Links to the United Nations Organisation (UNO)

This section provides access to offers of the United Nations. This includes the homepage of the United Nations Organisation (UNO) as well as specific sub-organisation which are concerned with issues of ethics and science.

United Nations (UN)

Alternative title
United Nations Organization (UNO)

URL
http://www.un.org/

Provider
United Nations

Description
The United Nation's website provides access to electronic resources covering the fields of Human Rights, International Law, Peace and Security, Development, and Humanitarian Affairs. It provides further resources, like documents and freely accessible databases as well as links to its main bodies and subsidiary organisations.

Specific offers of the UN in regard to international law can be found in the respective section International Law.

Languages
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish

Keywords
International law; Human rights; Ethics; Databases;

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

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URL
http://www.fao.org/

Provider
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Description
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is primarily concerned with food security serving as a source of knowledge and information in the field of agriculture. The website provides general information and access to FAO's publications as well as access to relevant international treaties.

Languages
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish

Keywords
Agriculture, International law; World hunger; Food security; Agriculture

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Alternative title
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URL
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/

Provider
United Nations Educational, Scientifc and Cultural Organization

Description
The website provides an overview of UNESCO's activities, among others in the fields of natural sciences as well as social and human sciences. Furthermore it provides further links to subsidiary organisations, institutes, and centres as well as national and regional offices.

Languages
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish

Keywords
International law; Science; Education; Culture; Ethics

World Health Organization (WHO)

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URL
http://www.who.int/en/

Provider
World Health Organization (WHO)

Description
The website of the World Health Organisation (WHO) provides, besides general information on its activities, access to key publications and journals published by the WHO as well as access to databases providing health related information and statistics.

Furthermore the WHO website provides specific information especially concerned with ethical issues like Ethics and Health and Ethics, Trade, Human rights and Health law. Furthermore the WHO provides a centres database of collaborating centres worldwide.

Languages
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish

Keywords
Health policy; Medicine; Delivery of health care; International law; Ethics

UNdata

Alternative title
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URL
http://data.un.org/

Provider
United Nations Statistics Division

Description
The website bundels existing databases and provides central access to databases and statistical services provided by the United Nations Organisations or in collabotration with the United Nations.

Languages
English

Keywords
Databases; Statistics; America; Africa; Asia and the Pacific; Europe;