Vestnik RUDN. International RelationsVestnik RUDN. International Relations2313-06602313-0679федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Российский университет дружбы народов имени Патриса Лумумбы» (РУДН)10533Research ArticleThe Activities of UN Specialized Agencies in the Area of Disaster Relief of Population and Territories against Disasters in the beginning of the XXI centuryKuvshinovAleksey Vladimirovich<p>Department of theory and history of international relations</p>alkuv16@gmail.comPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia1501201616111412309092016Copyright © 2016, Kuvshinov A.V.2016<p>The article deals with the analysis of the structure and main directions of the activities of UN specialized agencies as well as other international organizations and entities such as ICDO aimed at the organization of the measures for disaster relief and civil defence. The urgency of the article is in the fact that it is for the first time in Russian academic literature devoted to this topic with the specific examples of conducting of such measures. The main conclusions of the article stresses that the specialized U.N. agencies and other international and national entities have already demonstrated the urgent nature and efficiency of providing disaster relief to affected countries and population in the beginning of the XXI century but they should upgrade their potential in that regard in the coming years.</p>natural and industrial accidentscivil defenceUnited Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)United Nations Disaster Relief Organization (UNDRO)emergency humanitarian aidInternational Civil Defence Organization (ICDO)природные и техногенные катастрофыгражданская защита/оборонаУправление Верховного Комиссара по делам беженцев (УВКБ) ООНУправление по Координации гуманитарных вопросов (УКГВ) ООНЦентральный Фонд реагирования на чрезвычайные ситуации (СЕРФ)чрезвычайная гуманитарная помощьМеждународная организация гражданской обороны (МОГО)[Arnold V.T. Teoryia katastrof [The Theory of Disasters], Moscow, 1990, 330 p. (in Russian)][Bazhanov E.P. Aktualnye problemy mezhdunarodnykh otnosheniy. [The Topical Issues of the International Relations]. Selected Works in 3 volumes. Moscow, 2001, 550 p. (in Russian)][Grazdnanskaya zaschita. [Civil Defence]. The Reference Book. Ed. By Shoigu S.K. EMERCOM of Russia, Moscow, 2006., 200 p. (in Russian)][Osipov V.I. Prirodnye katastrofy v tsentre vnimaniya uchenykh [The Natural Disasters in the Center of Scientists’ Attention]. The Bulletin of The Russian Academy of Sciences, 1995, no.6, pp. 13-20 (in Russian)][Prirodnye katastrofy na rubezhe XXI –go veka [Natural Disasters at the turn of XXIst century], 2001, Vol. 71, no.4, pp. 291-302 (in Russian)][Problemy razvitiya I sovershenstvovvaniya grazhdanskoi oborony Rossiyskoi Federatsii v soveremennykh usloviyakh [The Problems of development and Perfection of the Civil Defence of the Russian Federation in the contemporary time. All-Russia Academic Conference, April 8-9, 2004] A Collection of Works. Moscow, 2004, 212 pp. (in Russian)][Reimers N.F. Ekologicheskiye krizisy I katastrofy [Ecological crises and disasters], Moscow, 1990. 220 p.(in Rusian)][De Groeve T., Peter T., Annunziato A. Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System. L., 2009, 260 p.][Emergency Management: Principles and Practice for Local Government. Editors: Thomas E. Drabek, University of Denver. Gerard J. Hostmer. Published by International City Management Association (ICMA), N.Y., 2010, 300 p.][Haddow, George; Bollock, Jane. Introduction to Emergency Management, Second Edition., N.Y.– Geneva, 2006, 380 p.][Local Governments and Disaster Risk Reduction. United Nations secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), Geneva, March 2010, 300 p.][Risk and Poverty in a changing climate. A 2009 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. United Nations. 2009, 220 p.][Towards National Resilence: Good Practices of National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction. Published by the United Nations secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR), Geneva, July 2008, 290 p.][Vorobiev Y.I., Loktionov N.I., Faleyev M.I. and others. Disasters and man: Book 1. The Russian Experience of Emergency response. Edited by Y.L. Vorobiev. Moscow: AST –LTT, 1997, 256 p.]