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Commission on Population and Development
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The United Nations has always addressed the relationship between population and development in many ways and there are a number of organs within the UN organization working with these issues.
The financial support to the programmes, funds and agencies is channelled through the UN secretariat.
The United Nations Commission on Population and Development was established in 1946 as a permanent subsidiary organ to the ECOSOC to assist the Council by arranging for studies and advising the ECOSOC and other UN organs on population matters.
The Commission follows population issues and trends as well as the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International UN Conferences on Population and Development.
Documentation
The individual documents from the Commission on Population and Development carry the following symbols:
E/ Economic and Social Council |
-/CN.9 Commission number 9 = Commission on Population and Development |
-/year |
-/current number |
Ex. E/CN.9/2003/8 Economic and Social Council, Commission on Population and Development, year 2003, document 8 |
Information about the structure and work of the Commission and full text documents and reports can be accessed from the official web page of the Commission on Population and Development.
Documents in print for the period 1946-1992 are included in the UN collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and in the libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.
The Commission on Population and Development submits an annual report to the ECOSOC in the documentary series Supplements to the Official Records of the Economic and Social Council. A complete collection of these supplements in print will be found in the UN Collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala. and in the libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.
Recent supplements are posted as Reports at the ECOSOC official Web page.
Databases and Indexes
Documents are published electronically from 1993- in the United Nations Document System - ODS.
References to documents with links to full texts for recent years can be retrieved through the UNBISnet - the online catalogue of the UN Libraries in New York and Geneva.
Printed Indexes