UNU
The United Nations University (UNU) was established in 1975 as an autonomous academic institution within the UN system. Its headquarters are located in Tokyo.
Activities
Dealing with pressing global problems, the United Nations University
- links the United Nations to the academic world
- serves as a tink tank for the organization
- offers opportunities for research and higher education.
Through its system of research centres around the world, research fellows and PhD students from other universities, especially from developing countries, get the opportunity to come and engage in research in their particular areas of study.
The UNU serves as a worldwide network of academic and scientific institutions. The UNU is funded by voluntary contributions.
More on UNU
- The UNU website provides background information, news, an overview of UNU research programmes and activities, full text documents and publications.
- UNU Collections. The UNU Open Access Repository
- UNU Library Catalogue.
- WIDER publications published by UNU-WIDER World Institute for Development Economics Research, based in Helsinki.
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. 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 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.