UNITED NATIONS
United Nations - main website - links to UN sites
UN System Sites - UN web locator, directory of executives, offices, information centre, depository libraries. . .
UNBIS Thesaurus - multilingual authority file of topical subject and geographic name headings which constitute the controlled vocabulary for subject indexing and cataloguing of materials in the UNBIS database
UNData - portal providing access to various UN databases.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - a UN network of 2,000 scientists and delegates from more than 120 nations - established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) - to assess scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to understanding climate change and its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation throughout the world.
UN News
Daily Briefing - daily highlights of developments from aound the United Nations system
Federal News Service - Congressional Transcripts Online
Online publications - from the U.N.
10 Stories the World Should Hear About
Statistics Division - world economics, environmental issues, women, census, demographics . . .
Infonation - a two-step database for viewing and comparing statistical data for the member states of the United Nations on everything from land size to population, average temperature to average rainfall . . .
UNESCO Translation Database - the Index Translationum is a list of books translated in the world, i.e. an international bibliography of translations