Country Information Resources
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
