Regional commissions
The ECOSOC coordinates the work of five regional commissions with the responsibility to reflect the regional dimensions of the economic and social issues addressed by the United Nations:
- ECA - Economic Commission for Africa
- ECE - Economic Commission for Europe
- ECLAC - Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
- ESCAP - Economic and social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
- ESCWA - Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
Documentation
Many documents of the Regional Commissions bear special document symbols. These are sometimes preceded by the following:
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E/ECA/- |
Economic Commission for Africa |
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E/ECE/- |
Economic commission for Europe |
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E/ECLAC/- |
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean |
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E/ESCAP/- |
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific |
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E/ESCWA/- |
Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia |
- The Regional Commissions of the ECOSOC submit their annual reports in the documentary series Supplements to the Official Records of the Economic and Social Council.
- Supplements are posted as Reports at the ECOSOC website.
- Subsidiary bodies of ECOSOC.
- Learn more about the subsidiaries in the research guide: UN Documentation : Economic and Social Council, subsidiary bodies, by Dag Hammarskjöld library (New York).
Key UN documents
- 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
UN documents and publications in catalogues and databases
- 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.
UN Documents available online
- All UN documents from 1993-.
- All resolutions of the Principal Organs from 1946-.
- All Security Council plenary documents from 1946- in English, French and Spanish.
- All supplements to the General Assembly Official Records (GAOR) from 1946-.
- All General Assembly plenary meeting records from 1946- in English, French and Spanish.
- Older documents are being scanned: Update on UN Digitization Programme.
Last modified: 2023-03-20