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Background Information:

• Europa World: The Europa World Year Book online   Provides detailed surveys of over 250 countries.
• FACTS.com  (1940+)  Provides digest of major news stories around the world.
• Nations of the World Basic information on governments, including the constitution, and different branches of government. from the Law Library of Congress
• State Department Background Notes by the U.S. State Department; contains information on all the countries of the world with which the United States has relations.
• EIU Country Profiles and Reports  (1996+)   Background reports covering economic, political, and social conditions of countries.

Country Web Sites:

• Rwanda
  • Columbia University: Rwanda: Politics, Human Rights, and Conflict Resolution
  • General links for Rwanda
  • Law Library of Congress: Rwanda Provides basic information on governments, including the constitution, and different branches of government.
• Mozambique
  • Columbia University: Mozambique: General Resources, Conflict Resolution, Politics, and Human Rights:
  • General links for Mozambique
  • Law Library of Congress: Mozambique Provides basic information on governments, including the constitution, and different branches of government.
• South Africa
  • Columbia University: South Africa : Constitutional Law and Human Rights
  • General links for South Africa
  • Law Library of Congress: South Africa Provides basic information on governments, including the constitution, and different branches of government.

  Key Databases

       Princeton databases, see: http://library.princeton.edu/catalogs/articles.php

       PUL QuickSearch http://search3.webfeat.org/clients/princeton/princetonqs.asp
       A service which allows you to search multiple databases simultaneously.

• International Political Science Abstracts  (1989+) Provides abstracts in English or French to articles selected from over 1,000 international journals.
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts  (1975+) Provides citations and abstracts in political science, including journal articles, books and book chapters, dissertations, and reviews
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences  (1951+) Provides bibliographic information from an international selection of publications in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology.
• PAIS International  (1915+) Provides citations to articles, books, reports, and select government documents on U.S. and international public policy issue. Generally considered to be a comprehensive index to policy literature.
• Armed Conflict Database   Provides figures and summary narratives on both international and internal armed conflicts in the world, whether dormant or active, since about 1960.
• SAePublications - South African Journals published online Access: Click on the SEARCH button under the user login. Select 'advanced search' on the top gray tool bar to search across all journal titles. Provides access to over 75 full text South African journals in the social sciences and humanities
• JSTOR full-text scholarly journals; last 3-5 years not available
• PolicyFile  (1990+)   Draws its content from public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations, and publishers. Covers all aspects of public policy

Newspaper Articles

• News: Proquest Newspapers Provides full text access to the New York Times (1980+) , the Wall Street Journal (1984+), and the Chicago Tribune (1985+)
• Lexis Nexis Academic Provides full text of many major national and regional newspapers
• Factiva Full-text of many major national and regional newspapers
• Newsbank Provides full-text of many major international, national and regional newspapers
• World News Connection Foreign News Alert Service from the U.S. Government. Compiled fromt housands of non-U.S. media sources, focusing especially on local media sources.
• allAfrica.com  (1997+) Provides access to the full text of over 120 African newspapers and magazines, including articles in French. Covers the entire African continent.

United Nations

The United Nations and Rwanda, 1993-1996 New York, NY : United Nations, Dept. of Public Information, c1996.
United Nations Collection (UN). Firestone Call Number: 96.I.20
Gives overview of UN involvement in and reproduces major UN documents pertaining to Rwanda

The United Nations and Mozambique, 1992-1995 New York, NY: United Nations, Dept. of Public Information, c1995.
United Nations Collection (UN). Firestone Call Number:  95.I.20
Gives overview of UN involvement in and reproduces major UN documents pertaining to Mozambique

Office of the High commissioner of Human Rights Use the search button on the right to identify reports on countries from several UN bodies

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
News, information, many statistics, and many online reports are available free in full-text from this United Nations regional organization. Great source for authoritative online economic information about Africa.

Web Sites

Index on Africa The Norwegian Council for Africa's  contains annotated links to over 4000 web sites on subject such as Development and Aid, Economy and Finance, Environment and Agriculture, Facts and Statistics, Health and Social Welfare, Human Rights, News and Media, Politics and Government, Conflict, and more.

African International Courts and Tribunals ( Duke University, New York University)
A reference to the work of these courts and tribunals for others studying the global phenomenon.

ReliefWeb Links to full-length reports on areas of the world affected by humanitarian "emergencies", and news from many areas of the world. See especially: Countries & Emergencies  (war, conflict, floods, drought, etc.).

African Human Rights Resource Center

South African Human Rights Commission

Human Rights Reports - U. S. Department of State . For the Human Rights Reports from the U. S. Department of State, click on the “Country Reports” link in the upper left. 

Human Rights Watch: Africa

University of Minnesota/Human Rights Library/Africa

Evaluating Web Resources

Harvard University Library http://hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/evaluatingweb/
Duke University Library http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/evaluating_web.htm

Citing Sources

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Google Search Tips: from the Google Search Guide:

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http://www.googleguide.com/cheatsheet.html

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