UNAMI
Iraq "Human Rights Report - 1 JULY–31 DECEMBER 2008".
Full text (pdf, 30 pages, 242.9 Kb):
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/retrieveattachments?openagent&shortid=EGUA-7RKPEY&file=Full_Report.pdf
UNICEF
"Malaria and Children: Progress in Intervention Coverage" - Summary update 2009.
Malaria still kills an estimated 1 million people every year – most of them children in Africa –
and affects the health of more than 50 million pregnant women annually.
Full text (pdf, 24 pages): http://www.unicef.org/health/files/WMD_optimized_reprint.pdf
WHO
Swine influenza frequently asked questions.
Full text (pdf, 4 pages, 41kb): http://www.who.int/entity/csr/swine_flu/swine_flu_faq.pdf
Tsunami Global Lessons Learned Project
"The Tsunami Legacy: Innovation, Breakthroughs and Change"
228,000 people – in 14 countries – perished as a result of the disaster. "We must draw on every lesson we can to avoid such catastrophes in the future" – the call of the UN Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery, President Bill Clinton.
Full text (pdf, 108 pages, 5.5Mb:
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/retrieveattachments?openagent&shortid=MUMA-7RF7PQ&file=Full_Report.pdf
UNU
"The Anchorage Declaration" -adopted by Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change - 20-24 April 2009, United Nations University.
Full text (pdf, 4 pages): http://www.indigenoussummit.com/servlet/download?id=119
Read more about Summit... http://www.indigenoussummit.com/servlet/content/home.html
UNHCHR
"Outcome document of the Durban Review Conference"
Full text (pdf, 20 pages):
http://www.un.org/durbanreview2009/pdf/Durban_Review_outcome_document_En.pdf
About the Conference: http://www.durbanreview2009/
World Bank / IMF
"Global Monitoring Report 2009: A Development Emergency"
The global financial crisis is imperiling attainment of the 2015 MDGs and creating an emergency for development. The report warns that, although the first goal of halving extreme poverty by 2015 from its 1990 level is still reachable based on current projections, risks abound.
Full text (pdf, 244 pages, 9Mb): http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGLOMONREP2009/Resources/5924349-1239742507025/GMR09_book.pdf
WFP
"Hunger and Markets"
The third volume in its World Hunger Series explores the relationship between markets and the availability of food, identifying sources of market failure in addressing hunger and highlighting methods for improvement.
Full text (pdf, 193 pages):
http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/communications/wfp200279.pdf
Summary:
http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/communications/wfp200131.pdf
IMF
"Global Financial Stability report: responding to the financial crisis and measuring systematic risks"
Full text (pdf, 240 pages, summary version):
http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/communications/wfp200131.pdf
UNESCAP
"Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2008"
Full text (pdf, 248 pages, 2.9Mb):
http://www.unescap.org/stat/data/syb2008/ESCAP-SYB2008.pdf
UN-HABITAT
"Land, property, and housing in Somalia"
This report focuses on the Somali legal frameworks and institutional systems relating to land and on the historical background of the current landholding and ownership patterns in Somalia.
Full text (pdf, 201 pages, 2.6Mb):
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/retrieveattachments?openagent&shortid=SNAA-7QU457&file=Full_Report.pdf
UNDP
"Disaster recovery: A focus on good practices - UN Tsunami Response, India"
This handbook captures a number of the good practices that emerged during the UN tsunami response in South India.
Full text (pdf, 96 pages):
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/retrieveattachments?openagent&shortid=FJTC-7QUDYD&file=Full_Report.pdf
ICTY
Online Court Records Database.
This database provides access to all public court records from the first filing made at the Tribunal in 1994 through to today. With the Tribunal currently operating at capacity, many documents are added on a daily basis to the collection of more than 150,000.
http://icr.icty.org/default.aspx
UNODC - CRIMINAL JUSTICE HANDBOOK SERIES
"Handbook on Prisoners with special needs"
This handbook covers the special needs of groups of prisoners: with mental health, disabilities, minorities and indigenous peoples, foreign national prisoners, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT), older prisoners, with terminal illness and under sentence of death.
Full text (pdf, 190 pages):
http://www.unodc.org/documents/justice-and-prison-reform/Prisoners-with-special-needs.pdf
UNU - MERIT (U.N. University Maastricht Economic Research centre on Innovation and Technology)
"The First Three Years: Annual report"
UNU-MERIT was established on 1 January 2006. The report covers the first three years of the institute's activities with detailed sections on its five research programs.
Full text (pdf, 112 pages): http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/docs/2009_annualreport.pdf
FAO
"Small-Scale Bioenergy Initiatives: Brief description and preliminary lessons on livelihood impacts from case studies in Asia, Latin America and Africa"
The study covers 15 different “start-up” bioenergy projects from 12 countries and shows quite clearly that there are a number of huge possible benefits of using new technologies for biomass-based rural energy.
Full text (pdf, 142 pages, 1.200Kb): ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/011/aj991e/aj991e.pdf
Press release: http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/11355/icode/
UNODC
"Combating Trafficking in Persons: A Handbook for Parliamentarians"
The Handbook is intended to inspire parliamentarians to enact sound laws and adopt good practices that will strengthen national responses to human trafficking.
Full text (pdf, 140 pages): http://www.unodc.org/documents/human-trafficking/UN_Handbook_engl_core_low.pdf
Read more: http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/frontpage/ipu-and-united-nations-join-forces-to-combat-trafficking-in-persons.html