IAEA
International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA was established in 1957 to promote and safeguard the peaceful use of nuclear energy. The IAEA is headquartered in Vienna.
Activities
One of the IAEA's most important tasks is verifying that states do not develop nuclear weapons. This is made possible through its extensive network of safeguards agreements. The IAEA currently has in place such agreements with about 180 states.
Among the agency's other specific tasks are:
- performing research on the practical application of atomic energy for peaceful uses
- collecting and disseminating information about nuclear energy
- supporting research
- assisting countries in upgrading nuclear safety
- developing international standards for the security of nuclear plants, for the safe transport and disposal of radioactive waste as well as for the handling and responsibility for nuclear accidents.
Structure
The annual IAEA General Conference, which is composed of representatives of all member states, approves the agency's programme and budget.
The Board of Governors is the main policy-making organ of the IAEA. Its main tasks are
- to make recommendations to the General Conference
- to approve safeguards agreements
- to appoint the Director-General, head of the IAEA Secretariat.
More on the IAEA
- Statute of the IAEA.
- The IAEA website provides an overview of the programs and activities, full text documents, reports and access to relevant databases.
- IAEA publishes a number of journals. Full text versions are posted at the IAEA website for recent years:
- IAEA Annual Report
- IAEA Safeguards and verification. An overview of the IAEA inspections.
- IAEA Treaties.
- IAEA Resolutions are found in connection to each General Conference.
- Nucleus serves as a common access point to the IAEA databases relevant to their field speciality.
IAEA was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2005.
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.
Last modified: 2023-03-20