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Resources for country analysis

  • A comprehensive and multi-dimensional country analysis is the basis of a good strategy.
  • The links below provide analysis, facts and statistics to feed your country analysis.
  • Each link leads to country-specific pages: through a search box, a drop-down list, or direct links.
  • Methodology: learn more about how to analyse the situation in a given country at the Human Rights Impact Resource Center.

    Human rights problems Context and environment Regional news and websites
    Human Rights Situation
  • HuriSearch (beta):
       
  • Human Rights Watch
  • Amnesty International library
  • International Commission of Jurists database
  • US State Department country reports
  • European Country of Information Network
  • UNHCR's country of origin database
  • HumanTraffickingSearch

    Humanitarian situation
  • Reliefweb news
  • AlertNet interactive map
  • Humanitarian Information Centres

    Development and health situation
  • Human Development Report Statistics
  • One World' short country guides
  • OECD/DAC database for aid flows
  • id21's research database
  • DFiD country profiles
  • CIDA country-specific resources
  • World Bank countries and regions pages
  • WHO country pages

    Legal information
  • UNHCHR's treaty body database
  • Minnesota Uni's treaty ratification tables
  • Uni of Richmond's constitutional law finder
  • Global Legal Information Network

    Alternative news
  • AlterNet
  • Worldpress.org
  • Z NET
  • IMC
  • Inter Press Service
  • wn.com: Human Rights Today
  • Comprehensive resources
  • Wikipedia country pages
  • Library of Congress country studies

    Political analysis:
  • Intl' Crisis Group reports
  • Political Resources on the Net
  • US State Dept's background notes
  • CIA "heads of state" directory, Rulers

    Conflict analysis
  • INCORE Country Guides
  • Uppsala Conflict Database
  • CrisisWeb conflict database and conflict histories
  • World Bank's economics-of-conflict database

    Military infrastructure
  • FIRST/SIPRI database

    Economics
  • EconStats macroeconomic data
  • IMF's country pages
  • TI's Global Corruption Barometer
  • UNODC surveys on crime trends

    Geography
  • Geographic Information Support Team (GIST)

    Maps
  • Perry Castaneda map collection (Uni of Texas)
  • European Commission Digital Map Archive
  • National Geographic MapMachine
  • United Nations Cartographic Section
  • ReliefWeb Map Centre

  • Africa
  • allAfrica.com
  • Pambazuka
  • afrol News
  • RADDHO
  • IPS - Africa

    Americas
  • Equipo Nizkor, Radio Nizkor
  • Alter Infos
  • lanic
  • RISAL
  • CLADEHLT
  • IPS - Latin America
  • IPS - North America

    Asia
  • Asian Center for Human Rights
  • Asian HR Commission
  • SAHRDC
  • ACPP
  • IPS - Asia

    Europe
  • International Helsinki Federation
  • Statewatch
  • eumap.org
  • Radio Free Europe
  • Prima News
  • Committee for the Prevention of Torture
  • European Commission against Racism and Intolerance
  • National omudsmen
  • ERRC (Roma)
  • IPS - Europe

    Middle East
  • HRInfo.net
  • ISLAM online
  • Maghreb des droits de l'homme
  • IPS - Middle East

  • Suggest a resource: simply send us the URL by email at editors(at)humanrightstools.org
  • Other search resources: SearchEngineWatch has a very good commented list of search engines
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