Links
Information on Asia:
Asiaco.com is dedicated to help people learn more about Asia and the World Wide Web. Initially designed to collect Asia related information, Asiaco.com is currently more like an Asia Search Engine and directory portal.
Asiadaily.com is a web site with news from all over Asia with lots of links to news in Asia.
www.askasia.org is an Internet site for resources on Asia:
CIA The World Factbook contains lots of information on every country in the world. There are facts on economy, demography, religion and much more.
The publisher The Lonely Planet has a lot of country-specific online information.
On Unicef website you can find information on China.
Websites on religion.
Here is more information on the caste system and the struggle against it.
Website on Buddhism: http://home.earthlink.net/~srama/.
Website on Christianity: http://geneva.rutgers.edu/src/christianity/
Website on Islam: http://www.islam-guide.com/
Website on Hinduism: http://www.religioustolerance.org/hinduism2.htm
And read more about the Hindu gods and goddesses at: http://www.sanatansociety.org/hindu_gods_and_goddesses.htm
Websites on child labour.
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/ipec/index.htm
http://globalmarch.org/index.php
http://www.childlabournews.info/
http://www.unicef.org/protection/index_childlabour.html
http://www.childlabor.org/frames.html
General sites on Children and youth.
United Nations Children’s organization UNICEF has made an interesting site called Voices of Youth.
iEARN is a non-profit global network that enables young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to engage in collaborative educational projects that both enhance learning and make a difference in the world.
Interesting sites for teachers:
Youth Meeting Youth is a co-operative distance learning project between lower and upper secondary schools in different countries. The pilot-phase - running from January 2002 to July 2004 - involves 22 schools in Kenya, Zambia and Denmark. From August 2004 the project will be open for schools worldwide.
Global Express is an up-to-the-minute magazine resource for teachers of 8-14 year olds on world events and global issues in the news.
United Nations Cyberschoolbus was created in 1996 as the online education component of the Global Teaching and Learning Project, whose mission is to promote education about international issues and the United Nations.
Cirius is the Danish Centre for International Cooperation and Mobility in Education and Training.
The European Centre for Global Interdependence and Solidarity, better known as the North-South Centre, was established in 1989 by the Council of Europe to encourage North-South co-operation and solidarity and to improve education and information on the ties of interdependence that bind the world's inhabitants.
North-South School Linking is an international Project about School Linking between North and South. Within the EU there is an increasing acknowledgement of the importance of education for sustainable development. At the same time more and more schools are becoming interested in linking with schools in the South to enrich the international dimension of their learning delivery.
UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network.
Organisations.
The artist collective that invented Black Box Exercise: Zuni Icosahedron (heavy site).
The official site for the festival Images of Asia.
One of the NGO’s behind the Black Box project is Save the child, Denmark.
DanchurchAid is among the organizations behind Black Box project 2003.
Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke is one of the largest NGO’s in Denmark.
Kidlink want to empower youth to build global networks of friends.
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