TABLE OF CONTENTS:

OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL INTER-GOVERNMENTAL RESOURCES (IGOs)

• GENERAL:
  
  • International Reference.
  • International Inter-Governmental Organizations (IGOs) website searches and lists.
  • International Development Resources by Emily Inlow.
  • Country Reference: Official Government and Unofficial Websites.

• STATISTICAL DATA and International Classification Codes/Trade Standards

• SELECTED OFFICIAL IGO RESOURCES:

  A-E

  F-L

  M-O

  P-Z

• INTERNATIONAL and FOREIGN LAW RESOURCES
  • Multiple International Law Resources:
  • GENERAL:
    • INTERNATIONAL LEGAL RESEARCH GUIDES.
  • TOPICAL:
    

    A-E

    F-L

    M-O

    P-Z

  • International Commercial Trade Law
  • International Environmental Law and Policies
  • Oceans and Water Law

NON-GOVERNMENTAL and RELATED INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES (NGOs)

• Multiple NGO Resources
• Selected NGO Websites:

  A-E

  F-L

  M-O

  P-Z

• Some international studies related UW Libraries' resources:
  
  • UW Libraries Resources by Subject
    Many of the Subject pages relate to international studies. See especially "Political Science & Public Affairs", "Government Publications" (With links to the page you are currently in and to the U.S. Government page), the regional or area studies pages for country specific resources, the language pages, "Business", and more.
    
  • Foster Business Library main page and the Business subject page; International Business Research, "International Business FAQ", under the Business and Economics FAQ.

• Development Gateway "The Development Gateway (the Gateway) is a portal website on development issues..."

• Europa World Plus (UW Restricted), "is the online version of the Europa World Year Book [....]. First published in 1926, the year book is [....] one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe."
  

• Gale Virtual Reference Library. Includes online reference publications, many of which are international in scope. *Arts *Business *Education *History *Law *Literature *Medicine *Nation and World *Religion *Social Science

• GovInfo "FIND: government databases, directories, reports, statistics, statutes, & more..." While Canada is emphasized, you will find a compact, eclectic, multi-type international government information finder provided by the Unversity of British Columbia Library, Vancouver,Canada.

• International Development:
  
  • International Development Resources, by Emily Inlow, a recent University of Washington, Information School graduate. A wonderful resource for a wide variety of both international governmental and non-governmental information on the broad topic of international development issues and problems.

• Political Resources on the Net, "Listings of political sites available on the Internet sorted by country, with links to Parties, Organizations, Governments, Media and more from all around the world." (Private commercial website)

• Union of International Associations, publisher of the printed Yearbook of International Organizations, JX 1904 Y42 which includes contact informaton, URLs, purpose and short background on IGOs and International NGOs. We don't subscribe to online access to this directory. Ask for help with the book version in Gov. Publications and elsewhere in the UW Libraries.

• The WWW Virtual Library, international subject groupings of websites, including The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources
  A World-Wide Web Virtual Library of international intergovernmental as well as non-governmental academic and private resources, including think tanks.

IGO and NGO Website Searches:

• Intergovernmental (IGO) and Non-Governmental (NGO) Organizations Searches
  "These search engines are useful for those doing research into topics of interest to Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). We've separated IGOs from NGOs to make for more focused search results." By James Jacobs, Inter. Documents Librarian and colleages, Green Library, Stanford University.

• International Agencies and Information on the Web a comprehensive list of links to International Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs), compiled by the University Of Michigan Libraries Documents Center.

• International Documents Task Force, Government Documents Round Table, American Library Association webpage, esp. noticing "Web Links" and "Topical Guides".

• See Also SELECTED OFFICIAL IGO WEBSITES on this website.
• See Also Non-Governmental and Related International Resources (NGOs)

• Lists of official foreign government websites and related country information:
  
  • Foreign Government Resources on the Web, which is part of International Agencies and Information on the Web, compiled by the University Of Michigan Libraries Documents Center.
    
  • Foreign Information by Country by the Government Publications Library, U. of Colorado Libraries. Note: Some resources and information is unique to the U of Colorado Libraries only.
  • Foreign (National) Governments, Northwestern University Library, Government Publications & Maps.

• A-Z of Countries of the World. Part of Oxford Reference Online.

• CONSTITUTIONS.

• "COUNTRIES, STATES & CITIES", UW Libraries and web resources. Part of REFERENCE TOOLS by the U. of Washington Libraries

• COUNTRY PROFILES, BBC (British Broadcasting Corp.) News.

• COUNTRY STATISTICS

• ELECTIONS and PARLIAMENTS

• EMBASSIES, DIPLOMATIC LIST, CONSULTATES IN THE U.S.:
  
  General:
  • EmbassyWorld.com
  • Foreign Embassies by U of Michigan Library Documents Center.
  In Washington DC:
  
  • embassy.org "a resource of and for the Washington D.C. foreign embassy community." Use the pull down lists at the top of this page, to find, for example, websites of embassies. in Washington DC.
  • Diplomatic List. by the US Dept of state, listing top level diplomatic embassy personnel.
  Consulates in the U.S.:
  
  • Foreign consular offices in the United States by the U.S. Dept. of State.
  U.S. Embassies, Consulates, and Diplomatic Missions:
  
  • Websites of U.S. Embassies, Consulates, and Diplomatic Missions by the U.S. Dept. of State.

• Europa World PLUS. See also and for earlier Europa World Year Book, "the indispensable source of information on world-wide affairs."

• Heavily Endebted Poor Countries (HIPC):
  
  • Inter. Monetary Fund
    
    • "Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Debt Initiative, All Publications"
    • "Debt Relief Under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative"
  • World Bank
    • "(HIPC) The Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative"

• International Monetary Fund: "Country Information, IMF reports and publications arranged by country"

• LAWS of Countries ["Foreign National Government Law"]

• OECD MEMBER COUNTRIES
  "Please note that most OECD documents cover all 30 member countries and therefore will not be listed under the individual country Web sites below. Only OECD resources focusing on a particular country can be found here." Also look for the many print OECD publications in the UW Libraries Catalog and in the online text and data resource, SourceOECD.

• RELIEF WEB "....is the world’s leading on-line gateway to information (documents and maps) on humanitarian emergencies and disasters....ReliefWeb was launched in October 1996 and is administered by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)." Includes a great deal of information about each country!

• United Nations CyberSchoolBus.
  
  • Country at a Glance
  • InfoNation advanced.

• U.S. CIA, WORLD FACTBOOK (Latest Ed.)
  The print edition runs from 1981- . Click here for UW Libraries holdings and other online copies.
  For a unique online presentation of the CIA WORLD FACTBOOK, see NationMaster.com.

• U.S. Library of Congress:
  Library of Congress Research Tools
  "The Library of Congress offers a wide variety of online databases and Internet resources to the public via the Web, including its own online catalog. In addition, LC provides an easy-to-use gateway for searching other institutions' online catalogs and extensive links to resources on the Internet."
  
  • **COUNTRY STUDIES/AREA HANDBOOKS PROGRAM for substantial, book length information on many countries. Go to the 1986 ed. Afghanistan Country Study, which isn't included on this LC webpage.
    
  • **Portals to the World, links to electronic resources from around the world".

• World Bank, "Country & Regions" webpages: *Click the "Country" tab at the top of many World Bank webpages to go to country pages. Also, below the "Search" box found at the top right of many pages, click "More Options", then below many of the resulting Search boxes click on "Advanced Search", and choose "Country" in order to search by country.
  And don't miss World Bank mapped data at GEO.worldbank.org our work around the world.