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Statistics and census data, from the government of Colombia

Statistics and census data, from the government of Nicaragua

Lists websites of U.S. Embassies, Consulates, Diplomatic Missions, and Offices Providing Consular Services

World Factbook provides basic CIA-gathered intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.

The annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, also known as the Human Rights Reports, cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international agreements.

This is an archived website with older reports.

The Global Migration Data Portal is managed by the Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), part of the United Nations System. The Portal aims to serve as a unique access point to timely, comprehensive migration statistics and reliable information about migration data globally. The site is designed to help policy makers, national statistics officers, journalists and the general public interested in the field of migration to navigate the increasingly complex landscape of international migration data, currently scattered across different organisations and agencies.

The OAS is the world’s oldest regional organization. It brings together all 35 independent states of the Americas and constitutes the main political, juridical, and social governmental forum in the Hemisphere.

Brings together statistical time series for countries from around the world covering a wide range of economic and socio-demographic topics. Descriptions of the international sources and definitions used in compiling the data are included.

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN Human Rights) is the leading UN entity on human rights.

A thorough guide, with links to full-text documents, to major UN human rights material.

The DataBank is a compilation of a number of World Bank data products, the most significant one being World Development Indicators. It includes time series data from as early as 1960.

Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 10 million people in over 150 countries and territories who campaign to end abuses of human rights.

Human Rights Watch investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world.

Immigration Equality promotes justice and equality for LGBTQ and HIV-positive immigrants through direct legal services, policy advocacy, and impact litigation.

InSight Crime is a think tank and media organization that seeks to deepen and inform the debate about organized crime and citizen security in the Americas by providing regular reporting, analysis, data, investigation, and policy suggestions on how to tackle the multiple challenges they present.

The LAWG mission is to ensure that U.S. policies advance human rights, peace, and social, environmental, and economic justice in Latin America and the Caribbean. To achieve this mission, they work with coalition partners and allied organizations to educate policymakers and the public and to mobilize a broad, diverse, and powerful grassroots base that can influence U.S. policymakers to achieve change.

Minority Rights Group International (MRG) campaigns worldwide with almost 300 partners in 60 countries to ensure that disadvantaged minorities and indigenous peoples, often the poorest of the poor, can make their voices heard.

Developed by the GODORT, the Government Documents Round Table of the American Library Association, this searches content from websites of a growing list of NGO's around the world. Sites were chosen based on their consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and also collated from University of Minnesota Human Rights Library, Duke University Libraries' NGO Research Guide, and the World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (WANGO)

NACLA is an independent, nonprofit organization founded in 1966 to examine and critique U.S. imperialism and political, economic, and military intervention in the Western hemisphere. For more than 50 years, NACLA has been a leading source of English-language research and analysis on Latin America and the Caribbean.

From World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (WANGO)

WOLA is a leading research and advocacy organization advancing human rights in the Americas.

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is a disaggregated data collection, analysis, and crisis mapping project. ACLED collects information on the dates, actors, locations, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events around the world. The ACLED team conducts analysis to describe, explore, and test conflict scenarios, and makes both data and analysis open for free use by the public.

This tool assesses the level of criminality and resilience to organized crime for 193 countries along three key pillars – criminal markets, criminal actors and resilience. It is funded in part by a grant from the United States Department of State.

Latinobarómetro is an annual public opinion survey that involves some 19,000 interviews in 18 Latin American countries, representing more than 400 million inhabitants.

International & U.S. immigration statistics from the Migration Policy Institute, independent think tank in Washington, DC.