Government Publications

Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)

Government Publications> Non-Governmental Agencies



United Nations - See our separate United Nations page.

Non-governmental Organizations Research Guide
"Although the number of existing NGOsis huge, those that have easily accessible information are far fewer. We have compiled an extensive but by no means exhaustive database of some of the larger and more influential NGOs operating internationally."
By Catherine Shreve, Perkins Library Duke University

Agricultural Market Access Database (AMAD)
"AMAD results from a co-operative effort by Agriculture and AgriFood Canada, EU Commission - Agriculture Directorate-General, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, The World Bank, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, United States Department of Agriculture - Economic Research Service."

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)

  • APEC Emerging Infections Network (APEC EINet)
    "...dedicated to providing timely information on issues of emerging infectious diseases, enabling better collaboration by policymakers, health officials and researchers throughout the Pacific Rim."

Bank for International Settlements

  • Publications
  • BIS Review
    Bank for International Settlements
    "A collection of important articles and speeches by senior central bankers."

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM)

Clinton Foundation
Programs: HIV/AIDS Initiative ; Clinton Global Initiative ; Clinton Climate Initiative ; Healthier Generation.

Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)
 "...official home page of the Free Trade Area of the Americas process or FTAA. This site follows the process initiated in the 1994 Summit of the Americas to integrate the economies of the Western Hemisphere into a single free trade arrangement...maintained by the Tripartite Committee, which consists of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on behalf of the member governments of the countries participating in the Free Trade Area of the Americas."

Global Climate Change Briefing Book - (dead link)
"This Briefing Book was compiled by the Congressional Research Service, a branch of the Library of Congress providing nonpartisan research reports to members of the House and Senate."
Congressional Research Service

Hague Conference on Private International Law

  • Publications - (dead link)

Independent International Commission on Kosovo

International Child Abduction Database (INCADAT) - (dead link) (English or French)
Based on the Hague Convention No. 28.

International Court of Justice

  • Unpublished Pleadings - (dead link) "The written and oral pleadings of the cases listed below are currently being prepared for printed publication. To make them available to the general public they are nowpublished on the ICJ website as electronic documents in a early, not corrected version. Most documents are PDF files..."

International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)

International Council for Science (ICSU)
"...is a non-governmental organization representing a global membership that includes both national scientific bodies and international scientific unions."

International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
"...is an international non-governmental organization of professionals, dedicated to the conservation of the world's historic monuments and sites."

International Labour Organization (ILO)

  • ILO Databases - (dead link)
    Areas include: Country and Regional Info ; ILO Publications ; Labour Administration ; Labour Statistics ; Legal Info ; Occupational Safety ; Social Security ; Terminology ; Vocational Training and Rehabilitation ; World of Work.
    • ILOLEX - Database of International Labour Standards - (dead link)
      "...is a trilingual database containing ILO Conventions and Recommendations, ratification information, comments of the Committee of Experts and the Committee on Freedom of Association, representations, complaints, interpretations, General Surveys, and numerous related documents.
    • NATLEX Database
      "...is a continuously-updated database containing references to over 55,000 national laws on labour, social security, and related human rights, and over 300 laws in full text. Records and texts in NATLEX are in either English, French, or Spanish
  • Committee of Donor Agencies for Small Enterprise Development
  • Conditions of Work
    "...encourages and assists governments, employers' and workers' organizations to adopt policies and practices aimed at the progressive improvement of conditions of work and respect for workers' dignity. Some of the results of our work, standard-setting, research, advocacy, training and technical cooperation, are found in these pages."
  • Employment-Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP)
    "...concerned with developing coherent policy packages that combine investments targeted at the needs of the poor with appropriate social policies. This is the key to sustainable employment creation and lasting impact on poverty reduction."
  • Executive Summary: "Your Voice at Work."
     "...the first Global Report to be released under the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. It examines trends in relation to respect shown for freedom of association and collective bargaining rights around the globe."
    Released 05/25/00
  • Government and Labour Law and Administration (GLLAD) - (dead link)
  • "HIV/AIDS: A Threat to Work, Productivity, and Development" - (dead link) [.pdf]
  • International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre
  • International Labour Organization Central Library
    • Library and Information Services
    • A Guide to Sources of Labour Information - (dead link) Manual for libraries and information centres
      "The guide identifies core information resources in the field of labour, presents tools for the selection of useful material and gives details on how to obtain these core publications. It is a practical aid for ensuring that your library or information centre has the most important documents for your users...Core resources include ILO material, publications from international organisations, national publications, general reference works and periodicals."
  • Statistical Information & Monitoring Programme on Child Labour (SIMPOC)
     "SIMPOC aims to assist individual countries in generating comprehensive quantitative and qualitative data on child labour, at the national level..."
  • World Employment Report
    Life at Work in the Information Economy

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

  • Publications
  • Working Papers
  • General Data Dissemination System (GDDS)
    "The GDDS framework is built around four dimensions - data characteristics, quality, access, and integrity - and is intended to provide guidance for the overall development of economic, financial, and socio-demographic data. The framework takes into account, across the broad range of countries, the diversity of their economies and the developmental requirements of many of their statistical systems."

International Victimology Website (IVW)
 "a resource for all those interested in improving justice for victims of crime and abuse of power. Through IVW, the UN Center for International Crime Prevention, the Research and Documentation Center of the Netherlands Ministry of Justice and the World Society of Victimology aim to promote the UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power."

  • Victimology Research Database - (dead link)
  • Victim Services and Victimization Prevention Database - (dead link)

Mercosur Organization

NAFTA Secretariat - (dead link)

North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - (dead link)

  • Biotech Database - (dead link)
  • Economics Department Working Papers - (dead link)
  • Education, Employment, Labour, and Social Affairs - (dead link)
    • Education and Skills - (dead link)
      • Education Indicators - (dead link)
  • Financial, Fiscal and Enterprise Affairs - (dead link)
    • Competition Law and Policy - (dead link) Sections include: Council Recommendations ; Committee Reports ; Best Practice Roundtables ; OECD Publications ; Speeches ; Annual Reports by Country ; Events.
    • Taxation and Fiscal Affairs - (dead link)
      • Tax Links - (dead link)
      • Taxations Aspects of Electronic Commerce - (dead link) Publication of reports and technical papers
        "This page brings together all the key documents to emerge from that work programme - on international direct tax issues, on consumption tax issues, and on tax administration issues. Several documents are being released with a specific invitation for public comment. Others are posted here for information, so as to provide an overview of the full span of the OECD's work on the various taxation issues.
  • Food, Agriculture & Fisheries - (dead link)
  • The Harmonization of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology - (dead link)
    • BioTrack Online - (dead link) "...the Web site of OECDís Programme on the Harmonization of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology ... focuses on information related to the regulatory oversight of products of biotechnology which is used by governments, industry and other stakeholders."
    • Consensus Documents - (dead link)
  • International Regulations Database - (dead link)"The OECD International Regulation Database is a comprehensive and internationally-comparable set of information about the state of regulation and market structures in OECD countries. For each Member country, it contains over 1100 observations, both quantitative and qualitative."
  • Maintaining Prosperity in an Ageing Society - (dead link)"This internet site also provides links to many of the analytic papers that were developed throughout the work that led up to Maintaining Prosperity in an Ageing society. In addition to technical working papers per se, the site also contains links to related work that influenced Maintaining Prosperity."
  • Policy Briefs - (dead link)

Organization of American States

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

The Sphere Project

Summit of the Americas Information Network

Transparency International
The Global Coalition Against Corruption
"Our "On-line Source for Information and Research of Integrity Systems" OSIRIS is one of the most comprehensive databases on corruption and governance. It offers a fully searchable bibliography of some 15,000 documents..The SIGMA/TI Anti-Corruption Directory is an in-depth reference guide to multinational programmes supporting anti-corruption efforts in central and eastern European countries (CEECs)."

United Nations - See the separate United Nations page.

World Bank Group

World Food Programme - Afghanistan

World Food Programme (WFP)

World Food Programme (WFP) - Iraq Crisis
"Updates and background information on WFP's humanitarian operations in the Iraqi region: includes daily press briefings, latest galleries, regional contacts and country briefs.

  • Iraq-Africa: Double Standards? - (dead link) (7 April 2003) [.pdf]
    "In a statement to the UN Security Council, James Morris warns against the danger of the Iraq conflict diverting funds from other regions in peril - especially Africa."

World Health Organization

  • World Health Report
  • SE Asia Earthquake and Tsunamis
    Sections include: Daily Updates ; Situation Reports ; WHO Strategy [First 100 Days ; Protecting Health] ; Appeal Documents ; Fact Sheets ; Guidelines ; Countries Affected ; Other Resources.
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
    "This web page has been created to provide the public and professionals information about Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The site will be updated daily to ensure that the most current information is available."
    Includes: WHO Guidelines/Recommendations/Descriptions ; WHO Collaborative Networks ; Travel ; Media ; Other Information Resources.
  • Health Situation in Iraq
    Includes daily briefings, media reports, and related links.
    • Iraq Conflict: Potential Impact on Health (March 2003)
      "Compilation of health information from sources including the Iraqi Ministry of Health, WHO and other UN agencies."
    • Country Profile - Iraq - (dead link)
  • Emergency and Humanitarian Action
  • Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever in Gabon - Update - (dead link) (11 December 2001)
    World Health Organization report
  • Library & Information Networks for Knowledge - (dead link)

    • Library Database (WHOLIS) - (dead link)
      "WHOLIS indexes all WHO publications from 1948 onwards and articles from WHO-produced journals and technical documents from 1985 to the present. An on-site card catalogue provides access to the pre-1974 technical documents."

    • Historical Collections
      • League of Nations Malaria Documents - (dead link)
        "The following is an extract from the League of Nations: Ten Years of World Cooperation Geneva. League of Nations Publication, 1931"
      • Rare Books on Plague, Smallpox and Epidemiology - (dead link)
        "Materials covering smallpox, malaria and other diseases prevalent at the beginning of the XX century, are also included. Our oldest book on plague dates from 1507 while our oldest treatise on epidemiology was published in 1518."
  • Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (CMH)
  • Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response (CSR) - (dead link)
    • Responding to the deliberate use of biological agents and and chemicals as weapons - (dead link)
    • Disease Outbreak News
    • Haemorrhagic Fevers - Ebola - (dead link)
      • Ebola: The Virus and the Disease - (dead link)
        A special supplement of The Journal of Infectious Diseases (Vol. 79, Supplement 1, February 1999) sponsored by WHO and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
        "This is one of the single most comprehensive current publications about Ebola haemorrhagic fever. As ebola epidemics are severe, yet occur infrequently there are only limited opportunities to gain new insight into the epidemiology and clinical picture of the disease. The supplement is a concise source of available information, identifies remaining gaps in knowledge and puts Ebola epidemics into an understandable public health context."
      • Ebola Virus Haemorrhagic Fever
        "
      • edited by SR Pattyn contains the Proceedings of an International Colloquium on Ebola Virus Infection and other Haemorrhagic Fevers held in Antwerp, Belgium, 6-8 December 1977.
      • Ebola Fact Sheet
      • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
        "This web page has been created to provide the public and professionals information about Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The site will be updated daily to ensure that the most current information is available."
        Includes: WHO Guidelines/Recommendations/Descriptions ; WHO Collaborative Networks ; Travel ; Media ; Other Information Resources.
    • Media Center
    • International Digest of Health Legislation (IDHL) - (dead link)
      "...contains a selection of national and international health legislation. Texts of legislation are summarized in English or mentioned by their title. Where possible, links are provided to other websites that contain full texts of the legislation in question.
    • Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
    • "Tobacco Company Strategies to Undermine Tobacco Control Activities at the World Health Organization." - (dead link) (August 2000)[.pdf]
    • World Directory of Medical Schools - (dead link)
    • Virtual Disaster Library
      "The Virtual Disaster Library was developed in November 1999, by PAHO/WHO (Pan American Health Organization / Regional Office of the World Health Organization). It contains 250 publications (25,000 pages) of experiences, ideas and solutions to advance the cause of disaster reduction."

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

  • Intellectual Property Digital Library


  • "...provides access to various intellectual property data collections currently hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization. These collections include Madrid, PCT and JOPAL (non-patent reference) data and support fully searchable information retrieval and display by users on demand. Access to the Digital Library is available to the general public free-of-charge. The services are operational and are updated on a daily, weekly and monthly basis respectively."

  • WIPO Guide to Intellectual Property Worldwide

  • "The profiles include basic legislation, membership of international treaties, administrative structures, governmental and non-governmental bodies for information and enforcement, educational institutions and industrial property statistics; useful contact addresses are provided for readers needing further information."
  • WIPO Magazine - (dead link)
  • Library - (dead link)

World Trade Organization (WTO)



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