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SITES CONTAINING SOURCES OF UNITED NATIONS DOCUMENTS AND INFORMATION *

SITES CONTAINING SOURCES OF UNITED NATIONS DOCUMENTS AND INFORMATION

* Academic Council on the United Nations System

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/ACUNS/

The Academic Council on the United Nations System is a special project of the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies at Brown University. The Council provides expert help to the UN through various programs and studies.

* Columbia Univeristy UN Studies Program

http://www.columbia.edu/~can19/

The UN Studies Program is a new program at Columbia University. The program consists of a variety of classes which examine and analyze the role of the United Nations in international law and politics. The program aims to take advantage of Columbia University's proximity to the United Nations headquarters in New York City.

* Decisions of the International Court of Justice

http://www.law.cornell.edu/icj/

Decisions of the International Court of Justice (World Court), the main judicial organ of the United Nations, are being made available via the web by the Cornell University Law School. At present, the full texts of four 1996 decisions are available. In addition to the decisions, the site contains information on the Court, a listing of judges, an ICJ resource guide, Statute of the ICJ and United Nations Charter, and annotated pointers to selected international law sites. In the near future, the site plans to make all ICJ decisions available.

* Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

http://www.fao.org/

gopher://gopher.fao.org/

Currently this Web site has very little information, please use the gopher site. The FAO has decided to facilitate the access to the wealth of information on food, agriculture, fishery and forestry that is produced as part of its mandate in these areas. To this end the FAO is creating the World Agricultural Information Centre (WAICENT) which will include two different subsystems -- FAOSTAT: covering statistical data and FAOINFO: covering textual information.

* Habitat II - The Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements

http://www.cedar.univie.ac.at/habitat/

The Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, commonly known as Habitat II, will be held from June 3 - 14, 1996, in Istanbul, Turkey. It is planned that until then, CEDAR, supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry for the Environment will be hosting all data provided by the Secretariat of Habitat II. It is also planned that, during the conference itself, new and updated documents will be placed and made available on these WWW and gopher servers.

* Human Rights Internet

http://www.hri.ca/

Human Rights Internet is an international network of human rights organizations, documentation centre, and publishing house. This cite contains a lot of everything including U.N. documents, education materials, resource guides and site checked list of links.

* International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

http://www.iaea.or.at/

gopher://gopher.iaea.or.at:70/1

News and Information about the IAEA and its activities, IAEA scientific and technical programmes; IAEA programmes, projects and services; administrative and related information about the IAEA; access to IAEA databases and information resources; and information about the Vienna International Centre.

* International Criminal Court

http://www.igc.apc.org/icc/

The International Criminal Court is a proposed permanent international tribunal empowered to try individuals for gross violations of international law. Over the next three years, for the first time in nearly half a century, there is a realistic chance that, under the auspices of the UN, governments will establish a permanent International Criminal Court to bring to justice those responsible for the most serious crimes of concern to the international community such as genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. This page is part of that work.

* International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre (ILO-CIS)

http://turva.me.tut.fi/cis/home.html

Background information on what ILO-CIS does and how they are expanding their work to the World Wide Web.

* International Training Centre (ITC)

http://monviso2.alpcom.it/itcilo/

The International Training Centre is mandated to act as a focal point for the development of human resources to promote the social progresss of the ILO's member States which number 173 today. This page includes the ITC's bulletin and information on how the organization works.

* MINUGUA -the United Nations Mission for the Verification of Human Rights in Guatemala

http://www.un.org/Depts/minugua/

MINUGUA was established on 21 November 1994 at the request of the Government of Guatemala and the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG), pursuant to a United Nations General Assembly resolution, as part of a peace process aimed at ending more than three decades of civil war.

* Press Releases - United Nations Offices in Geneva

http://www.unog.ch/news/newsen/presrele.htm

Press releases in HTML and PDF formats from the UN office in Geneva. The press releases can be searched by word(s) or topic.

* REFWORLD (UNHCR)

http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/refworld.htm

gopher://unicc.org:70/11/unhcrcdr

The databases of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees offer rapid access to reliable information in the public domain. The documents offer a full range of law, country information, analysis and comment on refugees and displacement. New sources of information as well as reports are added daily. This site contains speeches of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; UNHCR information; country information; legal information; and bibliographic information.

* United Nations Charter

http://www.undcp.org/charter.html

Direct link to the full-text document.

* United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

gopher://hqfaus01.unicef.org:70/1

The Gopher provides access to full-text UNICEF publications such as the State of the World's Children report and the Progress of Nations, plus the UNICEF Annual Report, UNICEF Features, the First Call for Children newsletter, press releases, information notes and other advocacy and information booklets, brochures and pamphlets. The Gopher also contains the full text of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Declaration and Plan of Action of the 1990 World Summit for Children.

* United Nations Commission on Human Rights Reports

gopher://gopher.undp.org:70/11/undocs/eed/E/CN.4/1995

This gopher site contains the full text of some of the main thematic reports of the 1995 Commission (U.N. Document no. E/CN.4).

* United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, 8th

* United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, 9th

http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~pr2gq1/rev4344.html#congress (8th)

http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~pr2gq1/congr9.html#arrangements (9th)

Information about the 8th and the 9th congresses.

* United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network (UNCJIN)

gopher://UACSC2.ALBANY.EDU:70/11/newman/crjrules

The Goal of UNCJIN is to establish a world wide network to enhance dissemination and the exchange of information concerning criminal justice and crime prevention issues. Contains UN Rules, criminal justice profiles, Bureau of Justice statistics, other criminal statistics, and links to various other sites.

* United Nations Department of Public Information

http://www.un.org

This Home Page is maintained by the Dept. of Public Information. It contains a tremendous amount of information. It provides an overview of the U.N. (history, list of member states, the U.N. Charter, the ICJ Statute, an online tour, and a calander of conferences and observances). An important addition is the UN Treaty Data Base. This provides access to the full text of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary General (as of December 31, 1995). There is also a selection of official documents from the Secretary-General, the General Assembly, the Security Council, and the Economic and Social Council. This site also provides links to conferences, publications, information resources, and more.

* United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

http://www.undp.org

gopher://gopher.undp.org

Provides access to full-text of UNDP publications, UN press releases, UN resolutions, UN conference documents, current information and much more. UNDP databases include Sustainable Human Development; Public Information; Special Programmes; Recruitment. Links to other UN information servers.

* United Nations Educational, Scientific and Culutural Organization (UNESCO)

http://www.unesco.org/

UNESCO's site provides history on the organization, publications, current news, and programmes.

* United Nations 50th Anniversary

http://www.amdahl.com/internet/events/un50.html

gopher://gopher.undp.org:70/11/un50

Information about the anniversary of the United Nations.

* United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women

http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/women.html

The Fourth World Conference on Women, will be held in Beijing from 4-15 September 1995. This site has identified several sources of background information on the Conference as well as preparatory documents and links to other relevant sites.

* United Nations Gopher

gopher://nywork1.undp.org:70

Official gopher of the United Nations. Provides access to the full-text of UN press releases, United Nations Development Programme documents, UN telephone directories, UN Conference on Environment & Development reports, UN resolutions, conference documents and much more.

* United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)

http://www.unhcr.ch/

The UNHCR home page organizes their information in a clear and concise manner with country specific resources, publications, news links and information for teachers on integrating the UNHCR within their curriculum.

* United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), Cairo, Egypt (September 1994)

http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/cairo.html

Full-text of the documents produced before and during the conference. Provides inks to related sources.

* United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC)

http://www.unicc.org

gopher://gopher.unicc.org/1

This home page, maintained by the International Computing Centre, lists the United Nations System Internet Servers. Except for the first entry, all organizations are listed alphabetically.

* United Nations Monthly Bulletin of Statistics

http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/mbsreg.htm

After completing a registration form, one has access to a large collection of statistics and documents from the UN.

* United Nations Peace-Keeping Operations

http://ralph.gm.edu/cpa/peace/toc.html

List of the peacekeeping operations as well as links to more information about specific operations.

* United Nations Resources

http://www.usc.edu/dept/law-lib/legallst/un.html

Provides links to the UN gopher and many other UN Internet sites.

* United Nations Scholars' Workstation Home Page at Yale University

http://www.library.yale.edu/un/unhome.htm

The United Nations Scholars' Workstation, developed by the Yale University Library and the Social Science Statistical Laboratory, is a collection of texts, finding aids, data sets, maps, and pointers to print and electronic information. Subject coverage includes disarmament, economic and social development, environment, human rights, international relations, international trade, peacekeeping, and population and demography. The workstation directly supports teaching and research in United Nations Studies as well as the Independent Working Group on the Future of the United Nations, headquartered at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS). Some access restrictions apply in accordance with licensing agreements.

* United Nations System

http://www.unsystem.org/

The official Web Site Locator for the United Nation System of Organizations including alphabetic index of UN sites.

* UN Treaty Data Base

http://www.un.org/Depts/Treaty

The UN Treaty Data Base will eventually consist of two major documents. The Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary General which contains the detailed status of over 470 multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary General, and the UN Treaty Series which consists of over 40,000 treaties registered with the Secretariat. At present, only The Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary General (as of December 31, 1995) is available.

* United Nations WWW Servers

http://pan.cedar.univie.ac.at/www_ref/unservers.html

Provides links to several UN WWW servers.

* United Nations WWW Virtual Library

http://www.undcp.org/unlinks.html

This page contains information and links to some United Nations organizations and other related organizations, arranged in alphabetical order. Please note that this page is NOT and official entry point for access to United Nations information servers. This site provides comprehensive access to many sources of information.

* World Health Organization (WHO)

http://www.who.ch/

gopher://gopher.who.ch:70/1

This site contains WHO publications and information: World Health Day; Global Polio Eradication; press releases and newsletters from WHO; WHO's major programmes; international travel and health (vaccination requirements and health advice); WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS); WHO publications and Library; WHO vacancy notices; and e-mail address directories and Swiss phone book.

* World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, Denmark (MARCH 95)

http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/wssd.html

Provides access to documents and information about the conference.

URL for areas of image outside of any defined elements.