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United Nations Documents

Electronic reserve/Geens

"The responsibility to protect"

Web Resources: Periodicals and Databases

UN Chronicle
Africa Recovery
Image & Reality, more directed towards secondary schoolchildren
The UN in our daily lives, more directed towards primary schoolchildren
Human Rights Today briefing papers
UN Development Business, directed towards commercial & economic developers
United Nations Population Information Network
Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean, opens in Spanish but an English-language web is available
UN information system on the question of Palestine, includes links to "road map" and UN resolutions
Dept of Public Information Non-Governmental Organizations Section search interface
UN Photo collection; click on a subject area to see thumbnails of photos

Web Resources: UN reports

Note: this section changes frequently!

Arab Human Development Report 2003, for Rocourt's class, click on the language you want to download the LARGE .pdf file
Columbia International Affairs Online, a SUBSCRIPTION source of full-text articles, working papers and other publications in the field of International Relations. Your tuition pays for access to this database.
The Dag Hammarskjöld Library search page, to search the holdings of the main UN library in New York
Indicators of Real Economic Convergence by Prof. Jose Villaverde Castro, Spain
Publications from the UN Statistics division, including the environment, national accounting, trade and others
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Publications, includes occasional and recurrent publications
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Documents, including treaties and General Assembly documents
United Nations online network in Public Administration and Finance newsletters
UN News service, includes daily briefings and press releases
UN Documentation centre, includes sections from the General Assembly, the Secretariat's office, the Security council and other areas
The UN Journal, a summary of meetings and minutes from all activities at the UN building in New York

Library holdings

To locate UN materials in the library, you will need to use the Franklin College catalog.
To find general books on the UN, look under United Nations. Other interesting materials can be found under Diplomacy or International Relations.

To find books on a certain subject or country, search on that subject or country, as a subject, for example:
United Nations -- Soviet Union or United Nations -- Special commission on Iraq, etc.

Selected books in the Franklin Library; there are more not noted here

  • Encyclopedia of the United Nations, 2nd edition, call # REF 341.2303 Os5e
  • Directory of International Orgnaizations, call # REF 341.2025 Sch6d
  • Everyman's United Nations: A basic history of the organization 1945-1963, call # 341.23 Ev2
  • The United Nations: a short political guide, call # 341.23 B15 1989
  • The New York Times on microfilm, 1982-1992
  • The New York Times on CD-ROM, 1993-1999

New Work
Professor Floyd Parsons publishes Thomas Hare and Political Representation in Victorian Britain

New Work
Professor Joshua Long publishes Weird City: Sense of Place and Creative Resistance in Austin, Texas