unscr.com

What It Is

UNSCR is an independent, unofficial resource website for United Nations Security Council resolutions, providing searchable access to all 2,817 Security Council resolutions since 1946. Each resolution includes a brief summary, voting record, cross-references to related resolutions, and links to the original PDF documents. Its positioning is closer to a public research database than a traditional enterprise SaaS product.

Core Capabilities

In terms of functionality, UNSCR offers fairly comprehensive information organization: users can browse all resolutions by year, topic, member state, and timeline, and can also use the Veto Tracker to analyze veto records by permanent members of the Security Council. Individual resolution pages provide the resolution number, year, topic, adoption status, and detailed voting information, and support copying citations in formats such as APA, MLA, Chicago, BibTeX, and Harvard. The site also provides statistical charts and CSV/JSON data exports, making it valuable for academic research, policy analysis, and data journalism.

Pricing and Openness

The main text clearly states “Free and open access,” with no visible information about subscription plans, enterprise editions, per-seat pricing, or payment methods. As such, it appears more like a free and open database. Whether there are commercial licensing options, bulk access limits, API quotas, or service-level agreements is not disclosed in the text.

Pros and Cons

Its strengths are its clear coverage, rich data dimensions, inclusion of both summaries and original document links, and provision of voting records and country-level profiles, all of which lower the barrier to searching Security Council resolutions. CSV/JSON exports also make it convenient for researchers to conduct secondary analysis. Its limitations are that it is explicitly an unofficial resource, so serious citations should still be verified against official UN documents. At the same time, there is no evidence of common enterprise software features such as an account system, permission management, team collaboration, audit logs, security compliance, API documentation, or an SLA.

Who It’s For

It is suitable for international relations researchers, students, journalists, diplomats, and policy analysts who need to quickly search resolutions, analyze voting behavior, and track the evolution of specific conflicts or topics. It is less suitable for organizational knowledge platform scenarios that require enterprise-grade permissions, private deployment, formal APIs, and compliance commitments.

Access in China

The main text does not provide information about access from mainland China, node deployment, or availability. Its actual accessibility should therefore be considered unknown.