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 documents and publications from U.N.-affiliated specialized agencies through purchase or deposit. Those agencies currently collected include: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, World Bank, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Labour Organisation, and the World Health Organization.

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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.

MyiLibrary Search for e-publications from the International Atomic Energy Agency, International Labour Organization, International Organization for Migration, UN AIDS, World Health Organization.

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.

UN Documentation Centre provides full text access to official documents of the five major functioning bodies of the United Nations: General Assembly; Economic and Social Council; Security Council; Secretariat; International Court of Justice. Access is through browsable lists by UN body and session. Includes archived resolutions from 1946, documents, reports, landmark documents and selected press releases.

U.N. Common Database Full text global statistical database from many sources.

U.N. Treaty Collection - online access limited to onsite users - Government Documents, Sinclair Library 3rd floor

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

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UN Web Sites with Full-text Documents

Asia Pacific Economic Corporation (APEC). Intergovernmental organization concentrating on trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region. Includes full-text of documents and reports

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.

Inter-American Development Bank Project Documents. Project documents from the Inter-American Development Bank.

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.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Online Library. Includes reference publications, treaties, official texts, transcripts, speeches, and fellowship reports sponsored by the NATO Academic Forum.

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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U.N. & U.N. Affiliated Agency Web Sites:

Official U.N. WEB Site Locator

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