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Table of Contents

1) U.S. Governmental Resources

A) Governmental Accountability

B) The Legislative Branch

C) The Executive Branch

D) The Judicial Branch

E) General U.S. Governmental Resources

F) U.S. State & Municipal Governmental Resources

2) Canadian Governmental Resources

3) International Governmental Organizations

4) Humanitarian Organizations

5) Food for Thought

6) Human Rights

7) Terra Infirma

U.S. Governmental Resources

A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

-- James Madison, 1822

Governmental Accountability & Internal Watch-Dogs

• Government Accountability Office (GAO)
  1. Reports & Testimonies (updated daily)
  2. browse GAO Reports by date
  3. browse GAO Reports by topic
  4. browse GAO Reports by governmental agency
  5. past week's Reports & Testimonies

The Legislative Branch

• Congressional Internet Caucus
• House of Representatives
  • Issues Currently on the House Floor
  • Legislative Roll Call Votes
  • Representatives' Home Pages
• The United States Senate
  1. Directory of Senators, listed by Name
  2. Directory of Senators, listed by State
  3. Directory of Senators, listed by Party Affiliation
     1. Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
     2. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
  4. contact information for each Senator (includes email eddresses)
  5. Senatorial Committees & Sub-Committees
  6. Legislative Activity in the Senate
• The Congressional Record On-Line
• The C-SPAN Networks Web Site

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The Executive Branch

• The White House
  1. The Office of the President
     1. Saturday Radio Addresses
  2. The Office of the Vice President
  3. The White House's Briefing Room
     1. Latest Press Releases
     2. Latest Press Briefings
     3. Federal Statistics
  4. The White House Virtual Library (text-only version)
• The President's Cabinet
  1. List of Current Secretaries
• The Electoral College
  1. Procedural Guide to the Electoral College
  2. State Responsibilities & Instructions
  3. Frequently Asked Questions About the Electoral College
  4. The Electoral College's Basis in Law
  5. List of Electoral Votes Listed By State

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Executive Departments

• United States Department of Justice
  • Justice Department Gopher Server
    • Civil Rights Division
  • Department of Justice Topical Index
• The Department of Labor

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The Judicial Branch

The Supreme Court of the United States

1) Docket of the U.S. Supreme Court

2) Oral Arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court

3) Opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court

4) Orders & Journal of the U.S. Supreme Court

5) U.S. Supreme Court Rules

6) Case Handling Guidelines

7) Obtaining Information from the U.S. Supreme Court

United States Federal Judiciary

Note: This section is currently under construction--for information on legal and judicial entities and bodies of law, consult Caveat Lector's Legal Resources section, which includes:

1) Legal Indices

2) Electronic Law Libraries and Special Collections

3) International Law

4) United States Legislative & Legal Resources and Archives

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General U.S. Governmental Resources

• search all government sites with the GovBot Database of Government Web Sites
• FedWorld Home Page
• The United States Census
• Food and Drug Administration
  • FDA News
  • Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
  • AIDS and Other Special Health Issues
• Code of Federal Regulations
• searchable Code of Federal Regulations (USHR Internet Law Library)
• Federal Register, 1995 and 1996
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Government Links

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U.S. State and Municipal Governmental Resources

• State of Connecticut
• State of Florida
• State of New Jersey
• Texas State Government
  
  
• City.Net
• State Search Employment Services

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Canadian Governmental Resources

Intergovernmental On-Line Information Kiosk

Federal Government of Canada

Provincial and Territorial Governments of Canada

Municipal Governments of Canada

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International Governmental Organizations

The United Nations

UN Overview

Global Issues

United Nations News

UN Documents

UN Departments

UN Information Resources

UN Photos

UN Conferences

What's New on the UN Web

List of UN Peacekeeping missions

United Nations Documents, Conventions, and Resolutions

United Nations Information Servers

Keyword searching in General Assembly, ECOSOC and Security

The United Nations' Genocide Convention

The Electronic Embassy

Embassy Web/Gopher Sites

Embassies with Web sites

Searching the Electronic Embassy

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Humanitarian Organizations

• Amnesty International On-line
• United Nations' Conference on Disarmament
  • Annual Report
• Braille Without Borders: bringing practical assistance, life skills and training to blind citizens of underdeveloped countries
• InterAction
• International Rescue Committee, the leading non-sectarian, voluntary organization which provides relief, protection, and resettlement services for refugees and victims of oppression or violent conflict
• International Committee of the Red Cross
  • American Red Cross: World News
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent
  
  
• Africare
• CARE

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Food for Thought

• Center For World Indigenous Studies
• Fourth World Documentation Project
  1. UN documents related to Indigenous Peoples
• The Sovereign Nation of Hawai'i
  
  
• Native American Resources
• NativeWeb
• NativeNet
  1. NativeNet: Mailing List Archives
  2. NATIVE-L HyperArchive
  3. NAT-LANG HyperArchive
  4. NATCHAT HyperArchive
• Native American Historical Images on File
• The Native American Documents Project of California State University, San Marcos, is dedicated to making documents about the history of federal policy concerning native peoples readily available over the internet
  1. Allotment Data Collection
  2. Rogue River War and Siletz Reservation Collection
• Native American Resources on the Internet (compiled by Karen Strom)
• The Lacadon Maya: a web site dedicated to the culture, history, and survival of the Hach Winik--literally, "The True People"--of Chiapas, Mexico.
• Indian Pueblo Cultural Center

• Action Without Borders
• dDH, an acronym for "digital The Hague" (well, ok, actually, 'digitaal Den Haag') is an independent information and communication platform located in the Netherlands
• DICOMP: The Disabilities Industrial Complex
• Green Party
  • The Fallacy of the Wasted Vote
• Hunger Web
• International Forest Policy
• Sustainable Production and Consumption
  
  
• The The Progressive Directory
  1. PeaceNet
  2. EcoNet
  3. ConflictNet
  4. LaborNet
  5. WomensNet
  6. The Issues Page
  7. New and Featured Items
  8. Directory of Member Organizations
• International Environmental Law
• Votelink: "free voting and conferences on today's 'hot' issues"
• World Liberalism: an hyperindex
  1. Liberal International
  2. International Federation of Liberal and Radical Youth
  3. ELDR: European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party
  
  
  
• The Simon Wiesenthal Center
  1. the surveys contained in the SWC's WorldPoll are extremely speech-friendly
  2. CyberWatch
     • Hate on the Internet Survey
• Physicians for Global Survival is the Canadian affiliate of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
  1. Arms
  2. War
  3. Peace
  4. Health
  5. Human Dignity
  6. World Court Project
  7. Landmine Project
  8. Abolition 2000
  9. Hot Issues
  10. Memories
  11. Petitions
  12. Mail Letters
• Copyright Information from the Library of Congress
• VTW Copyright Resources
• CPSR: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
• Online free speech: What's it gonna be?
• ACLU v. Reno: Overview
  
  
• Business & Government Information Center
• International, Country, & Trade Information
• The Multinational Monitor
  1. searchable database of multinational companies
  
  
  
• Stockholm International Peace Reasearch Institute
  1. Project on the Effective Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention
• DemocracyNet is a project of the National Endowment for Democracy
• USIA Declassification Historical Information: a database describing USIA historical information which has been declassified under Executive Order 12950
• Ask Thomas Jefferson
• Constitution Society: a non-profit organization dedicated to research and public education on the principles of constitutional republican government

The Open Media Research Institute (OMRI), headquartered in the Czech Republic -- Prague, to be exact -- maintains an excellent database of objective Special Reports on emerging issues in the former Soviet Union, East-Central Europe, and Southeastern Europe... amongst the topics covered by OMRI Special Reports are:

1. Pursuing Balkan Peace
2. Russian Presidential Elections (1996)
3. Russian Parliamentary Elections
4. OMRI Document Index
5. Index to the OMRI Daily Digest

Russia Today Home Page

1. Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
   • Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty NewsLine
   • RFE/RL RealAudio Broadcast Studio

Resources Concerning the Former Yugoslavia

• Commission of Experts on the Former Yugoslavia
• The Protest of '96/'97 a site maintained by students at Belgrade University
• Protests in Serbia: Important Links (from dDH, Netherlands)
• Support for Independent Media in Ex-Yugoslavia (from Press Now, Netherlands)

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Human Rights

• Human Rights Web
• Minnesota Human Rights Library
• Project Diana, an International Human Rights Database
• War Crimes Tribunal Home Page
• The Documentation Center of Cambodia
• Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) maintains a website containing "Background Briefs"
  1. Background Briefs index
     1. Independence Issues in Chechnya (FCO Background Brief)
  2. What's New/In the News this month (FCO On-Line)

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Terra Infirma:
Unordered Links in an Ordered List

1. The North American Center for Emergency Communications
2. Humanitarian Eforts in the Bosnia
3. Bosnia HomePage at Caltech
4. NordNet's Bosnia HomePage
5. The Documentation Center of Cambodia
6. Program on Peacekeeping Policy at George Mason University
7. Civil War Information, Documents, and Archive
8. Ellen's Collection of Non-Profit Organizations
9. CIA World Factbook, 1995
10. Full Text of International Conventions and Other Multilateral Conventions
11. International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
12. The Action Coalition
13. Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
14. Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research
15. Commission on Global Governance
16. Global Democracy Network
17. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
18. International Institute for Sustainable Development
19. Nonproliferation and International Security
20. OneWorld Online
21. Morristown Virtual Green Home Page

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Terminal Index

1) return to Camera Obscura's front page

2) An American Exegesis

3) Blindness-Related Resources on the Web and Beyond

4) Caveat Lector

5) Hystery, Mistory, Prophecy

6) Mea Maxima Culpa

7) Read 'Em and Speak

8) Speech- and Text-Friendly Search Engine Query Forms

9) The Virtual Museum: text-based excursions to online exhibits

10) return to the top of Civitas

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