http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/unms/

New web site which allows researcher to easily track activities and comments from representatives of any UN member nation from 1983 to date. Allows options for searching the Index to Speeches of the General Assembly General Debate, General Assembly, Security Council, and Economic and Social Council. Also offers options to search any country and its sponsorship of draft resolutions and its work on any of several human rights conventions. Refine option allows researcher to narrow search to particular topic. From the United Nations.

http://www.un.org/esa/desa/papers/2009/wp87_2009.pdf

Argues that a new wave of globalization has raised both actual and perceived labor market insecurity in industrialized countries, analyzes channels through which this wave of offshoring leads to economic insecurity, and urges that industrialized countries develop improved policies and benefits in response to this phenomena. From the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/64/2(supp)

Presents the annual report of the Security Council to the General Assembly. Emphasizes efforts to resolve conflict situations in Africa, the Middle East and Southwest Asia. Also devotes attention to efforts to reduce terrorism. From the United Nations.

http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/64/490

Includes as an annex the controversial Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, the so-called Goldstone report. Reviews human rights violations to civilians that occurred during the Gaza Conflict in December 2008-January 2009. From the United Nations General Assembly and the Human Rights Council.

http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/Afghanistan/Afghan_Opium_Trade_2009_web.pdf

Describes the consequences of the opium and heroin trafficked from Afghanistan annually on the health and security of countries along the Balkan and Eurasian trade routes to Russia, Europe, China, and India. From the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

http://www.unodc.org/documents/human-trafficking/Trafficking_in_Persons_in_Europe_09.pdf

Covers human trafficking flows in Europe, profiles of the offenders and their victims, mostly young women, and national legal responses to human trafficking. From the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

http://docustore.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/newsroom/wfp209430.pdf

Represents the 10th progress report on world hunger since the 1996 World Food Summit. Reports that the global economic crisis has confronted poor developing countries with declines in export earnings and foreign aid. Estimates that 1.02 billion people are undernourished in 2009. From the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/MDG_Report_2009_ENG.pdf

Presents the latest annual assessment of progress towards the eight quantitative benchmarks established for reducing extreme poverty by 2015. Describes the bleak effects of the global recession and climate change as the latest threats toward the fulfillment of the goals.. From the United Nations.

http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2009_EN_Complete.pdf

Subtitled: Overcoming Barriers: Human Mobility and Development. Focuses on overcoming stereotypes about migration including who migrants are, where they come from and go to, and why they move. From the United Nations Development Programme.

http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/2009/20090930_tuapr_2009_en.pdf

Serves as a progress report on the battle against AIDS. Reports that by December 2008 4 million people were receiving antiretroviral therapy in low and middle income countries, one million more than the previous year. But also reports that 5 million people who need such assistance are still without it. From the World Health Organization

http://www.unep.org/compendium2009/

A review of some 400 major scientific contributions to the understanding of earth systems and climate released through peer-reviewed literature or from research institutions over the last three years. Suggests that climate warming is occurring faster than originally anticipated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. From the United Nations Environment Programme.