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  • Academic Discourse: Feminist Theory

    Links to overviews and essays dealing with feminist theory.

  • Addiction Search

    Addiction Search is a searchable directory of links relating to substance abuse.

  • AdvocateWeb: Helping Overcome Professional Exploitation

    Advocate Web is a non-profit organization providing support to people who have suffered sexual exploitation, harassment, or abuse by a helping professional or someone in a position of authority.

  • Alternatives to Marriage Project

    AtMP is a "non-profit organization advocating for equality and fairness for unmarried people, including people who choose not to marry, cannot marry, or live together before marriage."

  • American Humane

    American Humane provides general information, recent data and statistics, policy statements, and general guidelines for ensuring the safety and well-being of children and families.

  • American Sociological Association

    Broad coverage of the sociology field in the United States, including employment, funding, conferences, publishing, research, and institutions.

  • Amnesty International, Children's Human Rights

    Guided by the framework of the Convention on the Rights of the Child Treaty, AI seeks to develop its work on children around three themes: juvenile justice, children in armed conflict, and children in the community and family.

  • Birth Control Watch

    "Birth Control Watch wants to know whether President Bush supports women's access to birth control" and demands answers "on behalf of the 95% of Americans who will use birth control..."

  • CATW - Coalition Against Trafficking in Women

    CATW is a non-governmental organization that works internationally to combat sexual exploitation in all forms, especially prostitution, and trafficking in women and children.

  • Child Welfare League of America

    Founded in 1920, CWLA is "the oldest and largest national nonprofity organization developing and promoting policies and programs to protect America's children and strengthen America's families. CWLA's 1,000 plus public and private nonprofit member agencies serve 3 million abused and neglected children and their families each year."

  • City Harvest

    City Harvest is a non-profit organization committed to feeding hungry people in New York City using a variety of innovative, practical, and cost-effective methods.

  • Civilrights.org, the Progressive Coalition for Equal Opportunity and Justice

    Civilrights.org serves as the site of record for relevant and up-to-the-minute civil rights news and information.

  • Coalition for the Homeless

    The Coalition for the Homeless, the nation's oldest and most progressive organization, helps homeless men, women and children by providing immediate and critical relief.

  • Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers

    CSC's mission is "to prevent the recruitment and use of children as soldiers, to secure their demobilisation, and to ensure their rehabilitation and reintegration into society."

  • Court TV's Crime Library of Criminal Minds and Methods

    This is a collection of over 500 non-fiction feature stories on major crimes, criminals, trials, forensics, and criminal profiling. Also included are award-winning works of short fiction by prominent writers.

  • Equality Now

    "Equality Now works to end violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world through the mobilization of public pressure."

  • Escaping Hades

    Escaping Hades, a rape and sexual abuse survivor's site, provides a forum for the survivors of rape, sexual abuse, and incest.

  • EServer: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory

    Provides links to hundreds of articles and sites.

  • Family Violence Prevention Fund

    Family Violence Prevention Fund is working to build a grassroots movement to end abuse in the United States and around the world, pioneering innovative and effective prevention strategies, fighting daily for women, children, immigrants, and low income workers, and supporting non-governmental organizations worldwide.

  • FBI Civil Rights Program

    The FBI has been investigating hate crimes since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This site contains FBI history, statistics, and initiatives, as they relate to the investigation of hate crimes.

  • Feminism and Sexuality

    The Center for Digital Discourse and Culture's bibliography of feminist scholarly works on sexuality.

  • Feminist Majority Foundation Online

    The Feminist Majority Foundation Online utilizes research and action to empower women economically, socially, and politically.

  • Feminist Theory Website

    This academically-oriented site is presented in English as well as French and Spanish, and includes links to many feminist topics.

  • Freedom to Marry

    Freedom to Marry is "the gay and non-gay partnership working to win marriage equality nationwide."

  • Gender and Society

    Links to materials relating to issues and debates in gender studies.

  • History of the FBI

    The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, from 1908 to the present.

  • Homelessness-HUD

    This site provides research, fact sheets, and links to government and private organizations.

  • IDEA, a journal of social issues

    IDEA is an electronic journal created for the exchange of ideas related, mainly, to cults, mass movements, autocratic power, war, genocide, holocaust, and murder.

  • IHomeless People's Network Discussion List

    An e-mail discussion list spanning three continents and a range of worldviews and backgrounds. While some posts are personal, most focus on news, views and solutions to homelessness.

  • Illuminations: The Critical Theory Website

    This website provides a collection of articles, excerpts, and chapters from many contemporary writers of and about Critical Theory, including Adorno, Benjamin, Fromm, Horkheimer, Habermas, and Marcuse.

  • International Sociological Association

    Access to the association's activities and good range of links to sociology resources online.

  • Leave My Child Alone!

    This site is part of the Leave My Child Alone! campaign launched by Mainstreet Moms Operation Blue, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, and Working Assets.

  • Marxist/Materialist Feminism

    The Center for Digital Discourse and Culture provides a brief essay and bibliography on the connection between Marxism/materialism and feminism.

  • Moderation Management

    MM is a behavioral change program and national support group network for people who are concerned about their drinking and desire to make positive lifestyle changes.

  • MomsRising.org

    Based on the MoveOn.org organizing model, MomsRising.org "has a goal of championing core motherhood and family issues in political, social, and economic spheres."

  • Narcotics Anonymous

    Spun off from Alcoholics Anonymous, NA is an international, community-based association of recovering drug addicts. This site includes news, archives, and information on local meetings and events.

  • National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors

    NAADAC, a professional membership organization, serves counselors who specialize in addiction treatment.

  • National Association of Social Workers

    NASW, the largest membership association of professional social workers, works to enhance professional growth, create and maintain professional standards, and to advance sound social policies.

  • National Board for Certified Counselors

    NBCC focuses on quality counseling through certification.

  • National Coalition Against Domestic Violence

    The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence helps to create and influence federal legislation that positively effects the lives of battered women and children.

  • National Coalition for Homeless Veterans

    The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans serves as a liaison between the federal government and community-based veterans' service providers. This site includes information and resources for and about homeless veterans.

  • National Coalition for the Homeless

    NCH uses grassroots organizing, public education, policy advocacy, technical assistance, and partnerships to help end homelessness and achieve housing, economic, and healthcare justice for all.

  • National Crime Prevention Council

    The National Crime Prevention Council's mission is to enable people to create safer and more caring communities by addressing the causes of violence and crime.

  • National Institute on Drug Abuse

    "NIDA's mission is to lead the Nation in bringing the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction."

  • National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty

    Established in 1989, NLCHP works, through impact litigation, policy advocacy, and public education, to alleviate, ameliorate, and end homelessness, serving as the legal arm of the nationwide movement to end homelessness.

  • Negative Population Growth

    Founded in 1972, NPG is a national membership organization of 25,000, working to achieve long-term sustainabilty through the gradual stabilization of our population at a more optimal number.

  • New York City Coalition Against Hunger

    The New York City Coalition Against Hunger represents the more than 1,000 non-profit soup kitchens and food pantries in NYC, and the more than one million low-income New Yorkers who are forced to use them. The Coalition works to both meet the immediate food needs of low income New Yorkers, and enact innovative solutions to poverty to help them move "beyond the soup kitchen" to self sufficiency.

  • NYC Department of Homeless Services

    This New York City agency provides information about temporary emergency shelter, in partnership with public and private agencies.

  • Parent Soup

    Sponsored by iVillage, Parent Soup is an "award-winning site helping parents since 1996."

  • Parenting.org

    Created by professionals at Girls and Boys Home (officially known as Father Flanagan's Boys Home, the original Boys Town), this site specializes in training, consulting, and researching parenting practices in order to help parents deal with their child's day-to-day care, guidance, and development.

  • Partnership for the Homeless

    Partnership for the Homeless is described as the nation's largest network of private shelters. This site provides information for donors and volunteer workers.

  • PEERS - Prostitutes Empowerment Education and Resource Society

    Based in Canada, PEERS is a non-profit society established by ex-prostitutes and community supporters dedicated to the empowerment, education, and support of prostitutes. It works to improve safety and working conditions, and assists those who wish to leave the sex industry.

  • Population Action International (PAI)

    PAI promotes policies and programs that slow world population growth.

  • Population Connection

    For 35 years, Population Connection (formerly Zero Population Growth) has been working to slow population growth and achieve a sustainable balance between the Earth's people and its resources.

  • Proceedings of the Old Bailey: London, 1674-1834

    A project to digitize "accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court." Searchable by keyword, date, name, place, or crime. The first completed stage of the project (2003) covers the period 1714 to 1759.

  • Project Renewal

    Project Renewal provides information on programs that care for and rehabilitate homeless men and women in N.Y.C.

  • RAINN

    The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, the nation's largest anti-sexual assault organization, operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline, and provides programs to prevent sexual assault, help victims, and ensure that rapists are brought to justice.

  • SAMHSA

    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration helps to improve the quality and availabilty of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to society resulting from substance abuse and mental illness.

  • Social Work Search

    Social Work Search was created to provide links to websites of interest to social workers and other helping professionals.

  • Social Issues

    This site contains links to information useful to middle or high school students who are researching current social issues.

  • Social Issues Research Centre

    SIRC is an independent, non-profit organization founded to conduct research on social and lifestyle issues, monitor and assess global sociocultural trends, and provide new insights into human behavior and social relations.

  • Social Science Information Gateway: Sociology

    Provides links in different categories of the discipline.

  • SocioLog

    The SocioLog, created and maintained by Julian Dierkes, is a collection of important social science links.

  • Sociological Research Online

    This online journal "publishes high quality applied sociology, focusing on theoretical, empirical and methodological discussions which engage with current political, cultural and intellectual topics and debates." Archived from MArch 1966.

  • Sociological Subjects

    The University of Amsterdam's gateway to internet resources in sociology, grouped by subject.

  • Sociology: A Research Guide
  • Sociorealm

    A thorough guide to sociology resources online, aimed at sociology students and professionals. Good coverage of theorists and sociological issues.

  • Sociosite

    Extremely thorough and well-produced guide to internet resources in sociology with an international perpective. Created and maintained by the Social Science faculty of the University of Amsterdam.

  • SocioWeb

    Contains a large collection of annotated links divided into categories.

  • Status of Women in the States

    "Over the past ten years, The Status of Women in the States has become a leading source of analysis of womens status across the country. Between 1996 and 2004, IWPR has produced individual reports on womens status in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as biennially updated reports on national trends across the states. . . .The Status of Women in the States project is designed to inform citizens about the progress of women in their state relative to women in other states, to men, and to the nation as a whole."

  • Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

    The Office of National Drug Control Policy's Street Terms database contains over 2,000 street terms that refer to specific drug types or drug activity.

  • The National Parenting Center

    The National Parenting Center is dedicated to providing parents with comprehensive and responsible guidance from the world's most renowned child-rearing authorities.

  • Tolerance.org

    A project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Tolerance.org encourages people from all walks of life to "fight hate and promote tolerance."

  • U.S. Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime

    This office was established by the 1984 Victims of Crime Act to oversee diverse programs that benefit victims of crime. OVC provides funding to state victim assistance and compensation programs, and supports training designed to educate criminal justice and allied professionals in the rights and needs of crime victims.

  • UNESCO

    For World Social Science report, DARE Data Bank, Social Science online periodicals, and more.

  • UNICEF

    UNICEF works to prevent the commercial sexual exploitation of children at the global level, advocating ratification and enforcement of international laws that protect children from the worst forms of child labor.

  • United Nations Population Division Department of Economic and Social Affairs

    Population Division provides support and servicing to intergovernmental bodies, facilitates access by governments to information on population trends and their interrelationship with social and economic development, contributes to the capacity building of member states to formulate national population and related policies and programs, enhances coordination and cooperation amoung the organizations of the U.N. system, and distributes electronic population information.

  • Unmarried America

    Unmarried America "engages in education and advocacy for America's 86 million unmarried and single adults."

  • Walter Benjamin Research Research Syndicate

    "The Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate is an on-line research resource for individuals interested in the writings and the ongoing critical theory of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). This site maintains a collection of resource information on some of Benjamin's writings, as well as current essays about Benjamin, his work, and the work of some of his close contemporaries. Our focus has been on those writings and projects too-often excluded from academic Benjamin scholarship."

  • Wired Patrol

    The Wired Patrol is a nonprofit organization that uses trained volunteers to monitor the Internet for child pornography, stalkers, child predators, groups advocating child abuse and pedophilia, and hate and bigotry sites.

  • Women in Black

    Women in Black is an international peace network, a means of mobilization. Women in Black "stand in silent vigil to protest war, rape as a tool of war, ethnic cleansing and human rights abuses all over the world".

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