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Does the Library offer training?
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How can I access the Library's online subscriptions from outside UN Headquarters?
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Where can I find statistical information on staff working in UN Specialized Agencies and Programmes?
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Where can I find treaties or conventions?
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What does it mean when a document is "reissued for technical reasons"?
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Where can I find documents related to the Arms Trade Treaty?
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Where can I find statements made by Viet Nam during the General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly?
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Where can I find statements made by the United Kingdom during the General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly?
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Where can I find statements made by Ukraine during the General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly?
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What is the United Nations doing about climate change?
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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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- General Assembly
- General Debate
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How are the non-permanent members of the Security Council selected?
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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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Who are the current members of the United Nations?
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- General Assembly
- Member States
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How is the contribution of a country to the UN budget determined?
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What is the difference between a resolution and a decision?
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What is the Uniting for peace resolution?
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- General Assembly
- Security Council
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How are member states seated in the General Assembly?
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- General Assembly
- Member States
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Where can I find information about which countries have co-sponsored Security Council or General Assembly resolutions?
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How do organizations and non-member states get observer status in the General Assembly?
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Who is the first speaker in the annual general debate of the General Assembly?
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- General Assembly
- General Debate
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How can I find out how a country has voted in the General Assembly?
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- General Assembly
- Voting records
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Who are the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly?
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- General Assembly
- Rules of procedure
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On what basis was Security Council permanent membership granted?
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How are the non-permanent members of the Security Council selected?
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Are UN resolutions binding?
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What is the International Criminal Court (ICC) and what is its relationship with the UN?
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What is the Uniting for peace resolution?
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- General Assembly
- Security Council
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Can the UN Charter be amended, and how many times has this occurred?
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Where can I find information about which countries have co-sponsored Security Council or General Assembly resolutions?
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What does it mean when a decision is taken “by consensus”?
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How are judges of the International Court of Justice elected?
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What does the term "Official Records" mean?
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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?
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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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- Member States
- Security Council
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Where can I find Security Council voting information?
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What is the Caesar report and where can I find it?
Last Updated: May 08, 2018 |
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- Human rights
- Security Council
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How do I file a human rights violation complaint with the United Nations?
Last Updated: Nov 01, 2019 |
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- Human rights
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What is the UN doing to combat racism and racial discrimination?
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- Human rights
- International law
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What is the UN definition of “Stateless Person”?
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What are General Comments of the Human Rights Treaty Bodies?
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- Human rights
- Treaties
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What is the Genocide Convention?
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What is the Caesar report and where can I find it?
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- Human rights
- Security Council
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Where can I find information about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)?
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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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- Human rights
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Where can I find a list of human rights treaties?
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- Human rights
- Treaties
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What is the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and how was it established?
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Where do I find information on the drafting process of the Convention on the Rights of the Child?
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Where can I find the procedural history of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women?
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Which countries have been members of the Human Rights Council?
Last Updated: Oct 09, 2019 |
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- Human rights
- Member States
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Where can I get information on indigenous/traditional knowledge?
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Where can I find the travaux preparatoires of the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment?
Last Updated: Dec 10, 2019 |
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How can I access the Library's online subscriptions from outside UN Headquarters?
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How do I start research on United Nations topics?
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How can I get copyright permissions for UN material?
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Can researchers and general public contact the Dag Hammarskjöld Library?
Last Updated: Mar 24, 2021 |
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- Using the Library
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What is the United Nations System Electronic Information Acquisitions Consortium (UNSEIAC)?
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- Electronic resources
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What UN documents are available online?
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Who may use the Dag Hammarskjöld Library?
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- UN documents
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Where is the Dag Hammarskjöld Library located?
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- Headquarters
- Using the Library
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I'm a researcher. My research subject is about the UN. Can I use the Library?
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- Using the Library
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How can I login to the Dag Hammarskjöld Library website?
Last Updated: Oct 22, 2021 |
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- Using the Library
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May I borrow books from the Dag Hammarskjöld Library?
Last Updated: Jan 07, 2020 |
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- Using the Library
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What is the difference between the UN Library and the UN Archives in New York?
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What is the UNBIS Thesaurus?
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- Research tools
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Does the Dag Hammarskjöld Library accept publications as gifts?
Last Updated: Aug 04, 2021 |
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- Using the Library
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I work for a UN programme, fund or specialized agency in New York. Can I use Library resources?
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