Background information and history of the United Nations, together with Charters and documents. Who’s who section. List of member states with dates of joining. Declaration of Human Rights. International Law.
This site is updated daily.
Compassion in World Farming
Campaigning to end the factory farming of animals and long distance transport through hard-hitting political lobbying, investigations and high profile campaigns.
Fact sheets and other publications can be downloaded from this site. Topics include: Antibiotics in Farm Animals; Live Exports; Genetic Engineering and Fur Farming.
Really does tell you how just about anything and everything works. Divided into sections: computer; auto; electronics; science; home; entertainment; money; travel and people.
FreeFoto.com is the largest collections of free photographs for private non-commercial use on the Internet.
The comprehensive, yet easy to navigate site features 50 main sections with over 1600 sub headings.
The photographs are free to private non-commercial users and for sale to other users. FreeFoto.com contains over 40,000 images with new pictures being added every week.
http://www.ancientcivilizations.co.uk/
Ancient civilisations of
Excellent search engine for newspaper stories & current affairs.
http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page1.asp
This site provides a huge amount of information about the role and history of the prime minister’s office. Updated regularly. Database of previous prime ministers, so good historical views.
This is a complete list of all the countries, territories
and sub-national regions covered by the database. There are over 260 pages on countries
and international organisations. Each page contains basic information on the
country, including its formal name, capital city, area, population, currency,
languages, and religions. The flags include the national and state flags,
ensigns, and sub-national flags. Where countries have changed their flags in
the last few years the old flag is also shown.
The Flag
Institute is one of the world's main research and documentation
centres for flags and vexillology.
It collects and provides all kind of flag information, from past and present,
from all over the world.
Another site that exists to sell flags but is very useful for art work, geography etc. All flags can be copied to word.
http://www.womenandequalityunit.gov.uk/
The Government has
a vision for a modern
The Ministers for Women, supported by the Women and Equality Unit, are
working to make this vision a reality.
We are working to reduce the pay gap between men's and women's earnings.
We are helping more and more women become involved in public life.
We are promoting equal job opportunities for women.
We are ensuring that domestic violence will never be tolerated, excused or ignored.
More people than ever are balancing their working and home lives following the introduction of flexible working practices.
We are tackling all forms of discrimination, whether based on gender, sexual orientation or race.
We are ensuring that affordable, accessible, quality childcare is available in every neighbourhood.
We are ensuring that equality, opportunity and diversity are integrated, permanently, into all levels of society.
GM Crops and Food, Human Genetics, GM Animals, Biological Weapons.
Use this site to search their catalogues, view exhibitions
and link to information resources worldwide. The British Library is the
http://www.guardiancentury.co.uk/
Just select the decade required. The site will then select the major events of those times including significant figures, the space race, conflicts, fashion, transport, sport, medicine and interesting events.
http://www.panda.org/index.cfm
WWF - The Conservation Organisation. Details of the work the organisation does.