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United Nations

  • United Nations Catalog (UNBISnet)
    Catalogue of United Nations (UN) documents and publications indexed by the UN Library.  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. Provides the full text of many of the resources in the six official languages of the UN (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish).  Also includes resolutions adopted by the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and the Security Council from 1946 onward.
  • United Nations Index to Speeches
    Citations to speeches made in the General Assembly beginning with its 38th session (1983-), the Security Council beginning with its 38th year (1983-), the Economic and Social Council beginning in 1983 and the Trusteeship Council beginning with its 15th special session (1982). Links to the full text of speeches are provided.
  • United Nations Voting Records
    The voting records for all resolutions which were adopted - either without a vote or by roll-call or recorded vote - by the General Assembly beginning with its 38th session (1983-) and the Security Council beginning with its 1st year (1946-). Links to the full text of resolutions are provided.
This link opens a new window - Info About AccessUN AccessUN  (All US JHU)

          Index to United Nations documents including Official Records, masthead documents, draft
          resolutions, meeting records, UN Sales Publications, and the UN Treaty Series citations.  Also
          included is the full-text of several thousand UN documents.
  • Access UNDP United Nations Development Programme. Created in 1965, body responsible for ccordinating UN development-related work.              

Intergovernmental Organizations

Selected IGO Links ...

This link opens a new window - Info About SourceOECD SourceOECD   (Sheridan & SAIS)

This link opens a new window - Info About World development indicators. World development indicators.  (Eisenhower Gov Pubs -- CD)

More Information on IGO's

Information about Foreign Countries
 
General Information:

 
Background

Background Notes 
CIA World Factbook 
Library of Congress |
Country Studies | Portals to the World

Country Leaders
Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
Electronic Embassy
World Rulers from 1700 to present
 
Elections
Elections and Electoral Systems 
Elections around the World
Lijphart Election Archives

The Lijphart Elections Archive, housed at the University of California, San Diego campus, is a research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries. The objective of the Archive is to systematically collect election statistics in as much detail as possible, including, as a minimum, the results at the level of the individual election districts in which votes are converted into seats. The Archive originally acquired print copies of the data and is now focusing on online data. The catalog of holdings details archive holdings of both print and online data as well as access to data when it can be freely disseminated. In addition the catalog links to other sources of online election data and information that can be found on the internet.
 
News
This link opens a new window - Info About World News Connection World News Connection  (All US JHU)

          A Foreign News Service from the U.S. Government; replaces FBIS from 1996-
  • FBIS Index 1975-1996
    An index to the FBIS Daily Reports issued by the U.S. Government covering political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events throughout the world.  Translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world are the sources of this information.

Statistics - Links to our international statistics page  

 - Links to our international statistics page
  
Additional Sources of Information:

   Foreign Governments Resources via University of Michigan
   Foreign Government Sites via Northwestern 
 



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