The United Nations System is the whole network of international organizations, treaties and conventions that were created by the United Nations.
The United Nations System is based on five active principal organs (formerly six, the UN Trusteeship Council suspended operations in 1994) which are:
· In addition separate organizations, often subordinate to the principal organs, have been created to solve specialized task. |
1. Organizations of the United Nations General Assembly
· Main committees
· Other session committees
· Standing committees and ad hoc bodies
· Other subsidiary organizations
Some of the Programmes and Funds include:
Research and training institutes
Other entities
Organizations of the Security Council
· Standing Committee and ad hoc bodies
· 1540 Committee – Committee established pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004)
· Counter-Terrorism Committee – Committee established pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution 1373 (2001)
· Peacekeeping Operations and Missions
· Former Peacekeeping Operations and Missions
o Organizations of the Economic and Social Council
o Functional commissions
Regional commissions
· Autonomous organizations working with the United Nations and each other through the coordinating machinery of the Economic and Social Council.
· failed proposal for ITO - International Trade Organization, see also the WTO - World Trade Organization[clarification needed]
· Sessional and Standing Committees Expert, ad hoc and related bodies
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· ] Organizations of the Secretariat
· OSG – Office of the Secretary-General
· OHRLLS – Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States
· UNDEF - United Nations Democracy Fund. The UNDEF Advisory Board recommends funding proposals for approval by the UN Secretary-General.
· UNFIP - United Nations Fund for International Partnerships. Autonomous trust fund operating under the Deputy Secretary-General.
· Organization of the International Court of Justice
Secretariats of Conventions
Related organizations
· IAEA – International Atomic Energy Agency. Reports to the Security Council and the General Assembly
· OPCW - Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Reports to its own Conference of States Parties. Working relationship with the U.N.
· CTBTO (Preparatory Commission) - Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization. Reports to the General Assembly[citation needed]
· Standby High-Readiness Brigade – former UN standing military force. Functioned between 2000 - 2009.
CEB (Chief Executives Board) and Senior Management Group
The CEB (Chief Executives Board) brings together on a regular basis the executive heads of the organisations of the UN System, under the chairmanship of the Secretary-General of the UN.The CEB aims to further co-ordination and co-operation on a whole range of substantive and management issues facing UN system organizations. In addition to its regular reviews of contemporary political issues and major concerns facing the UN system, the CEB approves policy statements on behalf of the UN system as a whole. Three committees report to the CEB, namely the High-level Committee on Programme (HCLP), the High-level Committee on Management (HCLM) and the UN Development Group (UNDG). Each of those bodies has, in turn, developed a subsidiary machinery of regular and ad hoc bodies on the substantive and managerial aspects of inter-agency co-ordination. The committee structure is supported by a CEB secretariat located in New York and Geneva.
There is also a Senior Management Group, which co-ordinates the work of the UN Secretariat and the UN Programmes and Funds, but does not include the UN Specialised Agencies.
· INTERPOL
