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General and Topical Resources

The websites below are educational resources of use to college students, researchers and the general public.  The Human Rights site contains several documents related to human rights issues, debates, and discussions.  The UN lecture series is a chronologically indexed collection of lectures from UN University, on a broad range of topics of global concern.

Human Rights

This website includes sections on human rights legal and political documents, UN documents pertaining to human rights, and Human Rights Issues, Debates, and Discussions.

United States Mission to the United Nations

This website is about the United States’ mission to the United Nations.

UN University Lecture Series

 This website includes lecture series ranging from human-induced desertification to the effectiveness of human rights NGO’s.

 

News Resources

1.World Press Review Online
http://www.worldpress.org/index.htm
World Press Review Online provides an English Language magazine giving
readers a monthly collection of articles, editorials and cartoons
covering issues and newspapers from around the word.

2. World News.com
http://www.worldnews.com/

This provides a gateway to foreign newspapers, news photographs,
broadcasting and major wire services, with a search engine that
includes categories for society and politics.

3. Paperboy.com
http://www.thepaperboy.com/welcome.html

This website provides an online directory to link up to newspapers
around the world. The site user friendly, and access to newspaper
readily available by selecting a country and city or name of
newspaper.

4. Department of State Foreign Media Reaction
http://www.usinfo.state.gov/products/medreac.htm

The Department of State offers each business day a global roundup of
views on a major foreign policy issue, with articles from major
newspapers, magazines and broadcast media from around the world.

 


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Jim Nelson, President jlnelso3@ilstu.edu, (309) 862-1844