United Nations Day 24th October

the 24th October is United Nations day. In 2016 the Secretary General stated that

Global Goals can 'propel us towards a better future for all on a healthy planet

Here are some useful starting points on UN work in the field of Human Rights
 Guides to resources

• United Nations and Human Rights. A great starting point for understanding the key UN human rights and organisations is the guide produced by the UN Library
• Global Lex
• Peace Palace Library includes a bibliography of useful books

A key body is the OHCHR

• Its website has news and key publications. 
• It has a site with translations of the Universal Declaration of human rights 
• UN OHCHR - Treaty Body Database

  Includes documents submitted to any of the UN human rights treaty monitoring bodies. Filter by convention, country, type of document, document symbol, and/or date.
• Status of Ratification Interactive Dashboard View the current status of ratification of international human rights treaties through a comprehensive data visualization and mapping portal.
• Universal Human Rights Index  country-specific human rights recommendations and information emanating from international human rights mechanisms in the UN system: the Treaty Bodies, the Special Procedures and the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
• UN OHCHR - Universal Periodic Review Database

  Includes documents submitted to the UPR as well as related material; Search by session or by country.

   
   
  United Nations Documents
  • 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.
  • UNBISnet - Bibliographic Records

    UNBISnet is the catalogue of the UN Library in New York. In addition to the library's holdings it accesses multilingual versions of UN documents (1993-present), citation to documents (1979-present)