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| An Introduction to the United Nations | |
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| Quick facts about the United Nations | |
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| History | |
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| The idea of a peaceful world community | |
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| The League of Nations | |
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| Creation of the United Nations | |
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| What is the United Nations? | |
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| A forum for all countries, not a world government | |
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| Guiding principles of the United Nations | |
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| Emblem | |
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| Flag | |
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| Structure of the Organization | |
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| United Nations Headquarters | |
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| Membership and budget | |
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| A good value for the money | |
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| Becoming a Member of the United Nations | |
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| Permanent Observers | |
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| Official languages | |
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| Test your knowledge | |
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| The United Nations Family | |
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| Quick facts about the United Nations family | |
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| Principal organs of the United Nations | |
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| General Assembly | |
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| Security Council | |
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| Economic and Social Council | |
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| Trusteeship Council | |
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| International Court of Justice | |
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| Secretariat | |
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| The United Nations: a family of specialized entities | |
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| Agencies | |
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| Funds and programmes | |
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| Research and training institutes | |
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| Other Entities | |
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| Related Organizations | |
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| Messengers of Peace and Goodwill Ambassadors | |
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| Test your knowledge | |
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| Economic and Social Development | |
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| Quick facts on economic and social development | |
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| Development: a priority for the United Nations | |
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| Poverty and development | |
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| Globalization | |
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| United Nations action | |
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| Millennium Development Goals | |
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| The eight goals | |
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| Where do we stand? | |
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| Millennium Development Goals: 2012 progress chart | |
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| Development for today and tomorrow | |
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| Sustainable development | |
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| Linking environment and development | |
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| Test your knowledge | |
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| International Peace and Security | |
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| Quick facts on international peace and security | |
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| Poverty causes conflict, which results in poverty. How do we break the cycle? | |
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| Local consequences of a conflict | |
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| The cost of conflict is felt throughout a region | |
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| The United Nations: Created to keep peace | |
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| Preventing conflict | |
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| Other accomplishments | |
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| What happens when a country ignores the decisions of the Security Council? | |
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| Peacekeeping and peacebuilding | |
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| Commanding the peacekeeping operations | |
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| There when the world needs them | |
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| A cost-effective solution | |
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| Financing the United Nations peacekeeping missions | |
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| First United Nations peacekeeping operation | |
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| Recent United Nations peacekeeping operations | |
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| Creating a sustainable environment for peace | |
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| Do we really need the United Nations to work for peace? | |
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| Peacemaking, peacebuilding, peacekeeping, nation building | |
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| Children and armed conflicts: Victims of conflict | |
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| A global counter-terrorism strategy | |
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| Disarmament | |
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| The Impact of armed violence | |
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| Controlling small arms and light weapons | |
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| Ensuring world safety by reducing nuclear weapons | |
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| Disarmament is an urgent global need | |
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| Some United Nations actions for disarmament | |
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| Battling cluster munitions and landmines | |
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| Nobel Peace Prize | |
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| Test your knowledge | |
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| Human Rights | |
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| Quick facts about human rights | |
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| Human rights: what are they? | |
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| Definition | |
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| What are our human rights? | |
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| Characteristics of human rights | |
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| The United Nations and human lights | |
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| Universal Declaration of Human Rights | |
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| Human rights law | |
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| Other International human rights instruments | |
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| Who is responsible for human rights at the United Nations? | |
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| The right to development for all | |
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| Development as a right | |
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| Declaration on the Right to Development | |
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| A framework to promote all human rights | |
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| Children have rights, too | |
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| Providing legal protection for children | |
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| Children's rights | |
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| The United Nations and children's rights | |
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| Test your knowledge | |
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| Humanitarian Crises and Responses | |
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| Quick facts about humanitarian crises and responses | |
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| Emergencies that affect people around the world | |
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| Different types of disasters | |
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| Recent disaster trends | |
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| The impact of disasters: key humanitarian needs and risk management | |
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| Coordination of emergency assistance | |
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| Inter-agency coordination | |
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| Who are the humanitarian workers? | |
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| United Nations agencies in the field: who is on the ground? | |
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| Immediate emergency response: saving more lives | |
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| Long-term emergency response: getting people back on their feet | |
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| Emergency preparedness and prevention | |
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| Test your knowledge | |
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| Additional Information | |
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| Frequently asked questions | |
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| United Nations observances | |
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| The United Nations System | |
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| United Nations Member States | |
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| References and resources | |
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| Publications | |
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| Websites | |
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| UN Information Centres | |