UN Documents

Refworld collects UN documents relating to human rights and humanitarian issues. Many of these can be accessed via their UN Human Rights System page, which groups documents and publications as follows:

• Legal Documents Related to Human Rights
• Declarations and Resolutions Related to Human Rights
• UNHCR Policy Documents Related to Human Rights
• UNHCR ExCom and Standing Committee
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
• United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies
• Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council
• Documents Related to Human Rights
• Country-Specific Information
• Tools

Examples of UN documents recently added to Refworld include:

Annual report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Radhika Coomaraswamy, A/HRC/12/49 (July 2009) [text]

Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions: note by the Secretary-General, A/64/187 (July 2009) [text]

Protection of and assistance to internally displaced persons: note by the Secretary-General, A/64/214 (August 2009) [text]

Protection of migrants: report of the Secretary-General, A/64/188 (July 2009) [text]

Report of the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Including Its Causes and Consequences, Gulnara Shahinian, A/HRC/12/21 (July 2009) [text]

Summary of background paper entitled "Displacement, statelessness and questions of gender equality and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women," CEDAW/C/2009/II/WP.3 (July 2009) [text]

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