In recognition of our increasingly crucial role in addressing global challenges like universal education and healthcare, employment, and poverty reduction, the World Bank's annual and highly influential report on development focuses for the first time on
Sponsored by Kentucky Educational Television, this site supports an online course in the study of Latin and offers additional resources on Roman culture.
RAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills appropriate for high school students. This Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for library media
Oxfam International is a confederation of 12 organizations working together with over 3,000 partners in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice. With many of the causes of poverty global in nature, the 12 affi
The Latin America Working Group is one of the nation's longest standing coalitions dedicated to foreign policy. The Latin America Working Group and its sister organization, the Latin America Working Group Education Fund, carry out the coalition's mission
Pax Warrior - The Experience : our introductory module - weaves the tragic story of the UN experience in Rwanda placing the user, first person, in the shoes of a UN Commander trying to maintain peace.
What are the terrible choices to be made? What would
One of the largest and best Directory of Catholic websites is, without a doubt, Gerald Darring's Theology Library. With over 5000 links, more than 1000 of which focus on social justice issues, this mega site is definitely worth investigating. One of the 1
The health effects of global warming vary markedly at the regional scale. This map shows the estimated numbers of deaths per million people that could be attributed to global climate change in the year 2000.
The International Marianist Family is an association of Roman Catholic lay and religious men and women who take Mary, the mother of Jesus, as their model for discipleship in the Church and the world. The Marianists have worked for social justice in many
This collection of activities can help you explore the words used in the United States to label ethnic groups, women and sexual minorities and to examine the ways in which these words reveal our nation's social landscape.
