UN staff, including eight OHCHR colleagues, detained in Yemen
OHCHR calls for their immediate release.
Library
If you are completely new to UN human rights documentation, the good place to start will be the Human Rights section of the UN Documents Research Guide prepared by the UN Library in New York.
Please contact the library at [email protected] if you need further assistance or training.
The following databases and catalogues can be searched to retrieve UN documents or information on human rights.
Universal Human Rights Index
Documents of treaty bodies, special procedures and ad hoc
missions
Charter-basedbodies database
Documents of charter-based bodies
Treaty-based bodies database
Documents of treaty-based bodies
ODS – Official Document System
Official UN documents
UN Treaties Collection
International instruments, status of ratifications
UN Yearbook
Detailed overview of UN activities from 1946
Audiovisual Library of International Law
Procedural history, status of ratifications, etc. of international instruments
Jurisprudence
Jurisprudence emanating from the United Nations Treaty Bodies which receive and consider complaints from individuals
OHCHR Library catalogue
(Geneva)
UNOG Library catalogue
(Geneva)
UN Library catalogue
(New York)
RERO Explore
(Library Network of Western Switzerland. For items located in Geneva that are not available at the OHCHR Library)