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Internet resources for the individual countries of Europe may be found on this site's Selected Internet Resources: Europe page.
Blue Bird - Agenda for Civil Society
in Southeast Europe (http://www.ceu.hu/cps/bluebird/)
Informs on civil society issues and projects. Hosted by the Central European University in Budapest.
Center
of Documentation and Information on Minorities in Europe - Southeast Europe (http://www.greekhelsinki.gr/english/organizations/cedime.html)
The Balkan Human Rights Webpage (maintained in Greece) includes numerous scholarly articles and papers on minorities in Southeast Europe.
Central and Eastern European
Region (http://www.civilsoc.org/ece/eeurope.htm)
Civil Society International provides this portal to NGOs and other civil society websites in each East European country.
Southeast European Legal Development
Initiative (http://www.seldi.net/links.htm)
An annotated portal to websites focused on civil society in Southeast Europe.
Southeast Europe
Online (http://www.southeasteurope.org/index.php?site=8)
SEE Online is sponsored by USAID and designed as a Balkan portal for NGOs in Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Romania. Also provides major news items, funding resources and basic country profiles, reports, economic development, and integration issues.
Transparency International (http://www.transparency.org )
Transparency International assists governments and NGOs world-wide in monitoring, assessing and fighting corruption. It has established chapters in many countries, and the corresponding country websites often provide a wealth of informative documents, as well as links to anti-corruption websites.
Ethnic Groups in Eastern Europe
Jewish Communities of
the World (http://www.haruth.com/JewsoftheWorld.html)
Harruth Communications provides this portal, arranged by country.
Minority Electronic Resources (http://www.minelres.lv)
Maintained by MINELRES in Latvia. For each East European country it links to minority-related resources on human rights, legislation, official sites, NGOs and general information.
PER in the Balkans (http://www.per-usa.org/1997-2007/balkans.htm)
Maintained by the Project on Ethnic Relations at Princeton University, covering ethnic relations in several East European countries. In English.
Ethnic
Relations in Eastern Europe: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography (http://lgi.osi.hu/publications/books/bibliography2/announce20000301-2.html)
An accomplished bibliography of 256 pages, with several supplementary indexes, edited by Margit Feischmidt and published in Budapest, 2001, by the Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative. The full text is available for viewing or downloading in pdf.
Ethnic Groups in the USA
American
FactFinder - U.S. Census Bureau (http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en)
Provides information from the 2000 census, including a section on languages and ancestry. Maintained by the U.S. Census Bureau.
United States Historical Census Data Browser (http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/)
Provides information from the U.S. censuses taken each ten years from 1790 to 1960. For the censuses from 1870 to 1960 it includes the number of persons in the U.S. who reported that they had been born in a specific country outside the United States. (Only a few East European countries make it into the list in 1870; some countries are not included until 1920.) This site is part of the University of Virginia Library; the information is made available with the cooperation of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Women's Studies
Global List of Women's
Organisations (http://www.distel.ca/womlist/womlist.html)
Arranged by country.
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