https://www.ohchr.org/en/countries
This is a good resource for country-specific UN documents and information.
Citation format: Press Release, Name of Organization, Title of Press Release, U.N. Doc. A/Res/Number/Number (Date of Release). Also available online at URL.
Citation example: Press Release, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Saudi Arabia must halt executions of persons convicted for offences committed as minors: UN experts (Sept. 05, 2025). Also available online at https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/saudi-arabia-must-halt-executions-persons-convicted-offences-committed.
Citation format: Name of Treaty Body, Title of Document in italics, (date of publication), U.N. Doc. Description.
Citation example: Human Rights Committee, General Comment No. 36 on Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights – Right to life, (Sept. 03, 2019), U.N. Doc. CCPR/C/GC/36.
Citation format: Name of Treaty Body, Title of Document in italics, (Date of publication – in top right-hand corner), U.N. Doc. Description, ¶ Paragraph number(s).
Citation example: Human Rights Committee, Concluding observations on the fourth periodic report of Kuwait, (Nov. 22, 2023), U.N. Doc. CCPR/C/KWT/CO/4, ¶ 22.
The JURIS database is a central repository of the jurisprudence of the UN Treaty Bodies (Committees).
Citation format: Name of Treaty Body, Title of the Document in italics, (Date of document’s publication – generally in top right-hand corner of the U.N. docs), U.N. Doc. Description, ¶ Paragraph Number(s).
Citation example: Human Rights Committee, List of issues in relation to the fourth periodic report of Kuwait, (Nov. 29, 2022), U.N. Doc. CCPR/C/KWT/Q/4, ¶ 10.
Citation format: Name of Treaty Body, Title of Document, (Date of publication – in top right-hand corner), U.N. Doc. Description, ¶ Paragraph number(s).
Citation example: Human Rights Committee, Fourth periodic report submitted by Kuwait under article 40 of the Covenant, due in 2020, (Nov. 18, 2020), U.N. Doc. CCPR/C/KWT/4, ¶¶ 72-73.
Citation format: Human Rights Council, Title of Document in italics, (date of publication – top righthand corner), U.N. Doc. Description, ¶ number recommendation (Recommending Country).
Citation example: Human Rights Council, Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Kuwait, (June 27, 2025), U.N. Doc. A/HRC/60/17, ¶ 31.4 Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Croatia) (Iceland) (Slovakia); ¶ 31.10 Consider acceding to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Namibia).
Citation format: Human Rights Council, Title of Document in italics, (date of publication), U.N. Doc. Description, ¶ paragraph number(s).
Citation example: Human Rights Council, Report of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice on its mission to Kuwait, (May 24, 2017), U.N. Doc. A/HRC/35/29/Add.2, ¶ 38.
Citation format: Author, Headline in italics, Name of Organization, date of statement, URL.
Citation example: Seif Magango, Comment by UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Seif Magango on executions in Kuwait and Singapore, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, July 28, 2023, https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements-and-speeches/2023/07/comment-un-human-rights-office-spokesperson-seif-magango-executions.
Citation format: UN General Assembly, Title of Document in italics, (date of publication), U.N. Doc. Description, ¶ paragraph number(s).
Citation example: UN General Assembly, Note verbale dated 23 August 2019 from the Permanent Mission of the Marshall Islands to the United Nations addressed to the President of the General Assembly, (Aug. 26, 2019), U.N. Doc. A/74/334, ¶ 6 (d), ¶ 14 (b) (ii).
