UNDP
UNDP - United Nations Development Programme is the largest UN development assistance program, coordnating the work within UN. UNDP has representatives in some 170 countries and territories and is headquartered in New York.
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
During 2000-2015 UNDP coordinated and monitored development and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by 189 world leaders at the Millennium Summit 2000. The MDGs is a global action plan to achieve eight anti-poverty goals – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
In September 2015 UN adopted a new agenda for sustainable development, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG:s). The agenda of the Global Goals includes a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and tackle climate change by 2030. The agenda was adopted in September 2015 by 193 world leaders. UNDP has a continued important task of monitoring the states' progress in implettering of the goals. For information in Swedish: Globala målen för hållbar utveckling.
More on UNDP
- UNDP website. Information about UNDP's structure and programmes, including full text reports for recent years.
- The Swedish UNDP website, contains background information about the activities of the UNDP and links to reports and documents.
- Human Development Report.
- UNDP, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which includes a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and tackle climate change by 2030.
- Globala målen för hållbar utveckling (2015-2030) Information about the 17 goals in Swedish.
- UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 2000-2015. the eight goals including reports and statistics.
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.