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Model UN Conference Resources

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MODEL U.N TOOLBOX:

Parliamentary Procedure

Researching your topic

Delegate training guide

Delegate training videos

Writing a Position Paper

Sample Position Paper.doc

 

FOR RESEARCHING POSITION PAPERS:

(For links to United Nations website resources, scroll down)

The CIA factbook – indexed by nation, indispensable: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/  

This is also very useful: http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php

IMUNA Country Profiles

The website for the State Department with profiles on each nation in the world: http://www.state.gov/

The Crisis Group has briefs on trouble-spots across the globe: http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm

The Center for Strategic and International Studies: http://csis.org 

Human Rights Watch: http://www.hrw.org/

The Global Policy Forum: http://www.globalpolicy.org/index.php

The Center on International Cooperation: http://www.cic.nyu.edu/ 

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: http://www.oecd.org 

OECD "Better Life Index": http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org

US Census - Global Population Statistics: http://www.census.gov/popclock/

The following are foreign policy periodicals, most of their websites have regional or even national pages: 

Foreign Policy Magazine: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/index.php 

Foreign Affairs Magazine: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/ 

The Council on Foreign Relations: http://www.cfr.org/region/ 

The Diplomat: http://thediplomat.com/

International Monetary Fund: http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm

World Bank: http://www.worldbank.org/ 

 

Two liberal think-tanks:

http://www.brookings.edu/

http://www.americanprogress.org 

Three conservative think-tanks: 

http://www.heritage.org/ 

http://www.fpri.org/

http://www.foreignpolicyi.org 

  

The Carnegie Endowment is engaged in numerous issues: http://www.carnegieendowment.org/  

Especially nuclear non-proliferation:  http://www.carnegieendowment.org/npp/

 

Some major news outlets:

The New York Times: http://nytimes.com/?src=igw

The BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ 

CNN: CNN

The Economist: http://www.economist.com/ 

The Washington Post: Washington Post
Newspapers from around the world (unless you are bilingual search for the newspapers written in English!)

 

UN Website Resources:

The UN website: http://www.un.org/ 

UN main page in English: http://www.un.org/en/ 

Homepage for the General Assembly

Homepage for ECOSOC: Economic and Social Council
Homepage for the African Union: African Union
Homepage for the OAS: Organization of American States
Homepage for the Security Council

UN Maps: http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm 

UN Documents: http://www.un.org/en/documents/

How to find UN documents: http://documents.un.org/searchtips/searchtips.html 

UN Document research guide: http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/ 

Guide to UN Document symbols: http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/symbol.htm 

UN Library: http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/

 UN Systems Chart 

 UN Member State Data

 UN International Organization Profile, BBC News

 The United Nations, Wikipedia

 List of UN Information Centres in North America, South America, Europe/CIS, Africa, Asia, and Australia

 UN Multilingual Terminology Search Index

 

UN News: 

 UN News Centre

 UN Meeting Coverage and Press Releases

 Daily Journal of the United Nations

 News on the United Nations, New York Times

 United Nations News, Bloomberg

 United Nations New, World News Network

 United Nations Twitter Feed, @un

 Secretary General of the UN Twitter Feed, @secgen

 

Major UN Documents: 

 Charter of the United Nations, 1945

 Official Declaration of Human Rights, 1948

 Declaration of the UN Conference on the Human Environment, 1972

 Millennium Declaration, 2000

 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2007

 

UN Resolutions and Treaties: 

 UN Treaty Collection

 Breakdown of UN Treaties by Member State, Status, and Topic

 UN Security Council (SC) Resolutions 

 UN General Assembly (GA) Resolutions

 UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Progress Reports

 Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Human Rights Legislation

 International Court of Justice (ICJ) Statutes

 Docket of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), 1946-Present

 Publications of Permanent Court of International Justice (PICJ), 1922-1946

 

UN Repositories: 

 UN Documents

 UN Official Document Search System

 UN Bibliographic Information Systems (UNBISNET): Speech and Resolution Index

 United Nations Info Question (UN-I-QUE) Report and Publications Catalogue

 

 

Please let us know if you found other useful resources so we can add them to this list! 

 

 

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