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Functions: Economic and Social Council, ECOSOC

The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) coordinates the economic and social work of the UN and its affiliated organizations. While most associate the UN with peace and security, ECOSOC's main functions are promoting higher living standards, full employment, and economic and social progress. ECOSOC serves as the central forum for international economic and social issues and helps organize major conferences on these topics. It oversees the work of specialized UN agencies and programs. ECOSOC has 54 rotating members elected for three-year terms with no permanent members, though economic powers are re-elected annually. It administers the Annual Ministerial Reviews and biennial Development Cooperation Forum.

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Functions: Economic and Social Council, ECOSOC

The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) coordinates the economic and social work of the UN and its affiliated organizations. While most associate the UN with peace and security, ECOSOC's main functions are promoting higher living standards, full employment, and economic and social progress. ECOSOC serves as the central forum for international economic and social issues and helps organize major conferences on these topics. It oversees the work of specialized UN agencies and programs. ECOSOC has 54 rotating members elected for three-year terms with no permanent members, though economic powers are re-elected annually. It administers the Annual Ministerial Reviews and biennial Development Cooperation Forum.

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ECOSOC

The Economic and Social Council, ECOSOC - coordinates the economic and social
work of the United Nations and the specialized agencies and institutions, as well as their
functional commissions and five regional commissions known as "the United Nations
family" of organizations.
Most people associate the United Nations with the maintenance of peace and security.
However, most of the organization's resources are spent on

promotion of higher standards of living

full employment

economic and social progress as formulated in the UN Charter.

Functions
Functions and powers of ECOSOC are:

to serve a the central forum for discussions on international economic and


social issues

to promote higher standards of living, full employment and economic and social
progress

to find solutions of international economic , social, health and related


problems, and international cultural and educational cooperation

to encourage universal respect for and observance of human rights and


fundamental freedoms

to assist the organization of major international conferences in the field of


economic and social and related fields

to make or initiate studies and reports with respect to international economic


and social matters

to prepare draft conventions for submission to the General Assembly


to coordinate the work of the specialized agencies and programmes
and their functional commissions and five regional commissions.

to make arrangements for consultations with non-governmental


organizations

Structure
ECOSOC has 54 members elected by the General Assembly for a three-year term.
Every year 18 new members are elected according to a geographical distribution.
ECOSOC has no permanent members, but a country can be reelected immediately. The
political and economic superpowers are elected every year, and, consequently, they are
"permanent" members.

AMR and DCF


ECOSOC administrates two segments called the Annual Ministerial Reviews (AMR) and
the Development Cooperation Forum (DCF). The AMR takes place annually and DCF
every two years. AMR was created to stimulate the work of the Millennium Development
Goals and DCF aims to streamline development cooperation.

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