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United Nations - Government Documents

The Government Documents Collection is an official depository library for United Nations documents and publications.  The Collection receives the Official Records of the General Assembly, Economic and Social Council, and the Security Council, as well as yearbooks, statistical series, monographs and periodicals distributed by U.N. offices in New York, Geneva and Vienna.

The Collection also receives selected English-language publications from U.N. regional commissions, such as the Economic and Social Commision for Asia and the Pacific and the Economic Commission for Europe.

The Collection acquires additional documents and publications from U.N.-affiliated specialized agencies. Those agencies currently collected include: Food and Agriculture Organization, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Labour Organization, International Monetary Fund, World Bank and the World Health Organization.




United Nations (UN) online and full text sources

  • AccessUN index to United Nations documents including Official Records, masthead documents, draft resolutions, meeting records, UN Sales Publications, and the UN Treaty Series citations. Also included is the full-text of several thousand UN documents.

  • Global Development Finance (GDF) Online

  • UN ODS System - U.N. Working Documents Full Text, 1992 to present.

  • UNBISnet  - catalog of United Nations (UN) documents and UN related publications indexed by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva . Generally, coverage is from 1979, with older documents added continuously. UNBISnet provides full text access to all documents contained in the ODS databases. Full text is also available for many other UN and UN related documents.

  • UNIQUE - U.N. Info Quest Index, Selected Documents 1946 to present.

  • UNdata Full text global statistical database from many sources.

  • U.N. Treaty Collection
  • U.N. Comtrade - electronic database which may be used only by authenticated University of Hawaii at Manoa affiliated patrons.

  • World Development Indicators Online


UN Web Sites with Full-text Documents

  • FAO Corporate Depository. FAO documents and publications, as well as selected non-FAO publications, in electronic format.

  • GATT Digital Library. Documents and information of and about the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) from 1947-1994, from Stanford University. WTO Predecesor Body

  • Global Programme for Globalization, Liberalization and Sustainable Human Development. Partnership between the United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Conference on Trade & Development, and the Global Programme. Includes working papers and country assessments.

  • International Court of Justice. Principle judicial organ of the United Nations. Includes decisions, written pleadings, and verbatim records of oral proceedings.

  • ILO Labor Statistics. Data and metadata for over 200 countries/territories from the database operated by the ILO Bureau of Statistics.

  • International Monetary Fund (IMF). IMF publications, including Country Reports, Working Papers, Occasional Papers, and Policy Discussion Papers.

  • Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS). Joint programme of the United Nations advocating for worldwide action against HIV/AIDS.

  • League of Nations Statistical and Disarmament Documents. Full-text of over 260 League of Nations documents, from Northwestern University Libraries.

  • Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. An extensive range of publications on a variety of topics related to human rights

  • United Nations Development Program, UNDP
       Human Development Report Library and statistics page.
       World Income Inequality Database information on income inequality for developed, developing, and transition countries.

  • UNISPAL, United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine texts of current and historical UN material concerning the question of Palestine and other issues related to the Middle East situation.

  • UNESCO Documents Index and Full Text Full-text database of documents from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, including resolutions and decisions since 1946.
        UNESCO Statistics
        UNESCO World Copyright Laws

  • UNICEF, United Nations Children's Agency - includes annual State of the World's Children full text.

  • United Nations Conference on Trade & Development Digital Library. Includes online texts of UNCTAD discussion papers, occasional papers, globalization and development strategies and much more.

  • United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Statistics database of refugee information

  • United Nations Economic & Social Commission for Asia & the Pacific. UN regional commission for Asia and the Pacific. Publications on poverty, development, trade, the environment, and more.

  • United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). United Nations agency for global population issues. Documents and publications on reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and other topics available in PDF.

  • United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). UN agency researching the social dimensions of world development. Includes full-text documents on a wide range of development issues.

  • United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Standards for Trade and Electronic Business full text database and statistical data.

  • World Bank Documents and Reports . Full-text of World Bank project reports, including country and economic sector work, evaluation reports, working papers, and project appraisals.

  • World Health Organization includes annual World Health Report full text, 1995 to present.
        World Health Organization Documentation. Documentation of the WHO executive board decisions and assemblies.

  • World Trade Organization Working Documents Full Text 1995 to the present.  Documents include text of the trade policy reviews reference volumes.

  • WTO Legal Documents and Disputes Updates - gateway to documents on the Dispute Settlement Understanding and individual disputes.


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