United Nations (Master, Doctorate)

Specialised Agencies and organisations of the United Nations

1. International Trade Centre (INTRACEN)
2. International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)
3. International Maritime Organisation (IMO)
4. World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
5. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
6. Arab Gulf Programme for United Nations Development Organisations (AGFUND)
7. United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)
8. United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

Regional commissions of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

1. Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
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 (UNECA)
5. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)

1. Global Compact of the United Nations
2. United Nations Convention Against Corruption
3. Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
4. Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (1949)
5. Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery (1956)

United Nations conventions related to international transport:

1. United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea (Hamburg Rules). Hague Rules
2. United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea (Rotterdam Rules) New York, 2008
3. Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR, UN)
4. International Party Identification and Location Codes (LOCODES)
5. Customs Convention on Containers (CCC, UN) 1972
6. International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods (UNECE)
7. United Nations (UN) Trade Facilitation Implementation Guide

United Nations conventions related to international payments

1. United Nations Convention on Independent Guarantees and Stand-by Letters of Credit
2. UNCITRAL Model Law on International Credit Transfers
3. United Nations Convention on International Bills of Exchange and International Promissory Notes
4. United Nations Convention on the Transfer of Credits in International Trade

The objectives of the 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 the human development in the world
5. To know the specialised agencies, programs, conventions, agreements and subsidiary organs of the United Nations
6. To know how to analyse the socio-economic information offered by the different portals of the UN

Description: United Nations

The United Nations was created in 1945 by fifty-one countries with the objective of maintaining the peace through the 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 the debate about international economics, foreign trade, and social topics and formulating policy suggestions, the Economic and Social Council plays a key function in the international cooperation encouragement.

The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam

United Nations System

The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and other twelve 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.

The member states of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) are Algeria, Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Botswana, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Comoros, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Egypt, Eritrea, Eswatini (Swaziland), Ethiopia, Gambia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Togo, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

The member states of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) are Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

The member states of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) are Afghanistan, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Fiji, France, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Kyrgyz Republic, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Korea, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Russian Federation, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Tajikistan, Thailand, East Timor, Tonga, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, and Vietnam.

1. The Associate members (ESCAP) are American Samoa, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Hong Kong, Macau, New Caledonia, Niue, and the Northern Mariana Islands

The member states of the Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) are Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uzbekistan.

The member states of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) are Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Germany, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, South Korea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Spain, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

1. The associate members (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean) are Anguilla, Aruba, British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States Virgin Islands