Research Guides: UN General Assembly Documentation: Resources

UN Documentation Research Guides

Declarations and Conventions Contained in General Assembly resolutions
Declarations and Conventions adopted by a General Assembly resolution from 1946.
General Assembly Resolutions
Full text of resolutions from 1946 organized by session.

Official Document System (ODS)
United Nations official document system: provides full text search of documents issued since 1993; resolutions of all principal organs & Security Council plenary documents since 1946. Older documents are added regularly. Includes the Daily Journals of New York and Geneva.
UN Digital Library
The United Nations Digital Library (UNDL) includes UN documents, voting data, speeches, maps, and open access publications. The platform provides access to UN-produced materials in digital format and bibliographic records for print UN documents starting in 1979. System features include linked data between related documentation such as resolutions, meeting records and voting, and refining of searches by UN body, agency or type of document.
UN Meetings Coverage and Press Releases
Available online from October 1995. Press Releases are not official documents but provide timely information on the current activities of the principal organs and subsidiary bodies, including summaries of meetings.

Repertory of Practice of United Nations Organs
Analytical studies of the decisions of the UN principal organs under each of the Articles of the Charter ; Comprehensive summary of the decisions of United Nations Organs, together with review of related material, organized by Charter Articles.

Index to Proceedings of the General Assembly / United Nations
Date: 1946-
The Index to Proceedings (ITP) of the General Assembly is a research tool that provides a window into the meetings of the General Assembly. It is comprised of a subject index to all the documents issued by the Assembly and an index to speeches delivered during a particular session.
UN Yearbook / United Nations
Date: 1946-2015
Principal reference work of the UN; provides a detailed overview of the Organization's activities during the course of a year. All the Yearbooks are available online. They provide citation to the documentation and include the full text of resolutions.

Assembly for Peace: A Digital Handbook on the UN General Assembly’s Past Practice on Peace and Security
Citation: Erica Gaston and Adam Day, Assembly for Peace: A Digital Handbook on the UN General
Assembly’s Past Practice on Peace and Security (New York, Office of the President of the General Assembly, 2024)

The GA Handbook: a practical Guide to the United Nations General Assembly / Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations
This publication was first published in 2011 by the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations. Mr. Joseph Deiss (Switzerland) was President of the General Assembly (PGA) in the 65th session (2010-2011).