United Nations
The University at Albany collects selected United Nations publications and makes them available in the general collection. United Nations publications that contain primarily statistical data are also available through the database American Statistics Index Digital. United Nations publications of particular interest, that are available online, are listed here.
- State of the World's Children 2005
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Paper copies from 1997-2002 are available at the University Library HQ 792.2 S73. Copies from 1984 -2002 are available at the Dewey Library HQ 792.2 S73, the most recent issues are in the Dewey Library Reference Collection.
For other information to support the AAAS207 assignment on statistical indicators in African countries see:
the University Libraries Africana Studies page.
- Aqustat Country Profiles
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The state of water resources and agricultural use by country.
- Country at a Glance
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Select a country from a map and view basic data including population, economy, health, and technology.
- Demographic and Social Statistics
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Includes information from the Demographic Yearbook - Annuaire Démographique. Paper issues of the Demographic Yearbook are available in the University Library's Oversize collection *HA 17 D45. Most recent copies are in the University Library's Reference Collection HA 17 D45.
- FAOSTAT
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Select a country and a year click show data and move across the page to see caloric intake per day. Data for many countries goes back to 1961.
- Lexis Nexis American Statistics Index Digital Collection
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This database includes statistics from intergovernmental entities such as the United Nations, UNESCO, and the World Bank. Enter a country and a variable (e.g. Sudan and education) to retrieve a list of full text tables.
- Millenium Indicators Database
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Choose a country and a time frame to display data on poverty, education, maternal health, and other Millenium Indicators.
- National Accounts Main Aggregates Database
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Choose a country and then a year to display various GDP series data.
- World Bank Countries and Regions
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Choose a country from the list, and then use the blue section on the left to navigate to data and statistics. Includes links to other data sources.
- World Development Indicators
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"World Development Indicators (WDI) publication is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development."
- Aqustat Country Profiles
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The state of water resources and agricultural use by country.
- Core Health Indicators
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Use this database to search for health indicators such as morbidity, TB cases, and pre capita health expenses. Data is arranged by country or WHO region.
- Country at a Glance
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Select a country from a map and view basic data including population, economy, health, and technology.
- Infonation
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View and compare country data.
- National Plans of Action and Strategies - Division for the Advancement of Women
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All governments were requested to devise Action Plans for the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action from the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995.
- United Nations Cartographic Section
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Links to maps of countries and regions of the world.
- United Nations Mine Action
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This clickable map provides country level information on the status of landmine and unexploded ordnance problems.
- Global Illicit Drug Trends
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Full text of this report from 1999-2003 with chapters on production, consumption, and trafficking.
- International Court of Justice
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Official web site.
- List of Cases Brought Before the International Court of Justice since 1947
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A mix of full-text, summaries, and press releases.
- Oil for Food Inquiry
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Most recent information from the UN News Centre.
- Report on the Manipulation of the Oil-for-Food Programme
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Final report of the Independent Inquiry Committee led by Paul Volcker.
- United Nations Surveys on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems
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"Statistics reported to the United Nations in the context of its various surveys on crime levels and criminal justice trends are incidents of victimization that have been reported to the authorities in any given country."
- World Drug Report
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Full text of the 1997, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007. Includes information on policies, injected drugs and HIV, and markets for various illict drugs.
- IAEA and Iran
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The documents, reports and resolutions of the International Atomic Energy agency relating to Iran's nuclear programme.
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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Three working group reports are available full text: "The Physical Science Basis," "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability," "Mitigation of Climate Change."
- World Distribution of Household Wealth
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"The most comprehensive study of personal wealth ever undertaken..."
- Economic and Social Council
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Resolutions, decisions, and reports are available here.
- After the Tsunami
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A ground level assessment of the 2004 tsunami's impact on the environment.
- GEO:Global Environment Outlook
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Contains full text of selected GEO publications including: GEO Yearbook 2006, regional reports, thematic reports, and technical reports.
- Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
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An arm of UNESCO, the IOC assists governments in addressing their collective ocean and coastal problems. Areas of IOC interest include climate change, fisheries & ecosystems, disaster mitigation, and marine environmental protection.
- Migratory Species and Climate Change
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"There is substantial evidence that wildlife is being affected by Climate Change already, and as a group, migratory wildlife appears to be particularly vulnerable because it uses multiple habitats and sites and uses a wide range of resources at different points of its migratory cycle."
- Millenium Ecosystem Assessment
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The Millenium Ecosystem Assessment was charged by the UN in 2001 to "meet the needs of decision makers and the public for scientific information concerning the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being and options for responding to those changes." Their four foundation documents are availble on the web in a chapter by chapter format.
- Compendium of Food and Agriculture Indicators - 2006
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Each 4 page country report provides information on agricultural production, agricultural imports & exports, land use, etc.
- Food Insecurity in the World
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"The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2004 reports on progress and setbacks in efforts to reach the goal set by the World Food Summit (WFS) in 1996 - to halve the number of chronically hungry people in the world by the year 2015."
- Nutrition Country Profiles
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Snapshots of nutrition information with links to full reports.
- State of Food and Agriculture 2004
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"This edition of The State of Food and Agriculture explores the potential for agricultural biotechnology to address the needs of the world's poor and food-insecure. Agriculture continues to face serious challenges, including feeding an additional two billion people by the year 2030 from an increasingly fragile natural resource base."
- State of the World's Forests 2005
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A global picture of forests.
- Briefing Papers for Students
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Very basic facts on current issues including biodiversity, child labour, globalization, peacekeeping, refugees, etc.
- Official Web Site Locator for the United Nations System of Operations
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Search for websites alphabetically or by theme.
- UN Pulse
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"UN Pulse alerts you to selected 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."
- 2006 Report on the Global Aids Epidemic
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"With 65 million people infected to date, nearly 25 million already dead, and the vast majority of the more than 35 million people living with HIV unaware of their status, AIDS is among the greatest development and security issues facing the world today."
- Health of the People: the African Regional Health Report
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"...provides an overview of the public health situation across the 46 Member States of the African Region of the World Health Organization. This report charts progress made to date in fighting disease and promoting health in the African Region. It reviews the success stories and looks at areas where more efforts are needed to improve people’s health."
- United Nations Population Fund
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Works with governments and non-governmental entities to fund population and reproductive health programmes.
- World Health Report
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Each annual World Health Report covers a specific topic. In 2006 the focus was on the current crisis in the global health workforce. Full text for the current report along with reports back to 1995 is available. Paper copies of the World Health Report are available in the Science Library RA 8 A265.
- Avian Influenza: Assessing the Pandemic Threat
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A report from WHO.
- Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response
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The World Health Orgranization page on epidemics contains a section on avian flu.
- FAO Animal HealthAvian Influenza
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Includes Q&A , information resources, and strategy & policy.
- Global Strategy for the Progressive Control of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI)
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Report of the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Organisation for Animal Health.
- Spread of Avian Flu Could Affect Next Year's Economic Outlook
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Excerpt from the World Bank's report on East Asia.
- World Organization for Animal Health
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Daily update on avian influenza in animals.
- In Larger Freedom: Towards Security, Development and Human Rights for All
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The Secretary General's report to Member States on the implementation of the Millenium Declaration, includes a proposed agenda to be discussed in September 2005.
- Situation of detainees at Guantnamo Bay
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Report of the Chairperson of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
- ODS - Official Documents of the United Nations
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Search for parliamentary documents of the United Nations from 1993 forward.
- Training Guides from the Dag Hammarskjold Library
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Brief guides to using UNBISnet, UN web, and ODS.
- UN Index to Speeches
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"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. "
- UN-I-QUE: United Nations Info Quest
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"UN-I-QUE (UN Info Quest), a ready-reference file created by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library to respond to frequently asked questions, is designed to provide quick access to document symbols/sales numbers for UN materials (1946 onwards). It does not give full bibliographic details nor does it replace existing bibliographic databases (UNBISnet, UNBIS Plus on CD-ROM) produced by the Library. "
- UNBISNET - United Nations Bibliographic Information System
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Access to the online catalog of the Dag Hammarskjold Library from 1979 forward.
- WHOLIS
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Search the World Health Orgranization Online Catalog. "WHOLIS indexes all WHO publications from 1948 onwards and articles from WHO produced journals and technical documents from 1985 to present."
- Disarmament: a Basic Guide
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Explains basic disarmament issues for the average reader.
- A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility - Report of the Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change
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A report that examines ways nations can work together to face threats including terrorism, inter-state violence, disease, and poverty.
- Symposium on Terrorism and Disarmament
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Full text of papers given at the Symposium on October 25, 2001.
- United Nations Cartographic Section
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Links to maps of UN peacekeeping missions.
- United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
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Facts and figures on number of missions, personnel contributions, fatalities, and completed operations.
- Weapons of Mass Desctruction Commission
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The WMD Commission was created by the government of Sweden based on an idea put forth by the UN. "The Commission aims to develop realistic proposals for the greatest possible reduction of the dangers of weapons of mass destruction, including both short-term and long-term approaches and both non-proliferation and disarmament aspects."
- Annual Report of the Secretary General
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Full text of the reports from 1992 forward.
- Demographic and Social Statistics
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Includes information from the Demographic Yearbook - Annuaire Démographique. . Paper issues of the Demographic Yearbook are available in the University Library's Oversize collection *HA 17 D45. Most recent copies are in the University Library's Reference Collection HA 17 D45.
- Millenium Indicators Database
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A framework of 8 goals, 18 targets and 48 indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development goals was adopted by a consensus of experts from the United Nations Secretariat and IMF, OECD and the World Bank. Each indicator is linked to millennium data series as well as to background series related to the target in question.
- Social Indicators
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Includes data on child bearing, housing, illiteracy, income, population, water supply, etc.
- Statistical Yearbook - Annuaire statistique (2001 - 48th issue)
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"The 84 tables of the Yearbook are based on data compiled by the Statistics Division from over 35 international and national sources." Subjects include population, culture and communication, health and nutrition, and education and literacy. The Yearbook is also available in the University Library AZ 361 U45. Most recent copies are in the University Library's Reference Collection AZ 361 U45.
- UNdata
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"The new UN data access system (UNdata) will improve the dissemination of statistics by UNSD to the widest possible audience. An easy to use data access system was developed that meets UNSDâs vision of providing an integrated information resource with current, relevant and reliable statistics free of charge to the global community. Subsequent stages of the development of the UN data access system will extend to UN system data as well as to data of national statistical offices - providing the user with a simple single-entry point to global statistics."
- WHOSIS
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The World Health Organization Statisitcal Information System provides "selected indicators by WHO Member State and WHO Region and mortality stratum."
- World Culture Report 2000
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Statistical tables and culture indicators from the UNESCO World Culture Report 2000.
- Policy Briefs
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Short discussions of current topics affecting the United States and the United Nations.
created by Emily Houk (Reference Department Intern) 2/06
- United Nations Volunteers
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The United Nations Volunteers is an organization that supports sustainable human development globally through the promotion of volunteerism, including the mobilization of volunteers. It is administered by the United Nations Development Programme. Volunteers are given a living allowance during service and a resettlement allowance upon return home based on the duration of the assignment.
- Faces: Women as Partners in Peace and Security
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"...featuring profiles of women from all parts of the world who are working for international peace and security - as police officers, HIV/AIDS educators, peace-builders, election workers, humanitarian workers and more."
- Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women
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Created in 1997 the Office of the Special Adviser promotes and strengthens "the effective implementation of the Millennium Declaration, the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW) held in Beijing in 1995 and the Outcome Document of the special session of the General Assembly on Beijing+5."
- WHO-Women's Health
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Links to various topics related to women's health issues.
- WomenWatch
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"WomenWatch is a central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout the United Nations system..."