The online edition of the sixty-ninth volume of the Yearbook of the United Nations, covering the Organization’s global activities in 2015, is now available on the Yearbook website. The 2015 edition of the Yearbook, as Secretary-General António Guterres states in the Foreword to the volume, recounts the pivotal year in which the global community reached agreement on a number of crucial road maps for the future—including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on climate change.
The 33-chapter Yearbook places all major General Assembly, Security Council and Economic and Social Council resolutions and decisions in a unique narrative context of United Nations consideration, deliberation and action on peace and security matters, human rights, economic and social questions, legal issues, and administrative and budgetary topics. In preparing the work, the Yearbook editorial team researched and drew information from over 10,000 United Nations official documents pertaining to all aspects of the work of the Organization.
The Secretary-General notes that this latest addition to the Yearbook collection sets forth significant achievements for multilateralism and global partnership that provide a blueprint for advancing development, human rights and peace and security. Providing a clear-eyed, impartial and accurate narrative of the Organization, the 2015 edition of the Yearbook also describes the efforts by the United Nations to ease the severe humanitarian and political crisis in the Syrian Arab Republic, which entered its fifth year; support recovery in Afghanistan; and attain a diplomatic resolution to the conflicts in Yemen and in the eastern part of Ukraine. The volume further documents how the United Nations supported the more than 1 million refugees reaching the shores of Europe in flight from conflict and violence, along with its success in helping victims of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda attain legal recourse to justice.
The Yearbook of the United Nations, 2015, volume 69, ISBN 978-92-1-101456-3, can also be obtained in print through bookstores worldwide or ordered directly from United Nations Publications Customer Service, 405 East 42nd Street, S-09FW001, New York, NY 10017, United States of America and the .
All volumes of the Yearbook collection, dating to the 1946–47 edition, can be accessed in full online on the Yearbook website. The Yearbook Express, also available on the website, features chapter introductions to selected Yearbooks in all six United Nations official languages. The Twitter account @UNYearbook provides an historical perspective on current United Nations activities and concerns.
