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focused on counties and culture. Users have the ability to submit additions to articles to a moderator.

A collaboration of journalists, lawyers and scholars dedicated to raising public awareness of the laws of war and their application to situations of conflict.

Funded by Sida, Norad, SDC and DFID.

which provide complete and detailed national and local election statistics, as well as other election resources.

compare countries on 6 financial dimensions.

From the Inter-Parlimentary Union. National parliaments around the world.

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United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) deals with human rights issues, international law, publications...

A cross cultural database, produced by the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), Inc. at Yale University. It contains descriptive information on all aspect of cultural and social life. eHRAF World Cultures is a collection of books and articles covering many disciplines in social sciences, humanities, medicine and any other area with an interest in cultural diversity. The database may be used to retrieve information on topics such as particular culture, ethnic groups, immigrant groups, beliefs, diseases, kinship units, settlement patterns, political behavior and much more. The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level according to HRAF's modified Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM).

Covers political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories. It also offers selected statistical information.

These publications include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty.

Concise information on countries, territories, and selected international organizations.

Information on the history, government, economy and other issues for 266 world entities.

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Links to information from major sources on the country's political and economic conditions.

Makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate.

Formerly known as the Area Handbooks from the Department of the Army.

Contains over 335 statistical data sets on most countries of the world.
Provides the option of creating graphs in order to compare different nations.

OECD.Stat includes data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies.

Provides direct access to official documents reflecting the views of United Nations Member States by bringing together in one place documents available elsewhere.

Has basic data, news, and project information for every country in which the World Bank is involved.