With its comprehensive coverage of political and security matters human rights issues economic and social questions legal issues and administrative and budgetary matters the Yearbook of the United Nations stands as the authoritative reference work on the annual activities and concerns of the Organization. Fully indexed the Yearbook includes all major General Assembly Security Council and Economic and Social Council resolutions and decisions uniquely placing them in a narrative context of United Nations consideration deliberation and action. This sixty-eighth volume presents the work of the United Nations in dealing with recurring conflicts with severe humanitarian consequences including in the Syrian Arab Republic where more than 12 million people were in need of basic food clothing and shelter. The volume also highlights the Organization’s rapid response to an escalatory global health emergency—the Ebola virus disease outbreak across West Africa. It documents the Organization’s coordination of policy discussions to finalize a global sustainable development agenda with the security of future generations as the core concern; and its efforts to rebuild societies emerging from conflict while keeping the fragile peace in other places. It further details the entry into force of the landmark Arms Trade Treaty the missile downing of a passenger airliner in the midst of a geopolitical crisis in eastern Ukraine and securing international human rights and humanitarian law and prosecuting abusers.

With its comprehensive coverage of political and security matters human rights issues economic and social questions legal issues and institutional administrative and budgetary matters the Yearbook of the United Nations stands as the most authoritative reference work on the activities and concerns of the Organization. Fully indexed the Yearbook includes the texts of all major General Assembly Security Council and Economic and Social Council resolutions and decisions putting all of these in a narrative context of United Nations consideration decision and action.

With its comprehensive coverage of political and security matters human rights issues economic and social questions legal issues and institutional administrative and budgetary matters the Yearbook of the United Nations is the most authoritative reference work available on the activities and concerns of the Organization. Fully indexed the Yearbook includes the texts of all major General Assembly Security Council and Economic and Social Council resolutions and decisions. This latest volume the sixty-second highlights the attention given by the United Nations in 2008 to conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo the Georgian province of Abkhazia and the Sudan along with the challenges posed by the global food security crisis severe economic recession climate change natural disasters piracy and terrorism.

This is the sixtieth volume of the most comprehensive and authoritative reference work on the activities of the Organization covering 2006. This fully indexed Yearbook reproduces in their entirety the texts of and votes on all major General Assembly Security Council and Economic and Social Council resolutions and decisions. Its 33 chapters deeply cover developments in the main political and security questions; human rights; economic and social questions; legal questions; and institutional administrative and budgetary questions.

The Yearbook of the United Nations details the many activities of the Organization and it’s organs programmes and bodies as they are carried out in all corners of the globe. It gives an account of their endeavours to create better and more peaceful conditions for all mankind and their efforts to deal with matters of pressing concern in a variety of areas. Each volume is fully indexed and reproduces all major General Assembly Security Council and Economic and Social Council resolutions issued during the year.