A Collection of various United Nations Documents

 

UN Documents

• A Selection of Offical UN Documents
• Covenant of the League of Nations, including the Protocol for Pacific Settlement of International Disputes and the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice
• Charter of the United Nations
• The United Nations System
• Statute of the International Court of Justice
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
• Secretary-General Documents
• Selected Documents of the General Assembly
• Selected Documents of the Security Council
• Secretary-General Kofi Annan's initiatives for reform at the UN
• Kofi Annan's statement on UN revitalization, United Nations Focus Series January 1998
• General Assembly Resolution: Renewing the UN: A Program for Reform (A/RES/52/12)
• Re-Form: The Bulletin of United Nations Reform, Number 1, 16 July 1997
• Re-Form: The Bulletin of United Nations Reform, Number 2, 29 May 1997
• Re-Form: The Bulletin of United Nations Reform, Number 3, 16 July 1997
• Re-Form: The Bulletin of United Nations Reform, Number 4, 12 March 1998
• An Agenda for Peace by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali
• Supplement to An Agenda for Peace, Position Paper of the Secretary-General on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the United Nations
• Annual Report of the Secretary-General on the Work of the Organization, 3 September 1997
• Report of the Secretary-General on the Work of the Organization, October 1996.
• Report of the Secretary-General on the Work of the Organization, August 1995. N.B. This document downloads VERY slowly.

International Treaties, Covenants, and Conventions

• Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
• Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
• Convention on the Law of the Sea
• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
• Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
• Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
• International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination
• Maastricht Treaty of the European Union
• Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
• Treaty of Westphalia, 1648
• Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
• Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and Optional Protocols
• Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and Optional Protocols
• Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

Intergovernmental and Governmental Documents

General

• The Executive Summary and Key Elements of The Clinton Administration's Policy on Reforming Multilateral Peace Operations, Presidential Decision Directive No. 25, Department of State Publication 10161, Released May 1994
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1996
  Reports released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, January 30, 1997.
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1997
  Reports released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, January 30, 1998.
• Address by United States Secretary of State Warren Christopher to the 50th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. New York, NY September 25, 1995

Bosnia-Herzegovina

• U.S. State Department Policy on Bosnia

East Asia and the Pacific

• U.S. State Department: 1998 Statements, Communiques, Speeches, and Testimony About East Asia and the Pacific

Iraq

• Crisis in Iraq: Statements by U.S. Officials
• United Nations Security Council Resolutions Pertaining to Iraq
• Text of Memorandum of Understanding Between the UN and Iraq on Inspections, February 23, 1998

Kosovo

• U.S. State Department: The Situation in Kosovo

Middle East Peace Process

• U.S. State Department Policy on the Middle East Peace Process

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• U.S. State Department Policy on NATO
• NATO Expansion * 1997 US Executive Branch Documents
• Speech by Ambassador Alexander Vershbow, U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO
• U.S. Security Strategy for Europe and NATO, published by the Department of Defense and the Office of International Security Affairs

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

• UNDP Human Development Report for 1995
• UNDP Human Development Report for 1996
• UNDP Human Development Report for 1997
• The United Nations in its Second Half Century, a Report of the Independent Working Group on the Future of the United Nations. This report is available to the public via the United Nations Scholar's Workstation at Yale University. You may view the contents with your browser or download the report via anonymous FTP.
• Towards a Rapid Reaction Capability for the United Nations, a report of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada.

 

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