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United Nations (UN)

The UN serves as a centre for harmonizing the actions of independent nations. In order to achieve that harmonization, the UN is broken up into six main bodies: the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Trusteeship Council, the Economic and Social Council, the International Court of Justice, and the Secretariat. Combined with the UN programmes, funds, specialized agencies, and analogous bodies, the UN is a centre for international diplomacy and administrator of many international treaties and agreements.

Division(s) within the UN with a role or interest in biosecurity:

Counter-Terrorism Committee
Office for Disarmament Affairs (DDA)
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST)
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
World Health Organization (WHO)

Website: http://www.un.org/

Code of Ethics: UNESCO Declaration on Science and the Use of Scientific Knowledge

Text adopted by the World Conference on Science. 1 July 1999. Definitive version

March 30, 2011
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