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Governance Links (Politics, Social Forces, Human Rights, Women in Development, Conflict, Corruption)

Sources of Additional Information:

Conflict See Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Transparency International Tracks standard indicators of how corrupt a country’s government is.

The 2004 Economic Freedom Index is the current index of the Heritage Foundation country economic freedom rankings. (See also country rankings.)

Human Rights: The Human Rights Reports describe human rights practices by country, and are written by the U.S. Department of State. Amnesty International, a leading human rights organization tries to keep track of those who are imprisoned or have suffered other major human rights violations. See Human Rights Watch.

Women in Development/Gender: The Association of Women In Development (AWID) is an international organization concerned with this issue. The website has links to other organizations. UNIFEM was the United Nations Fund for Women; in 2011, it merged with UN Women.

*Disclaimer: All information on these websites is not necessarily endorsed by the board and these are not partner websites.

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