Web links: Chapter 05

This chapter focuses on the organizational structure of the United Nations. The following links go directly to the website of the institution/body concerned or to where most information thereon may be found on the UN website.

www.un.org/english - The United Nations

Principal organs of the United Nations Organization

These links go to the principal organs of the United Nations and their associated human rights orientated Commissions.

www.un.org/en/sc - Security Council of the United Nations. This website has information on the composition, role and powers of the United Nations Security Council as well as links to relevant documents.

www.icj-cij.org - International Court of Justice. All cases before the court can be traced, the docket link goes to a list of cases with further links to their current status.

www.un.org/ga - General Assembly of the United Nations

www.un.org/documents/ecosoc.htm - Economic and Social Council information. ECOSOC was established under the Charter of the United Nations. It is supported by Commissions, two of which impact heavily of international human rights.

www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/Hrc/Pages/HRCIndex.aspx - Human Rights Council which replaces the Commission on Human Rights

www.unwomen.org/en/csw  - United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.

Human Rights Bodies and Treaty Monitoring Bodies

www.ohchr.org - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

http://tbinternet.ohchr.org - United Nations Treaty Body Database. This is the main search engine for material produced by the treaty monitoring bodies

The following links to each of the treaty monitoring bodies go to a main page from which details of current and past sessions, the treaty itself, periodic reports and individual communications, general comments, and rules of procedure, as appropriate, can be traced.

www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrc/ - Human Rights Committee

www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cescr/ - Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

www.un.org/en/ecosoc/ - Economic and Social Council information

www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/ - Committee against Torture

www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cerd/ - Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

www.unwomen.org/en/csw - United Nations Commission on the Status of Women

www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CRC/Pages/CRCIndex.aspx - Committee on the Rights of the Child

www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CMW/Pages/CMWIndex.aspx - Committee on Migrant Workers

www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CRPD/Pages/CRPDIndex.aspx - Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Other UN bodies

Although not principal organs or bodies within the UN framework, these links demonstrate the human rights impact of humanitarian, peace, and security work.

www.unrwa.org - United Nations Palestine Refugee Programme

unmik.unmissions.org/ - United Nations Mission in Kosovo

www.unocha.org/  - United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

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