UN Department of Global Communications
United Nations Department of Global Communications (DGC) - previously named the United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI) - is the communications and public relations division of the United Nations. It is tasked with raising public awareness and support of the work of the United Nations through strategic communications campaigns, media and relationships with civil society groups. The DGC is responsible for publishing and disseminating UN documents and reports.
Publications
- Yearbook of the United Nations has been the primary reference work on the organization since 1946. It details the many activities of the United Nations and its organs, programmes and bodies as they are carried out in all corners of the world. The collection includes every volume published since 1946 with a detailed subject index, including bibliographical notes and references.
- Basic Facts about the United Nations, 42nd Edition describes the structure and activities of the United Nations and its organisations, and looks at its work under the headings of: international peace and security; economic and social development; human rights; humanitarian action; international law; and decolonization. It also includes details of UN websites, UN member states, past and present peacekeeping operations and UN special observances, as well as providing contact details for the UN.
- UN Chronicle, has served as the Organization’s flagship magazine since 1946, providing authoritative information and debate on the activities of the larger United Nations system. The new exclusively web-based UN Chronicle continues to feature authoritative articles from a wide range of international experts and stakeholders.
- Africa Renewal – a magazine focusing on key developments and issues related to the continent.
UN News
UN News presents the latest news from the United Nations and multilingual information about the UN activities
- latest news from the UN
- in-depth articles
- interviews
- press releases
- reports from press conferences
- daily program of the Secretary-General.
IN FOCUS. A one-stop guide to UN issues in the news, with easy access to statements, resolutions and other essential resources.
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. UN official documents and open access publications, UN maps, UN voting data and speeches.
- UN iLibrary. UN publications online covering different topics.
- ODS (Official Document System) is an full-text database of UN documents published since 1993, including digitized documents published between 1946 and 1993.
- Daily list of documents. Documents published for the day, with full text links, can be found in the United Nations full text database ODS.
- UNBIS Thesaurus is 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 (in 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, Sweden and the UN Library in New York and the UN library in Geneva.