U.N.
UN News Centre - Top Stories
- Official Web Site Locator for the
United Nations System of Organizations
A consolidated effort to provide access to official U.N. web sites. Among its features:- an alphabetical index of all United Nations Organizations (UNOs)
- a classified index
- a subject index.
The site, which features English and French language versions, also offers access to UN-related sites.
- The United Nations, Department of Public Information, United Nations. This web site covers the following categories of information: UN Overview; Global Issues; UN News; Documents (with search capability of the Daily List of Documents); Departments; Information Resources (including the Dag Hammerskjöld Library); Photos; Conferences; Publications and Sales; and New on the Web.
Millennium
Report of the Secretary-General
Released on April 3, 2000, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's detailed report sets the agenda for the UN Millennium Summit, an extraordinary meeting of Heads of State and Government around the globe to be convened September 6-8, 2000, on the eve of the first UN General Assembly of the new millennium. "We the Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century" seeks to provide "the most comprehensive presentation of the UN's mission in its fifty-five year history, containing numerous specific goals and programme initiatives."
Users can read the full text of the report in six languages (English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic) in .pdf or HTML format, as well as a summary, fact sheet, press release, key proposals, and the Secretary-General's statement to the General Assembly at the UN site. Additional resources include Annan's statement from the press conference, photos, and an archived webcast of his speech before the General Assembly.
Alternative
Unofficial Index Sites
- UN News Includes
access to:
- the UN Journal
- Daily Highlights
- UN Press Releases (with search capability)
- Facts about the United Nations
- Development Update
- DPI Update (Department of Public Information)
- United Nations Chronicle Complete tables of contents and selected full-text articles from recent issues of the UN Chronicle.
- United Nations Development Programme, New York
- UN Information Services and Related Links United Nations International Drug Control Programme.
- United Nations Web and Gopher Servers, U.N. International Computing Centre. Features keyword search capability.
- UN Wire - A
daily news summary covering the United Nations, global affairs and key international
issues.
UN Wire is available free of charge.
- Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS). Yale Center for International and Area Studies
- International Organizations, Indiana University. Features a comprehensive listing of IGO and foreign government sites on the web.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
- Administrative Committee on Coordination - New York, USA (ACC)
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- Consultative Committee on Administrative Questions (Financial and Budgetary Questions) - Geneva, Switzerland (CCAQ(FB))
- Consultative Committee on Administrative Questions (Personnel and General Administrative Questions) - Geneva, Switzerland (CCAQ(PER))
- Consultative Committee
on Programme and Operational Questions - Geneva, Switzerland (CCPOQ)
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- Economic Commission for Africa - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (ECA)
- Economic Commission for Europe - Geneva, Switzerland (ECE)
- Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean - Santiago, Chile (ECLAC)
- Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific - Bangkok, Thailand (ESCAP)
- Economic and Social Commission for
Western Asia - Beirut, Lebanon (ESCWA)
F
- Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations - Rome, Italy (FAO)
I
- Information Systems Coordination Committee - Geneva, Switzerland (ISCC)
- Inter Agency Procurement Services Office - Denmark, Copenhagen (IAPSO)
- International Atomic Energy Agency - Vienna, Austria (IAEA)
- International Bureau of Education - Geneva, Switzerland (IBE)
- International Centre for Science and High Technology - Trieste, Italy (ICS)
- International Civil Aviation Organization - Montreal, Canada (ICAO)
- International Civil Service Commission - New York, USA (ICSC)
- International Computing Centre - Geneva, Switzerland (ICC)
- International Court of Justice - The Hague, The Netherlands (ICJ)
- International Fund for Agricultural Development - Rome, Italy (IFAD)
- International Institute on Ageing - Valetta, Malta (INIA)
- International Labour Organization - Geneva, Switzerland (ILO)
- International Maritime Organization - London, UK (IMO)
- International Monetary Fund - Washington, USA (IMF)
- International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (INSTRAW)
- International Telecommunication Union - Geneva, Switzerland (ITU)
- International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO - Geneva, Switzerland (ITC)
- International Training Centre of the
ILO - Turin, Italy (ILO/ITC)
J
- Joint Inter-agency Meeting on Computer-assisted Translation and Terminology - Geneva, Switzerland (JIAMCATT)
- Joint United Nations Information Committee - New York, USA (JUNIC)
- Joint United Nations Programme on
HIV/AIDS - (UNAIDS)
M
- Multilateral Investment Guarantee
Agency - Washington, USA (MIGA)
O
- Organizational Committee of ACC - New York, USA (OC)
- Outer Space Affairs, Office for
- Vienna, Austria (OOSA)
P
- Panel of
External Auditors of the United Nations, the Specialized Agencies and the International
Atomic Energy Agency - New York, USA
U
- United Nations Board of Auditors - New York, USA
- United Nations Human Settlements Programme (Habitat) - Nairobi, Kenya (UNCHS (Habitat))
- United Nations Children's Fund - New York, USA (UNICEF)
- United Nations Commission on International Trade Law - Vienna, Austria (UNCITRAL)
- United Nations Common Supply Database - Oslo, Norway (UNCSD)
- United Nations Compensation Commission - Geneva, Switzerland (UNCC)
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification - Bonn, Germany (UNCCD)
- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development - Geneva, Switzerland (UNCTAD)
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- United Nations Development Fund for Women - New York, USA (UNIFEM)
- United Nations Development Programme - New York, USA (UNDP)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - Paris, France (UNESCO)
- United Nations Environment Programme - Nairobi, Kenya (UNEP)
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - Bonn, Germany (UNFCCC)
- United Nations Headquarters - New York, USA (UN)
- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Office of the - Geneva, Switzerland (UNHCHR)
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Office of the - Geneva, Switzerland (UNHCR)
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization - Vienna, Austria (UNIDO)
- United Nations Institute for Training and Research - Geneva, Switzerland (UNITAR)
- United Nations International Drug Control Programme - Vienna, Austria (UNDCP)
- United Nations International School -New York, USA (UNIS)
- United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute - Rome, Italy (UNICRI)
- United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund - New York, USA (UNJSPF)
- United Nations Office at Geneva - Geneva, Switzerland (UNOG) is the largest and most active centre for conference diplomacy in the world and the site of many historic negotiations. It is also the second largest United Nations office after New York Headquarters. UN Office at Geneva is based at the Palais des Nations, which was built in 1936 as the Headquarters for the League of Nations.
- UNOG Library is located in the Palais des Nations and is a leading European center for the study of world affairs.
- United Nations Office at Vienna - Vienna, Austria (UNOV)
- United Nations Office for Project Services - New York, USA (UNOPS)
- United Nations Special Coordinator in the Occupied Territories - Gaza (UNSCO)
- United Nations Population Fund - New York, USA (UNFPA)
- United Nations Postal Administration - Vienna, Austria (UNPA)
- United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East - Gaza, Gaza Strip & Amman, Jordan (UNRWA)
- United Nations Research Institute for Social Development - Geneva, Switzerland (UNRISD)
- United Nations Staff College - Turin, Italy (UNSC)
- United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN)
- United Nations University - Tokyo, Japan (UNU)
- United Nations Volunteers - Bonn, Germany (UNV)
- Universal Postal Union - Berne,
Switzerland (UPU)
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- World Bank - Washington, USA (IBRD)
- World Food Programme - Rome, Italy (WFP)
- World Health Organization - Geneva, Switzerland (WHO)
- World Intellectual Property Organization - Geneva, Switzerland (WIPO)
- World Meteorological Organization - Geneva, Switzerland (WMO)
- World Tourism Organization - Madrid, Spain