Lewis & Clark Libraries: Human Rights Research: United Nations Research

Research guides to the United Nations

Globalex: Researching the United Nations
A guide to the UN focusing on the legally related aspects of the UN and its agencies: research guides, databases, reports.
Globalex: International Human Rights Research Guide
An outline of the major international human rights organizations within the UN as well as regional organizations.
Georgetown Law Library UN Research Guide
University of Minnesota UN Research Guide
Yale University: UN Scholars Workstation

UN Home Page
Directory of UN System Organizations
UN Document Symbols
A brief explanation of the meaning behind UN document symbols.
UN Document Center
Quick links to finding documents within the UN generally, as well as within each major UN organ.
UN Library Research Guides
Directory of UN Online Resources
Quick links sorted alphabetically, by topic, or by organization.
UN Official Documents System (ODS)
A searchable full-text database from 1993 of most publicly available UN documents. Search by UN symbol, keyword or title.
UN Digital Library
The Library's online catalog covering documents from 1979 onward, most with links to the document's full-text.
OHCHR: Universal Human Rights Index
Overviews of recommendations by the three major monitoring human rights protection organizations within the UN: Treaty Bodies, Special Procedure Reports and the Universal Periodic Review.

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