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How is the Secretary-General of the United Nations appointed?
Last Updated: Feb 05, 2025 |
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How can I research the legislative history of a UN General Assembly resolution?
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How are judges of the International Court of Justice elected?
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What UN documents are available in German?
Last Updated: Feb 05, 2025 |
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- UN documents
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Views: 1363
How should I cite a UN document?
Last Updated: Feb 05, 2025 |
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- Research tools
- UN documents
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Views: 25172
Where can I find speeches made during General Assembly, Security Council, and Economic and Social Council meetings?
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Views: 133
Have a symbol?
Last Updated: Feb 05, 2025 |
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Views: 156
How are countries elected to membership in UN bodies?
Last Updated: Jan 30, 2025 |
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How can I search for voting information in the UN Digital Library?
Last Updated: Jan 30, 2025 |
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Where can I find the co-sponsors of draft resolutions or decisions?
Last Updated: Jan 29, 2025 |
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Who are the current members of the UN?
Last Updated: Dec 12, 2024 |
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- General Assembly
- Member States
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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: Nov 07, 2024 |
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- General Assembly
- General Debate
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Are UN resolutions binding?
Last Updated: Jan 05, 2024 |
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What is the longest speech given at the United Nations?
Last Updated: Jan 30, 2024 |
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How many African countries are members of the United Nations?
Last Updated: Feb 05, 2024 |
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Views: 84659
What is the Uniting for peace resolution?
Last Updated: Nov 08, 2024 |
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- General Assembly
- Security Council
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Views: 77042
What is the difference between a resolution and a decision?
Last Updated: Nov 14, 2024 |
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Views: 47930
How are UN Member States seated in the General Assembly?
Last Updated: Sep 30, 2024 |
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- General Assembly
- Member States
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What does it mean when a decision is taken “by consensus”?
Last Updated: Jan 27, 2025 |
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How do organizations and non-member states get observer status in the General Assembly?
Last Updated: Dec 10, 2024 |
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Where can I find the co-sponsors of draft resolutions or decisions?
Last Updated: Jan 29, 2025 |
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Views: 23115
Who is the first speaker in the annual general debate of the General Assembly?
Last Updated: Dec 05, 2023 |
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- General Assembly
- General Debate
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Who are the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly?
Last Updated: Oct 25, 2024 |
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Can the public attend and observe the UN General Assembly general debates?
Last Updated: Dec 05, 2023 |
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- General Assembly
- General Debate
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Views: 16856
How are judges of the International Court of Justice elected?
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Are UN resolutions binding?
Last Updated: Jan 05, 2024 |
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Views: 108423
What is the Uniting for peace resolution?
Last Updated: Nov 08, 2024 |
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- General Assembly
- Security Council
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Views: 77042
What is the International Criminal Court (ICC) and what is its relationship with the UN?
Last Updated: Nov 08, 2024 |
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Views: 66530
What does it mean when a decision is taken “by consensus”?
Last Updated: Jan 27, 2025 |
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Views: 36634
Where can I find the co-sponsors of draft resolutions or decisions?
Last Updated: Jan 29, 2025 |
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Views: 23115
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: 20244
How are judges of the International Court of Justice elected?
Last Updated: Feb 05, 2025 |
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Views: 16378
Where can I find a chart of the UN System?
Last Updated: Jan 31, 2024 |
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Views: 9055
Where can I find a list of vetoes? How does the Security Council vote on draft resolutions?
Last Updated: Dec 12, 2024 |
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Views: 8797
How are countries elected to membership in UN bodies?
Last Updated: Jan 30, 2025 |
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Views: 4907
What is the Index to Proceedings?
Last Updated: Nov 07, 2024 |
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Views: 3114
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: Apr 25, 2024 |
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- Member States
- Security Council
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Views: 1412
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: Dec 03, 2024 |
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- Member States
- Security Council
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Views: 847
How can I research UN peacekeeping?
Last Updated: Nov 08, 2024 |
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Views: 220
Where can I find speeches made during General Assembly, Security Council, and Economic and Social Council meetings?
Last Updated: Feb 05, 2025 |
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Views: 133

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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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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Views: 9691
What countries have been members of the Human Rights Council?
Last Updated: Nov 11, 2024 |
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- Human rights
- Member States
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Views: 4837
Where can I find this quote by Eleanor Roosevelt at the UN?
Last Updated: Dec 27, 2024 |
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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: May 16, 2024 |
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Views: 2073
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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Views: 1999
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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- General Assembly
- Human rights
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Views: 910

How can I access the Library's online subscriptions?
Last Updated: Jan 22, 2025 |
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Views: 16099
How can I access the New York Times online?
Last Updated: Nov 06, 2024 |
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- Electronic resources
- Using the Library
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Views: 15484
How do I start research on UN topics?
Last Updated: Dec 06, 2024 |
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Views: 7826
What is the United Nations System Electronic Information Acquisitions Consortium (UNSEIAC)?
Last Updated: Dec 05, 2023 |
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- Electronic resources
- Using the Library
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Views: 5602
Who may use the Dag Hammarskjöld Library?
Last Updated: Dec 04, 2024 |
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Views: 5433
How can I access the Economist or the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) online?
Last Updated: Dec 04, 2024 |
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- Electronic resources
- Using the Library
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Views: 2195
Does the Library scan or digitize UN documents?
Last Updated: Aug 22, 2024 |
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Views: 1391
What is a Factiva Reader ID?
Last Updated: Nov 05, 2024 |
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- Electronic resources
- Using the Library
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Views: 1259
Have a symbol?
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