Global Search is the tool for searching the UN Library Geneva's print collections and electronic resources, including thousands of free and open access e-books and e-journals.
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Access to UN-produced content including UN documents and publications. Links to full text appear when available. Voting information for resolutions adopted by the General Assembly and Security Council, and citation to speeches made in the principal organs.
Full text search of documents issued since 1993; resolutions of all principal organs & Security Council plenary documents since 1946. Includes the Daily Journals of New York and Geneva.
Includes documents submitted to any of the UN human rights treaty monitoring bodies. Filter by convention, country, type of document, document symbol, and/or date.
The Yearbook is the principal reference work of the United Nations and provides a detailed overview of the Organization's activities.
The United Nations iLibrary is the comprehensive global search, discovery, and viewing source for digital content created by the United Nations.
An annual bibliographic guide to the proceedings and documentation of the major UN organs: a comprehensive subject index to the documents and an index to speeches.
Full listing of databases from the UN System.
Dag Hammarskjöld Library resources
Located at UN Headquarters in New York, the Dag Hammarksjöld Library (DHL) primarily serves delegates of Permanent Missions and UN Secretariat staff. The website of DHL can be consulted in the six official UN languages, and offers research guides and an extensive list of UN resources.
UN News produces daily news content in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Kiswahili, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish, and weekly programmes in Hindi, Urdu and Bangla. UN News and Media provides a suite of multimedia products and services covering the work of the United Nations both at Headquarters and around the world, to support the work of the international news media.
The Info Point & Library of the United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe (UNRIC) issues backgrounders on various subjects that list relevant URLs within the UN system and are available in English, French and/or Spanish.
The Institutional Memory Section of the UN Library & Archives Geneva is the official repository for all records of the organization that have enduring historical and administrative value. Fonds and Collections: the United Nations Office at Geneva Archives; League of Nations Archives; International Peace Movements Archives; Private Archives; Collections (i.e.: brochures, pamphlets, visual materials).
