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Family Issues
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Since the beginning of the 1980s, the General Assembly, the ECOSOC and the Commission for Social Development (CSD) have been reviewing UN plans and programs pertaining to the situation of the family. In order to bring the subject of the family into international dialogue and underline the importance of the family to the social network in every country, the General Assembly proclaimed 1994 as the International Year of the Family (IYF) with the theme
"the Family: resources and responsibilities in a changing world".
The Division for Social Policy and Development of the UN Secretariat works to raise awareness of the importance of the family in international cooperation. The Division prepared the 10th anniversary of the International Year of the Family in 2004.
The United Nations Trust Fund on Family Activities supports development programs in the field of the family.
Documentation
United Nations Programme on the Family is a web portal to the UN programs on family issues with background material, news and essential full text documents and reports posted at the UN official web site, Economic & Social Development, Index to Programmes, Family welfare.
General Assembly resolutions related to families are posted at the UN official web site, section Family, Social Policy and Development Division, UN Reports and Documents.
Yearbook of the United Nations, provides an overview of the United Nations work in the field of the family with a detailed subject index. A complete collection of yearbooks is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and the Libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva. Since October 2008 the complete full text collection of The United Nations Yearbooks is available online at http://unyearbook.un.org/.
Databases and Indexes
The UN Library online catalogue UNBISnet contains reports, documents and articles related to UN activities with links to full texts for recent years. Subject search can be performed using relevant terms from the UNBIS THESAURUS.
Printed Indexes