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  • African Union Organization that promotes integration of African countries that promotes Africa's role in the global economy while addressing social, economic and political problems that come from globalization.
  • Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)  Multi-national organization that aims to accelerate economic growth, social progress, and cultural development in the region, as well as justice and the rule of law as per the UN Charter.
  • Conference on World Affairs Archives Norlin Library, University of Colorado at Boulder, digitized audo recordings of the Conference on World Affairs (CWA).  Important speakers include: R. Buckminster Fuller, Henry Kissinger, Yitzhak Rabin, Marya Mannes, Huey P. Newton, Margot Adler, Ralph Nader, and I. F. Stone.
  • Country Reports on Terrorism Annual report by the Secretary of State that examines terrorism around the world, terrorist safe havens, terrorist organizations, state sponsors of terrorism, WMDs, etc.
  • Comparative Constitutions Project Scholars collect data in order to investigate constitutional choices of international states.
  • Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL) Portal to international law primary sources and sites by the American Society of International Law (ASIL).
  • Europa : European Union On-Line Gateway to European Union. It provides up-to-date coverage of European Union affairs and essential information on European integration. Go to the Documents tab to connect to EUR-LEX (E.U. Law), the Bulletin of the E.U., and other agency materials.
  • JuriGlobe : World Legal Systems  A University of Ottawa research group that presents international law categories by legal system (civil law, common law, customary law and Muslim law) including mixed systems.  It also lists countries by the language of their legal system.
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)  Alliance of 26 countries in North America & Europe committed to fulfilling the goals of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in 1949
  • Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
  • Organization of American States (OAS)  Multi-national organization of Western nations committed to democracy, and other social justice issues such as: poverty, terrorism, illegal drugs, corruption, etc.
  • Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913  Database of London's Central Criminal Court from 1674-1913.
  • United Nations  Portal to International Law  and Human Rights from the United Nations.  Includes links to international courts and tribunals such as the ICTY and the ICTR. and Official Documents of the United Nations (ODS) 
    Full text UN documents from 1993+; General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, & Trusteeship Council from 1946+ ; for data, see: UNdata  UNdata pools major UN databases and those of several international organizations - browse, search and download data from a large number of statistical databases. Data categories include: agriculture, education, employment, energy, environment, health, human development, industry, information and communication technology, national accounts, population, refugees, trade, and tourism. or Gapminder Gapminder World provides both interactive charts and graphs of United Nation statistics, including life expectancy and income per capita.  Many are interactive. It contains data on the local, national and global levels about social, economic and environmental conditions. This is product of the United Nations in conjunction with Google using Trenalyzer software.
  • World Court Digest Digest of international case law from the judgments, advisory opinions and orders of the International Court of Justice as well as in the separate opinions of individual judges.
  • World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) "Free, independent and non-profit access to worldwide law"
  • World Treaty Index  From the University of Michigan, this is an electronic treaty database that covers the 20th century.