Country information resources

Photograph of Kabul in 1996, the most devastated capital city in the world. Afghanistan has experienced waves of conflict and forced migration since 1979, resulting in one of the world’s largest refugee populations and Kabul being the most devastated capital city in the world (1996). © UNHCR/B. Press

These titles serve as authoritative sources for users undertaking country-related research online. Included are yearbooks, surveys, statistical compilations and other reference texts that provide overviews of demographic, historical and other background information on a country-by-country basis.

Documents

Selected full-text documents (for more, search in the Digital Library)

• For reports of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF), go to the Digital Library advanced search page.

Web Resources

Selected web-based information resources, inlcuding surveys of humanitarian developments, conflicts, human rights violations, refugee/asylum seeker/IDP situations, etc. (For further resources, search the FMO website).

Forced migration-related

• Amnesty International annual reports (Amnesty International)
• The Armed Conflicts Report (Project Ploughshares)
• Child Soldiers Global Reports (Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers)
• Countries & Emergencies (ReliefWeb)
• Countries/Territories (AlertNet)
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (U.S. Department of State)
• ecoi.net: European country of origin information network (Accord, GEA2000, Informationsverbund Asyl)
• ECRE Country Reports (ECRE)
• For the Record: The European Human Rights System = Bilan: le système européen des droits humains (Human Rights Internet)
• For the Record: The United Nations Human Rights System = Bilan des droits de la personne: le système de Nations Unies (Human Rights Internet)
• Global Forced Eviction Surveys (COHRE Library)
• Human Rights in the OSCE Region: the Balkans, the Caucasus, Europe, Central Asia and North America (International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights)
• Human Rights Watch World Reports (Human Rights Watch)
• IDP Database (IDMC)
• If Not Now, When? Addressing Gender-based Violence in Refugee, Internally Displaced, and Post-conflict Settings. A Global Overview (Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium)
• Peace and Conflict Series (Integrated Network for Societal Conflict Research)
• Reports and Investigations (Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children)
• The State of Food Insecurity in the World (FAO)
• The State of the World's Children (UNICEF)
• The State of the World's Refugees (UNHCR)
• Statistical Yearbooks (UNHCR)
• World Disasters Report (IFRC)
• World Refugee Survey (U.S. Committee for Refugees)

General

• Country Briefings (The Economist Group)
• Country Profiles (BBC)
• Country profiles: a concise profile of countries featured in the NI magazine (New Internationalist)
• Country Studies/Area Handbooks (Library of Congress)
• Ethnologue: Languages of the World (SIL International)
• FIRST - Facts on international relations and security trends (SIPRI)
• Guía del Mundo (Instituto del Tercer Mundo)
• Human Development Reports (UNDP)
• InfoNation (UN)
• Key Indicators of Developing Asian and Pacific Countries (Asian Development Bank)
• Small Arms Survey Yearbook (Graduate Institute of International Studies. Small Arms Survey)
• World Development Reports (World Bank)
• World Factbook (CIA)

Regional Research Guides

• Afghanistan
• Algeria
• Angola
• Azerbaijan
• Burma
• Colombia
• Egypt
• Ethiopia
• Georgia
• Guatemala
• Iraq
• Liberia
• Palestinian refugees in Egypt
• Palestinian refugees in Jordan
• Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
• Palestinian refugees in Syria
• Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
• Rwanda
• Somalia
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• Thailand
• Western Sahara

Regional Resource Summaries

• Afghanistan
• Africa
• Azerbaijan
• Colombia
• Ethiopia
• Georgia
• Great Lakes region (Burundi, DRC & Rwanda)
• Iraq
• Rwanda
• Sudan
• Western Sahara