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Where can I find documents and information related to the World Summit for Social Development?
Last Updated: Dec 04, 2025 |
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How are UN official holidays decided?
Last Updated: Dec 03, 2025 |
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Where can I find the reform proposals of Secretary-General António Guterres?
Last Updated: Dec 01, 2025 |
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Where can I find UN documents related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) issues at the United Nations?
Last Updated: Nov 24, 2025 |
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How can I access the Economist or the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) online?
Last Updated: Nov 24, 2025 |
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How can I access the Library's online subscriptions?
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Where can I find the letters of 24 December 1991 regarding the continuation of the membership of the USSR by the Russian Federation?
Last Updated: Nov 20, 2025 |
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What does it mean when the General Assembly "takes note of" a report?
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Where can I find information about Kenya and the UN?
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Where can I find information about the UN Staff Regulations and Rules?
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Who are the current members of the UN?
Last Updated: Dec 12, 2024 |
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What are the opening dates of forthcoming regular sessions of the UN General Assembly and of the General Debate?
Last Updated: Aug 22, 2025 |
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- General Assembly
- General Debate
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What is the longest speech given at the United Nations?
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Are UN resolutions binding?
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How many African countries are members of the United Nations?
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What is the Uniting for peace resolution?
Last Updated: Sep 26, 2025 |
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- General Assembly
- Security Council
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What is the difference between a resolution and a decision?
Last Updated: Nov 14, 2024 |
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How are UN Member States seated in the General Assembly?
Last Updated: Oct 16, 2025 |
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- Member States
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What does it mean when a decision is taken “by consensus”?
Last Updated: Sep 03, 2025 |
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How do organizations and non-member states get observer status in the General Assembly?
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Where can I find the co-sponsors of draft resolutions or decisions?
Last Updated: May 21, 2025 |
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Who is the first speaker in the annual general debate of the General Assembly?
Last Updated: Dec 05, 2023 |
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- General Debate
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Who are the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly?
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Can the public attend and observe the UN General Assembly general debates?
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- General Debate
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How are judges of the International Court of Justice elected?
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Are UN resolutions binding?
Last Updated: Aug 27, 2025 |
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What is the Uniting for peace resolution?
Last Updated: Sep 26, 2025 |
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- Security Council
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What is the International Criminal Court (ICC) and what is its relationship with the UN?
Last Updated: Feb 18, 2025 |
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What does it mean when a decision is taken “by consensus”?
Last Updated: Sep 03, 2025 |
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Where can I find the co-sponsors of draft resolutions or decisions?
Last Updated: May 21, 2025 |
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Where can I find the names of the countries that have never been elected non-permanent members of the Security Council?
Last Updated: Oct 25, 2024 |
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- Member States
- Security Council
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Views: 21673
How are judges of the International Court of Justice elected?
Last Updated: Feb 05, 2025 |
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Where can I find a list of vetoes? How does the Security Council vote on draft resolutions?
Last Updated: Apr 22, 2025 |
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Where can I find a chart of the UN System?
Last Updated: Sep 03, 2025 |
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How are countries elected to membership in UN bodies?
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What is the Index to Proceedings?
Last Updated: Jul 18, 2025 |
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How are members of the Security Council elected? How are non-permanent members of the Security Council selected? Why are there permanent and non-permanent members of the Security Council?
Last Updated: Jul 22, 2025 |
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Where can I find the letters of 24 December 1991 regarding the continuation of the membership of the USSR by the Russian Federation?
Last Updated: Nov 20, 2025 |
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Where can I find speeches made during General Assembly, Security Council, and Economic and Social Council meetings?
Last Updated: Feb 12, 2025 |
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How can I research the topic of UN Security Council reform?
Last Updated: May 13, 2025 |
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How do I file a human rights violation complaint with the United Nations?
Last Updated: Oct 30, 2024 |
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- Human rights
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What is the UN doing to combat racism and racial discrimination?
Last Updated: Nov 05, 2025 |
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Where can I find UN information on the “Cylinder of Cyrus” a.k.a. "Edict of Cyrus"?
Last Updated: Oct 21, 2024 |
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- Human rights
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Where can I find this quote by Eleanor Roosevelt at the UN?
Last Updated: Apr 22, 2025 |
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What countries have been members of the Human Rights Council?
Last Updated: Sep 03, 2025 |
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- Human rights
- Member States
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Where can I find a procedural history of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women?
Last Updated: Dec 04, 2024 |
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Where can I find UN documents related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) issues at the United Nations?
Last Updated: Nov 24, 2025 |
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How can I find how a country has voted in the Human Rights Council?
Last Updated: Nov 08, 2024 |
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- Human rights
- Voting records
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What is the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples and how was it established?
Last Updated: Nov 07, 2024 |
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Where can I find information about the Human Rights Council?
Last Updated: Jan 22, 2025 |
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- Human rights
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How can I access the Library's online subscriptions?
Last Updated: Nov 24, 2025 |
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How do I start research on UN topics?
Last Updated: Dec 06, 2024 |
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What is the United Nations System Electronic Information Acquisitions Consortium (UNSEIAC)?
Last Updated: Sep 03, 2025 |
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- Using the Library
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Who may use the Dag Hammarskjöld Library?
Last Updated: Jul 24, 2025 |
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How can I access the Economist or the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) online?
Last Updated: Nov 24, 2025 |
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Does the Library scan or digitize UN documents?
Last Updated: Mar 20, 2025 |
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What is a Factiva Reader ID?
Last Updated: Sep 10, 2025 |
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- Using the Library
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Have a symbol?
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