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| leader_name2 = [[Amina J. Mohammed]]
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The '''United Nations Secretariat'''
The mandate of the secretariat is a wide one. [[Dag Hammarskjöld]], the UN's second secretary-general, described its power as follows: "The United Nations is what member nations made it, but within the limits set by government action and government cooperation, much depends on what the secretariat makes it. It has creative capacity. It can introduce new ideas. It can, in proper forms, take initiatives. It can put before member governments findings which will influence their actions".<ref name="Hammarskjöld1968">{{cite book|author=Dag Hammarskjöld|title=Hammarskjöld: The Political Man|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VuxBAAAAIAAJ|year=1968|publisher=Funk & Wagnalls}}</ref>
The [[United Nations Department of Political Affairs]], which has a role analogous to a [[ministry of foreign affairs]], is a part of the secretariat. So is the [[Department of Peace Operations]]. The secretariat is the main source of economic and political analysis for the General Assembly and Security Council; it administers operations initiated by UN's deliberative organs, operates political missions, prepares assessments that precede peacekeeping operations, appoints the heads of peacekeeping operations, conducts surveys and research, communicates with non-state actors such as media and non-government organizations, and is responsible for publishing all of the treaties and international agreements.<ref name="UN Secretariat" /><ref name="Paul Novosad">{{cite web|last1=Novosad|first1=Paul|last2=Werker|first2=Eric|title=Who Runs the International System? Power and the Staffing of the United Nations Secretariat|url=http://wp.peio.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Conf7_Novosad-Werker-03.09.2013.pdf|publisher=Paul Novosad|access-date=9 April 2015|date=9 January 2014|quote=The article by Harvard Business School, researchers, Views the staffing of the Secretariat as a globalized power struggle.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150413011738/http://wp.peio.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Conf7_Novosad-Werker-03.09.2013.pdf|archive-date=13 April 2015|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>United Nations. (2011). Official web site http://www.un.org/en/mainbodies/secretariat/</ref> == Secretary-general ==
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* [[United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States]] (OHRLLS)
* [[United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs]] (UNOOSA)
* [[United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism]] (UNOCT)
===Departments===
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* [[Department for Safety and Security|United Nations Department of Safety and Security]] (DSS)
===Other offices===
* [[United Nations Office at Geneva]] (UNOG)
* [[United Nations Office at Nairobi]] (UNON)<!--Arrange in alphabetical order-->
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Headquartered in New York, the secretariat functions through duty stations in Addis Ababa, Bangkok, Beirut, Geneva, Nairobi, Santiago and Vienna, in addition to offices all over the world.<ref name="Secretariat"/>
One study finds the following factors play a role in the selection of staff for the secretariat: a desire to achieve a minimum number of officials from each state; population size; and lo assessment of dues. The most overrepresented states in the secretariat are small, rich democracies. The Nordic states stand out, in particular, when it comes to overrepresentation.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = Who Runs the International System? Power and the Staffing of the United Nations Secretariat|ssrn = 2622700|date = 3 September 2014|location = Rochester, NY|doi = 10.2139/ssrn.2622700|first = Paul|last = Novosad|first2 = Eric|last2 = Werker|url = https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/1/13360008/1/15-018.pdf|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190502212416/https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/13360008/15-018.pdf;jsessionid=4AA2BEA3972D85F79632D6AB0ABE7AE0?sequence=1|archive-date = 2 May 2019|archive-format = PDF|url-status = dead}}</ref>
== Status of women in the secretariat==
Representation of women in the UN, particularly at managerial and decision-making positions at the D-1 level and above, has been a UN General Assembly concern and goal since 1970.
<ref name="women, 15 December 1970">{{cite journal|last1=General Assembly, 1930 Plenary Meeting|first1=United Nations|title=Employment of Qualified Women in Senior and other professional positions by the secretariats of Organisations in the United Nations system|journal=General Assembly Resolution|date=15 December 1970|volume=2715 (XXV)|page=31|url=http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/NR0/349/80/IMG/NR034980.pdf?OpenElement|access-date=16 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216232046/http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/NR0/349/80/IMG/NR034980.pdf?OpenElement|archive-date=16 December 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="A/RES/45/239">{{cite
In December 1994, the UN General Assembly's "disappointment" that its gender equality target were not met urged the secretary-general to prioritize the recruitment and promotion of women to reach to 50/50 representation in D1 and above posts by 2000.<ref name="ST/SGB/282">{{cite journal |first1=Boutros |last1=
===Representation of women at decision making levels ===
The representation of women in the UN secretariat, at the D1 level, in 2000, was 30.3 percent. Instead of increasing, in the next decade, the representation of women in the secretariat decreased to 26.7 percent.<ref name="A /65/334" />{{rp| p 29, Table 19}} In December 2011, the representation of women in the secretariat at the D1 level was 27.4 percent, an increase of .6 percent over a two-year period.<ref name="A /67/347">{{cite journal|last1=General Assembly|title=67/347 Improvement in the status of women in the United Nations system|journal=Report of the Secretary-General|date=4 September 2012|issue=A /67/347|pages=58 para 67|url=https://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/67/347|access-date=11 December 2014|publisher=United Nations|quote=Advancement of women: implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women }}</ref>
===Special measures for the achievement of gender equality===
{{Main|Special measures for gender equality in the United Nations}}
To ensure that the gender equality target mandated by the General Assembly is met, the secretariat, in September 1999, promulgated an administrative instruction (AI) on "Special Measures for the Achievement of Gender Equality" (ST/AI/1999/9)<ref name="ST /AI/1999/9-1">{{cite web|last1=United Nations|title=ST /AI/1999/9. SPECIAL MEASURES FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF GENDER EQUALITY|url=https://www.un.org/womenwatch/osagi/pdf/STAI19999.PDF|publisher=Secretariat|access-date=9 December 2014|location=New York|pages=7|date=21 September 1999|quote=Gender Equality A/I( ST/AI/1999/9), superseded ST/AI/412 of 5 January 1996.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030118221854/https://www.un.org/womenwatch/osagi/pdf/STAI19999.PDF|archive-date=18 January 2003|url-status=live}}</ref>{{rp|section 5.2}} Gender Equality A/I echoes the goals of, and is in conformity with, the mandate of Articles 8 and 101 of the [[Charter of the United Nations]], and Article 4 paragraph 1 of the ''[[Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women]] (CEDAW)''.<ref name="ST /AI/1999/9-1" />{{rp|preamble}}<ref name="United Nations">{{cite journal|last1=United Nations|title=Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women :Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 34/180 of 18 December 1979. Entry into force 3 September 1981, in accordance with article 27(1)|date=18 December 1979|pages=10|url=http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/ProfessionalInterest/cedaw.pdf|access-date=17 December 2014|publisher=United Nations|location=New York|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921133024/http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/ProfessionalInterest/cedaw.pdf|archive-date=21 September 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>
On 4 September 2012, in his annual reports to the [[General Assembly of UN|General Assembly]], titled "Improvement of the Status of Women in the United Nations System", Secretary-General [[Ban Ki-moon]] stated that the aim of the special measures was to ensure "gender balance in recruitment and promotion".<ref name="A /67/347" />{{rp|p3, paragraph 67–68}} and that special measures would remain in effect until the "goal of gender parity is achieved", and sustained for a period of time.<ref name="A /67/347"/>{{rp|p 33, paragraph 67}}<ref name="ST /AI/1999/9-1" />"<ref name="A /67/347"/> The secretary-general, in his recommendations to the General Assembly, noted that the " United Nations Secretariat, pursuant to the decision of the Policy Committee chaired by the Secretary-General" is to "ensure the effective implementation of special measures for gender equality. These measures include mandatory selection of equally or better-qualified women candidates…"<ref name="A /67/347" />{{rp| paragraph 147b}}
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