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  • e-Subscription of Latest UN Documents
    Using web feeds (RSS) in your browser (Internet Explorer) http://undocs.org/
    The Department for General Assembly and Conference Management (DGACM) is pleased to announce the next step in our shift from printed to electronic documents with the introduction of an e-subscription programme based on RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS is a web feed technology which is used to channel United Nations documents. In simple words, RSS gathers all the documents you have subscribed to, in one place, as soon as they are published. By subscribing to RSS, the system will provide the latest documents to you according to your subscription criteria. Once you receive the list of documents, all you have to do is to click on the document of interest. 
  • International Year of Youth (12 August 2010 - 11 August 2011)
    Website: http://social.un.org/youthyear/  Logo: http://social.un.org/youthyear/iyylogo.shtml
    The official logo and slogan (“Our Year. Our Voice”) for the International Year of Youth are now available. 
  • The Millennium Development Goals Report 2010
    English: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/MDG%20Report%202010%20En%20r15%20-low%20res%2020100615%20-.pdf
    The report notes that even though the economic crisis took a heavy toll on jobs and incomes around the world, the world is still on track to achieve the MDG target of cutting the rate of extreme poverty in half by 2015. 
  • Greening the Blue http://www.greeningtheblue.org/
    ‘Greening the Blue,’ a new website, shows what is happening to make the UN more sustainable and provides advice to Staff Members of UN System offices, agencies and organizations how they can contribute. It includes the greenhouse gas inventories of 49 UN organizations, as well as detailed tips and tools for staff in how to reduce their personal carbon footprints. 
  • UN Office for the Administration of Justice - new website http://www.un.org/en/oaj/
    The new website provides information about the internal justice system at the UN including the Office of Staff Legal Assistance, the United Nations Dispute Tribunal and the United Nations Appeals Tribunal. All judgments rendered by the Tribunals are available for download on the website. 
  • What Will It Take To Achieve The Millennium Development Goals?
    An International Assessment (UNDP)
    http://content.undp.org/go/cms-service/stream/asset/?asset_id=2620072
    The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched on 17 June 2010 an extensive assessment of what must be done to advance sustainable development and reduce global poverty. The report identifies a concrete action agenda to inform the outcome of the World leaders’ MDG Summit in New York, this September. 
  • WIPO GOLD - new gateway launched by the World Intellectual Property Organization
    http://www.wipo.int/wipogold/
    “WIPO GOLD” is a free, on-line global intellectual property (IP) reference resource that provides quick and easy access to a broad collection of searchable IP data and tools relating to, for example, technology, brands, designs, statistics, WIPO standards, IP classification systems and IP laws and treaties. 
  • Dead planet, living planet: Biodiversity and ecosystem restoration for sustainable development
    Report & Interactive E-book: http://www.grida.no/publications/rr/dead-planet/
    Restoring lost and damaged ecosystems-from forests and freshwaters to mangroves andwetlands-can trigger multi-million dollar returns, generate jobs and combat povertyaccording to this report compiled by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). It draws onthousands of ecosystem restoration projects world-wide and showcases over 30 initiativesthat are transforming the lives of communities and countries across the globe. 
  • World Bank Open Data http://data.worldbank.org/
    The World Bank Group will offer free access to more than 2,000 financial, business, health, economic and human development statistics that had mostly been available only to paying subscribers. 
  • Petition to end hunger launched (FAO) http://www.1billionhungry.org/
    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched a major online drive to spur action to eliminate hunger and highlight the fact that one in six people worldwide go hungry everyday. Through the “1billionhungry project” people can voice their outrage about world hunger by adding their names to an online petition. 
  • Virtual Knowledge Centre to end Violence against Women and Girls http://www.endvawnow.org/
    This is a new platform launched by the United Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).Bringing together existing and cumulative experience, know-how and resources from around the world, it aims to support practitioners in effective design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes. 
  • Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse http://www.un.org/en/pseataskforce/
    On this site you can explore the subject of protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) by personnel of the United Nations (UN), non-governmental organizations (NGOs) or other international organizations. 
  • Women’s Empowerment Principles – Equality Means Business
    http://www.unifem.org/attachments/stories/WomensEmpowermentPrinciples.pdf
    Launched by the United Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the UN Global Compact (UNGC) this document calls on the business community to implement recruitmentand retention practices that advance women’s empowerment and urges them to proactivelyappoint women at the managerial level. 
  • Keeping the promise: a forward-looking review to promote an agreed action agenda to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 (A/64/665)
    http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=A/64/665
    The Secretary-General's latest report on progress made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals has been released. 
  • Beyond the Midpoint: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (UNDP)
    Report & Executive Summary: http://content.undp.org/go/newsroom/publications/povertyreduction/poverty-website/mdgs/beyond-the-midpoint.en
    This is UNDP’s forward-looking review of the factors that shape MDG progress, along with the constraints and bottlenecks that have hampered MDG achievement in many countries. The findings build on MDG assessments in 30 countries that were undertaken for this review. The report shows that while there has been notable progress on many targets and indicators across countries, it is clear that much more needs to be done for MDG achievements to be realized by 2015. 
  • United Nations Conferences and Observances
    English: http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2010/Reference_Paper_No_49.doc.htm 
  • Recycling – From E-Waste to Resources (UNEP)
    http://www.unep.org/PDF/PressReleases/E-Waste_publication_screen_FINALVERSION-sml.pdf
    Sales of electronic products in countries like China and India and across continents such as Africa and Latin America are set to rise sharply in the next 10 years. And, unless action is stepped up to properly collect and recycle materials, many developing countries face the spectre of hazardous e-waste mountains with serious consequences for the environment and public health, according to UN experts in a landmark report released by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). 
  • “Sport for Development and Peace – The UN System in Action” - new website http://www.un.org/sport
    Learn more about why and how the UN Family and UN Member States use sport and physical education to create positive social change worldwide! 
  • International Year of Youth: Dialogue and Mutual Understanding (12 August 2010 – 11 August 2011)
    http://social.un.org/youthyear/
    On the official website for this year you will find information on events planned throughout the year, as well as suggestions on how to get involved and participate. 
  • 2010 - International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures
    English: http://www.un.org/en/events/iyrc2010/ 
  • UN Chronicle – redesigned website http://www.un.org/chronicle
    The website was launched in beta on 4 December 2009. In the coming months the website's functionality will be improved and more languages added. The “UN Chronicle” is a quarterly magazine published by the United Nations Department of Public Information and available worldwide through subscription. This website currently contains articles from the print magazine from 2007 to 2009. While migrating content from the older website, please visit the archive page to access magazines from 1997 to 2006: http://www.un.org/wcm/content/site/chronicle/lang/en/home/archive/ 
  • Memorial website with condolence book honouring UN family members lost in the earthquake in Haiti
    English: http://www.un.org/en/memorial/haiti/

    On 12 January 2010 at 4:53 PM, an earthquake of a magnitude of 7.0 on the Richter scale shook the earth under Haiti, leaving death, destruction and suffering in its wake. The UN's memorial website remembers those members of the UN family who lost their lives in the earthquake and lists those confirmed to have died. Visitors to the site can leave a message in the online condolence book. 

  • 2010 - The International Year of Biodiversity (English, French & Spanish): http://www.cbd.int/2010/
    2010, the International Year of Biodiversity, is an opportunity for the world to admit the importance of biodiversity for all life on Earth, to reflect on our achievements to safeguard biodiversity and focus on the urgency of our challenge for the future. Now is the time to act and make a difference.
  • 2010 - International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures
    http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=39761&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
  • State of the World's Indigenous People http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/sowip.html
    The United Nations has launched its first publication on the State of the World’s Indigenous People. The report notes that the world’s 370 million indigenous peoples suffer from disproportionately, often exponentially, higher rates of poverty, health problems, crime and human rights abuses; stressing that self-determination and land rights are vital for their survival.
  • United Nations-Business Partnership Gateway http://business.un.org
    This new gateway will allow companies, willing to contribute to the UN, to browse through a catalogue of humanitarian needs (including relief-for-Haiti appeals) and partnership opportunities, or simply to submit ideas for collaboration. Based on shared interests, the site flags potential matches to be connected directly. At the same time, business.un.org offers UN agencies interested in private-sector support the opportunity to identify and describe needs and preferences, covering nearly all operations of the Organization, from humanitarian relief to poverty reduction and HIV/AIDS prevention.
  • Making It: Industry for Development – new UNIDO magazine: http://www.makingitmagazine.net/
    The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has launched a new quarterly magazine that aims to stimulate informed debate about the role of industry as a dynamic force in wealth creation and development on the one hand, and the need to ensure the environmental and social sustainability of industry on the other. The magazine website includes additional material and relevant links, and provides a platform for discussion and debate about the intersection of industry and development.
  • Right to Food: Methodological Toolbox (FAO) http://www.fao.org/righttofood/publi_02_en.htm
    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has published a "methodological toolbox" on the right to food, designed to provide countries, institutions, civil society and other stakeholders with a series of effective instruments they can use to assert the right to adequate food as a basic human right.
  • Women and health: today's evidence tomorrow's agenda (WHO)
    English: http://www.who.int/gender/documents/9789241563857/en/index.html
    Despite considerable progress in the past decades, societies continue to fail to meet the health care needs of women at key moments of their lives. The report includes the latest figures on the health and leading causes of death in women from birth, through childhood, adolescence and adulthood, to older age.
  • UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign (http://endviolence.un.org/)
    The re-designed website of this campaign will be launched during October, as part of the lead-up to the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (25 November). 
  • “Say NO – UNiTE” - Platform for Action (UNIFEM)
    UNIFEM will launch this new platform for action on 6 November. It will provide an opportunity for activists, NGOs and others to showcase actions to end violence against women on the ground by creating a profile and uploading information at www.saynotoviolence.org  
  • New Websites launched for United Nations Meetings Coverage and Press Releases
    English: http://www.un.org/en/unpress/
    The new sites offer a simplified user-friendly design that differentiates product by type (meetings coverage, press releases, press conferences, and briefings of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General). The websites also offer the possibility of retrieving information as it relates to the main organs of the United Nations, and headlines are now more legible, noting a highlight of the content of the document. The sites have links to various news- and media-related websites at UN Headquarters and overseas Offices. 
  • All Children, Everywhere: A strategy for basic education and gender equality (UNICEF)http://www.unicef.org/publications/files/All_Children_Everywhere_EN_072409.pdf
    “All Children, Everywhere” is the advocacy version of the United Nations Children's Fund's (UNICEF) education strategy through 2015. It provides an overview of UNICEF's work in basic education and gender equality outlines the organization's goals, guiding principles, main partners and key actions to deliver a quality education for all children. 
  • Millennium Development Goals Report 2009 (English)
    http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/.pdf
    This report assesses the progress towards the MDGs and warns that, despite many successes, overall progress has been too slow for most of the targets to be met by 2015.  
  • Resources on the Environment @ the UNOG Library http://www.unog.ch/unog/website/library.nsf/
    The Library of the United Nations Office at Geneva invites you to discover a bibliography of material on environmental protection and climate change. 
  • Silence is Violence: End the Abuse of Women in Afghanistan (UNAMA/OHCHR report)http://unama.unmissions.org/Portals/UNAMA/.pdf
    This new UN report on women in Afghanistan, describes the extensive and increasing level of violence directed at women taking part in public life, as well as the “widespread occurrence” of rape against a backdrop of institutional failure and impunity. The 32-page report notes that “violence, in the public and private spheres, is an everyday occurrence in the lives of a huge proportion of Afghan women.” 
  • Marine Litter: A Global Challenge (UNEP)http://www.unep.org/regionalseas/marinelitter/publications/docs/.pdf
    From discarded fishing gear to plastic bags to cigarette butts, a growing tide of marine litter is harming oceans and beaches worldwide, says a new report. The report, the first ever attempt to take stock of the marine litter situation in the 12 major regional seas around the world, was launched on World Oceans Day by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and Ocean Conservancy. 
  • The Role of Natural Resources and the Environment (UNEP)http://www.unep.org/pdf/pcdmb_policy_01.pdf
    This publication – released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) - highlights failure and civil war in developing countries as some of the greatest risks to global peace and security. 
  • ICC Legal Tools English: http://www.legal-tools.org/en/what-are-the-icc-legal-tools/
    The International Criminal Court (ICC) has developed a new set of Legal Tools for researching international criminal law and cases. The Legal Tools are essentially an electronic library of 40,000 searchable documents available to the general public.

  • Redesigned Website of the United Nations - http://www.un.org/

    The redesigned UN website has been launched on 4 May 2009 in the 6 UN languages with a new structure, improved navigation and usability, and greater coherence. The site introduces a new branding concept and embodies the Organization’s priorities on multilingualism and web accessibility. The five thematic pages are colour-coded and serve as gateways to information on those themes. 

    Girls’ Education in the 21st Century: Gender Equality, Empowerment, and Economic Growth (World Bank report) http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EDUCATION/Resources/.pdf
  • World Digital Library
    On 21 April 2009 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and 32 partner institutions launched the World Digital Library, a website that features unique cultural materials from libraries and archives from around the world.
    The site - located at www.wdl.org - includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, films, sound recordings, prints and photographs. It provides unrestricted public access, free of charge, to this material.
    For more information please visit http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2009/09-082.html