Editing United Nations General Assembly (section)

== Subsidiary organs ==
[[File:UN General Assembly building.jpg|thumb|upright=1.45|The United Nations General Assembly building]]
[[File:Panorama of the United Nations General Assembly, Oct 2012.jpg|thumb|upright=1.45|Panorama of the UNGA]]
The General Assembly subsidiary organs are divided into five categories: committees (30 total, six main), commissions (six), boards (seven), councils (four) and panels (one), working groups, and "other."

=== Committees ===

==== Main committees ====
The main committees are [[ordinal number|ordinally numbered]], 1–6:<ref name="main" />
*The First Committee: [[United Nations General Assembly First Committee|Disarmament and International Security]] is concerned with disarmament and related international security questions
*The Second Committee: [[United Nations General Assembly Second Committee|Economic and Financial]] is concerned with economic questions
*The Third Committee: [[United Nations General Assembly Third Committee|Social, Cultural, and Humanitarian]] deals with social and humanitarian issues
*The Fourth Committee: [[United Nations General Assembly Fourth Committee|Special Political and Decolonisation]] deals with a variety of political subjects not dealt with by the First Committee, as well as with decolonization
*The Fifth Committee: [[United Nations General Assembly Fifth Committee|Administrative and Budgetary]] deals with the administration and budget of the United Nations
*The Sixth Committee: [[United Nations General Assembly Sixth Committee|Legal]] deals with legal matters

The roles of many of the main committees have changed over time. Until the late 1970s, the First Committee was the Political and Security Committee and there was also a sufficient number of additional "political" matters that an additional, unnumbered main committee, called the Special Political Committee, also sat. The Fourth Committee formerly handled Trusteeship and Decolonization matters. With the decreasing number of such matters to be addressed as the [[United Nations Trust Territories|trust territories]] attained independence and the [[decolonization]] movement progressed, the functions of the Special Political Committee were merged into the Fourth Committee during the 1990s.

Each main committee consists of all the members of the General Assembly. Each elects a chairman, three vice chairmen, and a [[rapporteur]] at the outset of each regular General Assembly session.

==== Other committees ====
[[File:RIAN archive 828797 Mikhail Gorbachev addressing UN General Assembly session.jpg|thumb|Soviet leader [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] addressing the UN General Assembly in December 1988]]
These are not numbered. According to the General Assembly website, the most important are:<ref name="main">{{cite web |url=https://www.un.org/en/ga/maincommittees/index.shtml |title=Main Committees |website=United Nations General Assembly |publisher=United Nations |access-date=19 June 2018 |archive-date=23 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181023120644/http://www.un.org/en/ga/maincommittees/index.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[United nations credentials committee|Credentials Committee]]{{spaced ndash}}This committee is charged with ensuring that the [[credential#Diplomacy|diplomatic credentials]] of all UN representatives are in order. The Credentials Committee consists of nine Member States elected early in each regular General Assembly session.
* [[United Nations General Committee|General Committee]]{{spaced ndash}}This is a supervisory committee entrusted with ensuring that the whole meeting of the Assembly goes smoothly. The General Committee consists of the president and vice presidents of the current General Assembly session and the chairman of each of the six Main Committees.

Other committees of the General Assembly are [[Enumeration|enumerated]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.un.org/en/ga/about/subsidiary/committees.shtml |title=Subsidiary Organs of the General Assembly: Committees |website=United Nations General Assembly |publisher=United Nations |access-date=19 June 2018 |archive-date=4 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104171508/http://www.un.org/en/ga/about/subsidiary/committees.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Commissions ===
There are six commissions:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.un.org/en/ga/about/subsidiary/commissions.shtml |title=Subsidiary Organs of the General Assembly: Commissions |website=United Nations General Assembly |publisher=United Nations |access-date=19 June 2018 |archive-date=17 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117022710/http://www.un.org/en/ga/about/subsidiary/commissions.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[United Nations Disarmament Commission]], established by GA Resolution 502 (VI) and S-10/2
*[[International Civil Service Commission]], established by GA Resolution 3357 (XXIX)
*[[International Law Commission]], established by GA Resolution 174 (II)
*[[United Nations Commission on International Trade Law]] (UNCITRAL), established by GA Resolution 2205 (XXI)
*[[United Nations Conciliation Commission]] for Palestine, established by GA Resolution 194 (III)
*[[Peacebuilding Commission|United Nations Peacebuilding Commission]], established by GA Resolution 60/180 and UN Security Council [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 1645|Resolutions 1645]] (2005) and 1646 (2005)

Despite its name, the former [[United Nations Commission on Human Rights]] (UNCHR) was actually a subsidiary body of [[United Nations Economic and Social Council|ECOSOC]].

=== Boards ===
There are seven boards which are categorized into two groups:
a) Executive Boards and b) Boards<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.un.org/en/ga/about/subsidiary/boards.shtml |title=Subsidiary Organs of the General Assembly: Boards |website=United Nations General Assembly |publisher=United Nations |access-date=19 June 2018 |archive-date=22 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181022172240/http://www.un.org/en/ga/about/subsidiary/boards.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>

==== Executive Boards ====
#Executive Board of the United Nations Children's Fund, established by GA Resolution 57 (I) and 48/162
#Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme and of the United Nations Population Fund, established by GA Resolution 2029 (XX) and 48/162
#Executive Board of the World Food Programme, established by GA Resolution 50/8

==== Boards ====
#Board of Auditors, established by GA Resolution 74 (I)
#Trade and Development Board, established by GA Resolution 1995 (XIX)
#United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board, established by GA Resolution 248 (III)
#Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, established by GA Resolution 37/99 K

=== Councils and panels ===
The newest council is the [[United Nations Human Rights Council]], which replaced the aforementioned UNCHR in March 2006.

There are a total of four councils and one panel.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.un.org/en/ga/about/subsidiary/councils.shtml |title=Subsidiary Organs of the General Assembly: Assemblies and Councils |website=United Nations General Assembly |publisher=United Nations |access-date=19 June 2018 |archive-date=22 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181022154303/http://www.un.org/en/ga/about/subsidiary/councils.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Working Groups and other ===
There is a varied group of working groups and other subsidiary bodies.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.un.org/en/ga/about/subsidiary/other.shtml |title=Subsidiary Organs of the General Assembly: Working Groups |website=United Nations General Assembly |publisher=United Nations |access-date=19 June 2018 |archive-date=31 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031141922/http://www.un.org/en/ga/about/subsidiary/other.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>