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- UNBISnet provides a database of speeches delivered at the various bodies of the United nations, including the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Countil and the Trusteeship Council.
- Scroll down to Index to Speeches and opt for New Keyword Search.
- From this page, you can search by a speaker's name, a country or organization of origin, topics, speech dates and more. Choose your options from the drop down menus in the search boxes. Be careful to call your country by the official name: for example Russia is Russian Federation.
- To find speeches given in the General Assembly, limit your search to General Assembly in the Limits box.
- The Drew Library has Index to Proceedings of the General Assembly (Reference JX 1977.A44 session/part) which indexes speeches at the General Assembly for each session by corporate name/country; by speaker; and by subject. Part II lists speeches by country/people. This print resource is easy probably easier to use and more reliable than UNBISNET. Drew Library owns these publications from the 8th Session onward. Helpful tip: sometimes heads of States give speeches at the opening session of the General Assembly (and other venues, like the Security Council). At the end of the listing for your country (Part II of the Index to Proceedings), see if there is a section for President or Prime Minister or some such designation where speeches by heads of States would be listed. Online access to the Proceedings is also available from 2008 onward at http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/deplib/docs/ITP/list.htm. Download the pdf version and use the "find" function to find speeches by your delegate/head of state. Use the library's print collection to find speeches from Proceedings prior to 63rd session.The document for these speeches will look like this: A/63/PV. numbers. Here the A represents the General Assembly, the 63 refers to the Assembly session, and the PV refers to verbatim record. Usually, the following number is a low number, like a .5 or .16. Type the document number into the _Symbol _box in the ODS Advanced database to pull up the full text of the document. You can search within the full text PDF, using the binocular icon, to find where your head of State's speech is located within the document (either search for his/her name or the name of your country.)
United Nations voting records
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The best places to begin:
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- Index to UN Systems Programs - Thematic issues considered by UN agencies and related bodies devoted to social or economic development, with hyperlinks to relevant websites. Also try Global Issues on the UN Agenda.
- UN News Centre
- List of all United Nations searchable databases.
- Official WEB Site Locator for the United Nations - Alphabetical list. The index to the U.N. Website provides an alphabetic site index to UN websites.
- A nice browseable list of many UN and UN related websites is available from the State Department.
- UN Conferences - link to past conferences (1994 - 2008)
- UN Treaty Collections
- United Nations Acronyms and Short Forms explained.
- The Yearbook of the United Nations (JZ4947 .Y43 yr) provides coverage of UN issues by year. The Drew Library archives the Yearbook back to 1945 in the Reference Section on the main floor of the library. The most current print edition of the Yearbook is shelved by the Reference Desk.
- United Nations Multimedia - News articles, radio, television and more.
- Encyclopedia of the United Nations - Ref KZ4968 .M66
- Encyclopedia of International Relations and Global Politics - Ref JZ 1160. E53 2005
- Great Debates at the United Nations: An Encyclopedia of Fifty Key Issues, 1945-2000. - Ref KZ4968 .G67 2001
- United Nations Today (yr) - Ref JZ 4970.U658
- United Nations Handbook (yr) - Ref JX 1977.2.N5U55
- Encyclopedia of Human Rights - Ref JC 571.E673 2009
- Annual Review of United Nations Affairs - 341.23 A615a dates from 1959. These multi volume annual sets include an overview of UN activities for the year, GA resolutions and issues related to the Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, International Court of Justice, peacekeeping issues and the annual report from the Secretariat annual reports. (On E-level).
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