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Fortnightly analysis of political and economic developments and a forecast of both general trends and specific events in Africa (with occasional special supplements).
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Includes news and analysis to help readers understand events in Africa, from the continent's power struggles to developments in its high-stakes business world.
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Regroupant la rédaction de cinq lettres d'informations confidentielles, La Lettre du Continent, La Lettre de l'océan Indien, Maghreb Confidentiel, Africa Energy Intelligence et Africa Mining Intelligence, la rédaction d'Africa Intelligence chronique les activités des hommes et femmes de pouvoir en Afrique, en s'attachant à décrypter les relations entre autorités politiques et réseaux d'affaires.

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Offers news and analysis on political, economic, and social issues in Africa. It covers a wide range of topics, including business, technology, culture, and sports, and provides a platform for African voices and perspectives. The website aims to inform and engage a diverse audience interested in African affairs.
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Journal containing articles, background pieces and topical African issues, as well as succinct analysis of the key stories coming out of the continent.

Journal containing articles, background pieces and topical African issues, as well as succinct analysis of the key stories coming out of the continent.

The Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa – all related to developments in one calendar year.

contains over 1800 entries covering guides and resources for African languages, Africa cartography and maps, African film, African studies journals, magazines and newsletters, media guides and news sources for Africa, the African press, African studies library collections worldwide, national archives in Africa, centers of African studies and African studies programs worldwide, awards and prizes in African studies and other subjects.

AGROVOC is a controlled vocabulary covering all areas of interest to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN (FAO), including food, nutrition, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, environment etc.

Statistical resource on AIDS and HIV worldwide.

The Analytical Guide to the Work of the International Law Commission (ILC) is designed to assist the researcher interested in the work of the Commission. It is organized by topics, subdivided into categories and stages of consideration within the Commission; thus tracking the development of each topic on its programme of work from inception to conclusion.

Provides the full text of the most important decisions, including concurring, separate and dissenting opinions of the International Tribunals.

Information and analysis on events in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Contains information on all transfers of major conventional arms from 1950 to the most recent full calendar year.

Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Agreement Database (APTIAD) is an online database of trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific region contains information on all preferential agreements within the region, an agreement-country matrix, and an advanced search engine allowing to locate agreements by country, agreement name, status, scope, WTO notification status, and keywords.

The research library contains links to other web-based resources providing international law-related materials. The library is divided into four components: resources relating to treaties; materials concerning the jurisprudence of international courts and tribunals; access to selected UN publications and repositories; and selected scholarly writings in international law.

Balkan Insight provides daily news, as well as analytical insight and investigations, on key issues in ten countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia, with occasional coverage of Turkey and Greece.
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The Chicago Manual of Style Online provides recommendations on editorial style and publishing practices for the digital age. It provides quick answers to style and editing questions.
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Online encyclopedia of geographical names, descriptions, and characteristics of over 165,000 places in the world, from antiquity to the present day.

The Commonwealth iLibrary offers wide ranging research and knowledge to a variety of audiences.

Information Centre for the the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Access to meeting documents, documentation, databases, major publications and more.

Form for UN staff and staff and delegates of Permanent Missions to request access to online resources. Image of UNHQ grounds pass required for verification.

The information centre of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) provides access to documentation such as reports, press releases, and meeting documents related to CTBTO activities.

A collection of legal texts, agreements, national implementation measures, and other documentation relating to the work of the The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO).

Includes Total Population, Urban/Rural Population, International Migrant Stock and World Population Policies databases.

Collection of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), Statistical Division databases, including commodity trade statistics, census knowledge, disability statistics, good practices, joint oil data, millennium data indicators, population, and social indicators.

A specialized search engine that pools official press releases from UN Member States, includes who issued each statement, on what topic and when. The initiative is a collaboration between the Innovation Cell of the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) with the Qatar Computer Research Institute (QCRI) at the Hamad Bin Khalifa University and independent contributors such as from the University of Southern California (USC) and other institutions.

Website listing various resources on training in the field of disarmament; among them a video library, podcasts, presentations, and resources for teachers and students. Maintained by UNODA (Office for Disarmament Affairs).

Portal for searching publicly available documents from the Division for Ocean Affairs and Law of the Sea (DOALOS) website.

A free, open-source tool developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization in the framework of the FAO - Google partnership. Created to support countries, researchers, farmers and members of the general public with internet access to monitor their land in an easy, integrated and multi-temporal manner. Allows users to visualize, process and analyze satellite imagery and global datasets on climate, vegetation, fires, biodiversity, geo-social and other topics. Users need no prior knowledge of remote sensing or Geographical Information Systems (GIS).

Online digital library of full text scholarly e-books.
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Full text e-books on subjects of interest to UN users.

Includes International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center, e-books and others.

Repository holding publications and documents of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).

Library catalogue of the ECA (Economic Commission for Africa).

Statistical database of ECE, the Economic and Social Commission for Europe. Includes country overviews and statistics on economics, forestry, gender, transport, and other areas.

Statistical database of ECLAC, the Economic and Social Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Includes social, demographic, economic, environmental, and other statistics.

Catalogue of the library for the Economic and Social Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Provides access to more than 35,000 ECLAC publications in digital format, ranging from the first publication of ECLAC in 1948 to the most recent ones. All documents are available in full-text.

ECOLEX is an information service on environmental law, operated jointly by FAO, IUCN and UNEP. The database includes information on treaties, international soft-law and other non-binding policy and technical guidance documents, national legislation, judicial decisions, and law and policy literature.

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EIU Viewpoint includes Country Intelligence, Country reports, Industry Intelligence, Data Services and much more.

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Link broken as of Feb 2025 . Comprehensive and accurate legal information on the steps taken by the international community and individual countries in the fight against international terrorism. The site is maintained by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

Enterprise Surveys, an International Finance Corporation (IFC)/World Bank database, offers an expansive array of economic data on 130,000 firms in 135 countries. The surveys cover a broad range of business environment topics including access to finance, corruption, infrastructure, crime, competition, and performance measures.

Link broken as of Feb 2025. The authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments. More than 500 different variables, such as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets. Display them on-the-fly as maps, graphs, data tables or download the data in different formats.

This website describes more than 100 good practices in the use of human rights to protect the environment. They were compiled by the Independent Expert on human rights and the environment with the support of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

The Employment Protection Legislation database (EPLex) of the International Labour Organization provides information on key topics that are regularly examined in national and comparative studies on employment termination legislation.

Statistical database of ESCAP (Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific). Includes population, health, education, labor, infrastructure, finance, trade, environment, gender, and other statistics.

Catalogue of the library for the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.

The ESCAP Trade, Investment and Innovation Division and the World Bank joined hands to develop a common standard methodology for calculating comprehensive international trade costs and provide the research and policy community with a global reference. The current version includes data from 1995 to 2015 for over 180 countries.

Developed by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia.

EuroVoc is a multilingual terminology database of the EU managed by the Publications Office of the European Union.

The Food Aid Information System (FAIS) database of the World Food Programme (WFP) contains reliable and comprehensive data on food aid flows. It is a source of information for food aid actors, academics, the media, and anyone interested in global efforts to eradicate hunger and malnutrition.

A database for the Food and Agriculture Organization's publications, meetings, and articles.

FAO's collection of databases that provide documents from the Food and Agriculture Organization's governing bodies, conferences, councils, and various committees.

Catalogue of the David Lubin Memorial Library of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Links to various statistical databases of the Food and Agriculture Organization, including Agro-MAPS, AQUASTAT, CountrySTAT, FAOSTAT, Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics, Forestry Country Profiles, GLIPHA, PAAT Information Systems, and TERRASTAT.

Food and Agriculture Organization Legal Office database consisting of summaries and some translations of laws and regulations on topics falling within FAO's mandate - agriculture, cultivated plants, environment, fisheries, food, forestry, land and soil, livestock, water and wild species and ecosystems.

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American magazine of international relations published by the Council on Foreign Relations. Includes analysis and debate of foreign policy, geopolitics and international affairs.
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Current sources of code and basic legislation in jurisdictions of the world. The database offers relevant information on sources of foreign law, including complete bibliographic citations to legislation, the existence of English translations and selected references to secondary sources.

Foreign Policy is an American news publication focused on global affairs, current events, and domestic and international policy. It produces content daily on its website and app, and in four print issues annually.
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The FTS is a global, real-time database that records all reported international humanitarian aid (including that for NGOs and the Red Cross / Red Crescent Movement, bilateral aid, in-kind aid, and private donations). The database is maintained by the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

GDACS provides near real-time alerts about natural disasters and tools to facilitate response coordination, including media monitoring, map catalogues and the Virtual On-Site Operations Coordination Centre. The service is provided by UN OCHA (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) in cooperation with the European Union.

The GDACS provides near real-time alerts about natural disasters and tools to facilitate response coordination, including media monitoring, map catalogues and the Virtual On-Site Operations Coordination Centre. The service is provided by UN OCHA (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) in cooperation with the European Union.

The Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is a consultative, participatory process that builds capacity for conducting integrated environmental assessments for reporting on the state, trends and outlooks of the environment. It features a series of products that informs environmental decision-making and aims to facilitate the interaction between science and policy. Published by UNEP (UN Environment Programme).

The International Maritime Organization's collection of data and databases regarding various aspects of shipping information, including security, port reception, simulators, greenhouse gas emissions, pollution prevention, marine casualties and incidents, contact points, and local regulations. Registration required.

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Access to more than 20 legal databases, including Law Journal Library, Legal Classics, and more.
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Constitutional and political development of every country in the world.
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Open platform for sharing humanitarian data across crises and organisations. Launched in 2014, the goal of HDX is to make humanitarian data easy to find and use for analysis. HDX is managed by OCHA's Centre for Humanitarian Data.

Access to OCHA’s controlled vocabularies and taxonomies in the field of humanitarian assistance. The taxonomies are available as human-readable spreadsheets and machine readable APIs.

Catalogue of the library for the International Atomic Energy Agency. Contains link to other relevant IAEA databases.

International Civil Aviation Organization's database of aeronautical agreements and arrangements. Instructions to get UN access credentials access are available to UN Staff in iSeek.

The International Criminal Court Legal Tools database equips users with legal information, digests, reference tools and an application to work more effectively with core international crimes cases (involving war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide).

Each term has a definition with links to related notions; related legal provisions and rules; and bibliographic resources on the topic. For the most important terms, references to the introductory texts in other parts of ICRC case law website; where the topic is addressed more in-depth; and links to case studies.

The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes' (ICSID) searchable bibliography listing articles, books, research, and working papers on ICSID, investment law and treaties, and international investment dispute resolution.

Database of cases held before the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

Basic documents pertaining to the ICTR (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda).

Link broken as of Feb 2025. Searchable databases of cases pertaining to the ICTR (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda).

Provides access to all public records filed with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Developed by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, this database provides analysis of the main issues involved in trade disputes of interest to the region. Link broken as of Feb 2025

Reports, papers, factsheets and more from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

Collection of statistics and databases compiled by the International Labour Organization: core labour statistics, country-level data, child labour statistics, occupational health and safety, conventions and recommendations documents, reference literature, and labour legislation.

IMF publications which provide in-depth, independent analysis on the financial crisis, development, macroeconomics, poverty reduction, trade, globalization, and more.

This database gives access to international financial data and statistics collected by the IMF, the International Financial Statistics (IFS) and the AFR Regional Economic Outlook.

This site is developed for IMO Member Governments, Intergovernmental agencies, and organizations with consultative status with the IMO. Registration required.

The online bibliographic catalogue of IMOs Maritime Knowledge Centre’s collections of books, conference proceedings, key IMO documents, articles, videos and DVD’s.

The Indicator Registry is a central repository of information on indicators used to track the AIDS epidemic and the national, regional and global response.

InforMEA (UN Information Portal on Multilateral Environmental Agreements) provides information on Conference of the Parties (COP) decisions and resolutions, news, events, Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEA) membership, national focal points, national reports, and implementation plans from MEA secretariats.

The International Nuclear Information System (INIS) multilingual thesaurus serves as a tool for indexing and describing nuclear information and knowledge in a structured form and assists in multilingual and semantic searches of the INIS Collection.

International Investment Agreements (IIA) Navigator from UNCTAD is the most comprehensive database of international investment treaties and model agreements. You can search by country or do an advanced search in the full text.

Database with full-text search capabilities of all International Law Commission documents, including reports, texts and commentaries, summary records, etc.

One of the world's largest collections of published information on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology. Offers access to a unique collection of non-conventional full text documents. Operated by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Library catalogue for the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals Arusha branch

This database offers information on virtually every dimension of security & counter-terrorism and is designed to inform the analysis process, as well as to enhance the general understanding of security and terrorism-related issues.
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Glossary of terms used in publications published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Repository of WHO’s published material and technical information produced since 1948. Its content is freely accessible and searchable in the six official languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian & Spanish).

The Central Data Repository of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) holds centralized data of public and private information on marine mineral resources acquired from various institutions worldwide. Includes graphical interface with map of the seabed of the world's oceans.

Market Analysis Tools consists of a set of web portals intended to enhance the transparency in global trade and market access and to help users in their market analyses. Tools: Trade Map; Market Access Map; Investment Map; Trade Competitiveness Map; and Standards Map.

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Library catalogue for the International Trade Centre (ITC).

Catalogue of the library for the International Telecommunications Union.

ITU DataHub is an ITU resource for telecommunication/ICT indicators and statistics, regulatory and policy information, national tariff policies and costing practices, and more.

Database of telecommunications related database maintained by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). "At the start of 2022, ITU joined UNT​ERM, the multilingual terminology database maintained jointly by the UN Secretariat and some specialized agencies of the UN system. ITU is responsible for the domains related to ICTs and telecommunications within UNTERM. Most entries are currently available in all six official languages. Relevant entries from TERMITE (the former in-house termbase) are additionally being transferred to UNTERM. "

Security and Intelligence database. Access for UN Staff with @un.org emails only.
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Jeune Afrique is a French-language pan-African weekly news magazine. It is a widely read pan-African magazine. It offers coverage of African and international political, economic and cultural news.
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A full-text database of scholarly, multidisciplinary journals.
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Link broken as of Feb 2025. JRAD provides access to all MICT (Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals) public judicial records, as well as to the public archive records of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR.).

Online repository of ILO (International Labour Organization) publications, journals, meeting documents, and conventions. It also links to the ILO library catalogue.

Provides access to compare and collate language on key issues across 75,000+ provisions of around 1,000 peace agreements. Users can browse, search, compile and export the provisions of peace agreements. Language of Peace complements and builds on the UN Peacemaker database, which hosts full text documents of such agreements.

Access to LatinNews Daily, Latin American Weekly Report, Regional Reports, and two monthlies: Latin American Economy & Business and Latin American Security & Strategic Review.

Get access to Le Monde Diplomatique available in French, English, German and Spanish.
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Access the full text of the French newspaper, both via Web Browser and via App.
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Semantic standard for institutions and organizations collecting and managing data, information and knowledge in the field of environmental Law and Governance.

Full text database with access to over 10,000 news, business and legal publications. Includes major English-language newspapers as well as non-English language news sources. Contact the Library to request a search. The Library does not provide IDs for users.

The online Maritime Knowledge Centre of the IMO (International Maritime Organization) provides access to resources on maritime safety, security and prevention of pollution from ships as well as other maritime related issues.

A comprehensive online resource containing peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of public international law.

This resource will be Open Access starting April 2025 until March 2026. If you experience problems accessing though the institutional link above, use the general access https://opil.ouplaw.com/home/mpil 

The MICT (Mechanism for International Tribunals) Case Law Database (CLD) provides access to extracts of key judgements and decisions of the ICTR, ICTY, and MICT Appeals Chambers. The full text of the corresponding appeal judgements and decisions are also available.

The Mine Action Project Portfolio is a resource tool and database of reference documents for donors, policy-makers, advocates, and national and international mine action implementers.

Analytical national accounts tables from 1970 onwards for more than 200 countries and areas of the world.

Free database of government-funded Chinese social sciences journals. Coverage varies, but includes in all cases 2012+.

The Dag Hammarskjold Library has acquired New York Secretariat-wide access to NYTimes.com and it “All Digital Access”. Staff holding @un.org email addresses can now claim a NYT digital subscription paid by the UN. In order to activate your NYTimes.com Digital Pass (which grants access both onsite and offsite), please follow the instructions provided in the page.
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Full text database which provides access to over 10,000 news, business and legal publications. Includes more than 50 major English-language newspapers as well as non-English language news sources; broadcast transcripts from the major television networks and wire services. Law sources available include: case law and legislation from around the world and articles from over 600 law journals; U.S. Supreme Court decisions from 1790 to present and all U.S. Federal laws from 1988 to present.

NUCLEUS is the International Atomic Energy Agency's common access point to its wide variety of scientific, technical, and regulatory information resources.

The online library of OECD, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Contains books, papers, statistics, data and analysis.

United Nations official document system: provides full text search of documents issued since 1993; resolutions of all principal organs & Security Council plenary documents since 1946. Older documents are added regularly. Includes the Daily Journals of New York and Geneva.

OHCHR (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights) maintained database including documents for the Human Rights Council, its predecessor and their subsidiaries and parent organs.

Access to Oxford's collections of Academic journals, articles, and eBooks

Provides access to the material contained in the 20-volume Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and the 3 volumes of Additions, as well as quarterly releases of at least 1000 new and revised entries.
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Includes the full text of Oxford Handbooks in the areas of International Law, Political Science, Economics and Business/Management.

Oxford International Organizations is a database of annotated documents pertaining to the law of international organizations.

Access two collections of Oxford Legal Research Library:
-International Commercial Arbitration and
-International Commercial Law

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The Public International Law platform of Oxford University Press. From the home page, users can select particular databases or search across them at one time. Databases include: Max Plank Encyclopedias of Public International Law, Oxford International Organizations, and Oxford Reports on International Law.

Oxford Reports on International Law brings together decisions on public international law from international law courts, domestic courts, and ad hoc tribunals.

Access full-text of Oppenheim's International Law, and the Oxford Commentaries on International Law and other titles.

Classic and new titles by Oxford University Press.

Full text e-books

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Access restricted to UN Staff - guidance and best practices materials maintained by the Department of Peacekeeping Operations.

Department of Peacekeeping Operations' resource for policy, best practices, lessons learned and training material.

Digitized and free accessible key French journals in the field of humanities.

Dictionnaire de la langue française. Chaque définition comprend l'étymologie, la prononciation, les synonymes, antonymes et analogies. Informe également sur l'utilisation et l'histoire du mot, ainsi que ses formes conjuguées, féminines et plurielles.
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PressReader offers readers thousands of newspapers and magazines from around the globe. Get access to more than 7,000 publications.
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PreventionWeb serves the information needs of the disaster risk reduction community, including the development of information exchange tools to facilitate collaboration. It is a project of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).

The PGI is hosted by the Inter-Agency Group on Economic and Financial Statistics and presents data for the Group of 20 (G-20) to facilitate the monitoring of economic and financial developments for these systemically important economies.

Includes ProQuest Central and many more.
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The Refworld database of UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) provides information for making decisions on refugee status. Refworld's collection is derived from a diverse network of international organizations that relate to countries of origin, policy documents and positions, and documents relating to international and national legal frameworks.

ReliefWeb, the leading humanitarian information service, says, "We deliver fast, reliable updates from 4,000+ sources, including NGOs, governments and research centers to the humanitarian community." Provided by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

The Repertoire provides comprehensive coverage of the Security Council’s interpretation and application of the United Nations Charter and its own Provisional Rules of Procedure since 1946.

The Repertory contains analytical studies of the decisions of the principal organs of the UN under each of the Articles of the UN Charter. It consists of a comprehensive summary of the decisions of UN Organs, together with review of related material, organized by Charter Articles, and presented in such a way as to throw light on questions of application and interpretation of the Charter which have arisen in practice.

The Reports of International Arbitral Awards provide a systematic collection of International arbitral and judicial awards which are of considerable importance as a "subsidiary means for the determination of the rules of law".

Widely considered the most authoritative reference work on the International Court of Justice. This 4 volume work includes information and analysis of the Court’s relation to the other principal bodies of the United Nations, its jurisdiction, and its procedure.

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SHERLOC (Sharing Electronic Resources and Laws On Crime) was developed by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to facilitate the dissemination of information regarding the implementation of the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its three Protocols. The portal consists of a case law database, a database of legislation, a bibliographic database, and a directory of competent national authorities.

Annual analysis on issues on armaments and arms control, conflicts and resolutions, security arrangements and disarmament, as well as longer-term trends in international security.

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Daily newsletters including news from Somalia and Ethiopia.
The subscription to this resource is funded by the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, the Department of Safety and Security, and United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia.

A collection of more than 2000 e-books from Springer, from 2005 to 2012.

The list of countries or areas contains the names of countries or areas in alphabetical order, their three-digit numerical codes used for statistical processing purposes by the Statistics Division of the UN Secretariat, and their three-digit alphabetical codes assigned by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The designations employed and the presentation of material at this site do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.

Browsable and searchable statistical database for ECA (Economic Commission for Africa).

The online version of Statesman's Year Book, a statistical and historical annual publication.
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Provides confidential strategic forecasting and custom intelligence analysis and forecasting of existing or potential competitive and security threats that companies or nation-states may face in specific markets or regions.
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The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) develops these basic definitions on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) to promote a common understanding on the subject for use by the public, authorities and practitioners.

Case law database of the International Labour Organization Administrative Tribunal, which hears complaints from serving and former officials of the ILO and of the other international organizations that have recognized its jurisdiction.

Searchable database of the decisions of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal. Coverage: 1950-2009.
Link broken as of Feb 2025

Judgments and orders of the United Nations Appeals Tribunal of the Office of the Administration of Justice. Searchable database as well as list of judgments and orders organized chronologically.

The UN Atlas of the Oceans is a portal providing a wide variety of relevant information on sustainable development information of oceans.

Free access to all of the trade data available in the UN Comtrade database. The database contains more than 3.1 billion trade records starting from 1962.

UNdata brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point. Users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN system from a wide range of departments and subject matter.

The United Nations Digital Library (UNDL) includes UN documents, voting data, speeches, maps, and open access publications. The platform provides access to UN-produced materials in digital format and bibliographic records for print UN documents starting in 1979. System features include linked data between related documentation such as resolutions, meeting records and voting, and refining of searches by UN body, agency or type of document.

Extensive review of United Nations disarmament activities during a given year.
Part I: Resolutions and decisions; Part II: Developments and Trends.

The United Nations Editorial Manual Online is intended to serve as an authoritative statement of the style to be followed in drafting, editing and reproducing United Nations documents, publications and other written material. Although based mainly on the practices and policies that have evolved at Headquarters, the present manual is meant to provide editorial guidance for all parts of the Secretariat. The directives set forth in the manual supersede all earlier guidelines on the subjects dealt with herein. For topics not yet addressed in the present manual, the United Nations Editorial ManualPDFExternal link (Sales No. E.83.I.16) remains the primary authority for United Nations editorial policy.

Access to publications, journals, reports, and other series covering a wide range of topics: international peace and security, human rights, economic and social development, climate change, international law, governance, public health, and statistics from the UN Secretariat and its funds and programmes.

Since 1962, the Secretary-General has published, on an annual basis, a Juridical Yearbook which includes documentary materials of a legal character concerning the United Nations and related intergovernmental organizations. Coverage: 1963-2016.

Full-text searchable database for publications of the Office of Legal Affairs Codification Division, including International Law Commission documents and yearbooks, proceedings of diplomatic conferences, summaries of International Court of Justice judgments, reports of international arbitration awards, the Repertory of Practice of UN organs, and the Juridical Yearbook.

Available online from October 1995. Press Releases are not official documents but provide timely information on the current activities of the principal organs and subsidiary bodies, including summaries of meetings.

Provides information about membership and participation for each UN Member State, including statements made in UN bodies and draft resolutions sponsored.

OHCHR (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights) maintained database including documents for the Human Rights Council, its predecessor and their subsidiaries and parent organs.

Includes documents submitted to any of the UN human rights treaty monitoring bodies. Filter by convention, country, type of document, document symbol, and/or date.

Provides access to country-related documents submitted to any of the UN human rights bodies, including the special procedures.

Includes documents submitted to the UPR as well as related material; Search by session or by country.

Catalogue of the library for the OHCHR (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights).

The Peace and Security Data Hub is managed by the DPPA-DPO Information Management Unit to provide a centralized entry-point for up-to date public information on and about the UN’s Peace and Security Pillar.

This resource provided by the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) is intended for peacemaking professionals. It includes an extensive database of peace agreements, guidance material, and information on the UN’s mediation support services.

The United Nations Photo Library holds a collection of approximately 800,000 photographs dating back to the mid-1940s, chronicling the history of the Organization and its work. The collection includes coverage of historic UN meetings and events, as well as a wide array of field coverage from its earliest days.

The UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) Register of Conventional Arms includes data provided by states on arms transfers as well as information on military holdings, procurement through national production and relevant policies.

The World Tourism Organization's (UNWTO) glossary of tourism terms with links to online references and other useful information.

Information source offering access to research and information in the area of tourism. The UNWTO Elibrary contains books, journals and statistical reports by country and by indicator.

The UN Treaty Series Online is a fully searchable database containing all treaties and international agreements registered or filed and recorded by the UN Secretariat since 1945.

Gives access to the United Nations Human Settlements Programme's (UN-HABITAT) publications, evaluations, urban laws, lectures and data.

Free and open access to data about countries and cities around the globe. Data available analyzed, compiled and published by UN-Habitat’s Global Urban Observatory.

The UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal is a resource developed by UNOOSA (UN Office for Outer Space Affairs). It is the United Nations Platform for Space-Based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response.

UN-Women maintains this database that compiles all the different provisions related to gender contained in constitutions in countries around the world. Searchable by keywords, provisions, regions or countries.

The multilingual UNBIS Thesaurus contains the terminology used in subject analysis of documents and other materials relevant to United Nations programmes and activities. Available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

Access to all the official UNCCD (UN Convention to Combat Desertification) documents of all the sessions of the Conference of the Parties (COP) and one of its subsidiary bodies, the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC).

Full text access to publications from the UNCCD (UN Convention to Combat Desertification) .

A Media Room gives access to news, speeches, and audiovisual content. Also access to publications, practitioners guides and training tools, evaluations and assessments, and project and corporate documents from the UN Credit Development Fund (UNCDF).

The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) database CLOUT (Case Law on UNCITRAL Texts) offers a fast method of searching the abstracts collected in the CLOUT system.

The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Library jointly maintains an online catalogue with the other United Nations libraries in Vienna.

UNCTAD Publications offers access to the flagship reports, series, policy briefs, and meeting documentation of the UN Conference on Trade and Development.

Collection of statistical databases offered by UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), including commodity price statistics, foreign direct investment, information and communication technology statistics, and trade control measures.

A comprehensive compilation of international legal instruments, standards, recommended practices and other guidance material, intended to serve as a single point of reference on the various legal and practical matters relating to counter-terrorism aspects of border management. The database is maintained by UNCTED (UN Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate).

Database with detailed information on the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) 6,000+ development projects in 177 countries and territories worldwide.

Publications of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) may be browsed by subject, type or region.

Judgments and orders of the United Nations Dispute Tribunal of the Office of the Administration of Justice. Searchable database as well as list of judgments organized chronologically and list of orders organized by duty station.

GRID-Geneva manages numerous high quality geospatial data sets at various scales (global, continental, national and subnational) on a variety of environment related themes. GRID-Geneva also promotes the use of other relevant data platforms that can be found in another "External Data Platforms" section at the bottom of the page.

The UNEP Knowledge Repository is the official platform for its research content and knowledge products, offering open access to UNEP’s (UN Environment Programme) publications, technical and assessment reports, guidelines, newsletters, journal articles and other types of information material.

A web-based geospatial data platform that identifies and tracks where environmental, climate, and security stresses converge with socio-economic vulnerabilities and instability.

A timeline of the United Nations Environment Programme's history and how it has helped shape five decades of environmental milestones.

The Institute for Statistics Data Centre of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) contains over 1,000 types of indicators and raw data on education, literacy, science and technology, culture and communication. Custom tables may be generated, and predefined tables are also available.

The UNESCO Thesaurus is a controlled and structured list of terms used in subject analysis and retrieval of documents and publications in the fields of education, culture, natural sciences, social and human sciences, communication and information.

Clickable map and searchable list of all UNESCO World Heritage Sites worldwide.

Contains over 130 000 downloadable documents in six official languages covering all UNESCO fields of competence since 1945. The database also includes publications edited by the Organization.

The Adaptation Knowledge Portal provides access to information and worldwide knowledge on climate change adaptation, as well as numerous knowledge resources generated under the UNFCCC.

Documents of the Conference of the Parties for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Since 2003, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Population Reference Bureau have collaborated in publishing Country Profiles for Population and Reproductive Health. Each country profile is followed by more than 100 indicators on health and development, including internal disparities and public financing for health and education.

Includes demographic data by country, as well as data on maternal health, contraceptives and transparency.

Database provided by the UN Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) in cooperation with the UN Statistics Division. It is a multilingual, multiscriptual geo-referenced geographical names database containing authoritative information on country and place names worldwide.

This UNHCR database provides data and trends on the "Population of concern to UNHCR" - Refugees, asylum-seekers, returned refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs) protected/assisted by UNHCR, returned IDPs, stateless persons, and others of concern to UNHCR, in more than 150 countries.

Access to data, reports, maps and other information essential for UNHCR field operations.

Economic and social statistics provided by the UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) on the countries and territories of the world, with particular reference to children’s well-being. The statistics are published annually in the organization’s flagship publication. It includes tables combining statistics for all countries.

The Bibliography on Environmental Crimes includes material that has been collected for the preparation of specific projects developed by UNICRI's Emerging Crimes team and the documentation collected by the UNICRI Library over the years.

The Bibliography on Organized Crime and Corruption lists monographs and articles from journals received by the library of the UNICRI (United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute) since 2000.

The Bibliography on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) includes material collected for the preparation of specific projects developed by UNICRI's Counter-Trafficking Team and all the related documents received by the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) Library since the year 2000.

The UNICRI (United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute) Thesaurus lists the keywords used by UNICRI Documentation Service to index its Library Collection documents and by users to retrieve catalogue information. It covers all subjects related to crime prevention and criminal justice in the widest sense.

This Directory covers almost 500 institutes in some 90 countries, including academic institutions, governmental institutes, NGOs, private institutes, and international organizations. The information that is provided on the institutes includes contact details, web page links, names of directors and staff, activities and projects, sources of funding, and periodicals issued.

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) maintains this statistical database for major indicators of industrial performance. The briefs are organized by country to meet the needs of a wide range of data users.

Access to publications, statistics, multimedia, and other resources from UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization).

The United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine's (UNISPAL) collection contains the texts of current and historical United Nations material concerning the question of Palestine and other issues related to the Middle East situation and the search for peace. Documents are mostly in English.

The Unite Maps Initiative leverages UN infrastructure, cartographic outputs, standards, commercially available satellite imagery, and location-based data, including open data sources such as OpenStreetMap.

The UN Audiovisual Library provides access to and preserves the audiovisual archives from over 70 years of the history of the Organization. Holdings comprise a hybrid collection with both analog and digital records.

UN Peacekeeping website. Under Resources, there are various statistics about peacekeeping, including statistics related to Troop and Police Contributors, Fatalities, and Gender. The Open Data Portal, also under Resources, includes publicly available datasets related to peackeeping.

UNODA (UN Office for Disarmament Affairs) publishes information on the status of multilateral Arms Regulation and Disarmament Agreements, presenting data on signatories, parties of relevant agreements and the texts of the agreements.

UNODA's (UN Office for Disarmament Affairs) specialized archive provides quick and direct access to United Nations disarmament-related documents in one convenient location. It includes special sessions final documents and reports; Disarmament Commission guidelines and treaty review declarations.

Publicly available reports from UN Member States on national military expenditures.

The UNODC Counter-Terrorism Learning Platform is an interactive tool designed to assist criminal justice officers with their needs in the field of international cooperation against terrorism. Registration required.

Access to various resources from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The site inks to the World Drug Report and the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons as well as statistics, surveys, studies and journals relating to UNODCs working fields.

UNODC (UN Office on Drugs and Crime) developed database collecting and disseminating information on human trafficking prosecutions and convictions.

Access to key tools and recommended sources on smuggling of migrants from UNODC (UN Ofiice on Drugs and Crime). Resources include a Human Trafficking Case Law Database, a Victim Translation Assistance Tool, and a toolkit to Combat Smuggling of Migrants.

Discovery tool for the library at the United Nations Office in Geneva.

United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) collection of information regarding space launchings by Member States. Includes name of launching State, designator of the space object or its registration number, date and territory or location of launch, basic orbital parameters, and general function of the space object.

Collection of legislative texts related to space law of various countries. Compiled by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs.

UNOSAT, the UNITAR Operational Satellite Applications Programme, prepares maps, analytical reports and datasets in support of international humanitarian assistance operations to respond to crises caused by natural disasters, conflict and other complex emergencies.

The UN Treaty Collection provides a database on treaties and international agreements registered or filed and recorded with and published by the League of Nations.

The Monthly Statement of Treaties and International Agreements database contains detailed record of treaties and related subsequent treaty actions which were registered or filed and recorded with the Secretariat in a given month.

This database provides information on the status of over 500 major multilateral instruments deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations (including the texts of reservations, declarations and objections) and covers a range of subject matter such as Human Rights, Disarmament, Commodities, Refugees, the Environment and the Law of the Sea.

The UN Treaty Collection (UNTC) maintains a collection of treaties and international agreements registered or filed and recorded with and published by the Secretariat since 1946. It includes the texts of treaties in their authentic language(s), along with some translations into English and French.

United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database (UNTERM) is a linguistic tool that provides access to a diverse multilingual terminology and nomenclature of UN documents.

Catalogue of the library at the United Nations University.

The Universal Postal Union's (UPU) statistical database provides a dynamic overview of postal development in each member country. It includes approximately 100 indicators of postal development, grouped in 12 chapters.

Urban law is a collection of policies, laws, decisions and practices that govern the management and development of the urban environment. It aims to improve access to the legislation that regulates the urban environment.

The Global Health Observatory (GHO) is the World Health Organization's portal providing access to data and analyses for monitoring the global health situation. It provides critical data and analyses for key health themes, as well as direct access to the full database.

Link broken as of Feb 2025 . The WHO Global InfoBase is a data warehouse that collects, stores and displays information on chronic diseases and their risk factors for all WHO (World Health Organization) member states. Includes mortality, non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factor, and international comparisons data.

WIPO IP Portal includes WIPO’s global collections of searchable IP data with resources for patents, brands, domain name, designs, statistics, classifications, and standards. Includes WIPO-Lex, a collection of laws, treaties and judgements from WIPO member states.

Catalogue of the library of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The library's collection covers all aspects of intellectual property with its holdings of some 35,000 monographs and over 300 periodicals.

Database for searching meetings and documents of the World Intellectual Property Organization.

WIPO Lex is a search facility for national laws and treaties on intellectual property (IP) of WIPO, WTO and UN Members. It also features related information which elaborates, analyzes and interprets these laws and treaties. It provides streamlined access to reference material of key importance for optimal information on the global IP System.

The catalogue of the library of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) contains books, conference reports and other expert reports, working papers, annual and statistical reports and periodicals on meteorology.

This page gives access to Africa development indicators, Global Development Finance and World development indicators

DataBank is an analysis and visualization tool developed by the World Bank. It contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics. Links to other World Bank databases.

The Global Economic Monitor (GEM) is a World Bank online subscription service, updated daily, providing analysis of current economic trends, economic and financial data indicators, and an extensive database.

The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.

According to the website, "The World Environment Situation Room provides federated data system of the best openly accessible environmental data, information and knowledge to support decision-making, policy and action at the global, regional, national and local levels for sustainable development and national planning needs. WESR leverages capacities within a network of partner organizations including UN entities, regional and national organizations, and the established network of GRIDs and collaborating centers. The federated data system brings together over 45 data platforms and 70 data sources."

World Politics Review is a database including multiple areas of study, with thousands of articles in its archives and original content produced each month.
WPR covers topics of key relevance to foreign policy, international politics and foreign affairs.
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The WTO Documents Online database provides access to the official documentation of the World Trade Organization, including legal texts of the WTO agreements.

WTO iLibrary is the online research depository of the World Trade Organization (WTO) featuring its publications and reports and contains all the WTO's key research material on global trade.

Catalogue of the World Trade Organization Library.

The WTO statistics database allows for retrieval of statistical information through four presentations: Trade Profiles, Tariff Profiles, Services Profiles and the Time Series section.

Terminology database of the World Trade Organization (WTO) for translators where one can find the terminology of the organization in its three official languages (English, French, Spanish).

The Yearbook of the United Nations is the principal reference work of the UN and provides a detailed overview of the Organization's activities during the course of a year. All the Yearbooks, 1945 to the most recent, are available online and provide citation to the documentation and include the full text of resolutions.