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United Nations System of Organizations
Official WEB Site Locator
Includes "a listing in alphabetical order of all United Nations Organizations (UNOs) with their abbreviations and city locations of headquarters sites...an explanation of the various categories of United Nations Organizations (UNOs) -- i.e., programmes, specialized agencies, autonomous organizations and inter-agency bodies -- together with a listing of which UNOs comprise each category...a listing of which United Nations Organizations (UNOs) have online information for frequently requested items -- conference schedules, library and documentation services, press releases, role of the organization, publications sales catalogues, vacancy notices for international staff."

United Nations Security Council

• Quarterly Report of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq - (dead link)
  7 March 2007, S/2007/126.

UN General Assembly 61st Session (19-29 September 2006)
All Statements and Webcasts available online with only a selection listed below.

• United States of America - George W. Bush (19 September 2006)
  Video ; Text.
• Islamic Republic of Iran - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (19 September 2006)
  Video ; Text
• Islamic Republic of Afghanistan - Hamid Karzai - (20 September 2006)
  Video ; Text

United Nations Homepage

• UN News Centre
  • Security Council Stresses 'Historic Importance' of Afghanistan Election, Congratulates Voters for Commitment to Democracy
    Press Release, 12 October 2004.
  • International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
    April 7, 2004
    • Secretary-General Annan Speech to Commission on Human Rights
      "Launches action plan to prevent genocide."

• UN Charter
• General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (June 25-27, 2001)
  • "Global Crisis - Global Action"
    GA adopts Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS
• Security Council

United Nations - IRIN News - Sudan
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

• Interview with Dennis McNamara (September 7, 2004)
• Interview with Al Zhawi Ibrahim Malik, Information and Communications Minister (September 1, 2004)
• SUDAN: A Future Without War?
  IRIN Web special on the prospects of peace in Sudan.

United Nations Documents

United Nations Dag Hammarskjˆd Library

• UNBISnet Search
  UN Bibliographic Information System
  "Catalogue of UN publications and documentation indexed by the United Nations Dag Hammarskjˆd Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva. Also included are non-UN publications held in the collection of the Dag Hammarskjˆld Library."

Global Policy Forum (GPF)
"We monitor global policy making at the United Nations"
"On the site, GPF has dozens of Publications on global policy issues, as well as thousands of pages of documents and data. The site is designed to be used by the general public as well as by students and specialists. GPF also provides many interviews to print and broadcast media and we respond to hundreds of inquiries from students and citizens."
Sections include: Financing for Development ; Sanctions ; Global Taxes ; Globalization ; Iraq Crisis ; Secretary General ; Tables and Charts ; International Justice.

Balkans Task Force (BTF)

Collection on Critical Global Issues
"The Collection on Critical Global Issues 2.0 was developed in 1999 by United Nations University Press. It contains 210 publications (32,000 pages) in the fields of Agriculture and Land Management, Development, Environment and Sustainability, Food and Nutrition, Natural Resource Development, Science and Technology."
- The United Nations University

Department of Disarmament Affairs

• UN Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects
  Includes Documents of the Conference ; Other Documents ; Views of States ; Press Releases.

Department of Economic and Social Development

• Division for Social Policy and Development
  "Seeks to strengthen international cooperation for social development with particular attention to poverty eradication, employment generation and social integration, especially with due regard to issues relating to older persons, persons with disabilities, family, youth, persons in situations of conflict and indigenous peoples."
  • Youth at the United Nations
• Financing for Development
• Statistics Division
  Sections include: Statistical Databases ; Publications ; Methods and Classifications ; Statistical Commission ; Millennium Profiles ; Demographic & Social ; Energy ; Environment ; Industry ; National Accounts ; Trade.

Department of Peace-keeping Operations (DPKO) - (dead link)

• United Nations Mine Action Service - (dead link)
  • Portfolio of Mine-related Projects - (dead link) [.pdf]
  • Stockpile Destruction Resource Site

Department of Political Affairs - (dead link)

• Question of Palestine
  • Resolutions
    "United Nations resolutions related to the question of Palestine, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the current Middle East peace process, in reverse chronological order."
• Repertoire Of The Practice Of The Security Council
  "...published by the Secretary-General at the request of the General Assembly... is the only analytical record of the practice of the Security Council, as reflected in its decisions, positive and negative, and related statements. It presents all the data relevant to the interpretation and application by the Security Council of the provisions of the UN Charter and the Councilís provisional rules of procedure. However, the is not a work of codification or interpretation...All the published volumes of the Repertoire for the period 1946 to 1984 are available on this page. No alterations have been made to the original pages..."

European Centre Home Page - (dead link)
"an intergovernmental organization concerned with social welfare, affiliated to the United Nations. It is an international centre for social research, policy, information and training. "

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

• World Agricultural Information Centre (WAICENT) Portal
  Includes: "Thousands of full-text publications and technical documents on agriculture, fisheries, nutrition and forestry, available through the Internet, on specific subjects such as trends in trade, country-specific information, food safety and deforestation ... Codes of conduct, interactive tools for use at the national level, and early warning and disaster prevention systems ... Data, including maps and charts, obtained through the FAO online statistical databases, containing over one million time-series records, covering international statistics in the area of agricultural production, trade indices, food supply, land and food aid ... Thousands of other multimedia resources available on the FAO Web site."
• FAO Corporate Document Repository
  "...houses FAO documents and publications, as well as selected non-FAO publications, in electronic format."
  • Glossary of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering
    FAO Research and Technology Paper No. 7
• Agriculture 21
  • Land and Water Development Division
    • ProSoil - Problem Soils Database
      A Multimedia Kit Including a Database and an Electronic Archive
• AGRIS/CARIS
  Centre of Information Management for International Agricultural Research
  Sections include: The Facts ; AGRIS/CARIS Network ; Information Profiles ; AGRIS/CARIS Magazine ; Documentation Tools ; Databases ; Centre Guide.
• Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture
  • FAO Statement on Biotechnology
  • FAO Electronic Forum on Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture
  • Glossary of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering
    FAO Research and Technology Paper No. 7
• Electronic Forum on Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture
• Forestry Home page
  • Country Profiles - Distribution of Forests
• Legal Office
• World Food Summit
  Rome Declaration - Reduce by half the number of chronically undernourished people on the Earth by the year 2015.
  • State of Food Insecurity in the World
    Annual progress reports to meet the 2015 goal.

Food and Nutrition Library
"The Food and Nutrition Library 1.0 was developed in January 2000 by the United Nations University and the NGO Global Help Projects/ Humanity Libraries Project. It contains 260 publications (28,000 pages) of ideas, experiences and solutions in the fields of Food and Nutrition, Food Policy, Nutrition Research, including the Food and Nutrition Bulletin."

Human Rights

• International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
  April 7, 2004
  • Secretary-General Annan Speech to Commission on Human Rights
    "Launches action plan to prevent genocide."

• International Decade of the World's Indigenous People 1995-2004
  Includes Webcasts, Documents, and Final Report of the first session (New York, 13-14 May 2002.)
• Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
  • Situation of Detainees at Guantanamo Bay - (dead link) (February 2006)[.pdf]
  • "The Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative: A Human Rights Assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP)" [.pdf]
  • Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
    Adopted on 12 August 1949...entry into force 21 October 1950.
  • National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
    Includes: Documents ; News ; Relevant Links ; Publications.

Infonation
"InfoNation is an easy-to-use, two-step database that allows you to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations."
United Nations Publication

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

• "Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis" (January 2001)
  Download in PDF: Full document - (dead link)]
  "The full report, which runs to over 1000 pages, has been over three years in production and is the work of 123 Lead Authors from around the world."
• National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme
  • Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management in National Greehouse Gas Inventories
    "This report provides good practice guidance to assist countries in producing inventories that are neither over nor underestimates so far as can be judged, and in which uncertainties are reduced as far as practicable."

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
Includes Latest Documents and News; Basic Legal Documents; Press Releases and Statements; Tribunal Cases; Bulletin; and Publications

• Milosevic et al. Case
  Includes Transcripts, Statements, and Press Releases.
• Indictment Against Slobodan Milosevic

International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD)

International Telecommunication Union

• World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
  Geneva 2003 - Tunis 2005.
  Includes: Outcome Documents ; WSIS Implementation and Follow-Up ; Phase II Documents ; Phase I Documents.

International Victimology Website (IVW)
"a resource for all those interested in improving justice for victims of crime and abuse of power. Through IVW, the UN Center for International Crime Prevention, the Research and Documentation Center of the Netherlands Ministry of Justice and the World Society of Victimology aim to promote the UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power."

• Victimology Research Database - (dead link)
• Victim Services and Victimization Prevention Database - (dead link)

Israeli / Palestinian Conflict

• UN News Centre - Middle East
  Daily news stories of speeches and urgings
• Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations
  • Middle East Peace Process Documents - (dead link)
  • Works and Documents - (dead link)
    • Letters to the Secretary-General from the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the U.N. (1992-Present) - (dead link)
• Question of Palestine at the United Nations

• Security Council Resolutions

  "Resolutions 1397 and 1402, taken together, provide the vision for a permanent settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the immediate security and political steps needed to move beyond the present crisis."
  Kofi Annan in address to Security Council on 4 April 2002"

  • Palestine Question - SecCo Resolution
    04/04/2002 S/RES/1403 (2002)
  • Palestine Question - SecCo Resolution
    30/03/2002 S/RES/1402 (2002)
  • Palestine question - SecCo resolution
    12/03/2002 S/RES/1397 (2002)

Johannesburg Summit 2002 - (dead link) (26 August - 4 September 2002)
The World Summit on Sustainable Development
Sections include: Live Webcast ; News ; Basic Info ; What's New ; Calendar ; Preparatory Process ; Documents ; Major Groups ; Media Info ; Links.

Peace and Security

• "Report of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations"
• Report of the Secretary-General on Jenin
  "This report was prepared on the basis of General Assembly resolution ES-10/10, adopted on 7 May 2002, in which the Assembly requested the Secretary-General to present a report, drawing upon the available resources and information, on the recent events that took place in Jenin and other Palestinian cities."
• United Nations in Africa
  • Conflict Diamonds - Sanctions and War

Peace and Security through Disarmament

• Department for Disarmament Affairs (DDA)
  • A Disarmament Agenda for the Twenty-first Century
    DDA Occasional Papers. No. 6, October 2002
  • UN Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects
    Includes Documents of the Conference ; Other Documents ; Views of States ; Press Releases.
  • Weapons of Mass Destruction Branch
    • Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
    • Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
    • The Chemical Weapons Convention
    • The Biological Weapons Convention

Question of Palestine at the United Nations

• Security Council Resolutions

  "Resolutions 1397 and 1402, taken together, provide the vision for a permanent settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the immediate security and political steps needed to move beyond the present crisis."
  Kofi Annan in address to Security Council on 4 April 2002"

  • Palestine Question - SecCo Resolution
    04/04/2002 S/RES/1403 (2002)
  • Palestine Question - SecCo Resolution
    30/03/2002 S/RES/1402 (2002)
  • Palestine question - SecCo resolution
    12/03/2002 S/RES/1397 (2002)

UN Action Against Terrorism

• General Assembly debate on measures to eliminate international terrorism - Live Webcast - (dead link) and statements - (dead link) (10/01/01 - 10/05/01)
• Secretary-General Urges Assembly to Respond to 11 September Attacks by Reaffirming Rule of Law (09/24/01)
• Fighting Terrorism on a Global Front (09/21/01)
  Op-Ed piece by UN Secretary-General in the NY Times
• UN Security Council to Taliban: Deliver Bin Laden - (dead link) (09/18/01)
• UN Told Afghanistan Taliban Opposition Willing to Hunt Bin Laden - (dead link) (09/18/01)
• Security council condemns, "in strongest terms", terrorist attacks on United States (09/12/01)
• Condemnation by the General Assembly of terrorist attacks in the United States (09/11/01)

UN Atlas of the Oceans
"The Atlas is an information system designed for use by policy makers who need to become familiar with ocean issues and by scientists, students and resource managers who need access to underlying data bases and approaches to sustainability

UN Cartographic Section - (dead link)
Maps and Geographic Information Resources

United Nations Centre for Human Settlement (Habitat)

• Balkans Task Force (BTF)
  • "The Kosovo Conflict: Consequences for the Environment & Human Settlements."
    BTF Final Report

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

• The State of the World's Children
  Current and previous reports available for download.
  • State of the World's Children 2007
    Women and Children: The Double Dividend of Gender Equality
• Unite for Children Unite Against AIDS
• The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children (English or French)
  "A Critical review of progress made and obstacles encountered in increasing protection for war-affected children."
  By Grace Machel, 2000
• Innocenti Research Centre - Florence, Italy
  • "Child Poverty in Rich Nations" - (dead link)
  • "Domestic Violence Against Women and Girls." - (dead link) [.pdf]
  • Young People in Changing Societies - (dead link) - Monee Report No. 7 (2000)
  • UNICEF Innocenti Report Card (February 2000) [.pdf]
    "...league table ranks countries according to their injury death rates for children aged 1 to 14. Sweden, the United Kingdom, Italy and the Netherlands occupy the top four places - all with injury death rates below 7 per 100,000. At the bottom of the league are the United States and Portugal, where the rate of child injury deaths is over twice the level of the leading countries, and South Korea where the rate is four times higher."

United Nations Chronicle Online Edition

UNAIDS - Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

• A Scaled-Up Response to AIDS in Asia and the Pacific [.pdf] (July 2005)
  "This UNAIDS report summarises the challenges of HIV and AIDS in Asian and Pacific countries. The report reviews available evidence, discusses reasons why critical services are not reaching most of the population and outlines what needs to be done to remedy this."
• International Women's Day 2004
  March 8, 2004
  Theme:

  Women & HIV/AIDS

  "As we mark this year's International Women's Day, we look at the devastating toll the global HIV/AIDS epidemic is taking on women, and the critical role of women in fighting AIDS."

  • Gender and HIV/AIDS Web Portal
    - UNIFEM - UN Development Fund for Women
• World AIDS Day 2003 (December 1, 2003)
  "World AIDS Day 2003 highlights 'Live and let live' ó the theme of the World AIDS Campaign 2002-2003. The campaign focuses on eliminating stigma and discrimination, the major obstacles to effective HIV/AIDS prevention and care."
• World AIDS Day 2002 (December 1)
• World AIDS Campaign 2002-2003
  "Live and let live is the slogan of the two-year World AIDS Campaign 2002-2003, which will focus on eliminating stigma and discrimination."
  Sections include: Campaign Documents ; Background Documents ; Public Service Announcements ; Posters ; Country Campaigns ; Report Your Activities ; Campaign History ; Human Rights Services ; Counselling Hotlines ; Links.
  • International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS [.doc]
    World AIDS Day Statement 2002
• UNAIDS at Barcelona
  XIV International Conference on AIDS, Barcelona, 7-12 July 2002
  • Young People and HIV/AIDS
    "This report contains important new data about why young people are key to defeating the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, including results from more than 60 new national surveys. It reaffirms that we must accord top priority to making investments in the well-being of young people and to engaging them in the fight against HIV/AIDS."
  • Children on the Brink 2002
    A joint USAID/UNAIDS/UNICEF Report on Orphan Estimates and Program Strategies.
    "...contains statistics on children orphaned by HIV/AIDS from 88 countries, analysis of the trends found in those statistics, and strategies and principles for helping the children."
  • Speeches & messages
• General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (June 25-27, 2001)
  • "Global Crisis - Global Action"
    GA adopts Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS
• Economics and Development
  • Guidelines for Studies of the Social and Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS (September 2000) [.pdf]
  • Socio Economic Impact of AIDS in Africa - Slides (October 2000) [.ppt]
• Gender and HIV/AIDS
  "UNIFEM, in collaboration with UNAIDS, has developed this comprehensive gender and HIV/AIDS web portal to provide up-to-date information on the gender dimensions of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The site aims to promote understanding, knowledge sharing, and action on HIV/AIDS as a gender and human rights issue."

United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development

• RIO+10
  The World Summit on Sustainable Development
  The official UN website for the ten-year review of the United Nations Conference on environment and development.

United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network
Includes UN Documents, Statistical Sources, Country Information, Laws, Treaties, & Constitutions

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

• International Women's Day 2004
  March 8, 2004
  Theme: Women & HIV/AIDS
  "As we mark this year's International Women's Day, we look at the devastating toll the global HIV/AIDS epidemic is taking on women, and the critical role of women in fighting AIDS."
• Gender and HIV/AIDS
  "UNIFEM, in collaboration with UNAIDS, has developed this comprehensive gender and HIV/AIDS web portal to provide up-to-date information on the gender dimensions of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The site aims to promote understanding, knowledge sharing, and action on HIV/AIDS as a gender and human rights issue."
• The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children (English or French)
  "A Critical review of progress made and obstacles encountered in increasing protection for war-affected children."
  By Grace Machel, 2000

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

• United Nations Development Program - Afghanistan Recovery
  Sections include: Poverty Reduction ; Strengthening Capacity in the Public Sector ; Gender Development ; Post-Conflict Recovery ; Disaster Management ; Recent News.
• Programme on Governance in the Arab Region (POGAR)
  "POGAR is dedicated to the promotion and development of good governance practices and related reforms in the Arab states; it works in partnership with key governance institutions including legislatures, judiciaries, and civil society organizations to identify needs and solutions."
  • Arab Legal Portal
    Current databases: Arab Banking Laws ; Arab Parliamentary Database ; Arab Financial Oversight Database ; Egypt Legal Database.
  • Human Rights Index for the Arab Countries
    "...is a repository for the entire set of United Nations documents pertaining to human rights and the responses, including reservations, by the Arab member states to the committees that monitor the core international human rights treaties. There are seven of these human rights treaty bodies, which meet regularly to monitor the implementation of the respective treaties:..."
    - United Nations Development Programme on Governance in the Arab Region (UNDP-POGAR)

• YOUANDAIDS
  The HIV/AIDS Portal for Asia Pacific
  Sections include: Headlines ; Ask the Expert ; In Focus ; Features ; Artscape ; Books ; Publications.
• • From Challenges to Opportunities (etext)
    Responses to Trafficking and HIV/AIDS in South Asia
• Human Development Report Office (HDRO)
  • Occasional Papers and Background Papers
    "In preparation for the Human Development Reportevery year, the HDRO commissions a number of experts to write papers on issues related to the theme of the Report. The following is a compilation of selected Occasional Papers written since 1992."

U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

• Environment and Human Settlements Division
  • Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters
    Includes: Treaty Text ; Status of Ratification ; Meetings of the Signatories ; Task Forces and Working Groups ; Publications ; Links.

United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

• UNESCO & Iraq
  Sections include: News & Updates ; Education in Iraq ; Cultural Heritage in Iraq
  • World Heritage News - Iraq - (dead link)
    Heritage in Danger
  • The Tentative List of Iraq - (dead link)
• UNESCO Archives Portal
  An International Gateway to Information for Archivists and Archive Users
  "gives access to websites of archival institutions around the world. It is also a gateway to resources related to records and archives management and to international co-operation in this area."
• UNESCO Libraries Portal
  "An international information gateway for librarians and library users"
  Includes: Library Websites ; Library Associations and Networks ; Preservation and Access Initiatives ; Librarianship ; Education and Training ; Online Resources for Librarians ; Conferences, Meetings.
  • Floods in Europe: Damages to Libraries and Archives
    "A UNESCO information service on the damages in libraries and archives in Europe and on actions taken for disaster recovery."
• UNESCO Publishing
  • The UNESCO Courier
  • UNESCO Photobank Online Image Gallery Database - (dead link) "...full access online to its collection of photographs and slides covering a wide range of subjects related to the Organization's fields of competence: education, science, culture and communication. ..The collection was started in 1946 when UNESCO was founded and currently contains more than 10,000 digitized images. More will become available as the rest of the collection is digitized."
  • UNESCO Sources - (dead link)
  • UNESCO Videobank - (dead link) (English or French)
    "The UNESCO Videobank is a tool designed to meet the needs of professional producers. It has been developed to enable producers and broadcasters to obtain reproduction rights of material in our possession. It is a data base of 2,000 films and videos produced or co-produced by the Organisation and it also features various films deposited at UNESCO by its member states or by independent producers. The collection - covering a wide range of subjects related to the Organisation's fields of competence (education, science, culture and communication) - was started in 1945 when UNESCO was founded."
• Communication and Information
  "UNESCO encourages international debate about the impact of globalisation upon access to information and the process of communication."
  • Observatory on the Information Society: An International Gateway
    • Collection on National Copyright Laws
      "Full texts of national copyright and related rights legislation of UNESCO Member States can now be accessed on the website of UNESCO's Culture Sector. The collection currently comprises about 100 laws and is constantly being updated and completed."
• UNESCO Institute for Statistics
• UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisims - (dead link)
  "The register is basically only a list of species names but it is tried to add at least some additional information, including author names, vernacular names, information on geographical and bathymetrical distribution and NODC numerical codes. Synonyms are added but only if they are still in use or were used in recent times."
• UNESCO Sector for Culture
• UNESCO Social and Human Sciences Documentation Centre
  • Social Science Online Periodicals (full-text) - (dead link)
    Specialized Articles from around 340 Periodicals in Social Sciences
• International Association of Universities
  • Higher Education Links - (dead link)
    Sections include: Institutions and organisations ; Research ; Funding and Grants ; Jobs ; Resources ; Journals.
• International Bureau of Education
  • World Data on Education
    "...focuses on basic descriptions of the main characteristics of the organization and functioning of national education systems."
    Includes Educational Profiles ; National Reports ; Web Resources
• Management of Social Transformations Programme (MOST)
  • MOST Urban Issues: Urban Development and Governance
    • Publications
• The Slave Trade Archives Project
  "is concerned with the access to and preservation of original archive materials relating to the slave trade...The countries foreseen as participating in the project at this stage are: Angola, Benin, Brazil, Cameroon, CÙte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, HaÔti, Mozambique, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Senegal, and Togo."
• World Heritage
  • The World Heritage List - (dead link)
    "The World Heritage Committee has inscribed the following properties on the World Heritage List. The List, arranged alphabetically by nominating State Party, is current as of 3 July 2003. The list will be updated following the next meeting of the Committee in July 2004."
  • WHTour
    "The WHTour is creating a documentary image bank of panoramic pictures and virtual reality movies for all sites registered as World Heritage by the UNESCO."
• World Poetry Directory
  "This website brings you lists of festivals, prizes, journals, and associations of the world of poetry. It also provides links with major web sites, presenting poetry activities in UNESCO Member States, Association Members and Non-member States."

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

• UNEP.Net - The U.N. Environment Network
  "For authoritative environmental information from a broad range of information and data providers, committed to making their information freely available to the whole spectrum of users of environmental information."
• One Planet Many People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment
  "...Through a combination of ground photographs, current and Historical satellite images, and narrative based on extensive scientific evidence, this publication illustrates how humans have altered their surroundings and continue to make observable and measurable changes to the global environment."
• International Effort to Save Forests Should Target 15 Countries (August 2001)
  "New Report, An Assessment of the Status of the World's Remaining Closed Forests, Pin Points Forest Areas Vital for Water, Wildlife and Climate."
• Environmental Effects of Ozone Depletion and its Interaction with Climate Change
  UNEP 2002 Assessment
• Balkans Task Force (BTF)
  • "The Kosovo Conflict: Consequences for the Environment & Human Settlements."
    BTF Final Report
• Climate Change
  "The UNEP.Net Climate change portal provides the authoritative source of climate change information used by UNEP and its partners for integrated environment assessments as part of the GEO process."
• Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
  • Convention Text
  • The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS)
  • [.pdf]
    "the world biggest web-based archive as a transdisciplinary knowledge base of sustainable development."
  • Sustaining Life on Earth
    How the Convention on Biological Diversity Promotes Nature and Human Well-Being
    "This booklet looks at the importance of biological diversity for the health of people and the planet. It explains the role of the Convention in protecting this biodiversity and ensuring that it is used for the benefit of all."
• ECOLEX: A Gateway to Environmental Law
  "...designed to use IUCN's Environmental Law Information System (ELIS) as its core archival system and link this data to full text information available with UNEP's Computerised Environmental Law Information Base (CELIB) and other authoritative sources...Users can search using subject area, keyword, country, or date. The list of subjects includes, for example: climate/atmosphere; fresh water; marine environment; soils; forests; biodiversity; energy; protected areas; hazardous substances; and wastes. ECOLEX includes information on multilateral treaties; national legislation; European Union instruments; international "soft law" and related documents; law and policy literature; and judicial decisions."
• Environment and Trade: A Handbook
• Europe
  "The goal of the European Regional Portal is to make available the best existing sources of information on the European environment, and to provide means for integrating, analysing and adding value to such information - for improved environmental management and related decision-making."
• Freshwater
  • International Conference on Freshwater [Bonn] 2001 (December 2001)
    • The Bonn Keys
    • Conference Documents
      • Water - a Key to Sustainable Development [.pdf]
    • Supporting Studies
      • The Convention on the Law of Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses [.pdf]
      • Biodiversity and International Water Policy [.pdf]
      • The Role of Rainfed Agriculture in the Future of Global Food Production [.pdf]
    • Speeches & Presentations
• GEO: Global Environmental Outlook Home Page
  • GEO Year Book 2006
    Sections include: Feature Focus: Energy and Air Pollution ; Emerging Challenges - New Finding ; GEO Indicators.
  • GEO-3: Global Environmental Outlook (2002)
    Chapters Include: Integrating Environment and Development: 1972-2002 ; State of the Environment and Policy Retrospective: 1972-2002 ; Human Vulnerability to Environmental Change ; Outlook: 2002-32 ; Options for Action.
  • GEO-2000: Global Environmental Outlook 2000
  • GEO-1: Global Environmental Outlook (1997)
• Global Environment Centre Foundation (English or Japanese)
  "Supporting to UNEP-IETC's activities and promoting partnership between developing countries and Japan for global environmental preservation."
  • NETT21 (GEC Environmental Technical Database) - (dead link)
    "NETT21 is an abbreviation for the Database on 'New Environmental Technology Transfer in the 21st Century', nickname of GEC Environmental Technology Database. It shows GEC's resolution to promote environmental technology transfer in the 21st century."
• Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities
  • UNEP/GPA News Forum - (dead link)
• Global Resource Information Database (GRID) - (dead link)
• GRID-Arendal
  Regional Environmental Information includes: Arctic ; Nordic/Baltic ; Central & Eastern Europe.
  • GLOBIO - Global Methodology for Mapping Human Impacts On The Bioshere
    "...was initiated to provide an inexpensive, simple scientifically based communication tool for mapping, at large scale, the likelihood of human impacts on the biosphere resulting from increasing growth in resource utilization. GLOBIO is intended to bring scientific evidence on human impacts into a format suitable for policymaking."
  • Java Climate Model
    "Climate change is influenced by many interacting processes. This web model lets you experiment with these, simply by moving controls with your mouse and observing the effect instantly on plots ranging from emissions to impacts."
  • Maps and Graphics
    • Greenhouse Gas Emission Graphs
      Emissions of GHG in Annex I Countries
      "This set of graphics has been produced by GRID-Arendal in co-operation with the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for the 7th Conference of the Parties (COP-7) to the Convention, held in Marrakesh, Morocco 29th October to 9th November 2001."
    • Greenhouse Gases & the Kyoto Protocol
      Interactive Map of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      "Using the map, any user can now evaluate the current state of emissions, and projections for the future. The data is available both as total emissions, and as emissions per citizen in each country that has signed the Kyoto protocol. It is also possible to zoom in and closer examine a specific part of the world, or to get a graph of the emissions covering a period of 20 years."
      By UNEP/GRID-Arendal, Norway

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

  • Climate Change 2001:
    • The Scientific Basis (January 2001)
      Download in PDF: Full document - (dead link)]
      "The full report, which runs to over 1000 pages, has been over three years in production and is the work of 123 Lead Authors from around the world."
    • Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
    • Mitigation
    • Synthesis Report - (dead link)
• Ozone Secretariat of the UN Environment Programme - (dead link)
  "This site is a clearinghouse of information related to the Ozone and the challenges faced in its preservation."
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre
  • Biodiversity Bulletin
    Themes include: Priorities for Biodiversity in the Tropics ; Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: An Urgent Priority for Conservation ; Patterns of Biodiversity in Arctic Birds.
  • Biodiversity Series
  • Country Information Sources

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

United Nations Fund for International Partnerships

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

• BINAS Online - (dead link)
  Biosafety Information Network and Advisory Service (BINAS)

United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

United Nations - International Telecommunication Union

• World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
  Geneva 2003 - Tunis 2005.
  Includes: Outcome Documents ; WSIS Implementation and Follow-Up ; Phase II Documents ; Phase I Documents.

UNMOVIC - U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission

• Delegation to the Vienna Talks with IAEA and Iraq (30 Sept. - 1 October 2002)
  On Practical Arrangements for the Resumption of UN Inspections
• Documents
• IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency
  • IAEA and Iraq: The Next Steps - (dead link) (30 Sept. - 1 October 2002)
    Talks in Vienna Between Iraq Officials and UN, IAEA Inspectorates
  • IAEA Iraq Action Team - (dead link)
    Includes: Mandate ; Resolutions ; Reports
    • Fact Sheet: Iraq's Nuclear Weapon Programme - (dead link) (April 2002)

United Nations Millennium Assembly Website
The Millennium Summit, September 6-8, 2000

• United Nations Millennium Declaration (September 8, 2000)
• Millennium Report of the Secretary-General, 2000

United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime

• Afghanistan Opium Survey 2006
• World Drug Report - (dead link)
  "It provides one of the most comprehensive overviews of illicit drug trends at the international level."

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

• Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan - (dead link)
  • Reproductive Health Indicators for Afghanistan - (dead link) (Fact Sheet)
• Population and Reproductive Health

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

• Humanitarian Information Centre (HIC) - Iraq
  "The purpose is to act as a central location for data and information resources, with the aim of reinforcing co-ordination and humanitarian response activities."
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - (dead link)

• ReliefWeb
  "Serving the Information Needs of the Humanitarian Relief Community"
  Sections include: Latest Updates ; Complex Emergencies ; Natural Disasters ; By Country ; Background ; Financial Tracking ; UN Appeals ; Map Centre ; Library.

  • Africa
  • Iraq The Latest
    "This page contains a list of the latest major documents added to ReliefWeb pertaining to Iraq."

United Nations Statistical Division

UN Talks on Afghanistan
Bonn, November/December 2001
Includes Transcripts of Press Briefings and Notes for Correspondents

• Agreement on Provisional Arrangements in Afghanistan Pending the Re-Establishment of Permanent Government Institutions

The UN Works
Examples of UN success stories

WomenWatch
"The UN Internet Gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of Women."

• International Women's Day 2004
  March 8, 2004
  Theme: Women & HIV/AIDS
  "As we mark this year's International Women's Day, we look at the devastating toll the global HIV/AIDS epidemic is taking on women, and the critical role of women in fighting AIDS."
  • Gender and HIV/AIDS Web Portal
    "This web portal is where you can find cutting edge research, studies and surveys; training materials; multi-media advocacy tools; speeches and presentations; press releases and current news; best practices and personal stories; campaign actions and opinion pieces by leading commentators. www.GenderandAIDS.org offers these and other up to date resources on the gender dimensions of the HIV/AIDS epidemic."
    Sections include: Resources ; Global Campaigns ; News & Events ; Website ; Women Speak ; E-mail Discussion Lists ;
    - UNIFEM - UN Development Fund for Women
• UN Division for the Advancement of Women
• • Beijing Platform for Action
  • Beijing Followup
  • • Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the 21st Century (Beijing+5)
      Special Session of the General Assembly, 5-9 June 2000
  • Commission on the Status of Women
  • Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
  • Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing (1995) (FWCW)
  • Publications
• UN Global Conferences and Women
• The UN Working for Women
• Women of the World

World Food Programme (WFP)

• Iraq-Africa: Double Standards? - (dead link) (7 April 2003) [.pdf]
  "In a statement to the UN Security Council, James Morris warns against the danger of the Iraq conflict diverting funds from other regions in peril - especially Africa."
• Africa Hunger Alert
  The Hunger Crisis in Africa
  "...learn how drought, war and HIV/AIDS have put more than 38 million people on the frontline of Africa's hunger crisis."
• World Hunger - Africa
• Central America Drought
  WFP Seeks Long-Term Response to Central American Hunger

See also Iraq - UN Resources
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Analysis & Finding Aids

United Nations Research Guide
"This is a selective guide designed to assist researchers and students in gaining access to United Nations materials available within the libraryís collections and databases, and via the Internet."
- Mississippi State University Libraries

Bayefsky.com
The United Nations Human Rights Treaties
"...was designed for the purpose of enhancing the implementation of the human rights legal standards of the United Nations. Accessibility to UN human rights norms by individuals everywhere is fundamental to their successful realization. The information provided herein encompasses a range of data concerning the application of the UN human rights treaty system by its monitoring treaty bodies since their inauguration in the 1970's."
Sections include: Texts of the Treaties ; Amendments to the Treaties ; Documents By State - By Category - By Theme ; How to Complain About Violations ; Reform of the UN Human Rights Treaty System.
By Professor A.F. Bayefsky, York University, Toronto Canada.

Global Policy Forum (GPF)
"We monitor global policy making at the United Nations"
"On the site, GPF has dozens of Publications on global policy issues, as well as thousands of pages of documents and data. The site is designed to be used by the general public as well as by students and specialists. GPF also provides many interviews to print and broadcast media and we respond to hundreds of inquiries from students and citizens."
Sections include: Financing for Development ; Sanctions ; Global Taxes ; Globalization ; Iraq Crisis ; Secretary General ; Tables and Charts ; International Justice.

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