Research Tips and Links

Please take some time every day (i.e. maybe around 10 minutes before dinner) to do more country-issue research. Follow current events relevant to your issue. Have fun learning more about this amazing world! Set up your phone or computer to help you.

Start with subscriptions (use your school g-mail):

• Take advantage of the free New York Times subscription through our school library. While on campus, you need to go to this address and register an account. It will be good for one year: http://nytimes.com/passes. Sign up for a Morning Briefing email sent directly to your email each day to keep track of current events.

• Subscribe to the UN Wire. News stories related to the UN will be emailed to you daily (sign up with your school gmail).

Research Sites compiled from recommendations by fellow MUN delegates

Best Delegate Research Map (some links no longer work)

CIA World Factbook

Journalism

• read an English-language newspaper written from the perspective of your country: http://www.world-newspapers.com/

• BBC does great country profiles (and also issue summaries): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/

• Al Jazeera's How Has My Country Voted at the UN?

  • Al Jazeera analyzed 6,112 roll-call votes from the UN General Assembly from 1946 to 2018 to create this compilation of country vote records. Explore the biggest issues facing the planet and see how they have evolved.

• Reuters

Search Suggestions

• visit the Foreign Ministry website of your country. Search "foreign ministry of [your country]"

• Try Google Scholar for academic searches

• Cut to the BEST Google results: Do a search for your topic and add “United Nations” (put quotation marks around the phrase and your top results will usually be the UN committee most important to you)

• Site: country code (no spaces) For example: site:JP for sites that have Japan as part of the domain name. So if you wanted info about the Yemen War that comes from Japan, you would put this in the search box… Yemen War site:JP

  • Find country codes (and other useful domain codes) HERE

Research and Analysis organizations

• Chatham House (UK)

• Brookings Institute (US)

• Pew Research Center (US)

• Amnesty International (UK)

• Transparency International (Germany)

• Council on Foreign Relations (US)

• SIPRI (Sweden)

• News Literacy Project (US)

• Radio Garden -listen to internet radio from all over the world

• Transparency International

Links within the UN

• ECOSOC: https://www.un.org/ecosoc/en/home

• GA1: http://www.un.org/en/ga/first/

• GA3: http://www.un.org/en/ga/third/index.shtml

• HRC: https://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/hrc/pages/aboutcouncil.aspx

• DSGs: https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/envision2030.html

• Take a look at past UN resolutions. They can be found following the directions here: https://research.un.org/en/docs/find/resolutions

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