CIA
Fact Sheets
Allows one to select a country and become acquainted with
the many aspects of said country, including economic, military, and geographic
to list a few. Also includes a map of each country and introductory background.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/as.html
Center
for Democracy & Technology
Documents and position papers in the public policy debates affecting the
future of free
expression and privacy in the Information Age.
http://www.cdt.org/
Euroguide
A subject gateway to authoritative Web sites that contain information
about the European
Union.
http://www.euroguide.org/euroguide/subject-listing/
Human
Rights Documentation Center
Links to:
Access Human Rights - A
portal to human rights resources on the internet.
World Conference Against Racism - NEW: HRF Daily Publication at
the Conference.
National Human Rights Institutions - Reports and selected links.
Human Rights Features - A bi-monthly news feature service.
Training Programmes - International human rights training workshops
for local organisations.
Publications - This page contains publications of HRDC and links
through the publications of its sister organisation.
South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre
Asia Pacific Human Rights Network - Links through to our sister
organisation.
http://www.hrdc.net/
Law
Reference at Cornell
Offers access to recent Supreme Court decisions, as well as a growing
collection of historic decisions. Decisions of some lower courts are also
available, as well as important statutes, international treaties, law
journals and links to legal material elsewhere on the Internet.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/
League
of Women Voters
This well known nonpartisan political organization disseminates information
on voting,
government and public policy issues.
http://www.lwv.org/
Media
Research Center
A conservative media watchdog organization whose mission is "to bring
political balance to the nation's news and entertainment media."
Useful for studying the conservative view of current events.
http://www.mediaresearch.org/
Nations of the World: (nations and associated jurisdictions)
As nations of the world become increasinly interrelated, citizens need
to learn about the citizens of other countries and become familiar with
cultures of the numerous and divergent peopled who comprise humankind.
Knowledge and understanding of the laws of various nations and their associated
jurisdiction is essential. This Web site is a brilliant and exhaustive
attempt to deliver such information. It emphasizes links that offer the
full texts of laws regulations, and court decisions, along with expert
commentary from prcaticing legal professionals. The site is intended to
serve both professional and general readers. Accordingly, access to information,
ability to download or print, and ability to disseminate the information
is very easy for novices as well as seasoned Internet users.
http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/nations.html
Native
American Legal Resources
Links to the Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project
which leads to Tribal
Constitutions, Tribal Codes and other Native American legal documents.
http://www.law.ou.edu/indian/
Project
Vote Smart
Aims to provide the voter with factual information about the national
political system, issues,
candidates and elected officials. A helpful feature allows you to determine
who your elected
officials are by entering your zip code.
http://www.vote-smart.org/
Richard
Kimber's Political Science Resources: politics government etc
Richard
Kimber's Political Science Resources is an extensive collection of over
3200 links to the major political and governmental sites around the world.
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
Political
Science Resources on the Web
From
the University of Michigans Document Center.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/polisci.html
Southern
African Freedom Struggles 1950-1994
The
first phase of the DISA project, South Africa's Struggle for Democracy:
Anti-Apartheid Periodicals, 1960-1994, has made accessible online to scholars
and researchers worldwide South African serial literature of high socio-political
interest that would otherwise be difficult to locate and use.
http://disa.nu.ac.za/
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