Directories

• International Organizations: Northwestern University Library
  • http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govinfo/resource/internat/igo.html
• Union of International Associations
  • http://www.uia.org/website.htm

 

United Nations

See also United Nations Research Guide

Collections of Basic Documents

• UN Website: Main Documents
  • http://www.un.org/aboutun/
• Charter of the United Nations; commentary and documents by Leland M. Goodrich, Edvard Hambro, and Anne Patricia Simons
  • Law Annex JX1977.A15 G6 1969
• The Charter of the United Nations : a commentary edited by Bruno Simma ; in collaboration with Hermann Mosler
  • Law Annex JX1977 .C43 1994
• United Nations Conference on International Organization (1945 : San Francisco) Documents. v. 1-22
  • Law Annex JX1977.A15 U5 1955 v1-22
  • HeinOnline
• Review of the United Nations Charter : a collection of documents Subcommittee on the United Nations Charter
  • Law Annex JX1977.2.U5 A525
• UN Treaty Series (UNTS)
  • Law Annex JX 1977 A1 U5
  • HeinOnline
  • http://treaties.un.org/

Status of Basic Documents

• Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General (MTDSG)
  • Law Ref Desk JX 171 M85
  • HeinOnline
• Multilateral Treaties Deposited on the Web (MTDSG)
  • http://treaties.un.org

Other UN Documents

• United Nations Official Document System ODS (1993-present)
  • http://documents.un.org/
• United Nations Documents (1945-1950 & 1966-present)
  • Law Micro
• United Nations Documents (1945-present)
  • Mugar Micro Mfiche
• United Nations Documentation Centre
  • http://www.un.org/documents/
• International Law Commission
  • http://www.un.org/law/ilc/
• UN Documents in the economic, social and related fields
  • http://www.un.org/esa/docserv.htm
• UNHCHR Treaty Bodies Database
  • http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf
• FAO Document Repository
  • http://www.fao.org/docrep/
• UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency
  • http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home
• UNCTAD Digital Library
  • http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?intItem
    ID=1397&lang=1
• ILO Database on International Labour Standards
  • http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/english/
• Labordoc
  • http://labordoc.ilo.org/
• UNEP Environmental Legal Instruments
  • http://www.unep.org/dec/
• UNODCCP Legal Tools
  • http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/legal-tools/index.html
• Women Watch
  • http://www.un.org/womenwatch/world/index.html

Yearbooks of UN entities and other IGOs

• Yearbook of the United Nations
  • Law Annex JX 1977 A1 U53
  • HeinOnline
• United Nations Juridical Yearbook
  • http://www.un.org/law/UNJuridicalYearbook/index.htm
  • HeinOnline
• United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Yearbook
  • HeinOnline
• United Nations International Court of Justice Yearbook
  • HeinOnline
• United Nations Yearbook of the International Law Commission
  • HeinOnline
• CIJL yearbook/Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers
  • Law Annex K 115 A2 C55
• Hague yearbook of international law = Annuaire de la Haye de droit international
  • Law Annex JX 18 H34
• International Geneva yearbook
  • Law Annex JX 1995 I524 (see pg. 494 of the Guide to International Legal Research for more information).

Current Awareness

• UN Press Releases
  • http://www.un.org/News/
• UN Pulse
  • http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/da/index.html

Background on the United Nations

• The encyclopedia of the United Nations and international relations / Edmund Jan Osmanczyk
  • Law Ref JX1977 .O8213 1990
• United Nations Handbook, 1996
  • Law Ref JZ4970 .U65 1996
• Yearbook of the United Nations
  • Law Annex JX 1977 A1 U53
  • HeinOnline
• Annual review of United Nations Affairs
  • Law Annex JX 1977 A1 A5
• Repertory of Practice of United Nations Organs
  • Law Annex JX1977 A36 1955 and Mugar JX1977 .F552
• Yearbook of the International Law Commission
  • Law Annex JX 1977 A31 U35
  • HeinOnline
• United Nations Juridical Yearbook
  • Law Annex JX 1977 A1 U56
  • HeinOnline

Research Tools

• United Nations Documents Index (1950-1973)
  • Mugar Reference X JX1977 A2 UNDEX.
• United Nations Documents Index (1974-1978)
  • Mugar Reference X JX 1977 A2 Ser.C
• UNDOC Current Index (1979-1996)
  • Law Annex Reference JX1977 A1 U45
• Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) (BU only)
  • Mugar Reference X Z7164 .E2P35 and CD-ROM and web
• Un-i-que: United Nations Info Quest
  • http://lib-unique.un.org/lib/unique.nsf
• United Nations System Pathfinder
  • http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/pathfind/frame/start.htm

Directories

• United Nations Web Site Locator
  • http://www.unsystem.org/

Research Guides

• United Nations Scholar’s Workstation at Yale University
  • http://www.library.yale.edu/un/index.html
• ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources in UN Research
  • http://www.asil.org/un1.cfm
• Harms, W. "U.N. Bibliographic and Background Tools in Hardcopy and Online" in Introduction to International Organizations (Louis-Jacques and Korman eds., 1996)
  • Law Ref JX1954 .I58 1996
• Hajnal, P. Directory of United Nations documentary and Archival Sources (1991)
  • Law Ref JX1977.8.D6 H35 1991
• Jablonski, Jean, "Overview of United Nations Materials Available at Brooklyn Law School Library", 21 Brooklyn J. Int'l L 537 (1995)
  • Law Pappas
• United Nations Documents
  • http://library.stanford.edu/depts/jonsson/collections/intl/un.html
• United Nations Documentation: Research Guide
  • http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/

Organization of American States

Basic Documents

• Charter of the OAS
  • http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/charter.html
• Basic Documents of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights
  • http://www.cidh.org/Basicos/English/Basic.TOC.htm
• The Inter-American System : Treaties, Conventions and Other Documents
  • Law Annex JX1404 .I57 1983
• Instruments of Economic Integration in Latin America and in the Caribbean
  • Law Annex JX1979 I56 1975
• OAS Treaties with Status information
  • http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/treaties.html

Other Documents

• General Assembly Resolutions
  • http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/regeneas.html
• Inter-American Legal Materials
  • Law Annex KG127 A13 I58

Decisions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

• Judgments and Opinions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Series A
  • Law Annex KDZ579 I56 A82
  • http://www.corteidh.or.cr/opiniones.cfm
• Pleadings, Oral Arguments and Documents Series B
  • Law Annex KDZ579 I56 A825 (online not available)
• Decisions and Judgments Series C
  • Law Annex KDZ579 I56 A83
  • http://www.corteidh.or.cr/casos.cfm
• Pleadings, Oral Argument and Documents Series D
  • Law Annex KDZ579 I56 A835 (online not available)
• International Human Rights Reports
  • Law Annex K3240.4 I579 P
• Decisions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
  • http://www.umn.edu/humanrts/iachr/iachr.html
• Cases from Inter-American Commission of Human Rights
  • http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/cases/commissn.htm

Background on the OAS

• Annual Report of the Secretary General
  • http://www.cidh.org/annual.eng.htm
  • Mugar F 1402 F48
• Annual report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
  • http://www.cidh.org/annual.eng.htm
  • Law Annex JC 599 A5 I57
• Annual Report of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
  • Law Annex KDZ579 I56 A56
• Inter-American Yearbook of Human Right
  • Law Annex JC599 I572
• Handbook of Existing Rules pertaining to Human Rights in the Inter-American System
  • Law Annex KDZ574 A35 H36 1983

Research Tools

• Lista General de los Documentos Oficiales
  • Indice Analitico Room 332
  • Manual de Clasificacion Room 332

Current Awareness

• OAS News Center
• Press Releases for the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights
  • http://www.cidh.org/comu.eng.htm
• Press Releases of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
  • Law Annex KDZ579 I56 P74
  • http://www.corteidh.or.cr/comunicados.cfm

 

African Union (formerly the Organization of African Unity)

Documents

• Constitutive Act of the African Union
• Charter of the OAU
• Documents of the OAU/AU
  • Law Annex KQE723 A3 D63
• Documents of the OAU/AU submitted to UN
  • Go to Un-i-que http://lib-unique.un.org/lib/unique.nsf and search on "Organization of African Unity".  There are many OAU documents published by the UN after having been submitted by the OAU.
• Council of Ministers
  • http://www.africa-union.org/root/au/Documents/Decisions/ExeCoundecisions.htm
• Actions taken by the Assembly of Heads of State
  • http://www.umn.edu/humanrts/africa/oauactions.html
  • http://www.africa-union.org/root/au/Documents/Decisions/decisions.htm
• African Human Rights Instruments
  • http://www.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/afrinst.htm
• African Commission on Human and People's Rights
  • http://www.umn.edu/humanrts/africa/comission.html
• International Law of Human Rights in Africa
  • Law Reserve JC599.A36 I57 1988

News

• News on Lexis
  • NEWS;AFRNWS
• AU Press Releases
  • http://www.africa-union.org/News_Events/Press_Releases.htm
• Pan-African News Agency
  • http://allafrica.com/

Association of South East Asian Nations

• ASEAN Secretariat
  • http://www.aseansec.org
• Basic Political Documents
  • http://www.aseansec.org/politics/poldoc.htm
• Ministerial Meetings
  • http://www.aseansec.org/politics/pol-amm.htm
• ASEAN Documents submitted to the UN
  • Go to Un-i-que http://lib-unique.un.org/lib/unique.nsf and search on "ASEAN".  There are many ASEAN documents published by the UN after having been submitted by the ASEAN.
• Summits
  • http://www.aseansec.org/4933.htm
• Annual Reports
  • http://www.aseansec.org/4913.htm
• The Association of South-East Asian Nations
  • Law Annex HC 441 A87 1991
• Trading Arrangements in the Pacific Rim : ASEAN and APEC
  • Law Annex HC 441 T73 1995

 

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