Internet Resources
Global Issues Links
www.newint.org This site from New Internationalist magazine is excellent if you are beginning to research a particular topic that relates to globalization. Whether it is AIDS, the WTO, or perspectives from citizens in the South, the New Internationalist has relevant articles. Use the search engine.
www.hrw.org This Human Rights Watch site is a good resource with information listed by theme-HIV, conflict, children's rights. Information is also listed by country.
www.globalissues.org This site gives extensive coverage to global issues. It is thorough, and a good site for students beginning extended research projects.
www.zmag.org The site offers extensive coverage of global issues, with a focus on global economics. It is complex-use it if you are ready to delve into complicated issues. It offers articles by Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky and many more.
www.opendemocracy.net This is a rare site: you will find readable and intelligent debate from all sides on globalization issues. Use the search engine to find articles on the topic you are researching.
The Media Awareness Network
Site has variety of activities/ideas around educating for media awareness, including Jo Cool This interactive online module takes students through twelve mock Web scenarios to test their savvy surfing skills - including a twenty-question online quiz that provides additional food for thought about the Web issues Jo has encountered. There's also an extensive Jo Cool or Jo Fool Teacher's Guide, with background information for teachers and questions and classroom activities for students about online issues such as marketing, privacy, safety, responsible Internet use and authenticating information. (Grades 6 - 8) young
Coffee
www.transfair.ca/tfc/ Information of the process of fair trade certification and the context for coffee, tea, chocolate, and sugar.
http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/topic/reform/index.html The definitive site for analysis of the IMF and the World Bank.
World Social Forum
An alternative to established global governance and financial institutions
AIDS, TB & Malaria
http://www.unaids.org/ This site is a good source of information about the global fight against AIDS.
http://www.staying-alive.org A partnership between MTV Networks International, YouthNet spearheaded by Family Health International, and the Kaiser Family Foundation. Additional partners include USAID, UNAIDS, The World Bank, and other organizations. Staying Alive will inform young people about the virus, promote safe lifestyle choices, provide information about local organizations and mobilize youth to overcome the stigma and discrimination surrounding HIV/AIDS and to fight for an end to the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Poverty soup
Campaign 2000 is a cross-Canada public education movement to build Canadians' awareness and support for the 1989 all-party House of Commons resolution to end child poverty by the year 2000.
http://www.ccsd.ca/pubs/2000/up/ Published in April 2000 by the Canadian Council on Social Development, this study uses the most recent statistics available to compare poverty rates among Canadian cities and provide a profile of Canada's urban poor.
http://incommon.web.ca/anglais/index.html This site advocates ending global poverty. A good site for researching poverty related issues.
http://www.jubilee2000uk.org/ A website dedicated to debt relief for poor countries, this site is useful if you want to learn more about third-world debt.
Agriculture
http://www.agr.gc.ca/misb/fsb/FSB2eng.html Information from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada on global food security.
Global Warming
www.climatechangesolutions.com This site details ways that individuals, families, schools and businesses to reduce their energy consumption.
Consumerism
www.adbusters.org Vancouver based anti-consumerist magazine.
World Trade Organization
http://www.wto.org/ News, background and other information from the World Trade Organization about its activities & policies.
Global Exchange is a non-profit research, education, and action center dedicated to promoting people-to-people ties around the world which strives to increase global awareness among the US public while building international partnerships around the world.
Sudan:
Amnesty International background information on oil in the Sudan. Amnesty International works worldwide to protect human rights.
Violence
http://www.edc.org/spotlight/schools/beyondblame.htm Activies re: Sept 11 crisis and relative justice and injustice.
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