Amnesty International (http://www.amnesty.org)
‘Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to
promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights and other international standards.' The English language homepage
provides articles on human rights questions and abuses in countries around the
globe.
DMOZ Open Directory - Turkmenistan (http://dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/Turkmenistan/)
Major website giving access to many important subject areas.
Encyclopedia.com (http://www.encyclopedia.com)
From the Electronic Library, searching the Encyclopedia.com by country provides
numerous narrative articles on, inter alia, its history, culture, politics.
Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp)
Contains entire text of original printed volumes (except language maps).
European
Community's Relations with Turkmenistan (http://europa.eu.int/comm/external%5Frelations/turkmenistan/intro/)
A guide to the relations of Turkmenistan with the European Community.
Human Rights Watch (http://www.hrw.org/)
‘Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental organization, supported
by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide.' Search
its records for reports on the human rights records, abuses, etc. of any given
country.
International Committee of the Red Cross (http://www.icrc.org/eng)
A search of this English language version of the ICRC site provides reports on
the current humanitarian initiatives of this organization in any given country.
International Monetary Fund (http://www.imf.org/)
The IMF is an ‘organization of 183 member countries, established to promote
international monetary cooperation, exchange stability, and orderly exchange
; to foster economic growth and high levels of employment; and to provide temporary
financial assistance to countries to help ease balance of payments adjustment.' A
search by country will yield reports on the IMF's initiatives and programs
in it.
Library of Congress Country
Study: Turkmenistan (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/tmtoc.html)
Handbook on Turkmenistan produced by the Federal Research Division of the Library
of Congress.
Open
Directory Portal Page on Islam (http://dmoz.org/Society/Religion%5Fand%5FSpirituality/Islam/Quran/)
The Open Directory Projects portal page on Islam offers hundreds of citations
on various aspects of Islam as practiced around the globe, as well as sites which
contain the complete Arabic and English texts of the Koran.
U.S. Committee for Refugees (http://www.refugees.org/index.cfm)
Founded in 1958 to complement the UN's mission to aid refugees, the USCR's
site offers brief and detailed reports on refugee status in and from the countries
of the world. |