Flashcards: United Nations Economic and Social Council

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE or ECE) was established in 1947 to encourage economic cooperation among its member States.

The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) was a body under the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) tasked with overseeing the outcomes of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development/Earth Summit.

The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries.

The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC; French: Conseil économique et social des Nations unies, CESNU) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, responsible for coordinating the economic, social, and related work of 14 UN specialized agencies, their functional commissions and five regional commissions.

The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW or UNCSW) is a functional commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), one of the main UN organs within the United Nations.

The United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) was a functional commission within the overall framework of the United Nations from 1946 until it was replaced by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2006.

The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) is one of the seven expert groups of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and deals with the national and international standardization of geographical names.

UNdata is an Internet search engine, retrieving data series from statistical databases provided by the UN System.

The United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) is a high-level intergovernmental policy forum.

Anand Swarup Arya is an Indian structural engineer, known for his expertise in the soil and foundation engineering and earthquake disaster management.

The Binaytara Foundation (BTF) was established in 2007 by Dr.

Dalius Čekuolis (born 29 March 1959) is a Lithuanian career diplomat who is Lithuania's Permanent Representative to the UN since 2006.

The United Nations Development Group (UNDG) is a consortium of many United Nations agencies, created by the Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1997 to improve the effectiveness of UN development activities at the country level.

The United Nations Statistical Commission is a Functional Commission of the UN Economic and Social Council established in 1946; it oversees the work of the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

Sir Edward Ronald Walker CBE (26 January 1907 – 28 November 1988) was an Australian diplomat and economist who served as Australia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Ambassador to Germany, Japan, and France.

Youth mainstreaming is a public policy concept.

The Commission on Population and Development is one of the ten Functional Commissions of the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

The United Nations´ Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) is a subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), one of the six main organs of the United Nations.

(This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Correa and the second or maternal family name is Bahamon.) Luis Fernando Correa Bahamon (born 23 April 1955) is a Colombian business man, philanthropist, and investor.

Padma Vibhushan Diwan Bahadur Sir Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar, KCSI (October 14, 1887 – July 17, 1976) was an Indian lawyer, politician and statesman who served as a senior leader of the Justice Party and in various administrative and bureaucratic posts in pre-independence and independent India.