Keeping up with the council

Ever feel left behind by the back, forth and grind of the UN Security Council's work? Out of touch with the progress or otherwise of ongoing international interventions in the world's most troubling trouble spots?

You need the new, improved Security Council Report to keep you and your loved ones up to date with tensions over Iran's nuclear programme, disagreement over Darfur and expiring UN mandates!

But seriously, it does provide a useful summary of upcoming meetings and issues each month, on top of updates as events unfold and balanced background information.

According to the editors:

Our focus is to provide practical and helpful information and analysis for practitioners— such as delegates at Missions in New York, officials in capitals considering policy issues and instructions and UN Secretariat staff at headquarters, agencies or in the field. But our publications will also be prepared with the NGO community in mind, as well as the media, the academic community and the general public."

The UN also publishes its own webcasts for those interested.