Humanitarian aid
The humanitarian assistance of the United Nations comprises emergency relief and long term assistance through a complex interaction of UN bodies, other international and national organizations, governments and the affected population.
The scope of humanitarian activity ranges from humanitarian crises resulting from war and violent conflict to natural and technical disasters. Complex emergencies with multiple causes that require a broad and comprehensive assistance approach have become increasingly important.
Humanitarian aid by topic
- AIDS
- Children in armed conflict
- Refugees
- Women in armed conflict
- OCHA - coordination of humanitarian affairs
UN programmes, funds and agencies involved in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief |
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Food and Agriculture Organization |
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United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs |
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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights |
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Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS |
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United Nations Development Programme |
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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
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United Nations Children's Fund |
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United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East |
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United Nations Volunteers |
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World Food Programme |
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World Health Organization |
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World Meteorological Organization |
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More on UN and Humanitarian help
- Strengthening of coordination of humanitarian emergency assistance of the United Nations, A/RES/46/182. The fundamental principles for UN humanitarian assistance and emergency relief were set forth in this resolution, adopted by the General Assembly in 1991.
- Deliver Humanitarian Aid. An introdution to the the work of the UN on humanitarian aid with links to UN bodies as well as news.
Key UN documents
- UN Charter in Swedish | in English
- UN System Chart
- Yearbook of the United Nations
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Swedish | in English
- Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
- Statue of the International Court of Justice
UN documents and publications in catalogues and databases
- United Nations Digital Library offers UN documents and open access publications, UN voting data and speeches, UN maps, Content in 6+ languages. Replaces the traditional online catalogue UNBISnet.
- UN iLibrary UN publications online covering different topics.
- ODS full-text UN documents published from 1993 onward and scanned documents published between 1946 and 1993 in the official languages of the UN.
- Daily list of documents (ODS). Documents published for the day, with full text links, can be found in the United Nations full text database ODS.
- UNBIS Thesaurus a multilingual database of the controlled vocabulary used to describe UN documents.
- Index to proceedings is an annual bibliographic guide to the proceedings and documentation of the major UN organs. The index includes:
- a list of all documents
- a comprehensive subject index
- an index to speeches
- a voting chart of resolutions
- United Nations Documents Index (United Nations Digital Library) References to all documents by subject area are published. A collection of indexes is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld and Law Library, Uppsala, and the Libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.