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Global development & human rights information, campaigns & news service. Searchable online issue database with 1000's of archived articles.

Newswire service covering all United Nations issues. Daily email news digests available. Archived resources.

A project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, this organization has many resources for all age groups, teachers and parents to help them explore issues around discrimination, tolerance, major events that change history, and action steps that can be taken.

This is a great site. I have been a member for many years. You can get daily updates on hate groups and what is being done about them. It has activities for teachers and ideas about events like the annual Mix it Up Day.

This innovative program combines the passion, connectivity, and resources of Generation Y with the solutions of grassroots social entrepreneurs around the world to create change on a global scale. Young people-anywhere in the United States-can start an NGC Team on their high school campus. Once formed, teams select one of NGC's global partner projects and set goals around three main objectives: 1) educate their community about the challenges faced by their partner project, 2) advocate on behalf of a pressing global issue, and 3) raise the financial resources necessary to effect real change.

Since 1991, Global Action Project (G.A.P.) has worked with young people, specifically those most affected by injustice, to build the knowledge, tools, and relationships needed to produce thought-provoking media on issues that affect them and their communities, and use their media for dialogue and to build community power.

TIGed provides rich, interactive learning experiences designed to improve students' global citizenship, critical thinking, and leadership skills, bringing the world to students and preparing students for the world. It provides an online community around global issues and problem solving as well as tools and resources for educators including step-by-step action planning guides for students around global service initiatives and global challenges.

When students are doing research on controversial topics, this page gives organized links to sites that espouse certain points of view.