UNSSC
The United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC) is the UN organization mandated by the General Assembly to contribute to a more effective, results-oriented and agile United Nations through learning, training and knowledge dissemination. UNSSC provide inter-agency learning and knowledge services for staff of the United Nations system. UNSSCs headquarters are located in Turin (Italy) and its second campus in Bonn (Germany).
Activities
UNSSC's learning and training activities focus on the thematic areas of:
- leadership and management
- peace and security
- sustainable development
More on UNSSC
The UNSSC website offers background information, news, publications and courses.
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.