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What have UN Libraries done to support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
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Where can I find information about the Human Rights Council?
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How can I search for voting information in the UN Digital Library?
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How can I find a Treaty?
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Where can I find the co-sponsors of draft resolutions or decisions?
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How can I find information about the establishment of diplomatic relations between countries?
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Where can I find information about Pakistan and the UN?
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Who was Ralph Bunche?
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Where can I find information about the International Conferences on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy?
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Who are the current members of the UN?
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What are the opening dates of forthcoming regular sessions of the UN General Assembly and of the General Debate?
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Are UN resolutions binding?
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What is the longest speech given at the United Nations?
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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?
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What is the difference between a resolution and a decision?
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How are UN Member States seated in the General Assembly?
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What does it mean when a decision is taken “by consensus”?
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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?
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Who is the first speaker in the annual general debate of the General Assembly?
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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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How are judges of the International Court of Justice elected?
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Are UN resolutions binding?
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What is the Uniting for peace resolution?
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What is the International Criminal Court (ICC) and what is its relationship with the UN?
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What does it mean when a decision is taken “by consensus”?
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Where can I find the co-sponsors of draft resolutions or decisions?
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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?
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How are judges of the International Court of Justice elected?
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Where can I find a chart of the UN System?
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Where can I find a list of vetoes? How does the Security Council vote on draft resolutions?
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How are countries elected to membership in UN bodies?
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What is the Index to Proceedings?
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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?
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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?
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- Security Council
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How can I research UN peacekeeping?
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Where can I find speeches made during General Assembly, Security Council, and Economic and Social Council meetings?
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How do I file a human rights violation complaint with the United Nations?
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Where can I find UN information on the “Cylinder of Cyrus” a.k.a. "Edict of Cyrus"?
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What countries have been members of the Human Rights Council?
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- Member States
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Where can I find this quote by Eleanor Roosevelt at the UN?
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Where can I find a procedural history of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women?
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Where can I find UN documents related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) issues at the United Nations?
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How can I find how a country has voted in the Human Rights Council?
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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?
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Where can I find information about the Human Rights Council?
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How can I access the Library's online subscriptions?
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How can I access the New York Times online?
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How do I start research on UN topics?
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What is the United Nations System Electronic Information Acquisitions Consortium (UNSEIAC)?
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- Using the Library
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Who may use the Dag Hammarskjöld Library?
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How can I access the Economist or the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) online?
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Does the Library scan or digitize UN documents?
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What is a Factiva Reader ID?
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