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Outline of the United Nations

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the United Nations:

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United Nations sign at the United Nations Office at Geneva (Switzerland)

United Nations – international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace. The UN was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries, and to provide a platform for dialogue. It contains multiple subsidiary organizations to carry out its missions.

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Membership

Geography

Buildings and structures

United Nations System

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Core structure of the United Nations

General Assembly

Security Council

Economic and Social Council

United Nations Economic and Social Council

United Nations Secretariat

United Nations Secretariat offices
United Nations Secretariat departments

International Court of Justice

International Court of Justice cases
International Court of Justice judges

Trusteeship Council

United Nations Trusteeship Council

Funds and programmes, research and training institutes, and other bodies

Funds and programmes

Research and training institutes

Secretariats of Conventions

Other entities

Specialized agencies

Specialized agencies of the United Nations – autonomous organizations working with the United Nations and each other through the coordinating machinery of the Economic and Social Council.

International Civil Aviation Organization

ICAO airline designator
ICAO airport designator

International Monetary Fund

Managing directors of the International Monetary Fund

International Telecommunication Union

ITU-R recommendations
ITU-T recommendations

International Labour Organization

International Labour Organization Conventions

UNESCO

Biosphere reserves
UNESCO Directors-General

Universal Postal Union

World Bank

Presidents of the World Bank
World Bank Chief Economists

World Health Organization

Human Development Index
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History of the United Nations

League of Nations

League of Nations Mandates

Formation

United Nations Trust Territories

United Nations peacekeeping missions and operations

United Nations Mission in Kosovo

United Nations General Assembly Resolutions

United Nations Security Council Resolutions

2002 United Nations Security Council Resolutions

2003 United Nations Security Council Resolutions

2004 United Nations Security Council Resolutions

2005 United Nations Security Council Resolutions

2006 United Nations Security Council Resolutions

United Nations reform

United Nations Parliamentary Assembly

United Nations relations

United Nations tribunals

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda judges
People charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
People convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

People charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
People convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
People indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal

United Nations in education

United Nations schools

Model United Nations

United Nations observances

  1. World AIDS Day
  2. International Day for Biological Diversity
  3. International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
  4. International Dance Day
  5. International Year of Deserts and Desertification
  6. International Day of Disabled Persons
  7. Year of the Dolphin
  8. World Creativity and Innovation Day
  9. Earth Day
  10. International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
  11. World Environment Day
  12. International Holocaust Remembrance Day
  13. Human Rights Day
  14. International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
  15. International Year of Disabled Persons
  16. International Year of the Child
  17. International Year of the Potato
  18. International Literacy Day
  19. International Year of Microcredit
  20. International Mother Language Day
  21. World No Tobacco Day
  22. International Year of Older Persons
  23. International Day of Peace
  24. World Year of Physics 2005
  25. International Year of Planet Earth
  26. World Press Freedom Day
  27. International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
  28. International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition
  29. World Television Day
  30. International Day for Tolerance
  31. United Nations Year for Tolerance
  32. World Tourism Day
  33. World Tuberculosis Day
  34. United Nations Day
  35. World Day for Water
  36. International Women's Day
  37. World Book and Copyright Day
  38. World Food Day
  39. World Health Day
  40. World Intellectual Property Day
  41. World Poetry Day
  42. World Teachers' Day
  43. International Youth Day
  44. International Youth Year

UNESCO designations

World Heritage Sites

World Book Capitals

Recipients of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize

L’Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science laureates

Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity

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United Nations people

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United Nations officials

Ambassadors to the United Nations

List of Australian ambassadors to the United Nations

List of Australian ambassadors to the United Nations

Former British Ambassadors to the United Nations
Former Canadian Ambassadors to the United Nations
Former Israeli Ambassadors to the United Nations
Former Russian and Soviet Ambassadors to the United Nations
United States ambassadors to the United Nations

FAO experts

Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly

United Nations Secretaries-General

World Health Organization officials

Special Rapporteurs to the United Nations

United Nations Interpreters

United Nations experts

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UN Numbers scheme

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References

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