Identifies current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications. Includes Official Records, masthead documents, draft resolutions, meeting records, UN Sales Publications, and the UN Treaty Series citations. Includes information on international economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian issues. Also includes some full text.

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. The Global Urban Observatory helps governments gather urban data and monitor critical urban indicators. Under Urban Knowledge find here reports (inc. State of the World’s Cities, State of Cities national and regional 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.