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Press Freedom Online

Privacy International

Individual reports for 50 countries on privacy issues and laws
Extensive material on general privacy issues, including Freedom of Information, national ID cards, electronic money, electronic surveillance, And workplace surveillance

Religious Rights (UNESCO)

Rulers.Org

Chronological list of rulers and primary ministers arranged by country or international agency
Provides dates in office as well as birth and death dates
Essentially begins during the early 19th Century

State Department Travel Advisories

Includes health, crime, potential conflict, and embassy information for travellers
Revised periodically as needed

Taxman International

Extensive links to the finance ministries and taxation web sites of individual countries

United Nations

Basic information on the United Nations (history, charter, member countries)
Press releases, daily highlights
General Assembly, ECOSOC, and Security Council publications and resolutions
Index permits keyword searching for all documents or by individual type of document

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Refworld is an extensive, searchable data base of United Nations, legal, treaty, and statistical information on refugees
Refworld also includes "Country" reports with descriptive text on the status of refugees by country as well as statistics
Information about the UNCHR and its publications, news releases, and documentaries

United States Committee for Refugees

University of Minnesota Human Rights Library

International human rights treaties arranged by subject and searchable by keyword
United States human rights laws, speeches, reports, and historical materials
International refugee and asylum information