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| Countries Companies World News Trade & Investment Research Toolkit IB Links International Organisations Publications Statistics IB Issues |
| DEVELOPMENT | |
| United Nations Economic and Social Development | |
| A very useful site linking to UN reports on trade, development, human rights, environment, regional cooperation, developing countries, statistics, etc. | |
| Virtual Library on International Development | |
| A collection of links to international development resources on the Internet | |
| World Business Council for Sustainable Development | |
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| ENVIRONMENT | |
| EarthTrends | |
| The Environmental Information Portal EarthTrends provides information on coastal, marine, and freshwater ecosystems, water resources, climate atmosphere, population, health and more. | |
| Endgame Research | |
| We promote an understanding among activists, the media, and the general public of the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of the impacts of transnational corporations, financial institutions, and governments. | |
| North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation | |
| The CEC was established to address regional environmental concerns, help prevent potential trade and environmental conflicts, and to promote the effective enforcement of environmental law. | |
| Trade and Environment Database | |
| Case studies relating to trade, the environment, culture, social issues. | |
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| GLOBALISATION | |
| Applied Ethics Resources on World Wide Web | |
| Ethics in various areas. | |
| attac international | |
| Attac is an activist organization for the establishment of a tax on foreign exchange transactions | |
| Bibliography for Transnational Corporation studies | |
| References covering globalisation, poverty, sustainability, development especially in developing countries. | |
| Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs | |
| The Carnegie Council on ethics and International Affairs is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to research and education in the field of ethics and international affairs. | |
| CorpWatch | |
| News, investigations and analysis from watchdog organization critical of corporate\npower. | |
| Global Issues That Affect Everyone | |
| GlobalIssues.org provides insights into global issues that may be misrepresented but are all closely related. Topics include human rights, trade and environment related issues. | |
| Global Issues That Affect Everyone | |
| Extensive collection of articles and links about issues related to trade,\ngeopolitics, human rights, and the environment. | |
| Globalization articles | |
| Documents Relating to the Process of Globalization | |
| Intercultural Relations | |
| Research and latest developments in intercultural relations | |
| Multinational Monitor On-Line | |
| New Internationalist magazine on-line | |
| New Internationalist is a communications co-operative based in Oxford. It exists to report on issues of world poverty and inequality, to focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless in both rich and poor nations, to debate and campaign for the radical changes necessary if the basic material and spiritual needs of all are to be met. | |
| Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) | |
| A United Nations site with links to Non-Government Organisations | |
| SweatShop Watch | |
| Sweatshop Watch serves low-wage workers nationally and globally, with a focus on eliminating sweatshop exploitation in California's garment industry. | |
| The Globalist | |
| The daily online magazine on the global economy, politics, and culture. | |
| War On Want | |
| War on Want fights poverty in developing countries in partnership and solidarity with people affected by globalisation. We campaign for workers' rights and against the root causes of global poverty, inequality and injustice. | |
| World Social Forum | |
| "The World Social Forum is the opposite annual event to the World Economic forum. It is ""…an open meeting place for reflective thinking, democratic debate of ideas, formulation of proposals, free exchange of experiences and inter-linking for effective action, by groups and movements of civil society that are opposed to neo- liberalism and to domination of the world by capital and any form of imperialism, and are committed to building a society centred on the human person""." | |
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| POLITICAL RISK | |
| Amnesty International | |
| AI campaigns for human rights worldwide. | |
| Corruption at Transparency.org | |
| Transparency International is a nonprofit organization that monitors corruption worldwide. There are country papers on corruption, a Bribe Payers Index, a Global Corruption Report, news, a Corruption Perceptions Index, and much more. | |
| Economic Freedom of the World - Annual reports by The Fraser Institute, Canada | |
| FreeTheWorld.com is committed to bringing economic freedom and growth to all the countries of the world. The Economic Freedom Network Index, which ranks 123 countries, is a joint venture involving sixty-two research institutes in sixty-two countries around the world. The purpose of the index is to bring the often forgotten topic of economic freedom into mainstream public debate. WC's global site has links to country sites and country-specific information on doing business, economy, investment. | |
| Global Policy Forum | |
| monitors policy making at the United Nationa, promotes accountability of global decisions, educates and mobilizes for global citizen participation and advantages on vital issues of international peace and justice. | |
| Global Risk Assessments | |
| Provides global political risk analyses. | |
| The Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal Index of Economic Freedom | |
| The Index of Economic Freedom measures countries against a list of 50 independent variables divided into 10 broad factors of economic freedom including, trade policy,fiscal and moenetary policy issues as well as laws and regulation. | |
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| SOVEREIGNTY | |
| Campaign against Foreign Control of Aotearoa | |
| With analyses, views, facts and more. | |
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