The United Nations Human Settlements Programme is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. Under the Repository section of the site, find reports and publications on housing, planning and design, slum upgrading, and other urban development issues; urban profiles; video lectures with synopsis, biographies, reading materials; the UN-Habitat Urban Data database for cities and countries around the world; UrbanLex: The Urban Law Database; and more.

Annual international trade statistics, provided by over 200 countries, detailed by commodity and partner country to the United Nations, are stored in UN COMTRADE, a computerized data base system, all values are converted in US dollars and metric units, the coverage dates as far back as 1962. Requires username and password. Current students, staff & faculty, please email ertech @ library.illinois.edu for the login.