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WWW Resources Related to Globalization
Activism
Globalization
Human Rights/Social Issues
Economic Issues
Terrorism
Environmental Issues
Migration/Cultural Issues
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Global
Problems and the Culture of Capitalism an Internet resource for
those interested or concerned about the consequences of the global expansion
of capitalism.
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Globalization
Website Emory University site aims to shed light on the process
and contribute to discussions of its
consequences, to explain its meanings and clarify the debates surrounding
it and to serve as a guide to the social scientific literature and other
available resources.
- 50 Years Is Enough U.S. Network
for Global Economic Justice is a coalition of 205 grassroots, faith-based,
policy, women's, social- and economic-justice, youth, solidarity, labor, and
development organizations dedicated to the profound transformation of the
World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
- Advocacy Institute dedicated
to strengthening the capacity of political, social and economic justice advocates
to influence and change public policy.
- Amnesty International "worldwide
campaigning movement that works to promote all the human rights enshrined
in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards."
- Democracy and Human
Rights U.S. Dept. of State International Information Programs
- Directory of Human Rights Resources
on the Internet American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Gateway to Human Rights
and Humanitarian Relief presented by the Human Rights Interactive
Network, a California nonprofit organization dedicated to insuring respect
for human rights worldwide.
- Human Rights Internet; linking
the digital divide "dedicated to the empowerment of human rights
activists and organizations, and to the education of governmental and intergovernmental
agencies and officials and other actors in the public and private sphere,
on human rights issues and the role of civil society"
- Human Rights Watch dedicated to
protecting the human rights of people around the world.
- Human Rights Web page last updated
in 1997, but links to documents still work
- Meiklejohn Civil Liberties
Institute (MCLI) advocates for human rights and peace law by using
existing laws of the United States and the United Nations and by reporting
on violations
- National Center for Human Rights Education
first human rights education organization in the United States that focuses
primarily on domestic human rights violations.
- Multilateral Conventions
organized by subject, including human
rights, and then chronologically. Tufts U.
- Tolerance.org is
a Web project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a national non-profit civil
rights organization that promotes tolerance and diversity and combats hate
and discrimination through education, investigation and litigation
- United Nations Office of the High Commissioner
for Human Rights includes the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights
- University of Minnesota Human
Rights Library well organized site of documents and links.
- Womens Human Rights Resources
Bora Laskin Law Library, U. Toronto
- World Conference against Racism, Racial
Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance proceedings
- 50 Years Is Enough
U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice is a coalition of 205
grassroots, faith-based, policy, women's, social- and economic-justice,
youth, solidarity, labor, and development organizations dedicated
to the profound transformation of the World Bank and the International
Monetary Fund (IMF).
- Country Briefings
from Economist.com "Articles from The Economist, background profiles,
forecast and statistics from The Economist Intelligence Unit,
market and currency updates, news headlines and links"
- G8 Online text
and multimedia resources
- International Monetary Fund
an international organization of 183 member countries, established
to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange stability,
and orderly exchange arrangements; to foster economic growth and
high levels of employment; and to provide temporary financial
assistance to countries to help ease balance of payments adjustment.
- JubileeUSA Network
debt cancellation network
- OECD
Online Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
provides governments a setting in which to discuss, develop and
perfect economic and social policy
- Quick
Guide to the World History of Globalization David Ludden,
prof. of history, U of Pennsylvania
- VillageBanking.org
web site of FINCA-Foundation for International Community Assistance
- WTO/GATT
Research By Jeanne Rehberg, Reference Librarian for International
and Foreign Law at New York University School of Law Library
- World
Bank Global Economic Prospects 2001
- World Trade Organization
(WTO)
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