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BBC News
Current news from the British perspective.
Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Countries
Names only. Updated as of Feb., 2006.* Information provided by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States . *The CIA updates this link frequently. It is more than likely that the above annotation will be out of date.
Council on Foreign Relations
"The Council on Foreign Relations is dedicated to increasing America's understanding of the world and contributing ideas to U.S. foreign policy. The Council accomplishes this mainly by promoting constructive debates and discussions, clarifying world issues, and publishing Foreign Affairs, the leading journal on global issues."
Ethnologue
"The Ethnologue is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries. The Ethnologue Name Index lists over 39,000 language names, dialect names, and alternate names. The Ethnologue Language Family Index organizes languages according to language families." Online version of the the 13 edition. Barbara F. Grimes, Editor Consulting Editors: Richard S. Pittman & Joseph E. Grimes.
Europa
English-language homepage of the European Union.
See also: Researching the European Union Site maintained by Barbara Sloan of the Office of Press and Public Affairs, of the Delegation of the European Commission to the United States.
FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
FAIR is the national media watch group that offers well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship. We seek to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press. We scrutinize media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints ... FAIR was established in 1986 to shake up the establishment-dominated media. As an anti-censorship organization, we expose important news stories that are neglected and defend working journalists when they are muzzled ..."
Governments on the World Wide Web
Links to government sites of over 200 countries, arranged by country or type of institution.
INCORE Internet Country Guides
INCORE (Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity) "provide[s] information about internet resources on conflict and ethnicity specific to particular countries and regions." Site sponsored by the University of Ulster and the United Nations University.
Index of Economic Freedom
"The Index of Economic Freedom is a practical reference guide to the world's economies. It includes country-by-country analyses and the most up-to-date data available on foreign investment codes, taxes, tariffs, banking regulations, monetary policy, black markets, and more. This special online version allows you to search the data to find just the information you want."
Library of Congress Country Studies
"A continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army. This online series presently contains studies of 85 countries." Full-text.
Library of Congress HLAS Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies
"The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources. "
National Statistics [of Great Britain]
Statistics on Great Britain & Northern Ireland provided by Britain's Office for National Statistics.
Organization of American States (OAS)
"The Organization of American States (OAS) is the world's oldest regional organization, dating back to the First International Conference of American States, held in Washington, D.C., from October 1889 to April, 1890 ... The basic purposes of the OAS are as follows: to strengthen the peace and security of the continent; to promote and consolidate representative democracy, with due respect for the principle of nonintervention; to prevent possible causes of difficulties and to ensure the pacific settlement of disputes that may arise among the Member States; to provide for common action on the part of those States in the event of aggression; to seek the solution of political, juridical and economic problems that may arise among them; to promote, by cooperative action, their economic, social and cultural development, and to achieve an effective limitation of conventional weapons that will make it possible to devote the largest amount of resources to the economic and social development of the Member States."
Pew Global Attitudes Project
"The Pew Global Attitudes Project is a series of worldwide public opinion surveys that encompasses a broad array of subjects ranging from people's assessments of their own lives to their views about the current state of the world and important issues of the day. More than 100,000 interviews in 50 countries have been conducted as part of the project's work."
Political Database of the Americas
"The Latin American Political Database is the joint project between Georgetown University's Resource Unit on Democratic Govern ability at the Center for Latin American Studies, the Unit for the Promotion of Democracy of the Organization of American States (OAS), and the Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL) ... The database provides documentary and statistical political information on Latin America, including constitutions, electoral laws, legislative and executive branch information and election data. It is our hope that this will serve as a resource for scholars, students, policy makers, governmental officials and political leaders studying democracy in Latin America or seeking to strengthen the functioning of democratic regimes in the region."
United Nations Documentation: Research Guide
"This guide is designed for researchers and information professionals new to United Nations documentation. It provides an overview of the various types of documents and publications issued by the Organization (e.g., reports, resolutions, meeting records, sales publications, press releases) and gives guidance on how to work with them."
United Nations Scholars Workstation
Site compiled by the Library and the Social Science Statistical Laboratory at Yale. This is an aid for finding both information produced by the UN, and information about the UN.
World Factbook, 2006
Full-text of the World Fact Book, published by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States. Includes demographic and political information about all countries of the world.
WTO/GATT Research
"This guide lists the essential sources for researching the current WTO system and the predecessor system under the 1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. It does not attempt to list all the worthy secondary sources in this area. The guide cites selected U.S. materials. Of course, national sources for other WTO member states will also be relevant."
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