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This guide is to help you get started with your library research for information fromthe United Nations and its subsidiary organizations.

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UN Member States: On the Record
Provides direct access to official documents reflecting the views of United Nations Member States (Source: web page).

A Global Agend by James Traub; Irwin Arieff (Editor); Louise Arbour
Call Number: McPherson Library JX1977 A1I8
ISBN: 0984569138
Publication Date: 2011-08-01

United Nations News

UN News Centre
UN Pulse
Alerts on just released online information, major reports, publications and documents.
UN Press Releases
Information about forthcoming documents man months prior to official releases.

Featured Resources

UN Vulnerable Groups: LGBTQI+
UN actions, status, and resources about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex + topics.
Human Development Report
1998 to present. 2014 Report titled "Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience"

The Human Development Report is an independent publication commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). There are also Human Development Reports (HDR) at the regional, national and local levels take the human development approach to the regional or country level and are prepared and owned by regional and national teams.
State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA)
Published every two years. Provides a global view of capture fisheries and aquaculture, including associated policy issues
United Nations Security Council Resolutions
Includes full text of latest resolutions, such as
S/RES/1973 (2011) -- The situation in Libya
S/RES/1973 (2001) The Situation in Libya
World Water Day, March 22
Each year,March 22nd marks the international observance of World Water Day, proclaimed by the General Assembly resolution A/RES/47/193 of 1992
UN OCHA
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
UN Women
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
Millennium Project
The Millennium Project was commissioned by the United Nations Secretary-General in 2002 to develop a concrete action plan for the world to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and to reverse the grinding poverty, hunger and disease affecting billions of people

Reference sources

International Information: documents, publications, and electronic information of international governmental organizations by Hajnal, Peter I.
Call Number: JZ4850 I58 1997 Reference
ISBN: 1563088088
2vol.

Morse, Catherine. "Managing Electronic International Government Information: Issues and Practices" Managing Electronic Government Information in Libraries: Issues and Practices. ed. Andrea M. Morrison. Chicago: American Library Association, 2008. 195-208

Featured Books

United Nations and the protection of the rights of women / Mascha Fedorova, Willen-Jan van der Wolf, eds. by Mascha Fedorova, Willen-Jan van der Wolf, eds
Call Number: McPherson Library HQ1236 U543
multi-volume set
United Nations and the protection of the rights of women regional issues: Women's regional rights: Africa by P.A. van Laar & W.J.F.M. van der Wolf (eds).
Call Number: McPherson Library HQ1236.5 A65W65
Four volume set.
United Nations and the protection of the rights of women regional issuesWomen's regional rights: the League of Arab States by P.A. van Laar & W.J.F.M. van der Wolf (eds
Call Number: McPHerson Library HQ1236.5 A65W65
4 volume set
Investing in development: a practical plan to achieve the Millennium defvelopment goals by UN Millennium Project
Call Number: McPherson Library HC59.7 U44
ISBN: 1844072177
14 vol. set, published 2005. For other works on this, search in the Library catalogue for the subject "Un Millennium Project"
Arab Human Development Report
Call Number: McPherson Library HN766 A73
Latest edition 2009, also available online at http://www.arab-hdr.org/

Subsidiary Organizations

Use the Yearbook of International Organizations to find out more about a UN organization or a UN partner.

Yearbook of International Organizations
Union of International Associations. Online 2000 - present.
FAO
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
UNESCO
United Nations Educational Cultural and Scientific Organization
WHO
World Health Organization
UNHCHR
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
OHCA
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
International Court of Justice
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations (UN). It was established in June 1945 by the Charter of the United Nations and began work in April 1946.
UNECE United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) was set up in 1947 by ECOSOC. It is one of five regional commissions of the United Nations. The others are the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA).Its major aim is to promote pan-European economic integration. To do so, UNECE brings togeth
UNECE publications