About
The UN Project is an open-access tool for exploring the public record of United Nations deliberations — meeting transcripts, individual speeches, and voting records from the General Assembly and Security Council.
What's here
- Meeting transcripts — full sequential records with speaker attribution and agenda navigation.
- Speech search — full-text search across all speech segments using PostgreSQL.
- Country profiles — representatives, voting history, and speech archive per member state.
- Speaker profiles — speech history and meeting attendance per speaker.
- Voting records — per-resolution vote tallies and per-country positions, with interactive charts and country comparisons.
- Ideal point analysis — country voting alignment estimated via item-response theory, with bloc maps, timelines, and anomaly detection.
Datasets
This site integrates four primary data sources:
UN Verbatim Records
Meeting transcripts (procès-verbaux) published by the United Nations as official meeting records.
Sourced from the
UN Document System (docs.un.org)
and the UN Official Document System (ODS). Documents are in the public domain.
PDF extraction may introduce parsing errors; quality indicators are shown on each meeting page.
UN General Assembly Voting Data & Ideal Points (Voeten / BSV2017)
Recorded vote positions for all UNGA resolutions, plus estimated ideal points derived via item-response theory.
The ideal-point estimates used on this site are the bsv2017_mcmc posterior means from:
Bailey, Michael A., Anton Strezhnev, and Erik Voeten. “Estimating Dynamic State Preferences from United Nations Voting Data.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 61, no. 2 (2017): 430–456. doi:10.1177/0022002715595700
Voting data and replication files: Harvard Dataverse · erikvoeten.com
Voeten topic/issue codes (Middle East, Nuclear/Arms, Colonialism, Human Rights, Economic Development, Disarmament) are from the same dataset codebook.
Bailey, Michael A., Anton Strezhnev, and Erik Voeten. “Estimating Dynamic State Preferences from United Nations Voting Data.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 61, no. 2 (2017): 430–456. doi:10.1177/0022002715595700
Voting data and replication files: Harvard Dataverse · erikvoeten.com
Voeten topic/issue codes (Middle East, Nuclear/Arms, Colonialism, Human Rights, Economic Development, Disarmament) are from the same dataset codebook.
UNBench — SC Resolution Text & Sponsorship
Security Council resolution draft texts and co-sponsorship data from:
Liao, Yilun, Shengjie Cao, Xu Cao, et al. “UNBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs in United Nations Security Council Negotiations.” 2024. github.com/yilunliao/unbench
Liao, Yilun, Shengjie Cao, Xu Cao, et al. “UNBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs in United Nations Security Council Negotiations.” 2024. github.com/yilunliao/unbench
SC Veto Data (DPPA)
Security Council veto records from the
UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA).
How to cite
To cite this site or a specific page, use the Cite this page link at the bottom of any resolution, meeting, country, or speaker page. For the underlying datasets, please cite the original sources above.
UN Project. “UN Project.” UN Project, https://un-project.org. Accessed .
Source code & API
The site is open source. The code is available on GitHub. A JSON API for programmatic access is documented in API.md.
Contact
Issues and contributions are welcome via the GitHub issue tracker.