Organizations

UNESCAP is the regional development arm of the UN for the Asia-Pacific region - from Turkey in the west to the Pacific island nation of Kiribati in the east, and from the Russian Federation in the north to New Zealand in the south. ESCAP works in three main thematic areas:...

UN-ESCWA promotes economic and social development through regional and subregional cooperation and integration. It serves as the main general economic and social development forum within the United Nations system for the UN-ESCWA region. It formulates and promotes development assistance activities and projects and acts as an executing agency for relevant...

UNECE strives to foster sustainable economic growth among its 56 member countries. To that end UNECE provides a forum for communication among States; brokers international legal instruments addressing trade, transport and the environment; and supplies statistics and economic and environmental analysis.

UNESCO's mission of dialogue and cooperation covers four major fields: education, science, culture and communication. Its aim: to build peace in the world through knowledge, social progress, exchange and mutual understanding among peoples.

UNEP's mission is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.

Over a decade ago, most countries joined an international treaty -- the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) -- to begin to consider what can be done to reduce global warming and to cope with whatever temperature increases are inevitable. The UNFCCC secretariat supports all institutions involved in...

The United Nations is central to global efforts to solve problems that challenge humanity. Cooperating in this effort are more than 30 affiliated organizations, known together as the UN system. The UN and its family of organizations work in the ares of human rights, the environment, health, development, telecommunications, transport,...

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), a department of the United Nations Secretariat, is mandated to promote and protect the realization, by all people, of all rights established in the Charter of the United Nations and in international human rights laws and treaties. The mandate includes...

The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another state,...

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT, is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all.