and the Pacific *955–957 Europe 963 Trade and Development Board (TDB) 911–913 Trade and Development Commission 913 trade statistics 1263 traditional values, human rights 682 trafficking in cultural property *1226–1228 in fraudulent medicines 1229 in persons *1245–1252 in precious metals *1223–1224 in protected species *1224–1226 in women and girls 715–716 training see also education disarmament 529 human resources development 1081–1084 transboundary aquifers, law of *1313–1316 Trans-Eurasian region, connectivity and telecommunications transit routes in *815–816 transit of energy *983 transnational corporations, human rights 695–696 transparency, disarmament *521–525, *527–528 transport see also international transport Asia and the Pacific 957–958 Europe 963 TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS 1316, *1336–1337 see also specific treaty by name or subject advice and capacity-building in treaty law and practice 1337 international organizations, treaties involving 1331 interpretation of 1305–1306 multilateral treaties deposited with Secretary-General *1336–1337 provisional application of 1307 registration and publication of treaties 1336 reservation to treaties *1316–1331 Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco) *499–500 truth, right to *660–662 THE GREATER TUNB, LESSER TUNB AND ABU MUSA 354 TURKEY, terrorism 60 TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS, decolonization *555–562
U UNAIDS see Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) UNAMA see United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) UNAMI see United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) UNAMID see African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID)
UNCCD see United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (UNCCD) UNCITRAL see United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) UNCTAD XIII see United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD XIII) UNDEF see United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) UNDOF see United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) UNDP see United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) UNEP see United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) UNFCCC see United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) UNFICYP see United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) UNFIP see United Nations Fund for International Partnerships (UNFIP) UNFPA see United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) UN-Habitat see United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) UNHCR see United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) UNICEF see United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) UNICRI see United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) UNIFIL see United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) UNIOGBIS see United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS) UNIPSIL see United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL) UNISFA see United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) UNISPACE III see Third United Nations Conference on Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNISPACE III) UNITAR see United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) UNITED ARAB EMIRATES–IRAN The Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa 354 League of Arab States (LAS) 354 political and security questions 354 UNITED NATIONS see Economic and Social Council; General Assembly; institutional, administrative and budgetary questions; International Court of Justice (ICJ); Security Council budget see institutional, administrative and budgetary questions United Nations African Institute for Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders *1236–1238 United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) 51, 331 United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) 51, 320 United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) 52, *252–253, 266 United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) 851–852 United Nations Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) 1417–1418 United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) 1139–1148 audits 1148 basic education 1144 budget appropriations 1146–1147 field visits 1143 finances 1146–1148 fundraising 1148 gender equality 1142, 1144 HIV/AIDS and children 1144 humanitarian action 1145 organizational matters 1145–1146 policy advocacy and partnerships for children’s rights 1144–1145 programme policies 1140–1142 programmes 1142–1145 rights of children 1144–1145 violence, exploitation and abuse, protection from 1144 young child survival and development 1143 United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) *1337–1348
Subject index United Nations Compensation Commission and Fund 336 United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) 1015 United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) *1016–1019 see also human settlements United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) 779–781 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD XIII) *408–411, 911–915 United Nations Convention against Corruption *1239–1243 United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 1239 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1359–1374 United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (UNCCD) *1001–1003 United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) 858–859 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) country and regional programmes 842–843 democratic governance 844 financial and administrative matters 848–851 gender equality 845 human development report 851 programme results 843–845 programming arrangements 845–846 resilience building 844 Super Typhoon Haiyan 843 sustainable development 843–844 technical cooperation 842–852 United Nations Capital Development Fund 851–852 UN volunteers 852–853 United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) 66, *454–461 United Nations Division for Ocean Affairs (UN-Oceans) *1378– 1400 United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) 1130–1136 administrative and budgetary matters 1134–1136 Board of Auditors report 1134–1135 evaluation 1131–1134 Executive Board 1131–1132 functional areas 1132–1134 internal audit and investigation activities 1135 operational activities 1132–1133 United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) *986–994 cooperation with UN Scientific Committee on Effects of Atomic Radiation 994 governance, work programme and budget 991 governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GC/GMEF) *986–994 programme areas 988–991 UNEP Yearbook 2013 994 United Nations Envoy on Youth 1035, 1059 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) *995–997 United Nations Fund for International Partnerships (UNFIP) 858 United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons *1246–1247, *1247–1249 United Nations Guiding Principles on Alternative Development *1205–1298 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) *1149–1170 evaluation activities 1166–1167 Executive Committee *1149–1154 financial questions 1168–1170 inspections 1167–1168 management and administrative matters 1170 partnerships and coordination 1166 policy development and cooperation 1166–1168 programme policy 1149–1154
1597 United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) see human settlements; United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III); United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) United Nations Information systems 1484–1487 United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) 529 United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) *1082 United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) *336–338 United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS) 51–52 United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL) 51 United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (BINUCA) 51 United Nations Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) 1116 United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) 67, *362–364 United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) 66–67, *423–431 United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) 67–68 United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) 1236 United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF) 1524 United Nations Literacy Decade *1084–1086 United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) 66 United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) 67, *284–286 United Nations Mission in East Timor (UNAMET) 336 United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) 67 United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) 68, 244–246 United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT) 145 United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) 235–236 United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) 35, 60, 68, 147, 738, 1410 United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) *366–367 United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) 463 United Nations Office for Partnerships, cooperation 858–859 United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), technical cooperation 853–855 United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA) 51 United Nations Office in Burundi (BNUB) 52 United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 1195–1197 United Nations Operation in Cote d’Ivoire (UNOCI) 67 United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) 67, 122–124 United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) 66, *369–375 United Nations Population Award 1032 United Nations Population Division 1032–1034 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) 1027–1032 United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the Pacific 985 United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for the Americas 985 United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA) 51 United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) 52 United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) *411–412 United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) 1045–1046 United Nations Security Council see Security Council United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) 67, *294–296 United Nations Statistical Commission see statistics United Nations Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) *441 United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) 52 United Nations System Staff College *1083–1084
Yearbook of the United Nations, 2013
1598 United Nations System-wide Action Plan on Youth 1035, 1058, 1417 United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) 66, 461 United Nations University (UNU) *1082–1083 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA embargo imposed by United States against Cuba *297 political and security questions *296–297 UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS, decolonization *555–562 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, anniversary of 626 universal jurisdiction *1311–1312 UNJSPF see United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF) UNMIK see United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) UNMIL see United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) UNMIS see United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) UNMISS see United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) UNMIT see United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) UNMOGIP see United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) UNOCA see United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) UNOCI see United Nations Operation in Cote d’Ivoire (UNOCI) UNODA see United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) UNODC see United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) UNOMIG see United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) UNOPS see United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) UNOWA see United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA) UNRCCA see United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA) UNRWA see United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) UNSCO see Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) UNSCOL see Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon (UNSCOL) UNSMIL see United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) UNSMIS see United Nations Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) UNSOM see United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) UNTSO see United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) UN-Water 983–984 UN-Women see United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) urban planning 1014
V Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol 997 violence see also sexual exploitation and abuse against children 717 against women 64, 714–715, 1100–1108, *1111–1115, 1258 combating violence, based on religion or belief *653–655 culture of peace, world against violence and violent extremism *1070–1072 visiting missions, decolonization 564
W waste and waste management 990–991, *1007–1008 Based Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal 1003
chemical munitions waste dumped at sea *1007–1008 radioactive waste *497–498, *981–982 water and sanitation *705–707, *1176–1177 see also water resources international water quality guidelines for ecosystems 988 water resources 983–984 International Year of Water Cooperation *979, 984–985 law of transboundary aquifers *1313–1316 United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (UNCCD) *1001–1003 weapons see disarmament; weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) see also disarmament; nuclear weapons; terrorism acquisition of weapons of mass destruction *490–491 new types of WMDs 489–490 non-proliferation 488–491 Security Council Committee on WMDs 488–489 terrorism and WMDs 489–490, *490–491 weather Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 1004–1005 space weather 569–570 Super Typhoon Haiyan 843, 862, 879, 880, 1149, 1158, 1164 WEST AFRICA see also specific country names humanitarian assistance 875–876 Peacebuilding Commission Guinea 206–207 Guinea-Bissau 192 Liberia 177–178 political and security questions *146–207 armed robbery *155–157 Cameroon–Nigeria 205–206 children and armed conflict 168 Côte d’Ivoire 157–170 drug trafficking, Sahel region *152–155 Guinea 206–207 Guinea-Bissau 184–192 Liberia 170–180 Mali *192–205 Mauritania 207 piracy and armed robbery *155–157 regional issues 146–157 Sahel region 149–155 Sierra Leone 180–184 UNOWA 157 sanctions Côte d’Ivoire *164–168 Guinea-Bissau 192 Liberia *174–177 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) 1021 West African Economic and Monetary Union see specific country names WESTERN ASIA conflict mitigation and development 978 economic development and integration 978 economic trends 977 International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) 1216–1217 regional economic and social activities 977–978 statistics 978 sustainable development 977 women, advancement of 978 WESTERN SAHARA decolonization 554–555 financing *284–286 MINURSO *284–286 political and security questions *280–286 WFP see World Food Programme (WFP) WMDs see weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)
Subject index WOMEN *1087–1136 see also gender and gender equality; United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) African development 950–951 armed conflict, women and *1108–1115 arms control *467–468 Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 1126–1127 communications on status of women 1130 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 601, *1125–1127 decision-making 1115–1116 development *1091–1097 disarmament *467–468, 1115–1116 discrimination against 601, 716–717, *1125–1127 economic and social questions 1087–1136 economic empowerment 45 future organization and working methods *1128–1130 the girl child *1119–1125 human rights 601, *635–639, 714–717, 1118–1119 institutional mechanisms for advancement of women 1116–1118 mainstreaming gender perspective in UN system *1116–1118 non-proliferation *467–468 Palestinian women *417–420, 1118–1119 peacekeeping operations 64 peacemaking and peacebuilding, women’s economic empowerment 45 political participation 1115 poverty *1091–1100 refugees and displaced persons 1155–1156 rural areas, improvement of situation of women in *1097–1100 sexual violence and armed combat *1111–1115 status of women, commission on 1127–1128 trafficking in women and girls 715–716 United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) 1130–1136 United Nations Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) 1116 UN machinery 1125–1136 violence against women *714–715, 1100–1108 armed combat, sexual violence and *1111–1115 crime prevention and criminal justice *1106–1108, 1258
1599 gender-related killing of women and girls *1106–1108 migrant workers, violence against women migrant workers *1101–1106 Western Asia, advancement of women 978 World Conference on Women and Beijing+5 *1087–1125 World Food Programme (WFP) 1185 World Programme for Human Rights Education 623–624 World Soil Day and International Year of Soils *1192–1193 World Summit on the Information Society *807–811 World Trade Organization (WTO), Bali Ministerial Declaration 908, 909 World Wildlife Day *1008–1009 WTO see World Trade Organization (WTO)
Y YEMEN children and armed conflict 351–352 humanitarian assistance 879 human rights 756 political and security questions *349–351 terrorism 60 YOUTH see also children; United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) human settlements, sustainable urban development 1015 social policy *1058–1061 United Nations System-wide Action Plan on Youth 1035, 1058, 1417 United Nations Youth Envoy 1035, 1059 World programme of Action for Youth *1058–1061
Z ZIMBABWE, humanitarian assistance 876–877 zones of peace Gulf of Fonseca 288 Indian Ocean *541–542 South Atlantic *540–541
Index of resolutions and decisions (For dates of sessions please refer to Appendix III.)
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Resolution
Page
Sixty-eighth session
Resolution
Page
Resolution
Page
Sixty-seventh session
67/291
1176
67/292
1513
Resolution 68/1 68/2 68/3 68/4 68/5 68/6 68/7 68/8 68/9 68/10 68/11 68/12 68/13 68/14 68/15 68/16 68/17 68/18 68/19 A 68/20 68/21 68/22 68/23 68/24 68/25 68/26 68/27 68/28 68/29 68/30 68/31 68/32 68/33 68/34 68/35 68/36 68/37 68/38 68/39 68/40 68/41 68/42 68/43 68/44 68/45 68/46 68/47 68/48 68/49
68/50 68/51 68/52 68/53 68/54 68/55 68/56 68/57 68/58 68/59 68/60 68/61 68/62 68/63 68/64 68/65 68/66 68/67 68/68 68/69 68/70 68/71 68/72 68/73 68/74 68/75 68/76 68/77 68/78 68/79 68/80 68/81 68/82 68/83 68/84 68/85 68/86 A 68/86 B 68/87 68/88 68/89 68/90 68/91 68/92 68/93 68/94 68/95 A 68/95 B 68/96 68/97
527 484 516 497 530 531 531 535 480 537 538 536 533 463 464 495 518 375 477 502 1379 1359 893 575 571 572 412 417 414 420 395 402 387 392 453 50 580 580 566 563 546 567 283 552 550 553 555 555 564 543
68/98 68/99 68/100 68/101 68/102 68/103 68/104 68/105 68/106 68/107 A 68/107 B 68/108 68/109 68/110 68/111 68/112 68/113 68/114 68/115 68/116 68/117 68/118 68/119 68/120 68/121 68/122 68/123 68/124 68/125 68/126 68/127 68/128 68/129 68/130 68/131 68/132 68/133 68/134 68/135 68/136 68/137 68/138 68/139 68/140 68/141 68/142 68/143 68/144 68/145 68/146
1182 890 408 1508 869 881 1312 81 1346 1342 1342 1340 1339 1354 1317 1309 1336 1312 1352 1349 1311 1313 1332 1357 1430 1430 1430 1431 1066 1068 1070 40 145 1059 1043 1085 1046 1050 1036 1063 1102 1127 1097 1088 1150 1153 1160 591 1139 1120
Resolution 67/234 B 67/235 B 67/244 B 67/245 B 67/249 67/250 67/251 67/252 67/253 67/254 A 67/254 B 67/255 67/256 67/257 67/258 67/259 67/260 67/261 67/262 67/263 67/264 67/265 67/266 67/267 67/268 67/269 67/270 67/271 67/272 67/273 67/274 67/275 67/276 67/277 67/278 67/279 67/280 67/281 67/282 67/283 67/284 67/285 67/286 67/287 67/288 67/289 67/290
Page 508 1464 1294 337 1419 1020 992 1424 1404 1439 1445 1498 1475 1493 1471 88 1246 78 433 983 1421 550 540 287 365 1438 233 169 373 123 366 295 363 178 458 429 245 235 441 284 221 268 202 70 80 1405 782
67/293
91
67/294
896
67/295
1297
67/296
1073
67/297
1407
67/298
815
67/299
1178
67/300
936
67/301
65
67/302
1425
67/303
1429
Decision
Page
67/404 B
1545
67/407 B
1545
67/407 C
1545
67/408 B
1545
67/410 B
1546
67/414 B
1548
67/415 B
1545
67/415 C
1545
67/418
848, 1551
67/419
912, 1546
67/420
1544
67/421 A
1544
67/421 B 67/422
1544 403, 1545
67/504 B
1410
67/552 B
1467, 1476
67/552 C
1467
67/553 B
1418
67/555
780
67/556
1192
67/557
713, 1410
67/558
828
67/559
781, 928
67/560
403
67/561
1411
67/562
1171
67/563
1413
67/564
780
67/565
368
67/566
1410
67/567
1293
67/568
145
67/569
336
67/570
598
1601
Page 1413 598 1056 1025 1463 798 713 297 1073 981 309 403 405 406 383 389 452 821 1465 1469 1473 1411 524 541 498 499 500 475 526 519 508 471 467 515 486 528 466 491 482 469 490 479 521 523 504 492 472 512 498
Yearbook of the United Nations, 2013
1602 Resolution
Resolution
Page
Decision
916
68/256
1286
68/536
68/204
931
68/257
1295
68/205
1009
68/258 A
632
68/206
1010
68/259 A
203
68/151
629
68/207
793
68/260 A
460
68/152
657
68/208
1007
68/153
655
68/209
790
68/154
656
68/210
787
68/155
601
68/211
886
68/156
673
68/212
995
68/157
706
68/213
1001
68/158
683
68/214
998
68/159
708
68/215
992
68/160
616
68/216
1011
68/161
614
68/217
1006
68/162
696
68/218
981
68/163
668
68/219
772
68/164
663
68/220
804
68/165
660
68/221
816
68/166
612
68/222
774
68/167
667
68/223
1076
68/168
691
68/224
822
68/169
653
68/225
832
68/170
650
68/226
795
68/171
621
68/227
1092
68/172
646
68/228
1079
68/173
624
68/229
841
68/174
619
68/230
859
68/175
688
68/231
1193
68/176
617
68/232
1192
68/177
700
68/233
1187
68/178
678
68/234
776
68/179
641
68/235
400
68/180
724
68/236
1083
68/181
636
68/237
625
68/182
760
68/238
828
68/183
746
68/239
1017
68/184
750
68/240
600
68/185
1219
68/241
620
68/186
1226
68/242
753
68/187
1252
68/243
577
68/188
1243
68/244
1497
68/189
1258
68/245 A
1435
68/190
1256
68/245 B
1435
68/191
1106
68/246
1448
68/192
1249
68/247 A
1451
68/193
1231
68/248 A
1446
68/194
1237
68/248 B
1446
68/195
1240
68/248 C
1446
68/196
1205
68/249
1461
68/197
1198
68/250
1461
68/198
811
68/251
1478
68/199
909
68/252
1503
68/200
919
68/253
1491
68/201
921
68/254
1521
68/202
924
68/255
1289
Decision 68/401 68/402 68/403 68/404 A 68/405 68/406 68/407 A 68/408 A 68/409 68/410 68/411 68/412 A 68/413 A 68/413 B 68/414 A 68/415 68/501 68/502 68/503 68/504 A 68/505 68/506 68/507 68/508 68/509 68/510 68/511 68/512 68/513 68/514 68/515 68/516 68/517 68/518 68/519 68/520 68/521 68/522 68/523 68/524 68/525 68/526 68/527 68/528 68/529 68/530 68/531 68/532 68/533 68/534 68/535
Page 1544 1544 1548 1545 1550 592, 1546 1545 1545 1546 1545 1546 1546 1283 1284 1545 45, 1548 1410, 1476 1410, 1476 1410 1410, 1434 1410 1025 3 1287 1282 1293 1271 1410 1412 1416 43 529 488 475 465 1411 1468 626 551 1411 1411, 1468 1411 1411, 1468 1431 1431 1431 1054 714, 1115 717, 718, 722 628 626
68/147
Page
Resolution
603
68/203
68/148
718
68/149
730
68/150
Page
234
68/537 68/538 68/539 68/540 68/541 68/542 68/543 68/544 68/545 68/546 68/547 68/548 68/549 A 68/550
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SECURITY COUNCIL Resolution 2086(2013) 2087(2013) 2088(2013) 2089(2013) 2090(2013) 2091(2013) 2092(2013) 2093(2013) 2094(2013) 2095(2013) 2096(2013) 2097(2013) 2098(2013) 2099(2013) 2100(2013) 2101(2013) 2102(2013) 2103(2013) 2104(2013) 2105(2013)
Page 61 338 129 369 125 218 184 247 340 273 299 180 107 281 194 165 252 186 224 348
Resolution 2106(2013) 2107(2013) 2108(2013) 2109(2013) 2110(2013) 2111(2013) 2112(2013) 2113(2013) 2114(2013) 2115(2013) 2116(2013) 2117(2013) 2118(2013) 2119(2013) 2120(2013) 2121(2013) 2122(2013) 2123(2013) 2124(2013) 2125(2013) 2126(2013) 2127(2013) 2128(2013) 2129(2013) 2130(2013) 2131(2013) 2132(2013)
Page 1112 334 455 238 328 270 159 211 371 428 171 509 443 290 321 133 1109 358 256 260 228 137 175 55 1283 457 243
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL Resumed substantive session, 2012 Decision 2012/263
Page 771
Organizational session, 2013 Decision 2013/201 A 2013/202 2013/203 2013/204 2013/205 2013/206 2013/207 2013/208 2013/209 2013/210
Page 1548, 1550, 1552 928, 1416 923, 1416 938, 1416 1416 1416 1416 836, 1416 906 1416
Resumed organizational session, 2013 Decision 2013/201 B 2013/201 C 2013/211 2013/212 2013/213
Page 1547, 1550, 1551, 1553 1551 945, 1416 862, 1416 862
Index of resolutions and decisions Substantive session, 2013
1603
Resolution
Page
Resolution
Page
Decision
Page
Decision
2013/22
1016
801
2013/252
729
2013/23
818
1082 825
2013/229
Page
2013/45 2013/46
2013/230
1418
2013/253
2013/1
964
2013/24
939
2013/231
905
2013/2
951
2013/25
941
601, 612, 683, 1126, 1236
2013/3
959
2013/26
901
2013/4
955
2013/27
1062
2013/5
837
2013/28
1055
2013/6
863
2013/29
1048
2013/7
947
2013/30
1219
2013/8
397
2013/31
1226
2013/9
807
2013/32
1252
2013/10
801
2013/33
1243
2013/11
1172
2013/34
1258
2013/12
1174
2013/35
1256
2013/13
1416
2013/36
1106
2013/14
1084
2013/37
1221
2013/15
906
2013/38
1223
2013/16
1117
2013/39
1229
2013/17
419
2013/40
1224
2013/18
1129
2013/41
1247
2013/19
781
2013/42
1205
2013/20
817
2013/43
545
2013/21
1266
2013/44
929
Resolution
Decision 2013/201 D 2013/214 2013/215
2013/216 2013/217 2013/218 2013/219 2013/220 2013/221 2013/222 2013/223 2013/224 2013/225 2013/226 2013/227 2013/228
Page 1551, 1552, 1553 1416 837, 842, 1027, 1133, 1140, 1185, 1416 837, 859 1431 1431 1431 1432 1432 1432 1432 1432 1432 1186, 1416 1416 945, 946, 954, 963, 973, 977
2013/232
869
2013/233
1128
2013/234
781
2013/235
1223, 1260
2013/236
987
2013/237
1024
Page
2013/254
408
2013/255
1083
2013/256
1416
2013/238
818
Reconvened substantive session, 2013
2013/239
940
2013/240
1005
Decision
2013/241
1005
2013/242
985
2013/243
1042
2013/244
1046
2013/245
1218
2013/246
1197
2013/247
1218
2013/248
1198
2013/249 2013/250 2013/251
Page
2013/201 E
1550, 1551
2013/201 F
1548
2013/257
985
2013/258
729
2013/259
729
2013/260
729
2013/261
729
2013/262
772, 801, 1416
1198
2013/263
781, 985
1214
2013/264
984
1153
2013/265
1416
Index of Security Council presidential statements
Symbol
Subject
Date
S/PRST/2013/1
Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts
15 January 2013
Page 52
S/PRST/2013/2
Protection of civilians in armed conflict
12 February 2013
46 350
S/PRST/2013/3
The situation in the Middle East
15 February 2013
S/PRST/2013/4
Peace and security in Africa
15 April 2013
86
S/PRST/2013/5
Peace and security in Africa
13 May 2013
96
S/PRST/2013/6
Central African region
29 May 2013
101
S/PRST/2013/7
The situation in Somalia
6 June 2013
254
S/PRST/2013/8
Children and armed conflict
17 June 2013
720
S/PRST/2013/9
The situation in the Middle East
10 July 2013
425
S/PRST/2013/10
Peace and security in Africa
16 July 2013
148
S/PRST/2013/11
The situation in the Great Lakes region
25 July 2013
114
S/PRST/2013/12
Cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations in maintaining international peace and security
6 August 2013
36
S/PRST/2013/13
Peace consolidation in West Africa
14 August 2013
155
S/PRST/2013/14
Reports of the Secretary-General on the Sudan
23 August 2013
208
S/PRST/2013/15
The situation in the Middle East
2 October 2013
438
S/PRST/2013/16
Cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations in maintaining international peace and security
28 October 2013
39
S/PRST/2013/17
The situation concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo
14 November 2013
117
S/PRST/2013/18
Central African region
25 November 2013
103
S/PRST/2013/19
The situation in Guinea-Bissau
9 December 2013
190
S/PRST/2013/20
Peace and security in Africa
12 December 2013
151
S/PRST/2013/21
The situation in Libya
16 December 2013
277
S/PRST/2013/22
Peace and security in Africa
18 December 2013
153
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