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UN-RES: A Collection of Resolutions of United Nations for Religion and Spirituality in Health and Education

Dataset proposed in paper SpiritRAG: A Q&A ystem for Religion and Spirituality in the United Nations Archive.

🔽 Full Dataset Download (~10 GB)

📚 We are working on getting permissions from UN to rediscribute the dataset. If granted, you can download the full dataset later at Zenodo.

©️ UN-RES is under CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Redistribution of original UN documents is governed by the United Nations Terms of Use. This dataset is provided for academic research only. No commercial use or redistribution of the original documents is permitted.

📅 [Update July 3rd 2025]

❌ Unfortunately, the UN did not approve the re-distribution of the resolution documents :( We therefore have to remove the dataset from Zenodo.

🛠️ However, you can still use our crawler script if you want to get the dataset yourself!

📦 Sample Subset on Hugging Face

This repository includes a representative sample (~10 examples for health and education each in the sample folder) for quick inspection.

🗂️ Dataset Structure

• Unzip UN-RES.zip: unzip UN-RES.zip

• Switch to the folder: cd ./UN-RES

• Each data instance is stored in a folder with a document ID. See below the datastructure:

UN-RES/
├── health/
│   ├── crawled_data/
│   │   ├── A-RES-70-1/
│   │   │   ├── A-RES-70-1-ar.pdf
│   │   │   ├── A-RES-70-1-de.pdf
│   │   │   ├── A-RES-70-1-en.pdf
│   │   │   ├── A-RES-70-1-es.pdf
│   │   │   ├── A-RES-70-1-fr.pdf
│   │   │   ├── A-RES-70-1-ru.pdf
│   │   │   ├── A-RES-70-1-zh.pdf
│   │   │   └── metadata.jsonl
│   │   ...
│   └── parsed_data/
│       ├── A-RES-70-1/
│       │   ├── A-RES-70-1-de-parsed.json
│       │   ├── A-RES-70-1-en-parsed.json
│       │   ├── A-RES-70-1-es-parsed.json
│       │   └── A-RES-70-1-fr-parsed.json
└── education/
    ├── crawled_data/
    │   ...
    └── parsed_data/
        ...

• The metadata.jsonl stores the metadata information of the resolution document

{
  "symbol": "A/RES/70/1",
  "title": "Transforming our world : the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly",
  "session_year": "70",
  "agenda_items": "15 116",
  "distribution": "GEN",
  "area": "UNDOC",
  "subjects": "SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES, PEACE, PARTNERSHIP, POVERTY MITIGATION, HUNGER, FOOD SECURITY, HEALTH, EDUCATION, GENDER EQUALITY, WATER MANAGEMENT, SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, EMPLOYMENT, INDUSTRIALIZATION, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, HUMAN SETTLEMENTS, SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION, CLIMATE CHANGE, MARINE RESOURCES, TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS, JUSTICE",
  "publication_date": "21/10/2015",
  "languages": ["ar", "zh", "en", "fr", "ru", "es", "de"]
}

Citation

If you use this dataset in your work, please cite

@article{gao2025spiritrag,
  author={Gao, Yingqiang and Winiger, Fabian and Montjourides, Patrick and Shaitarova, Anastassia and Gu, Nianlong and Peng-Keller, Simon and Schneider, Gerold},
  title={{SpiritRAG: A Q&A System for Religion and Spirituality in the United Nations Archive}},
  year={2025},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:XXX}
}