Business Information Service
Focus on Newly Independent States, from the U.S. Department of Commerce: biweekly E-mail reports with trade leads, investment leads, conference announcements, and general information. Also industry and country reports.

Central Intelligence Agency
CIA's official site. Search by keyword or category.

CIA Publications
Access reference material, CIA and other government reports and CIA publications.

Country Profiles from Eldis
This resource, under development, will include detailed country information on agriculture, environment, economics, education, gender, politics, health, and advice for visitors. The agriculture component is the first completed, though links connect to older Eldis resources. From the Electronic Development and Environment Information System

Europages
Economic indicators for European markets.

Foreign Governments
A comprehensive list from Louisiana State U. Helps you find the Albanian Ministry of Information in a jiffy.

Human Rights Watch World Report 2000
Country by country summaries of human rights conditions. Special report on women, arms, children, academic freedom and other special issues.

International Economic Trends
A quarterly compilation of data on the G-7 countries and the Euro area, including output, inflation, labor markets, interest rates, government budgets, international trade and more. From the Fed.

International Economic Trends annual
A graphical presentation of key economic data since 1986, covering 31 countries. Data on output, inflation, monetary aggregates, interest rates, government budgets, current accounts, exchange rates and foreign exchange reserves. From the Fed.

International Governmental Organizations
Links to organizations, from the African Development Bank to World Tourism Organization.

International research guides
Links from Louisiana State U. Strategies for finding international information on the Web.

Israline
Find out how to subscribe to a daily summary of the Israeli press, from the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Also offers press statements, policy papers, speeches, op-eds.

Journalist's Calendar of International Events
A long-view calendar of national elections and such, from New York University. Also links at the bottom of the page to other calendars of international conferences and events.

Latin American Network Information Center
LANIC has full information on Latin America, by country or subject. From the University of Texas.

Living Standards Measurement Survey
From the World Bank. Household surveys are used to measure and understand poverty. Includes research reports and guides to using the data.

Local Time Zones Around the World
Countries listed with time zones

Nations Online
A database of all the world's countries, with links to other websites' information about those countries, as well as the countries' own websites. Not all nations get equally excellent coverage, but this is a good starting point for finding other sources of information.

OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web
"OFFSTATS lists web sites offering free and easily accessible social, economic and general data from official or similar 'quotable' sources, especially those that provide both current data and time series. In the country lists, these are mainly web pages provided by statistical offices, central banks and government departments and agencies, whereas the topics list is comprised of links to the statistics pages of international organizations and associations and a few commercial sites."

Pan American Health Organization
The Pan American Health Organization offers detailed information on public health issues in the Americas, in both English and Spanish including statistics, environmental issues, women's health, infectious diseases, and many others. PAHO serves as the regional office of the World Health Organization.

Population Reference Bureau
Timely information on population trends and issues.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
RFE/RL Newsline is a daily report of developments in Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Based on news gathered by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Terrorism Knowledge Base
Search for incidents or statistics related to incidents worldwide or use their chonology tool to find out about past events.

The Global Beat
A resource for journalists covering international issues, with background info, expert sources, and tips. From the Global Reporting Network, a program of the Center for War, Peace, and the News Media at New York University's Department of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Trade Resource Center
Lists resources and news about international trade and transportation along with information on U.S. customs.

UN Crime and Justice Information Network
World crime stats from 1970.

United Nations Crime Survey
World crime stats from 1970.

United Nations Development Programme
Also see the country-by-country report on poverty from April 2000. "UNDP's mission is to help countries in their efforts to achieve sustainable human development by assisting them to build their capacity to design and carry out development programmes in poverty eradication, employment creation and sustainable livelihoods, the empowerment of women and the protection and regeneration of the environment, giving first priority to poverty eradication."

United Nations Population Information Network
Data, publications, organizations and conferences on population topics.

Voice of America Pronunciation Guide
Nearly 2,000 foreign names and words, with phonetic spellings and the opportunity to hear them pronounced. Used by newscasters for Voice of America. Hearing the names pronounced requires speakers and the free Real Audio player.

Where They Were
An article from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, pinpointing locations of nuclear weapons from 1945 through 1977. Also a companion site from the National Security Archive.

World Time Zone Map
Map of the world with time zones.

Worldwide Governments on the WWW
Links to official sites from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.

WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources
This section of the WWW Virtual Library includes annotated links in a wide range of international affairs, international studies, and international relations topics.