Dag Hammarskjöld Library at Uppsala University
Other Legal Areas
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One of the fundamental pillars of the United Nations is respect for the international legal order. Consequently, there is a broad spectrum of other legal areas relevant to the work of the United Nations, including:
Documentation
A web portal to relevant web resources can be retrieved from the UN official web site, section International Law, Other Legal Areas.
For further documentation on human rights, see DagDok: section Human Rights.
Yearbook of the United Nations provides an overview of the United Nations work related to legal areas with a subject index. A complete collection of yearbooks is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and the UN Libraries in New York and Geneva. Since October 2008 the complete full text collection of The United Nations Yearbooks is available online at http://unyearbook.un.org/.
A collection of links to legal information resources relevant to the United Nations is posted a t the UN official web site, section International Law, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Library, Selected Legal Information Resources.
Full text international legal material relevant to the United Nations are posted at the UN official web site:
- All subject areas: Conventions, Declarations and other Instruments Found in General Assembly Resolutions
- Trade law: United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)
- International law: International Law Commission, Texts, instruments and final reports
- Environmental law: Environmental Law Instruments
- Human rights: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. International Human Rights Law
Databases and Indexes
The UN Library online catalogue UNBISnet contains reports, documents and articles related to UN activities with links
to full texts for recent years. Subject search can be performed using relevant terms from the UNBIS THESAURUS.
Printed Indexes