Other legal areas

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:

• labour
• crime prevention
• civil aviation
• refugees
• health
• intellectual property
• status of women
• environment
• human rights
• drug control
• disarmament
• international space law
• education

• UN International Law.
• Yearbook of the United Nations provides an overview of the United Nations work related to legal areas with a subject index.

Full text international legal material relevant to the United Nations:

• 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: UNEP. Environmental rule of law.
• Human rights: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. International Human Rights Law

• UN Charter in Swedish | in English
• UN System Chart
• Yearbook of the United Nations
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Swedish | in English
• Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
• Statue of the International Court of Justice

• United Nations Digital Library offers UN documents and open access publications, UN voting data and speeches, UN maps, Content in 6+ languages. Replaces the traditional online catalogue UNBISnet.
• UN iLibrary UN publications online covering different topics.
• ODS full-text UN documents published from 1993 onward and scanned documents published between 1946 and 1993 in the official languages of the UN.
• Daily list of documents (ODS). Documents published for the day, with full text links, can be found in the United Nations full text database ODS.
• UNBIS Thesaurus a multilingual database of the controlled vocabulary used to describe UN documents.
• Index to proceedings is an annual bibliographic guide to the proceedings and documentation of the major UN organs. The index includes:
  • a list of all documents
  • a comprehensive subject index
  • an index to speeches
  • a voting chart of resolutions
• United Nations Documents Index (United Nations Digital Library) References to all documents by subject area are published. A collection of indexes is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld and Law Library, Uppsala, and the Libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.