UNRISD
The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development( UNRISD) is an autonomous research institute within the framework of the United Nations. UNRISD was founded in 1963 as part of the United Nations Development Decade. It is located in Geneva.
Activities
UNRISD conducts multidisciplinary research on the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development. Its work is coordinated with relevant specialized agencies.
UNRISD is entirely funded by voluntary contributions
More on UNRISD
- The UNRISD website provides an overview research projects, background information, news, publications and reports.
- UNRISD research reports.
- The Executive Board of UNRISD submits an annual report to ECOSOC in the documentary series General Assembly Official Records, Supplements. It provides a summary of UNRISD's programme and activities with references to relevant documents and reports.
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.