ICONS RESEARCH LIBRARY
Go to
www.icons.umd.edu/reslib/reslib and click on “Issues.” These sites can also be
found online in the CWHP community under “Resources.”
UNITED
NATIONS
www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/index.html
United Nations
CyberSchoolBus, with links to a variety of teacher and student materials on
Human Rights, Peace Education, Poverty, etc.
www.unfoundation.org/unwire/
UN Wire, with
searchable archives from 1999 on all relevant topics to CWHP.
CHILD LABOR
www.unicef.org/crc/index_30172.html
Summary of the Convention on the
Rights of the Child, along with the original text and links. Photo
essay links in the right column add pictures to understand each of the articles
of the convention.
www.unicef.org/voy/
Unicef's "Voices
of Youth" page, with links to information on how various issues impact children
and teenagers, including child labor, HIV/AIDS, and sustainable development.
hrw.org/children/labor.htm
Human Rights watch page on children's rights and child labor. Describes
different types of child labor and provides many links.
us.ilo.org/ilokidsnew/ILOU/ilou.html
International Labor
Organization's website for kids teens. Links to various sections, including
Child Labor 101 (basic definitions and information on child labor).
www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/ipec/index.htm
Has
your country ratified? Find out.
ILO's homepage for
International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC), with links to
information on IPEC operations, country ratification, etc.
MINORITY/GENDER
www.amnestyusa.org/education/
Amnesty
International's Human Rights Education site with links to lesson plans and
materials for students.
www.occdsb.on.ca/~sel/rights/plain.htm
Universal
Declaration of Human Rights Plain Language Version.
www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/
Text of the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW),
along with other links provided by the UN Division for the Advancement of Women.
www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/humanrights/declaration/preamble.asp
United Nations
CyberSchoolBus Lesson Plan on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
with questions and plain language translation of each portion.
www.idealist.org/kt/ktorgsearch.html
Home page of
Idealist.Org, with links to information on current events, environment, health,
human rights, etc.
GLOBAL
WARMING
environment.about.com/library/weekly/aa090402a.htm
Primer on the
Kyoto Protocol
www.unido.org/doc/3941
Links to the
Climate Change/Kyoto Protocol-related activities undertaken by UNIDO (United
Nations Industrial Development Organization).
unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/kpeng.html
Text of Kyoto
Protocol.
www.idealist.org/kt/ktorgsearch.html
Home page of
Idealist.Org, with llinks to information on current events, environment, health,
human rights, etc.
WORLD HEALTH
www.who.int/en/
Home page of the
World Health Organization (WHO), with links to press releases, disease
outbreaks, general information, etc.
www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact092.html
WHO fact sheet
about the WHO Global School Health Initiative, designed to improve the public
health, education and social and economic development of nations.
www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact171.html
WHO fact sheet
about Health Promotion: milestones on the road to a global alliance.
www.unicef.org/voy/
Unicef's "Voices of
Youth" page, with links to information on how various issues impact children and
teenagers, including child labor, HIV/AIDS, and sustainable development.
www.idealist.org/kt/ktorgsearch.html
Home page of
Idealist.Org, with llinks to information on current events, environment, health,
human rights, etc.
INTERNATIONAL
FINANCE
www.worldbank.org/html/schools/
Home page of the
World Bank's site for students and teachers, with links to data, lesson plans,
countries and regions, profiles of individuals in developing countries, etc.
www.imf.org/external/index.htm
Home page of the
International Monetary Fund, with links to country information, standards and
codes, fact sheets, etc.
INTERNATIONAL
TRADE
www.gatt.org/written.html
Links to news
releases by the World Trade Organization, in which the WTO attempts to "explain
its motives and aims."
www.wto.org/
Home page of the
WTO site, with links to basic information, schedules, etc.
www.unctad.org/Templates/Startpage.asp?intItemID=2068
Home page of the
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, with links to digital
library, press releases, news stories, etc.
www.nafta-sec-alena.org/english/index.htm
Home page of the
NAFTA Secretariat, the arbitral body that oversees disputes between NAFTA
members. Includes links to the text of NAFTA, status reports, and governmental
trade links for member nations.
www.ustrek.org/odyssey/semester2/042101kids/042101jennaftakids.html
Site that explains
NAFTA at an "elementary school" level.
INTERNATIONAL
TERRORISM
www.worthingtonlibraries.org/Trends/DisasterSites.htm
Worthington
Library's links to "America's War on Terrorism" information sites, including
bioterrorism, countries and their people, islam, government agencies, etc.
askeric.org/cgi-bin/printresponses.cgi/Virtual/Qa/archives/Counseling/tragedy2.html
ERIC's links to
sites and lesson plans for Remembering September 11.
www.defenselink.mil/sites/t.html
Department of
Defense's "T (for Terrorism)" index page, with links to government sites dealing
with America's War on Terrorism.
politicalhumor.about.com/cs/waronterror/
Links to sites with
editorial/political cartoons addressing America's War on Terrorism.
REGIONAL
CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
www.ccm.no/eng/links.html
Home page of the
Centre for Conflict Management Norway, with links to various governmental and
non-governmental, international organizations that deal with regional conflict
management.
www.usaid.gov/
Home page of United
States Agency for International Development, with links to USAID programs around
the world.
www.un.org/Depts/dpa/docs/peacemak.htm
Home page of United
Nations Department of Political Affairs, with links to peacemaking and
preventive action information.
www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/home.shtml
Home page of United
Nations Peacekeeping Missions with links to specific missions, facts and
figures, etc.
