| Country,
Region, and Cultural Studies
Country Studies
World
Fact Book and World
Leaders from the CIA
Country
Profiles from the BBC (Great Britain).
Country
Profiles from the SBS (Australia)
Country
Studies from the US State Department (very up-to-date)
Country
Studies from the Library of Congress (extensive)
UN
Cyberschoolbus (information portal for students
and teachers)
Regional Guides
Africa
(an regional guide from Norway)
Africa
South of the Sahara ( an information portal
from Standford University)
The
European Union (EU)
Cultural Profiles
Cultural
Profiles from the Canadian Government (excellent
by no longer updated.)
Profiles
from the Cultural Orientation Resource Center
(a Washington, DC based nonprofit organization supported
by the State Department)
Cultural
Profiles Project from Visiting Arts a British
nonprofit arts organization.
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NGOs (Non
Governmental Organizations)
Amnesty International
& Amnesty
International Human Rights by Country
ICRC (International
Committee of the Red Cross)
Oxfam
International
Doctors Without Borders
Environmental
Literacy Council
CARE
Virtual Field Trips--"Travel" to some of the countries
where CARE has projects.
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UN,Government
Sites, & Statistics
UN and Governments
UN Homepage
Governments
on the WWW
Country and Global Statistics
InfoNation
from UN (compare countries in various categories)
Human
Development Reports quality of life statistics
from UN
Human
Development Reports by Country
Women
Watch: UN resources on women and gender
UNICEF
economic and social statistics with particular reference
to the well being on children.
Environmental
Information by Country [from Earth Trends]
Poverty
Indexes by Country [from Earth Trends]
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Media, maps,
travel and clocks
Front
Pages from Newseum.org (National/International
Newspapers)
ABYZ Newslinks
(Worldwide media portal)
NewsVoyager
(from the Newspaper Association of America
Maps
from the CIA
Holt,
Rinehart, & Winston Atlas (for a maplist
click here)
National
Geographic Map Machine
Travel Sites
Timeanddate.com
(World Clock)
The
Official US Time (and Map)
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Last
updated Feb. 2008.
