Subsidiary organs




The General Assembly subsidiary organs are divided into five categories: committees (30 total, six main), commissions (six), boards (seven), councils (four) and panels (one), working groups, and "other".

Committeesedit

Main committeesedit

The main committees are ordinally numbered, 1–6:

  • The First Committee: Disarmament and International Security (DISEC) is concerned with disarmament and related international security questions
  • The Second Committee: Economic and Financial (ECOFIN) is concerned with economic questions
  • The Third Committee: Social, Cultural, and Humanitarian (SOCHUM) deals with social and humanitarian issues
  • The Fourth Committee: Special Political and Decolonisation (SPECPOL) deals with a variety of political subjects not dealt with by the First Committee, as well as with decolonization
  • The Fifth Committee: Administrative and Budgetary and general deals with the administration and budget of the United Nations
  • The Sixth Committee: Legal deals with legal matters

The roles of many of the main committees have changed over time. Until the late 1970s, the First Committee was the Political and Security Committee (POLISEC) and there was also a sufficient number of additional "political" matters that an additional, unnumbered main committee, called the Special Political Committee, also sat. The Fourth Committee formerly handled Trusteeship and Decolonization matters. With the decreasing number of such matters to be addressed as the trust territories attained independence and the decolonization movement progressed, the functions of the Special Political Committee were merged into the Fourth Committee during the 1990s.

Each main committee consists of all the members of the General Assembly. Each elects a chairman, three vice chairmen, and a rapporteur at the outset of each regular General Assembly session.

Other committeesedit

These are not numbered. According to the General Assembly website, the most important are:

  • Credentials Committee – This committee is charged with ensuring that the diplomatic credentials of all UN representatives are in order. The Credentials Committee consists of nine Member States elected early in each regular General Assembly session.
  • General Committee – This is a supervisory committee entrusted with ensuring that the whole meeting of the Assembly goes smoothly. The General Committee consists of the president and vice presidents of the current General Assembly session and the chairman of each of the six Main Committees.

Other committees of the General Assembly are enumerated.

Commissionsedit

There are six commissions:

  • United Nations Disarmament Commission, established by GA Resolution 502 (VI) and S-10/2
  • International Civil Service Commission, established by GA Resolution 3357 (XXIX)
  • International Law Commission, established by GA Resolution 174 (II)
  • United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), established by GA Resolution 2205 (XXI)
  • United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, established by GA Resolution 194 (III)
  • United Nations Peacebuilding Commission, established by GA Resolution 60/180 and UN Security Council Resolutions 1645 (2005) and 1646 (2005)

Despite its name, the former United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) was actually a subsidiary body of ECOSOC.

Boardsedit

There are seven boards which are categorized into two groups: a) Executive Boards and b) Boards

Executive Boardsedit

  1. Executive Board of the United Nations Children's Fund, established by GA Resolution 57 (I) and 48/162
  2. Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme and of the United Nations Population Fund, established by GA Resolution 2029 (XX) and 48/162
  3. Executive Board of the World Food Programme, established by GA Resolution 50/8

Boardsedit

  1. Board of Auditors, established by GA Resolution 74 (I)
  2. Trade and Development Board, established by GA Resolution 1995 (XIX)
  3. United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board, established by GA Resolution 248 (III)
  4. Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, established by GA Resolution 37/99 K

Councils and panelsedit

The newest council is the United Nations Human Rights Council, which replaced the aforementioned UNCHR in March 2006.

There are a total of four councils and one panel.

Working Groups and otheredit

There is a varied group of working groups and other subsidiary bodies.

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