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- Amnesty
International Annual Report 1998 - report on international human
rights violations and abuses.
- African
Studies Resources - links to African web sites and “Facts on Africa.”
- After Sept. 11: Perspectives From the Social Sciences - academic materials on world peace, modern warfare, globalization, and fundamentalism.
- America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2002 - data on the demographics, childcare, family health, educational experiences, children's behavior, and children's social environment.
- AmeriStat - this site offers facts, figures, and analysis of key overall demographic trends affecting the US population.
- Asian
Studies WWW Virtual Library - extensive set of links divided by
region or country.
- Bureau of Justice Statistics - a wide variety of information on criminal justice.
- Country
and Regional Market Information - international Trade Administration
site for information on the international business climate, as well as
foreign tariffs, taxes, and customs information.
- Criminal Justice
Links - Florida State University School of Criminology and Criminal
Justice Links.
- Ethnologue: Languages of
the World - “Catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228
countries.”
- Europa - information
server for the European Union.
- FAO - Food and Agriculture
Organization of the U.N. Online access to statistical databases on
Agriculture, Nutrition, Land Use, Trade, Population, etc.
- Feminist Theory Website - a collection of materials on fields of feminist theory such as education, history, law and topics such as Post-Colonialism, Separatism, and Body Studies.
- Fourth World
Documentation Project - full-text documents from internationally
unrecognized nations.
- IGC: PeaceNet - provides resources in peace, human rights, and social and economic justice.
- IMF
(International Monetary Fund) Staff Country Reports - available for
selected countries in full-text PDF format.
- INCORE
(Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity) - Regional
Internet Guides.
- Infonation
- United Nations site with statistical data on U.N. member states'
geographies, economies, populations, and social indicators.
- InfoPlease.com -
online almanac with timely data on world events, statistics, geography,
countries, and international relations.
- Institute for Policy Research - Interdisciplinary public policy researcy institution covering social and political issues.
- Institute
for Research on Poverty - Particular interest in poverty and family welfare in the Midwest.
- International
Data Base (IDB) - U.S. Census Bureau's computerized data bank
containing statistical tables of demographic and socio-economic data
for all countries of the world.
- Inter-University Consortium
for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) - “the world's largest
archive of computerized social science data.”
- Library of
Congress Country Studies - Country Studies/Area Handbooks of 91
countries.
- Middle
East Information Resources - sources on a wide range of topics.
- Migration Information Source - an invaluable, scholarly, and text-rich source of information on migration.
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service - site for research in criminal justice and law enforcement.
- Non-Western
Sources on Contemporary Political Issues - international information
sources in Conflict Resolution, the Environment, Gender, and Human
Rights.
- Odum Institute - an exclusive repository for the Louis Harris poll for 1958 to the present.
- OECD - organization for Economic
Co-operation and Development.
- ONE Institute & Archives - research library on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history and culture.
- Penn World Table - national
accounts economic time series for many countries from the Center for
International Comparisons at the University of Pennsylvania.
- People with a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History - history database on lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans*.
- Political Database of the
Americas - documentary and statistical political information on
Latin America.
- Popcultures.com - an up-to-date, universal guide to the assortment of cultural studies resources and information on the World Wide Web.
- Population Index on the
Web - a searchable database containing 41,103
abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the
period 1986 - 1998.
- Population Profile of the United States - an internet version of the work of the US Census Bureau.
- Poverty Related Links - information on poverty and welfare reforms.
- PRAXIS
Resources for Social and Economic Development - archival resources
on international and comparative social and economic information.
- Queer Resources Directory - more than 21,200 files "about everything queer."
- QueerTheory.com - a portal to other Web sites that feature media, products, and information for the gay community and its friends.
- REENIC-Russian and
East European Network Information Center - Searchable site with a
Country Directory.
- Roper Center for Public Opinion Research - access to more than 10,000 survey files in addition to the Japanese and Latin American Data Banks.
- Social
Gerontology & the Aging Revolution - resources on aging.
- Social Science Virtual Library - complete sets of leads with which to probe the World Wide Web on all areas of Social Sciences.
- Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace - a tour to invite exploration and research in sociology.
- SocioSite - gives access to the European and worldwide scene of academic sociology.
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics - a compilation of statistics from various sources on criminal justice.
- Statistical Resources on the Web - contains hundreds of statistical files from a variety of primarily governmental sources.
- Survey Research Resources - a desktop information system for individuals involved in survey research.
- UNESBIB -
UNESCO's bibliographic database.
- UNESCO - United Nations
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.
- UNICEF-The State
of the World's Children 1996 - statistical tables on health,
education, and demographics.
- United Nations - U.N. news,
statistics, agencies and programs, and information about member states
and U.N. documents.
- United Nations Population Information Network - coordinate population information activities at international, regional and national levels.
- University of Minnesota
Human Rights Library - treaties, U.S. and U.N. human rights
documents, asylum and refugee materials, etc.
- U.S. Census Bureau - a collection of data from the census.
- U.S. Census Bureau: Minority links - facts on the Asian, African, Hispanic, and Native American population.
- U.S.
State Department Background Notes - demographic, political, and
historical profiles of countries and some international organizations.
- World Bank - development
information.
- World Military
Expenditures & Arms Transfers (WMEAT) - available for 1995 in
HTML format, 1996 in PDF format.
- Worldwide
Refugee Information - “The World Refugee Survey reports on
conditions for refugees and internally displaced persons in 120
countries.”
- WSSLINKs: Women and Gender Studies Web Sites - gateways to Web resources in support of women's studies.
- WWW
Virtual Library-Demography & Population Studies - “172 links to
demographic information facilities worldwide.”
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