Brookings Institution Foreign Policy Studies
A private, independent, nonprofit research organization.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Conducts programs of research, discussion, publication, and education in international affairs and U.S. foreign policy.

Foreign Policy Magazine

The Center for Reproductive Law & Policy, Inc.
The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting women's equality worldwide by guaranteeing reproductive rights as human rights.

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
A public policy institution dedicated to analysis and policy impact. It also covers key functional areas, such as international finance, the emerging markets, U.S. domestic and economic policy related to the Strengthening of America, and U.S. foreign policy and national security issues.

States of the Union Initiative (SUI)

CIA: Global Trends 2015: A Dialogue About the Future With Nongovernment Experts
Prepared under the direction of the National Intelligence Council (NIC) and published by the National Foreign Intelligence Board under the authority of the Director of Central Intelligence. The NIC, in close collaboration with US Government specialists and a wide range of experts outside the government, identified as major drivers and trends that will shape the world of 2015 the following: Demographics, Natural resources and environment, Science and technology, the global economy and globalization, National and international governance, Future conflict, and The role of the United States.

CIESIN: Information for a Changing World
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN, pronounced "season") was established in 1989 as a private, nonprofit corporation with members from leading universities and non-government research organizations. CIESIN provides information to help scientists, decision-makers, and the public better understand their changing world and specializes in global and regional network development, science data management, decision support, and training, education and technical consultation services.

Commonwealth Institute: Project on Defense Alternatives
Seeks to adapt security policy to the challenges and opportunities of the post-Cold War era.

Population Action International
An organization that performs population policy research.

Population Reference Bureau
Providing timely and objective information on population. Some of their publications are available for reading online. Others just for purchase.

Commission on Global Governance
A group of 28 leaders from every region of the world who have looked for ways in which our global community can better manage its affairs, paying particular attention to the urgent need to reform the United Nations.

Geneva International Forum
A centre of international organizations, Geneva today hosts some 52 United Nations Organizations, 15 United Nations Agencies, 9 Inter-Governmental Organizations, 6 Organizations with Special Status, and 158 Non-Governmental Organizations, some 135 Permanent missions and more than 30 local and regional institutions which have an activity with a pronounced international scope.

EUROPA (European Union)
The European Union of 15 member countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
An organization of 16 Countries that banded together during the cold war to oppose the threat of Communism: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States. Now including the Eastern European countries of the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland.

Organization of American States (OAS)
The international organization of countries in the American Hemisphere whose goal is to achieve an order of peace and justice, to promote their solidarity, to strengthen their collaboration, and to defend their sovereignty, their territorial integrity, and their independence. Within the United Nations, the Organization of American States is a regional agency.

The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is an inter-governmental organization group of fifty-six Muslim countries who have banded together in 1969 to safeguard the interest and ensure the progress and well-being of their peoples and those of other Muslims throughout the world.

United Nations
Includes information about the United Nations, a section for kids (cyberschoolbus), live webcasts, UN News, list of member states.

UNICEF: United Nations Children's Fund
Includes an annual report on the State of the World's Children.
Websites dealing with Child Labor
Voices of Youth Home Page
An invitation for children to discuss with UNICEF, "how this world can become a place where the rights of every child are protected, that is, the right to live in peace, to have decent shelter, to be healthy and well-nourished, to have clean water, to play, to go to school, and to be protected from violence, abuse and exploitation."

UNIFEM: United Nations Development Fund for Women
Promotes women's empowerment and gender equality. It works to ensure the participation of women in all levels of development planning and practice, and acts as a catalyst within the UN system, supporting efforts that link the needs and concerns of women to all critical issues on the national, regional and global agendas.

United Nations Population Fund
Each year they publish a State of World Population.

United Nations Population Information Network (POPIN)
A guide to population information on UN system web sites. Populations trends, dictionary of population terminology, worldwide directory of population institutions.

Guidestar - National Database of Nonprofit Organizations
Guidestar is a guide for donors, nonprofits and grantmakers. It is run by the Philanthropic Research, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. There are very detailed reports on many nonprofits. The reports often include scanned copies of the organization's IRS Form 990 (Their financial disclosure document). Access is currently free for the public, although access to detailed information requires user registration.

The following hotlinks will link you to primarily International and Economic organizations.