Family issues
Since the beginning of the 1980s, the General Assembly, the ECOSOC and the Commission for Social Development (CSD) have been reviewing and working on UN plans and programs pertaining to the situation of the family.
UN work in the field of family issues
International Year of the Family (IYF)
The General Assembly proclaimed 1994 as the International Year of the Family (IYF). The theme was Family: resources and responsibilities in a changing world.
The aim of IYF was
- to bring the subject of the family into international dialogue.
- to underline the importance of the family to the social network in every country.
DESA - DISD
Within the United Nations system, the Division for Inclusive Social Development (DISD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), builds an awareness of the global situation of families and promotes family-oriented policies and programmes.
Trust Fund on Family Activities
The United Nations Trust Fund on Family Activities supports development programmes in the field of the family.
More on UN and family issues
- United Nations Reports and Resolutions on Family. Resolutions related to families.
- SDGs and Social Development Issues. Family Illustration over the SDGs that cover family issues.
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. UN official documents and open access publications, UN maps, UN voting data and speeches.
- UN iLibrary. UN publications online covering different topics.
- ODS (Official Document System) is an full-text database of UN documents published since 1993, including digitized documents published between 1946 and 1993.
- Daily list of documents. Documents published for the day, with full text links, can be found in the United Nations full text database ODS.
- UNBIS Thesaurus is 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 (in 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, Sweden and the UN Library in New York and the UN library in Geneva.