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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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