UN

The United Nations

Type IGO
Website un.org
Year founded 1945
Predecessor LON: League of Nations
Location New York City, New York United States of America United States of America
Budget USD >100M
Functions Advocacy, Education and training, Fieldwork, Funding, Research, Sets standards or regulations
Funding sources Governments or multi-govt organizations
Tags international development international affairs
See also Dag Hammarskjöld Library, ESCAP, ESCWA
Summary The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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UN: The United Nations · 17 January 2023 Portuguese

Por meio da participação em fóruns internacionais de discussão e rede de governos subnacionais, o Governo do Estado de São Paulo potencializa suas possibilidades de troca de experiências e de …


UN: The United Nations · 21 December 2022 English

The development of the city specify the implementation of strategic will look like in 2030, the key goals and values of centre and the implementation of the spearhead objectives. [...] …


UN: The United Nations · 16 December 2022 English

Support on the collection, processing, and dissemination of statistics for this indicator is provided by the UNEP-DHI Centre on Water and Environment, the Global Water Partnership (GWP), and Cap-Net. [...] …


UN: The United Nations · 14 December 2022 English

In addition, the higher the income level of a city, the greater the amount of the solid waste produced. [...] While efforts will continue to collect data from National Statistical …


UN: The United Nations · 14 December 2022 English

The sub- indicators (Trends in Land Cover, Land Productivity and Carbon Stocks) were adopted by the UNCCD’s governing body in 2013 as part of its monitoring and evaluation approach.4 The …


UN: The United Nations · 14 December 2022 English

For more information on the definitions of employment and unemployment refer to the Resolution concerning statistics of work, employment and labour underutilization Adopted by the 19th International Conference of Labour …


UN: The United Nations · 14 December 2022 English

Concepts: The following concepts are adopted for the computation of indicators 2.3.2: • Small-scale food producers are defined as those falling in the intersection of the bottom 40 percent of …


UN: The United Nations · 14 December 2022 English

The sustainability of the balance of payments depends on both the current account and the capital and financial account balances, including foreign reserves. [...] (5) Annual growth of exports of …


UN: The United Nations · 14 December 2022 English

The special procedures, that is, representations, complaints and the special procedure for complaints regarding freedom of association through the Freedom of Association Committee, allow for the examination of violations on …


UN: The United Nations · 14 December 2022 English

The budgetary central government is often a single unit of the central government that encompasses the fundamental activities of the national executive, legislative, and judiciary powers. [...] Data sources (SOURCE_TYPE) …


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