Global

Freedom House

Freedom House, a non-profit, nonpartisan organization, is a clear voice for democracy and freedom around the world. Through a vast array of international programs and publications, Freedom House is working to advance the remarkable worldwide expansion of political and economic freedom.

http://www.freedomhouse.org

Freedom House also provides an annual survey of political rights and civil liberties in countries throughout the world entitled Freedom in the World.

http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=276

Democracy Web

This is an interactive world map and online study guide for use by teachers, professors, and students.

http://www.democracyweb.org/

World Population

This US Census Bureau site offers a world population estimate and monthly word population figures.

http://2010.census.gov/2010census/

Europe

Council of Europe

Founded on May 5, 1949, the Council of Europe seeks to develop throughout Europe common and democratic principles based on the European Convention on Human Rights and other reference texts on the protection of individuals. The Council follows the values of human rights, democracy, and rule of law to find shared solutions to major problems.

http://www.coe.int/

European Union

With 27 member countries and a population of nearly half a billion, the European Union covers a large part of Europe. Since its creation, it has worked to bring prosperity and stability to its citizens. Its policies and actions affect us all directly and indirectly.

http://www.eurunion.org/eu/


Hungary

Quick Facts About Hungary


Romania

Quick Facts About Romania

This site offers a wide range of information on the history, government and politics, counties, geography, economy, demographics, and culture of Romania. There is also a wonderful array of pictures to view.

http://www.romaniagovernment.com/

This site includes information and photos of the Romania government officials, including the Prime Minister and the Cabinet members.

http://www.gov.ro/cabinet__c64l2p1.html


Latin America

Panama

Quick Facts About Panama

Quick Facts About Peru

This site offers a wealth of information the country of Peru.

http://www.peru.gob.pe/

This site offers information about the Congress of the Republic of Peru.

http://www.peru.gob.pe/frame.asp?dsc_url_web=http%3A//www.congreso.gob.pe/

This site explores the judicial branch in Peru.

http://www.peru.gob.pe/frame.asp?dsc_url_web=http%3A//www.pj.gob.pe/


United States

Quick Facts About the United States

This site offers resources to learn about United States government and services.

http://www.usa.gov/

This site provides a diagram of the branches of government in the US and an index of US government departments and agencies.

http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/federal.shtml

This site gives the resident population of the United States according to the US Bureau of the Census.

http://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html


State Information

This site provides links to information about each of the states in the US.

http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/State_and_Territories.shtml

This database contains information gleaned from the home pages and websites of the fifty state legislatures, the District of Columbia and the Territories. You can select to view specific website content material from all states, one state, or a selected list of states.

http://www.ncsl.org/public/leglinks.cfm

This link contains a directory of state court sites.

http://www.statelocalgov.net/50states-courts.cfm

This site offers links to the contact information of each state governor.

http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Governors.shtml

This site provides links to various local government sites.

http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Local.shtml

This site provides links to various sites containing state and local level statistics.

http://www.usa.gov/Government/State_Local/Statistics.shtml

This US Government Documents website offers guides to materials online in reference to US Federal Government Documents, International Documents, and State and Local Documents.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/usgd/guides.html

The Library of Congress offers links to Congressional information from official and non-official sources.

http://thomas.loc.gov/links/


Florida

This site offers information about Florida's government and various resources.

http://www.myflorida.com/

This is the link to the newly redisgned Florida House of Representatives website.

http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/