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Global Resources: a world of information featuring

COUNTRY / REGION / CULTURAL STUDIES & WORLD LEADERS

NGO SITES

UN, & GOVERNMENT SITES

MEDIA, MAPS, and CLOCKS

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Cultural Profiles from the Canadian Government (excellent by no longer updated.)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.

 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.

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]

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. 

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Urbana, Illinois

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