Outline of the United Nations explained
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the United Nations:
United Nations – international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace. The UN was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries, and to provide a platform for dialogue. It contains multiple subsidiary organizations to carry out its missions.
Legal foundation: The United Nations Charter
- United Nations Charter – foundational treaty of the United Nations which states that obligations to the United Nations prevail over all other treaty obligations and is binding for all United Nations members.
- Type of document: treaty
- Signed: 26 June 1945
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Effective: 24 October 1945
- Condition: Ratification by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, United States and by a majority of the other signatory states.
- Parties: 193
- Sections: 20 (the preamble and 19 chapters)
Membership
Geography
Buildings and structures
United Nations System
Core structure of the United Nations
General Assembly
Security Council
Economic and Social Council
United Nations Economic and Social Council
- Functional Commissions
- Regional Commissions
United Nations Secretariat
United Nations Secretariat offices
United Nations Secretariat departments
International Court of Justice
International Court of Justice cases
International Court of Justice judges
Trusteeship Council
United Nations Trusteeship Council
Funds and programmes, research and training institutes, and other bodies
Funds and programmes
Research and training institutes
Secretariats of Conventions
Other entities
Specialized agencies
Specialized agencies of the United Nations – autonomous organizations working with the United Nations and each other through the coordinating machinery of the Economic and Social Council.
International Civil Aviation Organization
ICAO airline designator
ICAO airport designator
- List of airports by ICAO code
International Monetary Fund
Managing directors of the International Monetary Fund
International Telecommunication Union
ITU-R recommendations
ITU-T recommendations
International Labour Organization
International Labour Organization Conventions
- Accommodation of Crews (Fishermen) Convention, 1966
- Accommodation of Crews (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1970
- Accommodation of Crews Convention (Revised), 1949
- Accommodation of Crews Convention, 1946
- Asbestos Convention, 1986
- Benzene Convention, 1971
- Certification of Able Seamen Convention, 1946
- Certification of Ships' Cooks Convention, 1946
- Collective Bargaining Convention, 1981
- Continuity of Employment (Seafarers) Convention, 1976
- Contracts of Employment (Indigenous Workers) Convention, 1939 (shelved)
- Contracts of Employment (Indigenous Workers) Convention, 1947 (shelved)
- Convention concerning Statistics of Wages and Hours of Work, 1938
- Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958
- Dock Work Convention, 1973
- Employment Policy Convention, 1964
- Employment Promotion and Protection against Unemployment Convention, 1988
- Employment Service Convention, 1948
- Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951
- Equality of Treatment (Accident Compensation) Convention, 1925
- Equality of Treatment (Social Security) Convention, 1962
- Medical Examination of Young Persons (Sea) Convention, 1921
- Fee-Charging Employment Agencies Convention (Revised), 1949
- Fee-Charging Employment Agencies Convention, 1933 (shelved)
- Final Articles Revision Convention, 1946
- Final Articles Revision Convention, 1961
- Fishermen's Articles of Agreement Convention, 1959
- Fishermen's Competency Certificates Convention, 1966
- Food and Catering (Ships' Crews) Convention, 1946
- Forced Labour Convention, 1930
- Forty-Hour Week Convention, 1935
- Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948
- Guarding of Machinery Convention, 1963
- Health Protection and Medical Care (Seafarers) Convention, 1987
- Holidays with Pay (Agriculture) Convention, 1952
- Holidays with Pay (Sea) Convention, 1936
- Holidays with Pay Convention (Revised), 1970
- Holidays with Pay Convention, 1936
- Home Work Convention, 1996
- Hours of Work (Industry) Convention, 1919
- Hours of Work (Coal Mines) Convention (Revised), 1935
- Hours of Work (Coal Mines) Convention, 1931
- Hours of Work (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1930
- Hours of Work and Manning (Sea) Convention, 1936
- Hours of Work and Rest Periods (Road Transport) Convention, 1979
- Human Resources Development Convention, 1975
- Hygiene (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1964
- ILO Convention
- Inspection of Emigrants Convention, 1926 (shelved)
- Employment Injury Benefits Convention, 1964
- Invalidity Insurance (Agriculture) Convention, 1933 (shelved)
- Invalidity Insurance (Industry, etc.) Convention, 1933 (shelved)
- Invalidity, Old-Age and Survivors' Benefits Convention, 1967
- Labour Administration Convention, 1978
- Labour Clauses (Public Contracts) Convention, 1949
- Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969
- Labour Inspection (Seafarers) Convention, 1996
- Labour Inspection Convention, 1947
- Labour Inspectorates (Non-Metropolitan Territories) Convention, 1947
- Labour Relations (Public Service) Convention, 1978
- Labour Standards (Non-Metropolitan Territories) Convention, 1947
- Labour Statistics Convention, 1985
- Maintenance of Migrants' Pension Rights Convention, 1935 (shelved)
- Maintenance of Social Security Rights Convention, 1982
- Marking of Weight (Packages Transported by Vessels) Convention, 1929
- Maternity Protection Convention, 1919
- Maternity Protection Convention (Revised), 1952
- Maternity Protection Convention, 2000
- Abolition of Penal Sanctions (Indigenous Workers) Convention, 1955 (shelved)
- Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957
- Weekly Rest (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1957
- Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention, 1957
- Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention, 1958
- Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003
- Chemicals Convention, 1990
- Night Work Convention, 1990
- Working Conditions (Hotels and Restaurants) Convention, 1991
- Safety and Health in Agriculture Convention, 2001
- Maximum Weight Convention, 1967
- Medical Care and Sickness Benefits Convention, 1969
- Medical Examination (Fishermen) Convention, 1959
- Medical Examination (Seafarers) Convention, 1946
- Medical Examination of Young Persons (Non-Industrial Occupations) Convention, 1946
- Medical Examination of Young Persons (Underground Work) Convention, 1965
- Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1976
- Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975
- Migration for Employment Convention (Revised), 1949
- Migration for Employment Convention, 1939
- Minimum Age (Industry) Convention, 1919
- Minimum Age (Sea) Convention, 1920
- Minimum Age (Agriculture) Convention, 1921
- Minimum Age (Sea) Convention (Revised), 1936
- Minimum Age (Industry) Convention (Revised), 1937
- Minimum Age (Fishermen) Convention, 1959
- Minimum Age (Non-Industrial Employment) Convention (Revised), 1937 (shelved)
- Minimum Age (Non-Industrial Employment) Convention, 1932
- Minimum Age (Underground Work) Convention, 1965
- Minimum Age Convention, 1973
- Minimum Wage Fixing Convention, 1970
- Minimum Wage Fixing Machinery (Agriculture) Convention, 1951
- Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention, 1928
- Night Work (Women) Convention, 1919 (shelved)
- Night Work of Young Persons (Industry) Convention, 1919
- Night Work (Bakeries) Convention, 1925 (shelved)
- Night Work of Young Persons (Industry) Convention (Revised), 1948
- Night Work (Women) Convention (Revised), 1934 (shelved)
- Night Work (Women) Convention (Revised), 1948
- Night Work of Young Persons (Non-Industrial Occupations) Convention, 1946
- Nursing Personnel Convention, 1977
- Occupational Cancer Convention, 1974
- Occupational Health Services Convention, 1985
- Occupational Safety and Health (Dock Work) Convention, 1979
- Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981
- Officers' Competency Certificates Convention, 1936
- Old-Age Insurance (Agriculture) Convention, 1933 (shelved)
- Old-Age Insurance (Industry, etc.) Convention, 1933 (shelved)
- Paid Educational Leave Convention, 1974
- Paid Vacations (Seafarers) Convention (Revised), 1949 (shelved)
- Paid Vacations (Seafarers) Convention, 1946
- Part-Time Work Convention, 1994
- Penal Sanctions (Indigenous Workers) Convention, 1939 (shelved)
- Placing of Seamen Convention, 1920
- Plantations Convention, 1958
- Prevention of Accidents (Seafarers) Convention, 1970
- Prevention of Major Industrial Accidents Convention, 1993
- Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997
- Protection against Accidents (Dockers) Convention (Revised), 1932
- Protection against Accidents (Dockers) Convention, 1929 (shelved)
- Protection of Wages Convention, 1949
- Protection of Workers' Claims (Employer's Insolvency) Convention, 1992
- Radiation Protection Convention, 1960
- Recruiting of Indigenous Workers Convention, 1936 (shelved)
- Recruitment and Placement of Seafarers Convention, 1996
- Reduction of Hours of Work (Glass-Bottle Works) Convention, 1935 (shelved)
- Reduction of Hours of Work (Public Works) Convention, 1936
- Reduction of Hours of Work (Textiles) Convention, 1937
- Repatriation of Seafarers Convention (Revised), 1987
- Repatriation of Seamen Convention, 1926
- Right of Association (Agriculture) Convention, 1921
- Right of Association (Non-Metropolitan Territories) Convention, 1947
- Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949
- Rural Workers' Organisations Convention, 1975
- Safety Provisions (Building) Convention, 1937
- Safety and Health in Construction Convention, 1988
- Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995
- Seafarers' Annual Leave with Pay Convention, 1976
- Seafarers' Hours of Work and the Manning of Ships Convention, 1996
- Seafarers' Pensions Convention, 1946
- Seafarers' Welfare Convention, 1987
- Seamen's Articles of Agreement Convention, 1926
- Sheet-Glass Works Convention, 1934 (shelved)
- Shipowners' Liability (Sick and Injured Seamen) Convention, 1936
- Sickness Insurance (Agriculture) Convention, 1927
- Sickness Insurance (Industry) Convention, 1927
- Sickness Insurance (Sea) Convention, 1936
- Social Policy (Basic Aims and Standards) Convention, 1962
- Social Policy (Non-Metropolitan Territories) Convention, 1947
- Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952
- Social Security (Seafarers) Convention (Revised), 1987
- Social Security (Seafarers) Convention, 1946
- Survivors' Insurance (Agriculture) Convention, 1933 (shelved)
- Termination of Employment Convention, 1982
- Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976
- Underground Work (Women) Convention, 1935
- Unemployment Convention, 1919
- Unemployment Indemnity (Shipwreck) Convention, 1920
- Unemployment Provision Convention, 1934 (shelved)
- Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention, 1983
- Wages, Hours of Work and Manning (Sea) Convention (Revised), 1949
- Wages, Hours of Work and Manning (Sea) Convention (Revised), 1958
- Wages, Hours of Work and Manning (Sea) Convention, 1946
- Weekly Rest (Industry) Convention, 1921
- White Lead (Painting) Convention, 1921
- Workers with Family Responsibilities Convention, 1981
- Workers' Representatives Convention, 1971
- Working Environment (Air Pollution, Noise and Vibration) Convention, 1977
- Workmen's Compensation (Agriculture) Convention, 1921
- Workmen's Compensation (Accidents) Convention, 1925
- Workmen's Compensation (Occupational Diseases) Convention, 1925
- Workmen's Compensation (Occupational Diseases) Convention (Revised), 1934
- Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999
UNESCO
Biosphere reserves
UNESCO Directors-General
Universal Postal Union
World Bank
Presidents of the World Bank
World Bank Chief Economists
World Health Organization
Human Development Index
History of the United Nations
League of Nations
League of Nations Mandates
Formation
United Nations Trust Territories
United Nations peacekeeping missions and operations
United Nations Mission in Kosovo
United Nations General Assembly Resolutions
United Nations Security Council Resolutions
2002 United Nations Security Council Resolutions
2003 United Nations Security Council Resolutions
2004 United Nations Security Council Resolutions
2005 United Nations Security Council Resolutions
2006 United Nations Security Council Resolutions
United Nations reform
United Nations Parliamentary Assembly
United Nations relations
United Nations tribunals
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda judges
People charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
People convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
People convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
People indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal
United Nations in education
United Nations schools
Model United Nations
United Nations observances
The United Nations observances are days, weeks, months, years and decades where issues that are important for humanity are brought to the attention and given a forum. In several of the resolutions where the decision has been taken for a particular observance, it is mentioned that the observance has to be taken up in the educational curriculum, and often as well that the member organisations to the UN are supposed to make a budget available and feedback an agenda of planned activities and a report of those. Some of the observances are a very hot item to some members and much maneuvering is done to limit the impact and resources that go to the observance. The UN Decade for people of African descent reporting for the EU-28 has e.g. fallen under the responsibility of the Belgian delegation to the UN; Belgium being one of Africa's eight former colonial powers.
UNESCO designations
World Heritage Sites
World Book Capitals
Recipients of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize
L’Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science laureates
Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity
United Nations people
United Nations officials
Ambassadors to the United Nations
List of Australian ambassadors to the United Nations
List of Australian ambassadors to the United Nations
Former British Ambassadors to the United Nations
Former Canadian Ambassadors to the United Nations
Former Israeli Ambassadors to the United Nations
United States ambassadors to the United Nations
FAO experts
Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly
United Nations Secretaries-General
World Health Organization officials
Special Rapporteurs to the United Nations
United Nations Interpreters
United Nations experts
UN Numbers scheme
- UN number - List of UN Numbers
- 0001-0100, 0101-0200, 0201-0300, 0301-0400, 0401-0500, 0501-0600, 0601-0700, 0701-0800, 0801-0900, 0901-1000
- 1001-1100, 1101-1200, 1201-1300, 1301-1400, 1401-1500, 1501-1600, 1601-1700, 1701-1800, 1801-1900, 1901-2000
- 2001-2100, 2101-2200, 2201-2300, 2301-2400, 2401-2500, 2501-2600, 2601-2700, 2701-2800, 2801-2900, 2901-3000
- List of UN Numbers 3001 to 3100
- List of UN Numbers 3101 to 3200
- List of UN Numbers 3201 to 3300
- List of UN Numbers 3301 to 3400
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