Searching for Information related to the International Law on the UN website

 “The UN continues to promote justice and international law across its three pillars of work: international peace and security, economic and social progress and development, and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.” Having this in mind, United Nations Information Centre, held a workshop entitled “Finding UN Information and Documentation” for Ph.D. students of international law on 13 August 2015. The 8 participants were mostly from Qom Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, AVA Diplomatic reports.

“The UN continues to promote justice and international law across its three pillars of work: international peace and security, economic and social progress and development, and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.”

Having this in mind, United Nations Information Centre, held a workshop entitled “Finding UN Information and Documentation” for Ph.D. students of international law on 13 August 2015. The 8 participants were mostly from Qom Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch. Participants shared their experiences with each other, since one of them was a former diplomat who used to be a member of the Iranian delegation to the UN and another one was a student of the London School of Economics.

The workshop was conducted by UNIC Reference Assistant Ms. Nazanin Ghaemmaghami-Farahani, who elaborated on some basic facts about the UN and 70th anniversary of its establishment, which is marked this year.

She also explained how to find and retrieve UN information on the UNIC, and the UN websites as well as Dag Hammarskjold Library page on the web. Overview and searching through some of DHL resources and databases including UNBISNETand Official Document System (ODS) were also included in the programme of the workshop.

The focus of the workshop was made on UN bodies related to international law such as International Court of Justice (ICJ), Courts and Tribunals,  General Assembly Sixth Committee (Legal), International Law Commission(ILC) and United Nations Commission on International Trade Law. Treaty Collection and UN Audiovisual Library of International Law were among the legal resources introduced to the participants. They learnt how to locate a multilateral treaty and its status. A video on introducing ICJ was also screened during the session.

The former diplomat Mr. Morteza Mokhtari Amin told that getting familiar with the Dag Hammarskjod databases is very useful for the researchers to be able to retrieve their needed information much easier.