Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

Available in English, Russian, French, Arabic and Spanish. The website contains information on the economic and social situation of each country. The Meetings section links to transcriptions of the Council’s meetings and committees since 2005. The Documentation section includes reports, publications, resolutions and decisions by the Council. The documents are available in English.

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime...

Available in English, French and Russian. The main content area features news. On the left is a list of topics which link to articles, publications and campaigns around the issues of drug-trafficking and organised crime. There are also links to offices in other parts of the world and to UN Commissions. Clicking on ‘Human trafficking and migrant smuggling’, brings up the ‘Human trafficking case database’, with judgements on human trafficking in different countries. You can also download UNODC’s anti-trafficking and anti-smuggling Tools and...

Office of the High Commissioner for Huma...

Available in English, Spanish, French, Russian, Chinese and Arabic. The homepage highlights general information and news. There are two options under the Publications and Resources section: Documents links to the OHCHR documents, and Library, to a number of documents, resources, articles, books, etc. Also available here are specific publications dealing with gender issues. Under Countries – Human Rights in the World, is a list of conventions, treaties and protocols signed by each country, and the recommendations and reports issued by different United Nations committees...

United Nations High Commissioner for Ref...

Available in English. The website offers information sources on asylum. It supports a country search to access general information and data on internal refugees and refugees in third countries. The Resources section offers statistics, maps, publications and archives, plus a link to Refworld*, the UNHCR’s website featuring news on areas of armed conflict.

Secretary-General’s Reports

Available in Spanish, Russian, English, French, Chinese and Arabic. This website contains the Secretary-General’s Reports submitted to the United Nations Security Council from 1997 to 2012. Each year links to a list of reports, themes and dates. Reports are available in all languages.