JBS MUN Canvas course: This course will be where you will be able to transact all your SCMUN/THIMUN-related business. This course contains the meeting schedule and any announcements. Upload policy statements, resolution drafts and final copies to the corresponding assignment. There is also a page with links to reference material and websites that should come in handy for your SCMUN/THIMUN research.
Recommended: The UN Documentation Research Guide: An overview of selected UN documents, publications, databases and websites.
2024 Conference schedule
https://www.mun.stcatherines.gr/provisional-programme
Issues on the agenda
https://www.mun.stcatherines.gr/agenda
St. Catherine's MUN handbook
https://www.mun.stcatherines.gr/_files/ugd/a1d453_f64f5e4482814d2490f6f6918ed86c9a.pdf
Ekathimerini: Daily Greek Political and Economic Newspaper
The Economist: Greece
https://www.economist.com/search?q=greece
The Guardian World News Stories: Greece
https://www.theguardian.com/world/greece
New York Times Countries & Regions News: Greece
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/destination/greece
Foreign Affairs: Greece
You may access the JBS Library databases both on and off-campus. Use the link in the box below for the Remote Access Passwords.
Journal of the United Nations
https://journal.un.org/en/new-york/all/
Council on Foreign Relations Global Conflict Tracker
https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: Resources for Mandate Areas
http://www.unodc.org/e4j/mun/resources/index.html
United Nations website
United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library
UN4MUN: An initiative to teach MUN teams how to bring their simulations more in line with the way the UN actually works.
https://www.unitedambassadors.com/un4mun
UNTERM: Multilingual terminology database maintained jointly by the main duty stations and regional commissions of the United Nations system.
https://unterm.un.org/unterm2/en/
UN Web TV: The United Nations Live and On Demand
https://media.un.org/en/webtv/
THIMUN The Hague conference
United Nations Digital Library: Find voting records and speeches for General Assembly and Security Council (formerly housed at UNBISnet) as well as images, maps and documents; can limit search to specific UN bodies.
https://digitallibrary.un.org/
Official Documents System of the UN: All types of UN documents from 1993, with some older materials.
UN Member States: Embassies
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/member-states
Electronic Embassy: Links to international embassies’ presence in US
UN Treaty Collection
Worldwide NGO Directory
https://www.wango.org/resources.aspx?section=ngodir
IMUNA Country Profiles
https://www.imuna.org/resources/country-profiles/
CIA World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/
US State Department
https://www.state.gov/countries-and-areas-list/
International Monetary Fund: Works to foster worldwide economic stability. As an entity, it has data and statistics as well as economic information about many countries globally.
https://www.imf.org/external/index.htm
World Bank: An international organization with a focus on increasing economic development and reducing poverty worldwide.
UN Statistics Division: Clearinghouse, portal and standards keeper for UN statistics.
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm
UN Data Portal: One stop search engine that combines data from many IGO's.
UN Comtrade: International Merchandise Trade Statistics from 1962- present.
UN Demographic Yearbook: World summary, population, fertility, fetal mortality, infant and maternal mortality, general mortality, nuptiality, divorces, etc.
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2.htm
UN Conference on Trade and Development Databases: Global databank on world trade in creative products, Handbook of Statistics, Foreign Direct Investment, ICT Statistics, Millennium Indicators, Trade Analysis
UN Refugee Agency
UNHCR RefWorld: Search for country profiles, human rights reports, core international treaties and agreements, case law and refugee policy documents from a variety of sources. In particular, UNHCR's position papers relating to specific countries and case loads are highlighted here.
https://www.refworld.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/rwmain
UNHCR Refugee Data Finder
https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/
Global Compact on Refugees: Compact in Action Explore country profiles and the different initiatives which are turning the Global Compact on Refugees into action.
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: Resources for Mandate Areas
http://www.unodc.org/e4j/mun/
UNODC TRACK: the central platform of Tools and Resources for Anti-Corruption Knowledge
UNODC Country Profiles
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/treaties/CAC/country-profile/index.html
UNODC Comments to the Comprehensive Study on Cybercrime
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/organized-crime/comments-to-the-comprehensive-study-on-cybercrime.html
SHERLOC - Sharing Electronic Resources and Laws on Crime
https://sherloc.unodc.org/cld/v3/sherloc/
Legislative Guide for the Implementation of UNTOC
https://sherloc.unodc.org/cld/v3/sherloc/legislative-guide/index.html
Ukraine, located in Eastern Europe, is the largest country contained entirely within the continent. Formerly a part of the Soviet Union, Ukraine is now an independent state. The country’s capital, Kiev, is home to a semi-presidential system of government. Ukraine inherently has strong political and cultural ties with its neighbor, Russia. These ties have sometimes acted as a hindrance as Ukraine seeks to develop stronger relations with the European Union and the United States.
Source: https://imuna.org/resources/country-profiles/ukraine/
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Economy
https://www.me.gov.ua/?lang=en-GB
Ministry of Agrarian Policy & Food
Office of the President
https://www.president.gov.ua/en
Ukrinform Ukrainian national news agency
The New Voice Independent national daily news source
Other Ukrainian newspapers Access through St. Louis County Library
https://infoweb-newsbank-com.slcl.idm.oclc.org/apps/news/?p=AWNB
Secretary of Foreign Affairs
Secretary of Economy
Secretary of Agriculture & Rural Development
https://www.gob.mx/agricultura
Office of the President
https://www.gob.mx/presidencia/en
Government of Mexico
El Universal Popular Mexican newspaper based in Mexico City
https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/
Reforma Independent daily newspaper in Mexico
Other Mexican newspapers Access through St. Louis County Library
https://infoweb-newsbank-com.slcl.idm.oclc.org/apps/news/?p=AWNB
France, with the official name of the French Republic, is situated in Western Europe and is prevalent member of the European Union. As the largest country in Western Europe, France’s shores expand to the North Sea, the English Channel, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Mediterranean. The country covers 211,207 miles of land, with neighboring countries such as Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and Belgium. France is currently a republic, with a parliamentary system consisting of the National Assembly and the Senate, and where the national government is divided into an executive, legislative, and judicial branch. The president and Prime Minister, in this governmental atmosphere, share executive power.
Source: https://imuna.org/resources/country-profiles/france/
Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs
https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/
Ministry of the Economy, Finance, and Industrial & Digital Sovereignty
Ministry of Agriculture & Food
Office of the President
Le Monde Daily afternoon national newspaper
Le Figaro Daily morning newspaper
Other French newspapers Access through St. Louis County Library
https://infoweb-newsbank-com.slcl.idm.oclc.org/apps/news/?p=AWNB
UN Meeting Coverage and Press Releases
UN News: Global Perspective, Human Stories
Journal of the United Nations
https://journal.un.org/en/new-york/all/
UNHCR Media Centre
https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/media-centre.html
UNTERM: A multilingual terminology database maintained jointly by the main duty stations and regional commissions of the United Nations system.
https://unterm.un.org/unterm2/en/
UN Web TV: The United Nations Live and On Demand
St. Louis Post Dispatch--the password can be found on the Remote Access page.
St. Louis County Library has a number of business databases which provide demographic information at the municipality and zip code level. All students who reside in St. Louis City, St. Louis County and St. Charles County are entitled to a free St. Louis County Library card. You can sign up for a card here: https://stlouis.polarislibrary.com/polaris/patronaccount/selfregister.aspx. (If you live outside these areas, please contact Mrs. Grantham for access.)
To access the databases, visit the St. Louis County Library website at www.slcl.org, then click Research. Next click Resources A to Z to search for each database by title.
You can use any of our databases from off campus if you have the correct user name and password for access. We cannot post these publicly, so they reside on a Google Doc page that requires your JBS email login for access.
Click HERE to see a clickable list of databases along with their user names and passwords.