United Nations (Master, Doctorate)

Syllabus of the Online Course (Subject): United Nations. Economic and Social Council.

1. Introduction to the United Nations (UN)
2. Structure and Organisation
3. Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
4. Main bodies of the United Nations (UN)
5. Agencies, programs, and subsidiary bodies of the United Nations
6. Specialised Agencies of the United Nations
7. Secretariat of the United Nations
8. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
9. United Nations System
10. Human Development
11. Millennium Development Goals
12. Global Compact of the United Nations

United Nations Conventions

1. United Nations Convention Against Corruption
2. United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea (Rotterdam Rules) New York, 2008
3. United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea (Hamburg Rules). Hague Rules
4. Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR)
5. Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (1949)
6. Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery (1956)

The objectives of the Online Course / Subject “United Nations (UN)” are the following:

1. To understand the purposes and structure of the United Nations (UN)
2. To know the role of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
3. To explore the United Nations System
4. To understand the role of the United Nations on human development in the world
5. To know the specialised agencies, programs, agreements and subsidiary organs of the United Nations
6. To know how to analyse the socio-economic information offered by different portals of the UN

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EENI adhesion to the Global Compact of the United Nations.

Description of the Online Course: United Nations

The United Nations was created in 1945 by fifty-one countries with the objective of maintaining peace through international cooperation and global security. Every nation belongs to the United Nations.

The United Nations consists of the:

1. General Assembly
2. Security Council
3. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
4. Trusteeship Council
5. Secretariat

All these institutions are based at in New York. The International Court of Justice is in the Hague (the Netherlands).

The mission of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) is to coordinate the economic and social work of the United Nations. As the central forum for debate about international economic, foreign trade, and social topics and formulating policy suggestions, the Economic and Social Council plays a key function in international cooperation encouragement.

United Nations System

The International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and twelve other institutions (“specialised agencies”) are linked to the United Nations through agreements. All these institutions have their regulations, budgets, and secretariats. Together with the United Nations (UN); they are known as the United Nations System

1. United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
2. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
3. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
4. Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
5. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia

United Nations Institutions

1. Conference on Trade and Development
2. International Trade Centre
3. International Maritime Organisation (IMO)
4. World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
5. United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)
6. International Civil Aviation Organisation (OACI)

The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam

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