Selected Sites

CIESIN's Human Dimensions Kiosk

is an interactive electronic forum to facilitate information sharing on the human dimensions of global environmental change. The CIESIN Kiosk encompasses unpublished scholarly papers and an electronic bookshelf that contains working papers or reports that have been published in less accessible publications.

Amnesty International

`Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness'-- Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people acting on the conviction that governments must not deny individuals their basic human rights. The organization was awarded the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to promote global observance of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Armenian Research Center

was established for the documentation and the publication of materials in the field of Armenian studies and affairs. The Armenian Research Center does this work through its computerized database of books, periodical articles, and other materials concerning Armenians, by publishing, by academic outreach, by public outreach, and by political contact.

Demography & Population Studies WWW Virtual Library

keeps track of leading information facilities of value and/or significance to researchers in the field of demography.

Information Bank on African Development Studies (IBADS)

is an electronic service provided by the Africa Technical Department (AFT) at the World Bank. Its objective is to disseminate information about development studies on Sub-Saharan Africa. IBADS consists of three components: an index of abstracts of studies undertaken by AFT, the abstracts of these studies; and AFT's publication "Findings" in both English and French.

Holocaust Memorial Museum

in Washington, D.C., summons all who enter its portals to rise to an important and extraordinary challenge: to remember and immortalize the 6 million Jews and millions of other Nazi victims of World War II -- Gypsies, Poles, homosexuals, the handicapped, Jehovah's Witnesses, political and religious dissidents, Soviet prisoners of war -- who were murdered in the most horrifying event of our time: the Holocaust.

Inter-Tribal Network

includes information for and about Native Americans.

Monroe Institute

The fundamental premise of The Monroe Institute is that focused consciousness contains the solutions to all questions of human existence. From its investigations into consciousness, The Monroe Institute seeks practical applications - Something of Value for our contemporary culture.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)

was established to serve as an international criminal justice information network supporting policymakers and criminal justice professionals. NCJRS also operates specialized clearinghouses on behalf of other Office of Justice Programs agencies: including the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; the Office for Victims of Crime; the Bureau of Justice Statistics; and the Bureau of Justice Assistance.

National Graffiti Information Network

is an organization which specializes in crime and graffiti prevention.

National Museum of the American Indian

The Smithsonian opened the George Gustav Heye Center at the historic Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in lower Manhattan. Inaugural exhibitions, books, and a recording celebrate the diversity of the Native peoples of the Americas and the strength and continuity of Native cultures from the earliest times to the present.

Native American WEB pages

an extensive list of links to various sites in the U.S.

Native American Resource Page

is a compilation of many electronically accessible resources concerning American Indian issues and information.

Oneida Indian Nation

offers resources and educational materials on and about the New York Oneida Indian Nation.

Florida State University's Population Center

provides demographers and other researchers with easy, organized access to the growing volume of demography- and population- related information available on international computer networks.

REESweb: Russian and East European Studies WWW Virtual Library

is a joint effort of the University Library System, the Networked Information Services Group (a joint project of the University Library System and the Office of Computing and Information Services), and the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, which is part of the University Center for International Studies.

Social Indicators of Development, 1994

contains the World Bank's most detailed data collection for assessing human welfare to provide a picture of the social effects of economic development. Data are presented for more than 170 economies

Social Science Computing Cooperative

from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is maintained by the staff of the Social Science Computing Co-op (SSC), a coalition of several university units--the Center for Demography and Ecology, the Departments of Sociology and of Rurual Sociology, the Institute for Research on Poverty, and the Institute on Aging and Adult Life. The mission of the SSC is to supply computing services to its members.

Tibetan Studies WWW Virtual Library

was established 9th Jan. 1995 by the Coombs Computing Unit, Research Schools of Social Sciences & Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University, Canberra to keep track of leading information facilities in the field of Tibetan history, society, culture, politics and religion.