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Resources For All Issues

CIA: The World Factbook
Central Intelligence Agency
Current statistics and information on countries, such as illiteracy rates, history, 
environment, population, AIDS, labor, economy, resources…

 

A collection of resources that develops students' historical understanding, information literacy, and critical thinking skills.  Try the Country Profile drop-down menu at the top of the page.

United Nations: Millennium Development Goals
Sets out the goals of this UN program to eradicate poverty, health issues like AIDS/HIV and other diseases, sanitation, clean water, gender inequality, infant mortality.

United Nations: Millennium Development Goals: The Global Challenge
A better explanation of the Millennium Development Goals

Eldis Gateway to Development Information
Links to many articles on education, HIV/AIDS, and literacy world-wide.
 Institute of Development Studies, Univ. of Sussex, U.K.

 
Overpopulation


AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Overpopulation: China, India, Indonesia - Environment and Population

Population Action International: Population Issues
Covers a full range of topics regarding the impact of population growth, including its effect on the environment and deforestation.

Sustainable Consumption: Why Consumption Matters
The Sierra Club
The effects of consumption on us and our environment

Sustainability: Carrying Capacity & Consumption - Carrying Capacity & Ecological Footprints
WOA  - World Population Awareness

PLOS Medicine -  Human Carrying Capacity and Human Health
 Colin D. Butler National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Discusses the failure of the Malthusian prediction and the reasons for population growth.

Tutorial on Human Capital Theory
Washington University  - Dr. Jacoby

Malthus' Essay on Population
Western Washington University

Reinventing Malthus for the 21st Century - Celebrating the Bicentennial of Malthus' Original Population Essay
Negative Population Growth (NPG) is a national membership organization founded in 1972 to educate the American public and political leaders about the detrimental effects of overpopulation on our environment, resources and quality of life.  NPG advocates a smaller and truly sustainable United States population accomplished through smaller families and lower, more traditional immigration levels.

Thomas Malthus
University of California at Berkeley

Thomas Robert Malthus
The New School

Human Carrying Capacity and Human Health
Discusses the failure of the Malthusian prediction .

Overpopulation
Population Action International
Discusses problems raised by our rising population. Supports population control programs.

The Population Explosion: Causes and Consequences
Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
Shows factors contributing to population growth worldwide

Overpopulation -- Overview
University of Wisconsin

China

National Bureau of Statistics of China: NBSC Yearly Data
Statistics on population such as size, gender, employment, resources, education, economy.

 China Population Information and Research Center (China POPIN)
Presents information compiled by National Population and State Family Planning Commission of China.

Population Control in China: Negative Consequences of Overpopulation
Columbia University

White Paper on China's Population, Environment, and Development in the 21st Century
Government of the People's Republic of China
Discusses the Chinese government's plan for the future regarding resources and population.

China Statistical Yearbook
National Bureau of Statistics of China
Statistics on population, including size, gender, employment, resources, education, & the economy

India

Overpopulation in India  PDF 
Bryn Mawr Senior Seminar

Global Advocates' Toolbox: Overpopulation in India
Population Action.org
Population issues and availability of resources in India

Global Land Resources & Population Supporting Capacity
United States Department of Agriculture: Natural Resources Conservation Service
Explains what might help increase carrying capacity, but also what might prevent it from being implemented.

Indonesia

Publications for Population Statistics
BPS - Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS-Statistics Indonesia) is a Non-Departmental Government Institution directly responsible to the President

CIA - The World Factbook -- Indonesia

Country Studies. Com - Indonesia - Population
Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress - Sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army

Nation by Nation - Indonesia - Population

Attitudes Toward Birth Control in Bandung Indonesia
Cornell University  PDF

Mexico

CIA - The World Factbook -- Mexico

Mexico - City Population - Cities, Towns & Provinces - Statistics

Mexico: Population Growth of the Whole Country
University of Utah

The Peopling of Mexico from Origins to Revolution
Robert McCaa - University of New Mexico

Sudan

Country Studies.com : Population in Sudan
Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress - Sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army

CIA - The World Factbook -- Sudan

Population World: Population of Sudan

Sudan: Population Density
Sudan.Net

 

 
Rural Underdevelopment
 

Inequality Does Cause Underdevelopment  PDF
William Easterly - New York University
 

Food and Energy - Strategies for Sustainable Development
United Nations University

Infochange Development Dictionary: Theories of Development: Modernisation vs Dependency
Outlines the pluses and minuses of the Modernization Theory and the Dependency Theory and their involvement in remedying underdevelopment

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: World Systems Theory PDF
Carlos A. Martinez-Vela

Human Society and the Global Economy 
Bellevue Community College
Discusses underdevelopment and why it is a problem. 

See the article on Economic Development in the Grolier Online Encyclopedia
(The Americana)

Economic Growth Resources
A great deal of information on economic growth
Jonathan Temple, The University of Bristol.

 Eldis Gateway to Development Information
Links to many articles on education, HIV/AIDS, and literacy world-wide.
 Institute of Development Studies, Univ. of Sussex, U.K.

The United Nations Human Development Reports
Inspired by the global Human Development Report 2004 on Cultural Freedom

 The IPU - Inter-Parliamentary Union
Sustainable Development

 US Agency for International Development

US Agency for International Development

 The World Bank

 The International Monetary Fund Home Page

The WTO - World Trade Organization

 The Penn World Tables
 Center for International Comparisons University of Pennsylvania

Africa

Who Owns the Land?
BBC:
Discusses land issues in Zimbabwe and the possible impact of the new land reforms

Bangladesh

Why Bangladesh Floods Are So Bad
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)
Some causes of rural underdevelopment

Bangladesh Triples Farm Subsides
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)

Bangladesh Tribes Protest Against Settlers
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)
Covers issues such as native ownership of land & protection of the environment

Approved Projects for Bangladesh
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized agency of the United Nations, was established as an international financial institution in 1977 as one of the major outcomes of the 1974 World Food Conference.

Country Studies.com : Rural Society in Bangladesh
Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress - Sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army: The Economy - Rural Society

Country Studies.com - Bangladesh - The Economy - Historical Perspective
Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress - Sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army: The Economy - Historical Perspective

Country Studies.com: Agriculture in Bangladesh
Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress - Sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army: The  Land Issues and Food Production - Bangladesh

Country Studies.com: Geography of Bangladesh
Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress - Sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army: The  Geography - Bangladesh. Discusses land and its availability for use in Bangladesh.

Alleviating Malnutrition Through Agriculture in Bangladesh  PDF

 Coping Strategies of Destitute Women in Bangladesh
United Nations University - Judit Katona-Apte

Brazil

Country profile: Brazil
 BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation
Covers issues such as land ownership around the country, but especially in rural areas

Community Development Project in Brazil
Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development

A Community on the Brink
Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development

Brazil Foundation Selected Projects 2005

Development of Agriculture in Colonial Latin America
Portland State University

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Newspaper - The Zimbabwe Situation
 

Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe
Human Rights Watch

Who Owns the Land?
BBC:
Discusses land issues in Zimbabwe and the possible impact of the new land reforms

Zimbabwe
Central Intelligence Agency: The CIA Fact Book

Human Rights Watch: Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe


 Zimbabwe: Food Running Out and No Help in Sight (September 21, 2005)
Zimbabwean -  Global Policy.org
Urbanization

Dealing with Impacts of Urbanization on the Ecology of Surrounding Landscapes
Bradley J.F.B UNCG  SciNet Science & Technology

Urbanization and Global Change
University of Michigan

Mexico

Country Studies.com - Mexico:  Urban Society
Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress - Sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army
Discusses migration within Mexico from rural areas to the cities

"Urbanization in Mexico: Beyond the Heritage of Conquest"
Robert V. Kemper (Dept. of Anthropology, SMU) and Anya Peterson Royce (Dept. of Anthropology, Indiana University)

Mexico City: Migration and Urbanization in Mexico City
James Palmer - Malacaster College

Urbanization in Mexico  PPT
Kenyon College

Philippines

Country Studies.com - Philippines: Urban Social Patterns
Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress - Sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army
Squatters in the Philippines. 

Country Studies.com - Philippines: Migrations
Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress - Sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army
Migration and migration programs within the Philippines.

Migration and the Rural-Urban Continuum: Evidence from the Rural Philippines  PDF
University of Wisconsin

Urban Philippines  PDF
United States Agency for International Development

Philippine Urbanization and Christian Values
Eulalio Baltazar - University of the District of Columbia

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Poverty & Social Inequality

UC (University of California) Atlas of Inequality
Countries with rankings of each country in each area on the graph on the main page


Haiti

Country Studies.com : Urban Lower Class in Haiti
Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress - Sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army

Poverty in Haiti  PDF 
Sletten, P.; Egset, W. / Institute for Applied Social Science (Fafo), Norway , 2004
Eldis Gateway to Development
A thorough examination of poverty in Haiti.

Harvard Gazette: Prisoners of Poverty
An interview with Mildred Trouillot Aristide, the First Lady of Haiti

United States

Inequality in the United States
Cornell University
Facts and statistics on poverty levels in the U.S.

Exploration in Social Inequality - Links
Trinity University
Many links to organizations and universities doing work on poverty and its inequalities.

Institute for Research on Poverty

Institute on Race and Poverty

Joint Center for Poverty Research

Educators Reference Desk

Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Reports on Welfare in the US.

 
Hunger

Ethiopia

Country Studies.com : Ethiopia refugees, drought, and famine
Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress - Sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army

Famine in Ethiopia: Policy Implications of Coping Failure at National and Household Levels
Patrick Webb, Joachim von Braun, and Yisehac Yohannes
The United Nations University Press,  Food and Nutrition Bulletin,  Volume 15 (1993/1994), Number 1, March 1994

Hunger in Ethiopia - Photo
Duke University

Front Line of Famine in Ethiopia is the Soil
Marc Lacey
The New York Times,  November 4, 2001
 
 North Korea

University of Oregon: Famine in North Korea
 An annotated list of internet resources covering the famine in North Korea

Hunger in North Korea: A Relief Aide's Stark Report
June 11, 1997. By Barbara Crossette UNITED NATIONS
Doctors without Borders

US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea

North Korea: Human Rights Concerns - Amnesty International

Famine and the Future of Food Security in North Korea
Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
 

Sudan

Country Studies.com : Hunger in Sudan
Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress - Sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army

Country Studies.com : Population in Sudan
Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress - Sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army

United Nations World Food Program - Sudan
 

There Is No Hunger Says Sudan As Children Die
Aid workers accuse the Khartoum government of blocking food supplies to complete a campaign of ethnic cleansing.
Jeevan Vasagar  The Guardian, Friday June 25, 2004
 

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Health Problems in the Urban Areas

Eldis Gateway to Development Information
Links to many articles on education, HIV/AIDS, and literacy world-wide.
 Institute of Development Studies, Univ. of Sussex, U.K.

South Africa

United Nations Development Programme: UNDP South Africa

Health care in South Africa
South Africa Info

World Health Organization (WHO) - South Africa

Destinations: Southern Africa | CDC Travelers' Health

South Africa - Health
Stanford University

Epstein, Helen - "The Mystery of AIDS in South Africa"
Full text article from the New York Review of Books, July 20, 2000.

South Africa. Department of Health

Substance Abuse in South Africa
South Africa Health Info.org

Crafting a Drug Abuse Policy in South Africa
Eileen K. McCluskey - Harvard University

Sanitation Policy and Practice in South Africa
The Department of Water Affairs and Forestry - South Africa

 CBC the Fifth Estate: Dead in the Water - South Africa

The National Water and Sanitation Programme in South Africa

Aids Foundation South Africa
 

Uganda

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Uganda - The Socio-economic Impact of HIV/AIDS on Rural Families with an Emphasis on Youth
Shows how different social behaviours (alcohol and drug abuse, etc.) lead to other consequences.

National AIDS Documentation and Information Center: Uganda AIDS Commission
The history of AIDS in Uganda, the country's response to AIDS, and links to other sites related to AIDS organizations.

Uganda beating back AIDS
Leadership, education and openness are keys to progress
By Fred Kirungi  Africa Recovery

Uganda AIDS Commission - AIDS in Uganda

Marie Stopes International: STI/HIV/AIDS initiatives from the around the MSI Global Partnership  Discusses one of the tools used to stop the spread of AIDS.

Marie Stopes International: STI/HIV/AIDS initiatives from the around the MSI Global Partnership  Discusses different methods being used to try to stop the spread of AIDS.

The Water Sanitation Program: Water Sanitation Sector Reform in Uganda: A Government-Led Transformation  PDF Discusses the Ugandan government's effort to alleviate poverty through water, hygiene and health reform.

United Nations Development Programme: UNDP Uganda: HIV / AIDS
Talks about AIDS/HIV in Uganda and programs designed to eradicate it.

Women of Uganda Network: Women & Health in Uganda
Links to different health organizations working on various health issues in Uganda.


 
Child Labor /Child Soldiers

International Labor Organization - Child Labour Links

Coalition to Stop the Use of ChildSoldiers: International Standards
A list of international agreements on the rights of children.

Human Rights Watch: The Child Soldiers Protocol
Outlines an agreement among nations for the rights of children, especially as
they pertain to child soldiers

Philippines

UNICEF: At a glance: Philippines
The steps the Philippines is taking to ensure a safe environment for women and children.

Child Protection in the Philippines | What's Happening
Child Protection.org

Labor in the Philippines
The Official Government Portal of the Republic of the Philippines.

Child Labor - Global Issues
Global Issues .org

Sierra Leone

Children’s Unit, International Rescue Committee
Shows how child soldiers were used in Sierra Leone, focuses on their special problems and shows how these child are being reintegrated into society by international groups.

International Labor Organization: Sierra Leone: The terrible price of poverty and unemployment: impact on children
Explains what is happening to the child soldiers now that the conflicts are ceasing.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Chicago: Child Soldiers
The lives of child soldiers - before and after and observations about child soldier in Sierra Leone.

iEARN - International Education and Resource Network - Child Soldiers.Org
Children of Sierra Leone write about what they know about child soldiers.

Southeast Asia/India

U.S. Department of Labor: Forced and Bonded Child Labor
The forms of child labor found in many countries such as Thailand, Vietnam and India (including prostitution) and their causes.

InterPress Service: Changing Attitudes Key to Ending Child Sex Trade
Some reasons for child prostitution in Southeast Asia - Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines.

Street Children

Helping Street Children in India Build a Better Life
SKCV -a small charitable organization in India

Police Abuse and Killings of Street Children in India
Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Project  - 1996

Children of Asphalt
Pictures of children growing up on the streets of India.
Kamat's Potpourri

Oxfam in India - The street children of Mysore

Thailand

U.S. Department of Labor: Thailand Overview
Discusses the extent of child labor in Thailand.

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Written Replies by the Government of Thailand Concerning the List of Issues (CRC/C/THA/Q/2)
Shows the amount of money Thailand is investing to get rid of child labor, prostitution, etc.

Child Prostitution
The Royal Thai Embassy. Washington, D.C.

 Uganda

United Nations: Uganda - Child soldiers at centre of mounting humanitarian crisis

Human Rights Watch - Africa: The Scars of Death - The Abduction of Children by the Lord's Resistance Army
Reasons for conflict in Uganda / the abduction of children and the creation of child soldiers / Testimonials from children about abduction and forced labor.

The Uganda Youth Development Agency: Interface of Substance Abuse and Child Prostitution: Intervening in the Lives of Slum and Street Children in Kampala - Uganda.  PDF
By Rogers Kasirye, Director of the Uganda Youth Development Agency

Child Rights Information Network: A Children's Manifesto
A document that lays out the problems affecting children that Uganda is trying to eliminate.

Vietnam

Child Labor in Transition in Vietnam  PDF
Eric Edmonds Department of Economics -Dartmouth College and Carrie Turk Vietnam Country Office - The World Bank

Child Labor Legislative Database :: Country Data :: Vietnam
Child Labor Laws.org

Vietnam
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices  - 2004
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
February 28, 2005 U.S. Department of State

 
Education


Eldis Gateway to Development Information
Links to many articles on education, HIV/AIDS, and literacy world-wide.
 Institute of Development Studies, Univ. of Sussex, U.K.

Brazil

Country Studies.Com: Brazil - Literacy
 Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress - Sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army

 Country Studies.Com: Brazil - Education
 Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress - Sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army

University of California at Santa Cruz:  Brazil - Adult Literacy Rate
 Click on graph links to get statistics on education in Brazil from 1970 to 2000.

Information Services Latin America: The World Bank Undermines Agrarian Reform in Brazil
The state of education, poverty and land reform in Brazil.

Country Studies.Com: Brazil - Education -Primary and Secondary Schools
 Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress - Sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army
Compatibility of education to the socioeconomic reality of the learner

Iran

Country Studies.com : Iran- Education / Literacy
Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress - Sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army
Gives reasons why education statistics are not available for Iran.

University of California at Santa Cruz:  Iran - Adult Literacy Rate
 Click on graph links to get statistics on education in Iran from 1970 to 2000.

Iran: Education - Iranian Universities & Education Resources
Past Times.com

Education System in Iran
Iranian Embassy in Oslo

Saudi Arabia

Country Studies.com : Saudi Arabia - Education
Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress - Sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army
Progress in education in Saudi Arabia and the reasons for its slow movement.

University of California at Santa Cruz:  Saudi Arabia - Adult Literacy Rate
 Click on graph links to get statistics on education in Saudi Arabia from 1970 to 2000.

Saudi Arabia Education and Schools
The Saudi Network

WEP-Saudi Arabia
World Education Services Canada

Saudi Arabia
Information Please® Database

UNICEF - At a glance: Saudi Arabia - The big picture

 
Environmental Issues

United Nations Environmental Programme: Emissions of CO2 - Selected Countries
Chart of selected countries showing CO2 emissions

The Franklin Institute: Environmental Issues
 A tutorial on ecosystems.

University of California at Berkeley: The Importance and Conservation of Biomes
 Discusses the importance of each ecosystem

University of California at Berkeley: The World's Biomes
 Discusses the importance of each ecosystem

United Nations Environment Programme: Introduction to Climate Change
Forces of environmental change with data showing the changes over time

Science Net : Dealing with Impacts of Urbanization on the Ecology of Surrounding Landscapes   By Bradley J.F.B UNCG

 University of Michigan: The Choice: Doomsday or Arbor Day
Reasons for deforestation / Cited works for this article contain a wealth of links to information on many issues raised by deforestation.

The Sierra Club: Sustainable Consumption: Forests, Food, and Energy Factsheets
Facts on consumption and its effects on our environment.

The Sierra Club: Sustainable Consumption: Why Consumption Matters

 Energy Information Administration: International Energy Annual 2002  - Update March 2004
Energy consumption figures for the nations of the world

Western Oregon University: Historical Perspectives of Energy Consumption
Energy consumption by category, rate, industry, country.

University of Michigan: Water Pollution and Society
Discusses types of pollution, effects on environment, & solutions

American Association for the Advancement of Science: Population, Waste and Chemicals  A global overview of waste management.

Philippines Country Factsheet
United States -  Asia Environmental Partnership

Urban Philippines  PDF
United States Agency for International Development
 
War and Human Conflict
 

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