International Governmental Organization IGO

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International Governmental Organization
(IGO)

• associations of states established by a treaty
• legal personality separate from its member states
• wide-ranging purposes/open membership (e.g.,
  U.N.)
• or
• devoted to special purposes (e.g., WHO)
• or
• regional (e.g., OAS)

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STRUCTURE OF AN IGO

• legislative body promulgates legal acts
• judicial body settles
  disputes among member states
• executive body administers the organization

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Non-governmental Organization (NGO)

• non-profit
• non-state actors
• individuals may join NGOs

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IGO PUBLICATIONS

• founding charter
• treaties
• legal acts (e.g., resolutions, directives)
• decisions of its tribunal(s)
• non-legal publications (e.g., books,
  periodicals, press releases, yearbooks)

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To find IGO/NGO publications in the online
catalogue

• Keyword search with the organization as author or
  publisher
• au organization of american states
• or
• pu human rights watch

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INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORIES

• addresses, phone numbers, etc.
• overview of the purpose and structure on an
  organization

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To find additional materials

• Subject search in online catalog
• International Agencies
• International Organizations
• Non-governmental Organizations
• Nonprofit Organizations
• Search the organization name as an author or
  subject
• Search newspaper/periodical indexes

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UN PUBLICATIONS

• Law Library comprehensive collection of treaty
  materials and ICJ documents documents relating
  to law and human rights beginning in1987
  (microfiche)
• Perkins Library comprehensive collection of all
  UN documents
• Davis Library (UNC) UN depository library
• Internet sources e.g., www.un.org

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TYPES OF UN DOCUMENTS

• Sales Publications
• Official Records
• Masthead Documents (formerly called Mimeograph
  Documents)

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SALES PUBLICATIONS

• publications for purchase to inform the public
  about the work of the UN
• available through the online catalog
• Sample sales number E.95.XVII.6
• Examples include Yearbook of the UN UN Chronicle

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BLUEBOOK Sales Documents (Rule 21.7.2)

• 21.7.2(c). Include the UN document number if
  available.
• 21.7.2 (d). Include the UN sales number.
• U.N. Dept. of Intl Economic
• Social Affairs, World
• Economic Survey, 1977, at
• I-19, U.N. Doc. ST/ESA/82,
• U.N. Sales No. E7.78.II.C.1
• (1977)

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DOCUMENTS Official Records Masthead Documents

• Masthead Documents (formerly Mimeographed
  Documents) working documents--provisional
  records of meetings, reports, notes, studies,
  drafts, resolutions, etc.

• Official Records (OR) reports, resolutions,
  records of proceedings of the main bodies,
  selected major conferences (GAOR, SCOR, ESCOR,
  TCOR)

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BLUEBOOK Mimeographed Documents (Rule 21.7.3)

• 21.7.3. If a mimeographed document is reprinted
  as an official record or sales document, always
  cite to the official record or sales document
  instead of the mimeographed version of a document
  if possible.

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The Situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina

• A/RES/49/10
• A General Assembly
• RES resolution
• 49 session (45 session year 45 49
  1994)
• 10 number of the resolution

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U.N. Documents Symbols

• Until 1976 resolutions were numbered
  consecutively and by session e.g. 2548 (xxiv)
• "L" stands for limited e.g., E/CN.4/1993/L.2
• R stands for restricted i.e., not generally
  available

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BACKGROUND INFO

• Yearbook of the UN, UN Chronicle, Issues on the
  UN Agenda, A Global Agenda, Annual Review of UN
  Affairs, UN Nations Handbook
• books articles
• news stories
• UN press releases web site (UN News Centre and
  Lexis (NEWSCURNWS or FEDNEW)

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Resolutions Yearbook of the UN

• full text of selected resolutions included with
  discussion of the subject
• to find resolutions search by topic in the
  subject index or by document number in the Index
  of Resolutions and Decisions

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FINDING RESOLUTIONS OTHER SOURCES(see UN
Research Guide)

• Masthead documents/Official Records microfiche
  set at the end of the Plenary Meeting section
  for each session
• press releases, news stories
• compilations arranged in chronological order
• ILM Dept. of State Dispatch

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UN INDEXES OTHER FINDING AIDS

• Printed UN indexes (e.g. UNDOC)
• ILM
• other indexes in Perkins documents collection

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FINDING UN TREATIES

• Finding aids Status of Multilateral Treaties
  Deposited with the Secretary General, UNTS index,
  and commercial indexes
• Status information Status of Multilateral
  Treaties Deposited with the Secretary General,
  Treaty Section at the UN
• Text UNTS, ILM, etc.

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ICJ Background Information

• ICJ Yearbook
• ICJ website click on General Information
  (annual reports) or Whats New (press releases)
• news stories
• name of parties w/s icj or
• international court of justice
• and date

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ICJ Reports of Cases

• Reports of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and
  Orders (official reports)
• Westlaw (INT-ICJ)
• ICJ website
• ICJ Yearbook includes summaries of cases

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ICJ Pleadings

• Pleadings, Oral Arguments, Documents (official
  printed record)
• ICJ websiteincludes pleadings (written and oral)
  that have not yet been published

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UN CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS

• International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
  Yugoslavia (ICTY)
• International Criminal Tribunal for the Rwanda
  (ICTR)
• Special Court for Sierra Leone
• International Criminal Court (ICC)

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