United Nations Internet Resources
There are
a number of excellent Internet sources available for locating United Nations
documents. The list below provides a good starting place for your United
Nations research. Some documents like Security Council Resolutions and
General Assembly Resolutions are easy to find using the links below. While
many of the recent UN documents are available online, remember that not
every document is available.
Economic &
Social Council (ECOSOC)
EISIL
- UN webpage maintained by the American Society of International
Law.
General Assembly
- Includes resolutions
and other GA documents.
ICJ - International
Court of Justice (World Court) website.
International
Law - UN webpage with info about treaties,
ICC, ICJ,
etc.
Official
Document System of the United Nations (ODS) - The BEST
search tool for finding official UN documents available online.
Resolutions
- GA / SC
/ Research Guide
Security Council
- Includes resolutions
and other SC documents.
Treaties - The searchable full-text UN Treaty Series (UNTS) is available
on campus only. Also see the UN
Treaty Body Database which includes all the documents issued
by the the six UN Treaty Monitoring Committees since 1992.
United
Nations - UN homepage with links to many of the best resources.
UNBISnet
- The Catalogue of UN documents and publications indexed by the
UN Dag Hammarskjld Library.
UN Charter - Full-text of the Charter of the United Nations.
UNdata
- A web portal that unites UN statistical sources in a single interface. The mission of this project is to "provide free access to global statistics."
UN Documentation
Centre - Links to the full-text of many UN documents.
UN
Documentation: Research Guide - Provides an overview
of the types of documents issued by the UN with a description of
the various UN document symbols.
UN High Commissioner
for Refugees - Includes the
UNHCR research website
UN News Centre
- Current events in the UN.
UN
Scholars' Workstation - Basic UN research information maintained
by Yale University.
UN System of
Organizations - Alphabetic index of the various UN websites.
University
of Minnesota Human Rights Library - Collection of United Nations
documents.
World Court
- The official ICJ website.
The UN webpages listed above are the best places to look for UN documents, but you can also find official (and unofficial versions of) UN documents at other websites by using a good Internet search engine such as Google. [Try searching by the document title "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" or the document number "S/RES/1483"].
Last updated October 23, 2009Prepared by
FCIL Librarian