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SELECTED OFFICIAL IGO WEBSITES:

A-E F-L M-O P-Z

For extensive listings of IGOs see, INTERNATIONAL INTER-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS.

African Union

Click the "Useful Links" tab which leads to other African IGO websites.

Antarctic Treaty Secretariat (ATS)

The Antarctic Treaty: The main purpose of the Antarctic Treaty, which was signed in Washington on December 1, 1959, is to ensure "in the interest of all mankind that Antarctica shall continue for ever to be used exclusively for peaceful purposes and shall not become the scene or object of international discord."

Arctic Council

"The Ottawa Declaration of 1996 formally established the Arctic Council as a high level intergovernmental forum to provide a means for promoting cooperation, coordination and interaction among the Arctic States, with the involvement of the Arctic Indigenous communities and other Arctic inhabitants on common Arctic issues, in particular issues of sustainable development and environmental protection in the Arctic."

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

APEC

"Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) was formed in 1989 in response to the growing interdependence among Asia-Pacific economies. Begun as an informal dialogue group with limited participation, APEC has since become the primary regional vehicle for promoting open trade and practical economic cooperation...."

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation - APEC Secretariat. See also the Expert Group on Energy Data Analysis (EGEDA, under EWG-APEC).
United States APEC Index
APCEL Asia-Pacific Centre For Environmental Law
Pacific Economic Cooperation Council "in 1989, PECC became the accredited private observer body to APEC" (from "About") NOTE: This actually is the U.S. National Committee of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) site. To go to the International Secretariat in Singapore, click "About" and then the "PECC Inter. Secretariat". Likewise, at the Secretariat site, click on "Publications Index".

Central American-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR)

European Union (EU):

THE UW LIBRARIES IS AN EU DEPOSITORY LIBRARY. Search the UW Libraries Catalog for EU publications and ask for help in Government Publications, Ground Floor , Suzzallo Library.

GENERAL INFORMATION

EUROPA, GATEWAY TO THE EUROPEAN UNION
Official HOMEPAGE for the EU produced by the European Commission of the European Union.
"HOW TO FIND INFORMATION ON EUROPA" will help you get started using Europa!
A to Z Indexes.
- A to Z [Index] by the European Commission.
- EUROPEAN UNION A TO Z INDEX, A TO Z INDEX OF EUROPEAN UNION WEBSITES
  by European Union, Delegation of the European Commission in the USA.
Directories/Contacts of EU Delegations in 3rd countries around the world.
- European Commission Delegations & Offices: Web sites* & contacts. * Some Delegations haven't established websites so consult the External Service Directory.
RAPID, Press Releases [EU NEWS]
The European Union at a Glance.
Fact Sheets on the European Union
The History of the European Union, key events of each year.
Terminology of the European Union: acronyms, terms, initialisms, etc.:
- A Plain language guide to Eurojargon "People within the EU institutions and in the media dealing with EU affairs often use 'eurojargon' words and expressions that they alone understand. Eurojargon can be very confusing to the general public, which is why we have written this “plain language guide” to help you.
- Acronyms and Abbreviations from the "The European Union, a Guide for Americans".
- Glossary "The following glossary contains some 250 terms relating to European integration and the institutions and activities of the EU. It is updated regularly and includes all the latest changes. ...The unofficial terminology used on a daily basis by the media and EU officials can be found on the page devoted to Eurojargon."
- Terminology
- See Also further down on this page European Union Terminology and Drafting Style Guides and Manuals.
Helpful general UNOFFICIAL WEBSITES:
- BBC NEWS, INSIDE EUROPE: A guide to the changing face of the European Union.
- PRIVATE LINKS TO OFFICIAL AND UNOFFICIAL E.U. AND OTHER EUROPEAN RESOURCES.
MORE GENERAL EU INFORMATION
- European Union Documents. "This site sets out all the documents available and will help you find the document you need. It is divided into three sections and contains links to legislation, activity reports, brochures, audio-visual material, internal documents, archives, etc."
- DIRECTORATE GENERAL COMMUNICATION webpage is another good source of basic EU information and links.
- ECLAS, European Commission Libraries Catalogue.
  For EU R&D programs and reports see CORDIS.
- "EUROPE DIRECT is a service to help you find answers to your questions about the European Union". Aimed at helping EU CITIZENS, this website is also useful to non-EU citizens.
- EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (EP) is a good place to start for EP and EU information and policies. Access to the EP website may be found via the Alphabetical Subject Index, an overview of the EP or site map, and FACT SHEETS.
  See also EP information under EUROPEAN UNION LAW below.
- EUROSTAT,the Statistical Office of the European Union.
- IDEA, Official Directory of the European Union. "IDEA is an electronic directory which presents the organisation charts of the EU institutions, bodies and agencies in the eleven official EU languages. It is updated once a week. Nevertheless, there may be temporary differences between the French version, which is the pilot language, and the other language versions." Also one can search for persons by name.
- "Interinstitutional Style Guide", by the European Union, Publications Office provides a wide variety of information about the structure of the E.U., it's publications, and standards for E.U. publishing.
EU WORLD RELATIONS
- Directories/Contacts of EU Commission Delegations in 3rd countries around the world.
- ...FOREIGN and SECURITY POLICY
- EU INFORMATION FOR AMERICANS (ie. USA).
  - EUROPEAN UNION, Delegation of the European Commission to the USA
  - A to Z Indexes.
    - A to Z [Index] by the European Commission.
    - EUROPEAN UNION A TO Z INDEX, A TO Z INDEX OF EUROPEAN UNION WEBSITES
      by European Union, Delegation of the European Commission in the USA.
  - The European Union at a Glance.
  - EUROPEAN UNION, a Guide for Americans. A great source of basic EU information.
  - EUROPEAN UNION, Delegation of the European Commission to the U.S.A., the official webpage of the Delegation of the European Commission to the United States is especially useful for information on E.U./U.S.A. relations. A few of the many helpful features found here are EU Websites and for more extensive help researching the EU, see "Tools for Research on the EU" by Library Press and Public Affairs Section Delegation of the European Commission Washington, DC.
  - The United States Mission to the European Union, Brussels Belgium

EUROPEAN UNION LEGISLATIVE and CONSULTATIVE INSTITUTIONS:

Council of the European Union. See Also "Documents" for access to Council publications.
European Commission or the Commission of the European Union. See the list of "European Union Policies" including Commission instituitional entities. To search for Commission documents use European Commission Document Register and click on "Document Search" to proceed. The Register includes "primarily legislative documents with COM, C and SEC numbers and other categories such as the agendas and minutes of Commission meetings. NOTE: The UW Libraries has many older Commission documents in print or microfiche in Government Publications.
European Parliament (EUROPARL):
- The Legislative Observatory (OEIL) of the European Parliament.
- Parliament and you, "Correspondence with citizens."
  Notice the "Access to documents" link on the left side.
European Economic and Social Committee. SEE Opinion Search to find EESC opinions.

EUROPEAN UNION LAW:

GENERAL EU LAW INFORMATION SOURCES:

Summaries of Legislation, Activities of the European. "Here you will find clear and concise summaries of EU legislation in all policy areas. Simply click on the subject of your choice and access user-friendly explanations of legislation concerning that subject!"
European Journal of International Law [Non-EU publication]
EU Laws & Policies on selected topics, an excellent starting point, aimed at North Americans.
"European Union Law: An Integrated Guide to Electronic and Print Research-Updated" by LLRX (Law Library Resource Xchange). [Non-EU website]
EU Legislation Texts and Legal Process:
- EUR-LEX, Access to European Union Law. [EU LAW PORTAL] "EUR-Lex provides direct free access to European Union law. The system makes it possible to consult the Official Journal [OJ] of the European Union and it includes inter alia the treaties, legislation, case-law and legislative proposals. It offers extensive search facilities."
  It includes "Community Legislation in Force", recent Official Journal (OJ), Treaties, Community Prepratory Acts, and Case Law.
- PreLex "the database on inter-institutional procedures follows the major stages of the decision-making process between the Commission and the other institutions: stage of the procedure; decisions of the institutions; persons' names; services responsible; references of documents …etc, and monitors the works of the various institutions involved (European Parliament, Council, ESC, Committee of the Regions, European central Bank, Court of Justice, etc.). PreLex follows all Commission proposals (legislative and budgetary dossiers, conclusions of international agreements) and communications from their transmission to the Council or the European Parliament. Links allow users to access directly the electronic texts available (COM documents, Official Journal, Bulletin of the European Union, documents of the European Parliament, press releases, etc.)."
- Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.(UW RESTRICTED) Look under "Legal Research" for "EU Law(Celex)". Legal Process:
  See the EUR-LEX page "Process and players" which provides a detailed overview of the EU legal system and structure, broken down by:
  1. The documentary holdings.
  2. Legislative procedures.
  3. Players in the Community system.
CONSTITUTION of the European Union:
- TREATY ESTABLISHING A CONSTITUTION FOR EUROPE (text as of 13 Oct 2004; signed by 25 member Heads of State or Government 29 Oct 2004), includes full text of the Constitution, ratification and background information, etc.
- European [CONSTITUTIONAL] Convention website. Click on Draft Treaty for all the language versons or Draft Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe for the English version.
- A Constitution for Europe (Unofficial website). "Welcome to the first release of a hypertext spanning over texts from the documents listed below. This new presentation is constructed in order to make the texts easier accessible." Provided by Brit Helle Aarskog, member of the Text Technologies Research Group, Department of Language, Culture and Information Technology, Bergen, Norway.
COURTS:
CURIA, Court of Justice and of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities etc. Print proceedings through 2004 are in the UW Libraries collections: Annual report : synopsis of the work of the Court of Justice and of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities.
TREATIES
Treaties and LAW.

EUROPEAN UNION TERMINOLOGY AND DRAFTING STYLE GUIDES AND MANUALS:

English Style Guide.
Interinstitutional style guide.
The Information Providers Guide (IPG) is intended for authors of pages on EUROPA (coordinators, webmasters, contractors, ...). It covers editorial, technical and graphic aspects. The rules set out in the IPG are compulsory in order to best ensure a coherent and user-friendly service to the users. The IPG is freely available on EUROPA in French and English. This is a living document and is regularly updated.

Joint Practical Guide, Guide to the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission. for persons involved in the drafting of legislation withing the Community institutions.
See Also near the top of this page Terminology of the European Union: acronyms, terms, initialisms, etc.

MISCELLANOUS EU WEBPAGES:

Archive of European Integration (AEI). "The AEI is an electronic repository and archive for research materials on the topic of European integration and unification..."
European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia.
EURES, the European Job Mobility Portal "The easy way to find information on jobs and learning opportunities throughout Europe. Job vacancies in 31 European countries, CVs from interested candidates, what you need to know about living and working abroad and much more brought to you by the EURES network."
"Information on the EURO" EU's official EURO page.
Public Opinion in Europe: See Eurobarometer. For back issues click on Standard EB on the left side. See also the Archives. UW Libraries has print copies: Euro-barometer.

PRIVATE LINKS TO OFFICIAL AND UNOFFICIAL E.U. AND OTHER EUROPEAN RESOURCES:

European Navigator "European NAvigator (ENA) provides high quality research and educational material on the history of European integration on a single website: www.ena.lu."
European Union, European Commission by the New York Uuniversity School of Law Library.
Sources of EU Publications On-Line by Kay Munro, Glasgow University Library. Well organized substantive, and concise.
European Union Internet Resources (U. of Calif. Berkeley Lib.,USA). Has exhaustive listings.
European Union Guide (U. of Florida Lib.)Very useful for Quick Information.
Europe Links (George Mason U. Lib., Virginia, USA) Emphasizes business.
European Union Law: An Integrated Guide to Electronic and Print Research-Updated By Marylin J. Raisch, part of LLRX (Law Library Resource Xchange).
Don't miss the other E.U Law guides also found at this website.
Patent and Trademark Information at the University of Washington Engineering Library.
E.U. STANDARDS (CE, EN, etc):
European Committee for Standardization "European standards are available from national standards bodies who are responsible for selling European Standards." See also the On-Line catalogue of European Standards".

UW and US ACADEMIC PROGRAMS FOCUSED ON EUROPE:
European Union Studies Association. European Union Studies Association (EUSA) is the premier scholarly and professional association, worldwide, focusing on the European Union, the ongoing integration process, and transatlantic relations."

JACKSON SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, U of Wash.:
Unitversity of Pittsburgh:
- Archive of European Integration (AEI) "The AEI is an electronic repository and archive for research materials on the topic of European integration and unification" at the University of Pittsburgh.
- European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center

Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF-GAFI)

"... is an inter-governmental body whose purpose is the development and promotion of policies, both at national and international levels, to combat money laundering. The Task Force is therefore a "policy-making body" which works to generate the necessary political will to bring about national legislative and regulatory reforms to combat money laundering."

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):

The UW LIBRARIES IS AN FAO DEPOSITORY LIBRARY. Look in the UW Libraries Catalog and ask for help in Government Publications.

FAO Catalogue on-line (Some FULL Text).
Information for International Agricultural Research. Don't miss the "Databases" list.
The World Agricultural Information Centre (WAICENT) Portal.
FAO Corporate Document Repository (Full Text).
FAO Documentation 1988 to present a citation index, by the University of Saskatchewan Library.
STATISTICS:
FAOSTAT homepage. IN MOST CASES, click the appropriate link on the top of the the page. On the following page click on the link(s), upper left side to retrieve data. FAOSTAT data is not consistently available at any one time.
SPECIAL INTEREST FAO and related WEBSITES:
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) "Created in 1971, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) is an association of public and private members supporting a system of 16 Future Harvest Centers that work in more than 100 countries to mobilize cutting-edge science to reduce hunger and poverty, improve human nutrition and health, and protect the environment." SEARCH the CGIAR website and databases.
FAO Geonetwork
FAOLEX "is a comprehensive and up-to-date computerized legislative database, one of the world's largest electronic collection of national laws and regulations on food, agriculture and renewable natural resources. Users of FAOLEX have direct access to the abstracts and indexing information about each text, as well as to the full text of most legislation contained in the database."
Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture (GIEWS).

Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA-ALCA) [Moribund/Dead]

"This site contains documents from the process initiated in the 1994 Summit of the Americas to integrate the economies of the Western Hemisphere into a single free trade arrangement." .... "This Web Site is maintained by the Tripartite Committee, which consists of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on behalf of the member governments of the countries participating in the Free Trade Area of the Americas." Includes in part legal texts, FTAA related country information, and the See also entries under International Commercial Trade Law and Statistical Data.

GATT
Contracting Parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

GROUP OF ....

eg. GROUP OF 8, etc.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climage Change.

"Recognizing the problem of potential global climate change, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988. It is open to all members of the UN and WMO."

International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD)

"The International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) is a unique international effort that will evaluate the relevance, quality and effectiveness of agricultural knowledge, science, and technology (AKST); and effectiveness of public and private sector policies as well as institutional arrangements in relation to AKST..."
Final report of the Steering Committee, Regional Consultation Reports and other IAASTD publications.

International Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA).

IAEA Nuclear Information System (INIS) "is the world’s leading database on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology." From About INIS "....INIS processes most of the world’s scientific and technical literature on a wide range of subjects from nuclear engineering, safeguards and non-proliferation to applications in agriculture and health...."
IAEA Publications, Documents & Reports.

International Labour Organization (ILO)

Access to ILO Databases

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

IMF Factsheets List.
For both IMF and the World Bank HIPC pages see:
Debt Relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative and HIPC World Bank web page.

League of Nations, Statistical and Disarmament Documents.

"Northwestern University Library's "League of Nations Statistics and Disarmament Documents" contains the full texts of more than 250 titles (49,000 pages) of League of Nations documents. The selected documents are focused on three areas: the founding documents of the League; the League's statistical publications, Armaments Yearbook and Statistical Yearbook; and Category IX Disarmament documents..." Supplies Adobe Acrobat .pdf files.

League of Nations Photo Archives Contains photos with captions plus tables of councils, conferences, etc. which provide names and affliation of people associated with the League of Nations. Lists of journalists and photos of League buildings are examples of additional information. Website provided by the League of Nations Archives, Palais des Nations, Geneva Switzerland and Indiana University, Center for the Study of Global Change, Bloomington Indiana.
Official Journal of the League of Nations. The UW Libraries has this L of N title and many more L of N print publications, which are found via the UW Libraries Catalog.

MIGRATION

International Organization for Migration "is committed to the principle that humane and orderly migration benefits migrants and society."
Global Commission on International Migration (GCIM). "The Global Commission on International Migration was launched by the United Nations Secretary-General and a number of governments on December 9, 2003 in Geneva. It is comprised of 19 Commissioners, is independent and was given the mandate to provide the framework for the formulation of a coherent, comprehensive and global response to the issue of international migration."
Western Hemisphere Migration:
- Regional Conference on Migration "....an intergovernmental forum of eleven countries in North and Central Amercia devoted to sharing information and promoting dialogue on migration. On this site, you will find information and comments from the dialogue and debate at the Conference. You will also find information on the many activities, projects, and seminars sponsored by the Conference."

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization):

See also the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (formerly the North Atlantic Assembly).

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

OECD Topics, "The OECD works on global issues in the following areas."

See the UW Libraries Catalog for print copies of OECD publications.
See also SourceOECD (UW RESTRICTED) for full-text copies of many OECD Publications and for Statistical Data.
Official Unclassified OECD Documents.
OECD statistical data
What's New @ OECD "is OECD's monthly e-newsletter highlighting key new books, reports, and statistics from various OECD sources."

Organization of American States (OAS)

"brings together the nations of the Western Hemisphere to strengthen cooperation on democratic values, defend common interests and debate the major issues facing the region and the world. The OAS is the region’s principal multilateral forum for strengthening democracy, promoting human rights, and confronting shared problems such as poverty, terrorism, illegal drugs and corruption. It plays a leading role in carrying out mandates established by the hemisphere’s leaders through the Summits of the Americas". See the page linking to OAS Human Rights, Institutions of the Inter-Amercian Human Rights System websites.

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), Stockholm Convention on

"The Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention, which was established under Article 20, performs functions specified in the Convention or determined by the Conference of the Parties including making arrangements and providing services for meetings, facilitation of assistance to Parties on request on the implementation of the Convention, preparation of reports, administration and coordination with other secretariats."

United Nations (UN)

The UW LIBRARIES IS A UN DEPOSITORY LIBRARY. Many UN Publications are NOT in the UW Libraries Catalog.
Ask for help in Governement Publications, Ground Floor, Suzzallo Library.

UNITED NATIONS DEPOSITORY LIBRARY LOCATOR

WASHINGTON STATE MODEL UNITED NATIONS is sponsored and organized by UW students for the benefit of high school students in the region and beyond.
A Model UN Conference is held annually on campus each Spring.

GENERAL UN INFORMATION:

UNITED NATIONS HOMEPAGE
UN NEWS CENTRE
UNITED NATIONS MEETINGS COVERAGE AND PRESS RELEASES
UN SEARCH within www.un.org.
The UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM a hypertexted chart with links to the UN bureaucracy.
INDEXES/ FULLTEXT PUBLICATIONS/ INFORMATION
ABOUT THE UNITED NATIONS, Introduction to the structure and work of the UN.
CyberSchoolBus (Not only for K-12 students! Contains much basic UN information.)
Global Issues on the United Nations Agenda. Functions as a linked table of contents to the many "UN system programmes and activities by theme."
[UN]Member States, Growth in United Nations membership, 1945-present.
United Nations and Civil Society, "Documents" category. Provides a concise linked guide to the UN and UN activites plus selective historical UN and League of Nations documents.
Yearbook of the United Nations, "The Yearbook Collection (1946 to latest). The Yearbook is the principal reference work of the United Nations and provides a detailed overview of the Organization's activities." Browse or search any or all years. An effective and unique method of tracking UN activities and policies over time, look for an event related to the UN, etc.
Print Edition.
UN Pulse "alerts you to just-released UN online information, major reports, publications and documents. Created and maintained by a team of reference librarians at the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library in New York, UN Pulse is updated as new information is published and received."
UN Member States:
- deleGate "Welcome to the Permanent Missions web site maintained specifically to meet the information needs of delegations working at UN Headquarters in New York. The site includes links to essential information resources and delegate-specific tools and content from iSeek, the UN Secretariat's award-winning intranet..." Some parts of this website are restricted.
  For member state webpages and other member state information, see Member States of the United Nations.
- UN Member States on the Record "Activities of the Member States, provides direct access to official documents reflecting the views of the United Nations."
UNITED NATIONS OFFICE in GENEVA, Switzerland.
UNITED NATIONS OFFICE in VIENNA, Austria.

FINDING *UN WEBSITES*:

*Principal United Nations Offices Around the World, using a world map labeled with cities and clickable initials of UN bodies in each city.
The UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM a hypertexted chart with links to the UN bureaucracy.
Official WEB Site Locator for the UNITED NATIONS System of Organizations.
SITE INDEX to the UN Website (New York).
"UN LINKS", by the UN Office on Durgs and Crimes, useful for general UN and Non-UN links.

RESEARCH GUIDES plus INDEXES, FULLTEXT PUBLICATIONS, and INFORMATION:

RESEARCH GUIDES

United Nations Documentation: Research Guide "This guide is designed for researchers and information professionals with an interest in United Nations documentation."
UN Web Search "Designed to give an overview of the UN website and to demonstrate effective search methods in selected databases."
The United Nations System Pathfinder. "The purpose of this Pathfinder is to identify major publications of the organizations comprising the United Nations system."
Selected U.N. Resources and Research Tools: Overview and Search Tips for Legal Research by Wiltrud Harms, Law School Library (Boalt Hall), U. of Calfornia at Berkeley.

*INDEXES/ FULLTEXT PUBLICATIONS/ INFORMATION*

DOCUMENTS, AND DATABASES, "Official Documents and Bibliographic Databases."
AccessUN (UW RESTRICTED) [INDEX AND Some FULL TEXT], by the Newsbank/Readex Co., is a very effective indexing and selective fulltext resource.
UN Dag Hammarskjold Library (DHL) resources:
- UN Pulse "ALERTS you to just-released UN online information, major reports, publications and documents."
- OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS SYSTEM of the UNITED NATIONS [ODS] [INDEX AND FULL TEXT] covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are, however, added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. The system does not contain press releases (posted at http://www.un.org/News/Press/full.htm), UN sales publications [contact: http://www.un.org/Pubs/index.html], the United Nations Treaty Series or information brochures issued by the Department of Public Information. Please click on Help for more detailed information."
  NB: To find the United Nations Treaty Series, Sales publications, and Department of Public Information brochures see the UW Library Catalog.
- UNBISnet - UN Bibliographic Information System. [INDEX AND Some FULL TEXT] "Catalogue of United Nations(UN) documents and publications indexed by the UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva. Also included are commercial publications and other non-UN sources held in the collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. The coverage of UNBISnet is from 1979 onward, however, older documents are being added to the catalogue on a regular basis as a result of retrospective conversion. UNBISnet also provides instant access to a growing number of full text resources in the six official languages of the UN (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish), including resolutions adopted by the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and the Security Council from 1946 onward." NB: See also the ODS as above.
- UN-I-Que: United Nations Info Quest, "...provides quick access to document symbols and sales publication numbers for UN materials. UN-IQUE focuses documents and publications of a recurring nature, such as annual/sessional reports of committees/commissions, periodic reports, annual publications, etc."
- United Nations Depository Libraries. By the UN Dag Hammarskjold Library, contains information for libraries which are designated as UN Depositories. See Depository Library Locator to find a UN Depository Library near you.
UN Documentation Centre and Databases
UN News Resources:
UN PUBLICATIONS AND SALES Dept.:
Find here lists, announcements, and a limited search capability for identifying UN publications which are for sale, with prices and usually UN Sales Numbers (eg. "GV.92.0.20"). Note that our UN depository collection should contain most of the UN Sales Publications for your use, and that AccessUN (UW RESTRICTED), UNBISnet - UN Bibliographic Information System, and UN-I-Que index Sales publications along with the more numerous UN Masthead publications.

SPECIAL INTEREST OFFICIAL UN WEBSITES:

Climate Change:
- Online Inventory of UN System Activities on Climate Change
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Children and Armed Conflict, Office of the Special Representative of the Sec. General for. See Also UNICEF.
Disarmament:
- United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)
- International Day of Peace, 21 September 2009 "WMD-We Must Disarm, Take action for a world free of nuclear weapons."
- See Also: ARMS CONTROL, SALES, AND DATA
Disasters:
- International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.
  See also the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, Library for disaster reduction.
- Prevention Web, Serving the infomation needs of the disaster reduction community.
- ReliefWeb, Serving the Information needs of the Humanitarian Relief Community, is a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Provides Natural Disaster information, maps, and links to countries and to relief groups and activities (IGOs and NGOs
Drugs and Crime, UN Office of.
Enable, "Disability and the United Nations".
ENVIRONMENT NETWORK by the UN Environment Programme.
"Financing for Development, Preparations for a high-level consultation in the first quarter of 2002."
EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE. See also UN Division for Sustainable Development.
GEODATA:
- FAO Geonetwork
- UNEP Geodata Portal
GLOBAL COMPACT.
HEWS, Humanitarian Early Warning Serivce, A Global Multi-Hazard Watch Service to Support Humanitarian Preparedness. See also: Alertnet, Alerting humanitarians to emergencies.
Human Rights
Indigenous Peoples:
- Indigenous Peoples group in the World Bank.
- UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Internet Governance Forum, Athens Greece, 30 Oct.- 2 Nov.2006.
Mapping:
- Bird's Eye View of a Refugee's World by the UN High Commissioner on Refugees and Google Earth. You must install Google Earth to access. "Google Earth's new mapping programme takes you on a virtual reality tour with the UN refugee agency of some of the world's major displacement crises and the humanitarian efforts aimed at helping the victims."
Mercenaries, UN Working Group on.
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
NEWS ON THE WEB
Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Operations Evaluation Department (OED). "OED assesses what works, and what does not..."
Palestine/UNISPAL-United Nation Information System on the Question of Palestine
Relief Web "ReliefWeb is the world’s leading on-line gateway to information (documents and maps) on humanitarian emergencies and disasters....ReliefWeb was launched in October 1996 and is administered by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)." Includes a great deal of information about each country!
Sanctions webpage by the Global Policy Forum (an NGO). Excellent source of information on sanctions, primarily emphasizing the Security Council of the United Nations.
TERRORISM, see the UN section of this UW Libraries, Government Publications staff webpage.
UN Atlas of the Oceans.
THE UNITED NATIONS AND BUSINESS, is the primary page for UN and Business initiatives, interactions, and business and economic information resources. See also the Global Compact: Human Rights, Labour, Environment, the result of a high-level UN, business, labour, and civil society (NGO) meeting held July 26, 2000. This page will be updated and added to in years to come.
UN Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT)
UN Information and Communication Technologies Task Force.
UN International Law
UN Millennium Development Goals. See also the Millennium Development Goals Indicators Database.
United Nations Peacekeeping.
WomenWarPeace.org, a Portal on Women, Peace & Security, provided by UNIFEM which is the UN Development Fund for Women.
Women Watch, the UN Internet Gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of Women.
World population in 2300, Executive Summary.
World Volunteer Web.

UNITED NATIONS UN-OFFICIAL WEBSITES:

"Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq (CASI), aims to raise awareness of the effects of sanctions on Iraq, and campaigns on humanitarian grounds for the lifting of non-military sanctions. CASI does not support or have ties to the government of Iraq." This website brings together many significant full-text UN documents, such as Confidential UN Document Predicts Humanitarian Emergency in Event of War on Iraq.
Global Policy Forum concerned with UN reform and policy analysis.
Initative for Policy Dialogue
United Nations Foundation "promotes a more peaceful, prosperous, and just world through the support of the United Nations. Through our grantmaking and advocacy, and by building innovative public-private partnerships, we act to meet the most pressing health, humanitarian, socioeconomic, and environmental challenges of the 21st century." See also United Nations & Global Security, an initiative of the United Nations Foundation.
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."
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization. "The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is a democratic, international membership organization. Its members are indigenous peoples, occupied nations, minorities and independent states or territories who have joined together to protect their human and cultural rights, preserve their environments, and to find non-violent solutions to conflicts which affect them. UNPO provides a legitimate and established international forum for member aspirations and assists its members in effective participation at an international level."
World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA). "Inspired by the opening words of the United Nations Charter "We the Peoples", the World Federation was created in 1946 - one year after the establishment of the UN. Today, we have become a global network of hundreds of thousands of people linked together through United Nations Assocations in over 100 member states of the UN."

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD),

United Nations Development Programme

Indan Ocean Tsunami, December 26, 2004.
- UNDP & Tsunami Recovery This is the main UNDP webpage.
- Indian Ocean Tsunami Tsunami Disaster-Index by UNDP-Indonesia.
Millennium Development Goals
- Millennium Development Goals - MDGs.
- UN Millenium Development Goals (MDG) and Millenium Development Project.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Documentary Resources (Index to publications)
For Asian Regional information, see Knowledge Resources, Information Programmes and Services compiled by UNESCO Bangkok.
World digital library

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

UNEP GEO Data Portal "The GEO Data Portal is the authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments. Its online database holds more than 450 different variables, as national, subregional,regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP. Display them on-the-fly as maps,graphs,data tables or download the data in different formats."
Global and Regional Integrated Data Centres (GRID) "Aim to provide and facilitate access to environmental data and information for decision-making and policy setting, and to underpin UNEP's review of the state of the world's environment and provide early warning on emerging environmental threats." Click here for a full list [with links] of GRID Centres...
Green Customs"...offers information and training materials for customs officials to combat illegal trade in commodities of environmental concern."
The Post-Conflict Assessment Branch (PCoB) "extends UNEP's work in areas of the world where the natural and human environment has been damaged as a direct or indirect consequence of conflict."
United Nations Environment Network. "Welcome to UNEP.Net, the United Nations Environment Network: a global portal to authoritative environmental information based on themes and regions."
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre

World Bank Group (WBG)

The World Bank has many excellent publications for sale, which the UW Libraries purchases and can be found through the
UW Libraries Catalog.
Links to electronic versions of these publications are provided in the Catalog, or can searched directly at the World Bank e-Library (UW RESRTICTED) "...an online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 1,200 World Bank titles, plus each new book as it is published."
World Bank Group "Data and Statistics" (Some online databases found here are UW RESTRICTED)

Finding World Bank information and studies on the Bank website:

Country information published by the World Bank, hints on finding it.
Topics in Development. Alphabetical List of All Topics (200 +) on the World Bank website.
Data and Research, an excellent portal to Bank information and research results.
"World Bank Search". "The World Bank website provides searches within four main categories: all, publications, documents & reports, and projects (lending). Also see New: Google [powered] Beta Search."

Within World Bank Search don't miss these useful search engines:
- "Documents & Reports" "Search / Browse (more than 65,000 Bank documents online)". Provides full text copy of the documents and reports.
- "Projects & Operations" (aka Project Database") and the "Project Portfolio Advanced Search" are very useful for finding full text of project reports.
- "Publications"/Online Bookstore. Remember to look these sales publications up in the UW Libraries Catalog and see additional information above at the beginning of this category.
World Bank Economics Department:
- Document Search "function enables you to find official published documents (use the drop-down list in the box below) in the World Bank's Archives. Light-weight download is available."
- "Research Datasets" is a list by title and by categories.

JOLIS is the library catalog for joint library of the World Bank and the IMF.
JOLIS also includes non-Bank and non-IMF publications.
World Bank Information Disclosure. "...commitment to ensuring increased transparency about its activities..."
World Bank "Newsletters, Receive the latest Bank information in your inbox."
World Bank Archives

Of special interest in the World Bank (WBG):

DevNews Media Center. News of World Bank development activities, projects, speeches, events, experts and more is provided in detail.
Economic Policy and Debt.
Indigenous Peoples group in the World Bank.
Integrity Vice Presidency .... to investigate allegations of fraud and corruption in Bank Group operations as well as allegations of staff misconduct...."
The International Comparisons Program (ICP) "is a global statistical initiative established to produce internationally comparable price levels, expenditure values, and Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) estimates."
Microfinance:
- Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP), advancing financial access for the world's poor
- Microfinance Gateway "is the most comprehensive online resource for the global microfinance community. It includes research and publications, featured articles, organization and consultant profiles, and the latest news, events, and job opportunities in microfinance."
PovertyNet.

See the following international NGO, the Bank Information Center, which provides analysis and criticism of Multilateral Development Banks (MDB) and links to key MDB policy and procedure publications.

World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO Health Topics
WHO Sites (ie. WHO websites.)
WHOSIS (WHO Statistical Information System)

World Trade Organization (WTO)(1995--) and GATT (1947-1994)

Note: The University of Washington Libraries has a good collection of GATT publications, found using the UW Libraries Online Catalog. WTO publications are mostly found only on their website. We have some print WTO publications, which are listed in the UW Libraries Online Catalog. The WTO discontinued the GATT Depository Library distribution program shortly after inception.

Online Publications, go to the WTO Homepage toolbar and click "Documents" or go directly to Documents Online to search for WTO publications.
WTO Third Ministerial Conf., Seattle, WA USA Nov 30 - Dec. 3, 1999.
Washington Council on International Trade website. The WCIT website is useful for additional and later WTO information and for information on other Washington State and international trade related issues.
"WTO/GATT Research" by Jeanne Rehberg, Reference Librarian for International and Foreign Law at New York University School of Law Library.

GATT or Contracting Parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
The University of Washington Libraries has a large print collection of GATT publications, which are accessed via our Online Catalog.

Stanford University scanned collection:
GATT Digital Library, 1947 - 1994. "This site provides access to documents and information of and about the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), an organization that promoted international commerce and the reduction of trade barriers among member states from 1947-1994." Free registration required. Not all early GATT documents have been derestricted by WTO. WTO succeeded GATT.
World Trade Organization scanned collection:
GATT Documents. "On 15 May 2006 the [WTO] General Council decided to make public all official documents issued under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Many of these documents did not exist electronically, and have been scanned to create a digital archive. This is a work in progress — cataloguing is not completed, and refinements to structure and help files will be added at a later date. Of the roughly 88,000 documents issued under GATT, about 51,000 are available through the links below."

See also the INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL TRADE LAW.

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