UN AGENCIES AND PROGRAMMES

The best way understand the United Nations is to break it down into all of its parts. The UN is headed by the Secretariat and is comprised of four main bodies. Those main bodies are 1) the General Assembly, 2) the Security Council, 3) the Economic and Social Council, and 4) the International Court of Justice. Stemming from these main bodies are a large number of agencies, committees, commissions, programmes, tribunals, subsidiary organs, boards, councils, panels, working groups, centres, institutes, funds, and other entities.

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