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1. Eldis Resource Guides
   A development gateway divided into subjects. “The aim of our resource guides is to bring together information from our databases and to present it for quick access. Each of the guides is overseen by an editor or editorial team.”
   02-20-2008 : ageing populations, agriculture, biodiversity, children, climate change, corporate social responsibility, debt, debt relief, education, finance policy, food security, forestry, gender, globalization, governance, health, health systems, hiv/aids, humanitarian aid, ict for development, influencing policy, international development, international monetary fund (imf), ipr, participation, pastoralism, questioning development, tourism, trade policy, world bank, young people, youth
2. Librarians’ Internet Index: Statistics
   A well-organized starting point for reliable, librarian-selected Internet resources.
   02-14-2008 : adoption, aeronautics, agriculture, almanacs, automobiles: statistics, bankruptcy, cancer, censuses, children, computers, crime, demographic surveys, design statistics, dictionaries, disabled, economic conditions, economics, education, geography, health, internet design and management, labor, library libraries, mathematics, media, military statistics, population trends, power resources, quality of life, ratings of cities and towns, religion, sampling, school districts, statistics, television, transportation, u.s. states, united states, violence, youth
3. Amnesty International: Children and human rights
   A description of the problem and what Amnesty International is doing about it.
   01-27-2008 : amnesty international, arms trade, children, human rights
4. Global Issues on the UN Agenda
   A long list of issues with links.
   02-08-2007 : africa, aging, agriculture, aids, antarctica, atomic energy, children, climate change, crime, culture, decolonization, demining, development cooperation, disarmament, disaster relief, drugs, education, elections, energy, environment, family, finance, food, global issues, governance, health, human rights, human settlements, humanitarian aid, indigenous people, information communications technology, intellectual property, international finance, international law, iraq, labor, law of the sea, least developed countries, outer space, palestine, peace, persons with disabilities, population, refugees, science and technology, security, social development, statistics, sustainable development, terrorism, trade, united nations, volunteerism, water, women, youth
5. How Parents of Home Schooled Students Can Get Their Children to Use the Library
   A brief article describing lessons and activities that can help home schooled children learn to use the local public library. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
   01-17-2007 : children, lessons and activities, parenting, parents of home schooled students, use the local public library
6. Kid's Sunday School Place
   Over 50 links to websites containing helpful material and ideas for children's ministry.
   01-16-2007 : children, children's activities, christianity, protestantism, religions, sunday school, teaching resources, teenagers, youth
7. About.com: Christianity
   A general guide to Christianity with feature articles, website guides, and discussion forums.
   01-16-2007 : basic beliefs, children, christ in arts, christian humor, christianity, christians and easter, communities, denominations, ecology, god 4 sale, god and science, god in our schools, martin luther king jr., mission, movies, protestantism, relationships, religions, sexuality, theology and holidays, world religions, youth
8. Digitized Juvenile Literature Collection
   Over 30 full-text children's books, including ABC books, holiday stories, and other examples of 19th century picture books.. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
   01-16-2007 : 19th century picture books, abc books, children, children's activities, children's education, children's literature, full-text e-books, holiday stories, victorian studies
9. Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
   Practical applications of children's literature, including activities and programming suggestions for using books with children.
   01-16-2007 : children, children's activities, children's education, children's literature, education
10. World Global Trends: Extracts from Major Reports and Key Findings
    Covers supranational issues and various systems, including political, educational, environmental, economic, health, human, cultural, communications and resources. Also disasters.. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
    01-16-2007 : acid rain, aids, arms control, biodiversity, brain drain, capital flows, children, climate, commodity prices, communication systems, cooperation, coral reef, corruption, cultural systems, culture, debt, democracy, desertification, disasters, drugs, economic systems, educational systems, employment, energy, environment, export market, food, forest, global governance, global issues--managing, global reports, global summary, globalization, health, hiv/aids, human rights, human systems, interest, international business, international law, internet, investment, journalism, locust, malaria, migration, nutrition, political systems, population, poverty, refugees, religions, resources, science, supranatural system, telecommunication, trade, transportation, urbanization, wars and conflicts, water, women's studies, world global trends
11. Library Spot: Statistics
    Links to many different kinds of statistics.
    01-15-2007 : adherents.com, agriculture to weather, american factfinder, bureau of economic analysis, bureau of justice statistics, bureau of labor statistics, bureau of transportation statistics, census, census bureau, children, current statistics on crime and education, data on population, demographics, department of defense, economic, education, energy information administration, environment, ethnicities, fedstats, health, housing, hud, justice, national agricultural statistics service, national center for education statistics, national center for health statistics, national data, population, religious, social statistics, state and local, statistical resources on the web, statistics, women's studies, world
12. Kids Count Census Data Online
    A searchable database of data from the 2000 U.S. Census, mainly focused on children and families.
    01-12-2007 : annie e. casey foundation, children, families, population, u.s. census
13. UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
    Has 'report cards' on various issues. Also background papers.. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
    01-12-2007 : aids, children, economic and social policy, harnessing globalisation for children: a report to unicef, human rights standards, human rights studies, innocenti library, international child friendly cities secretariat, launches, monee project, new publications, news from irc, newsroom, press kits, public policy and child well-being, quick der, search the catalogue, transmonee database download, understanding children's work an inter-agency research cooperation project, united nations, virtual libraries, working papers
14. Consumer.gov (U.S. government)
    'Your resource for consumer information from the federal government. Covers food, product safety, health, home and community, money, transportation, children, careers and education, technology, and more.. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
    01-11-2007 : advocateand information, careers and education, children, consumer advocacy, food, health, home and community, money, product safety, technology, transportation
15. Fact Monster (kids)
    A children's quick reference, covering world and U.S. news and facts, people, 'word wise,' science, math and money, sports, cool stuff, and games and quizzes. Also has a homework center. It math flashcards are very favorites.
    01-10-2007 : children, cool stuff, games, homework center, math flashcards, mathematics and money, news, people, science, sports, student resources, word wise, world
16. Houston Public Library's Links to Reading Lists
    Recommended reading lists for children, teens and young adults.
    01-10-2007 : children, education, reading lists, teenagers, youth
17. UNICEF: Monitoring and Statistics
    Dtatistics on children's health, education, and more.
    01-10-2007 : children, unicef: monitoring and statistics
18. Babynamer.com
    Thousands of baby names.
    12-14-2006 : baby names, children, parenting
19. The World Revolution
    “... an idea for a new, global activist social movement for progressive social change. It aims to resolve in a definitive and comprehensive manner the major social problems of our world and our era. Major issue areas ... include: peace, human rights, the
    12-08-2006 : aging, aids, arms, biodiversity, child labor, child soldiers, children, children and war, climate change, columbia, congo, coral reefs, debt relief, desertification, development, ecological debt, education, environment, forests, global issues, human rights, human trafficking, imf, indigenous peoples, landmines, medicines, mountains, oceans, peace, population, refugees, tobin tax, water, weapons, women and war, world bank, world inequality
20. Sustainable Development
    This part of the globalissues.org web site looks at various aspects of development, sustainable development and how this relates to other issues such as poverty, inequality, and the environment.
    12-07-2006 : aids/hiv, arms control, arms trade, biodiversity, chechnya, children, climate change, conflicts, conservation, consumerism, consumption, corporations, disease, east timor, energy security, environment, extinctions, foreign aid, foreign policy, genetic engineering of food, geopolitics, global issues, global warming, globalization, health, human rights, indigenous people, inequality, international criminal court, justice, kosovo, media, middle east, military expansion, military expenditure, nato, natural disasters, population, poverty, racism, structural adjustment, sustainable development, third world debt, trade, war on terrorism, water, women's studies

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