Yearbook News
Bilingual English-Chinese edition of the first Yearbook of the United Nations
Since 2014, graduate students in English Translation and Interpreting in the School of Foreign Languages at Soochow University have been collaborating with the Yearbook Unit of the United Nations Department of Global Communications in the context of a compulsory course in rendering the chapter introductions of Yearbook of the United Nations volumes that make up the Yearbook Express from English into Chinese, with a total of thirty-one editions of the Yearbook Express covering the period from 1983 to 2013 having been translated. This work is now being capped by their preparation of a bilingual English-Chinese edition of the first volume of the Yearbook of the United Nations (1946–47), which features an extensive portrayal of the founding of the Organization amid the turmoil of the Second World War and its initial steps in the immediately ensuing years—the first part of which is now available on the Yearbook website
Fostering international understanding
Since 2014, students in the Master of Translation and Interpreting programme in the School of Foreign Languages at have been translating the Yearbook Express from English to Chinese. More
New on the Yearbook website: 50th Anniversary Special Edition!
A new addition to the Yearbook of the United Nations website is the Special Edition of the , which captures through narrative and key historical documents the major issues and highlights of the first fifty years of United Nations history and provides a context for present and future challenges.
2014 Pre-press now featuring draft chapters!
Researchers and scholars and other users of the Yearbook of the United Nations will be glad to know that the 2014 Pre-press is now featuring first proofs of chapters as they become available, replacing the detailed and hyperlinked chapter outlines for their respective topics.
#UNYearbookinAction
The social media account @UNYearbook has been regularly tweeting under the hashtag #UNYearbookinAction about how researchers and scholars have recently used the Yearbook of the United Nations as a source for their articles and books. The series also highlights how authoritative institutions such as the libraries of Oxford and Yale promote the Yearbook as an authoritative reference for expanding knowledge of United Nations activities and concerns.
2013 Yearbook now available in print!
Following the 16 February release of the online edition of the sixty-seventh volume of the Yearbook of the United Nations, covering the Organization’s global activities in 2013, the publication is now available in print. ճYearbook, as Secretary-General António Guterres states in the Foreword to the volume, "provides critical information for people today and lessons for the diplomats of the future”.
Check out 2013 Pre-press!
The Yearbook Pre-press section is designed to help users of the Yearbook of the United Nations by providing information from yet-to-be-published Yearbooks. The Yearbook Pre-press section now features the completed 2013 Pre-press. All 33 Yearbook draft chapters for 2013 are available for reference. The preparation of chapter outlines for 2014 and 2015, which include hyperlinks to relevant 山official documents, is underway.
Join our efforts to reach young people!
Members of the academic community write books and papers on the 山and teach students about the Organization. They are vital to the work of the United Nations because they are making the young people of today, who will be the leaders of tomorrow, aware of the Organization and what it does. They also foster interest in the UN. We recognize that many users of the Yearbook of the United Nations,both the print and online editions, are also members of the academic community. In that connection, we thank you for your support of the Yearbook collection/series.
2012 Yearbook published!
The United Nations today released the sixty-sixth volume of the Yearbook of the United Nations, covering the Organization’s global activities in 2012. ճYearbook, as former Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stated in the Foreword to the volume, represents “one more chapter in the enduring mission of the United Nations to stand up for the most vulnerable and to work to achieve peace, justice and better standards of living in larger freedom for all”.
2012 Pre-press complete!
The Yearbook Pre-press section is designed to help users of the Yearbook of the United Nations by providing information from yet-to-be-published Yearbooks. The Yearbook Pre-press section now features the completed 2012 Pre-press. All 33 Yearbook chapters for 2012 are outlined and include hyperlinks to relevant 山official documents. Draft chapters will be added as they become available.
2011 Yearbook now online!
The published version of the is now available in full for reading and research on the Yearbook website! The 2011Yearbook was previously available online only in its form. The posting of this latest volume updates the collection of Yearbooks already available through the site, dating back to the 1946–47 edition.
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After a year of service and continuous enhancements, we’d like to take stock of how the new Yearbook website is meeting the needs of our readership. Please take a few moments to take our short survey. [Survey now closed.]
Even if this is your first visit to the Yearbook website, your responses will help us make further improvements. Thank you!
Just published! Yearbook of the United Nations, 2011
The United Nations today released the sixty-fifth volume of the Yearbook of the United Nations, covering the Organization’s global activities in 2011.
ճYearbook, as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon states in the Foreword to the volume, serves “not just as a tool to engage public understanding of our work, but also as a reference by which future generations, which we are obligated to protect and empower, may judge the success of our collective efforts”.
2011 Yearbook now with the printer!
The Yearbook Unit is happy to announce that the sixty-fifth volume in the Yearbook collection, the Yearbook of the United Nations, 2011, is now with the printer and due to appear in December 2015. The ISBN of the new volume is 978-92-1-101277-4. As with other recent Yearbooks, an ebook edition for use on multiple platforms is being published as well which, along with the PDF, will be available from .
Yearbook Express speeding along!
Users of the Yearbook of the United Nations conversant in Arabic and Chinese will be glad to know that the 2010 Yearbook Express is now available in these two United Nations official languages as well as English. The Arabic translation was completed by a team of volunteers working through the UNV Online Volunteering service, while the Chinese translation was prepared by students and teachers at Soochow University in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.