Websites to Support the New Curriculum

No websites recommended

Citizenship and immigration Canada, Media and Publication, The Monitor, Immigrants, Source Countries:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/monitor/issue03/02-immigrants.html

World Bank, Poverty Net, Excerpts from the Literature of Poverty:
http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/povlit/index.htm

United Nations, CyberSchool Bus Main Page:
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/index.asp

Free the Children:
http://www.freethechildren.com/index.html
(Speakers’ Bureau, or contact a local high school that is involved in supporting Free the Children projects re: education projects, child labour, child soldiers)

The Ladybug Foundation:
www.ladybugfoundation.ca

No websites recommended

United Nations, Youth Cyber School Bus, Human Rights in Action:
http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/humanrights/index.asp
(Interactive Declaration of Human Rights, suggested activities)

United Nations, Youth Cyber School Bus, Gallery: http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/gallery/index.asp
(drawings, photos, posters by youth around the world on global issues including racism, human rights )

Disability Awareness Training, Society for Manitobans with Disabilities, Community Education:
http://www.smd-services.com/training/index.html

UNICEF Voices of Youth:
http://www.unicef.org/voy/
(action projects, youth forums and online discussions)

UNICEF Canada, Global Action:
http://www.unicef.ca/
(current world issues, action projects, A World Fit for Children)

United Nations Association of Canada, News and Events, International Days and Weeks:
http://www.unac.org/en/news_events/un_days/international_days.asp

No websites recommended

Justice Canada, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:
http://canada.justice.gc.ca/Loireg/charte/const_en.html

Canadian Heritage, Your Guide to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:
http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/pdp-hrp/canada/guide/index_e.cfm

United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Democracy and Human Rights:
http://www.unhchr.ch/democracy/

United Nations, UN News Centre:
http://www.un.org/News/

Veterans’ Affairs Canada, Home Page:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/

Veterans’ Affairs Canada, Veterans’ Week 2001, “In the Service of Peace”:
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm
?source=feature/week2001/natnews/servpeace

Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada and Peacekeeping:
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/peacekeeping/menu-en.asp

Canadian Forces, Canada’s Peacekeeping Missions Abroad:
http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/operations/current_ops_e.asp
(map and list of current operations)

Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Peacekeeping Missions:
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/peacekeeping/missions-en.asp
(list of Canadian contributions to UN peacekeeping missions)

Peacekeeper’s Home Page, Peacekeeping Stories:
http://www.peacekeeper.ca/stories.html

United Nations Association of Canada Toward a Culture of Peace, Projects:
http://www.unac.org/en/projects/peace/index.asp
(ideas for student projects in support of peace) 

Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Foreign Policy, Projecting Canadian Values and Culture: 
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/foreign_policy/cnd-world/chap5-en.asp

Citizenship Canada, Echoes from a Peace Land:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/citizen/guide%5F2001%5Fe/theme4.html

Students of the World, Countries of the World GDP (November 2003):
http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/infopays/rank/PIBH2.html

United Nations Cyber School Bus, Country at a Glance:
http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/index.asp
(Select country, click on economy for GDP data)

Time Magazine, Time 100, The Most Important People of the Century:
http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/

European Union:
http://europa.eu.int/abc/index_en.htm

CBC News:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/

Google News Canada:
http://news.google.ca/

Media Awareness Network:
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/index.cfm

Search Engine Watch, Search Engine Strategies:
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/facts/article.php/2156021

Google Directory of Quotations:
http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Quotations/
(links to a number of reliable quotation sites)  

CIA The World Fact Book, search by country or by continent:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

United Nations Cyber School Bus, Country at a Glance:
http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/index.asp

Students of the World, Countries of the World GDP (November 2003):
http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/infopays/rank/PIBH2.html

United Nations, Cyber School Bus, Info Nation:
http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/info.asp
(international comparisons)

Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Statistics Division, Food and Agriculture Atlas:
http://www.fao.org/es/ess/chartroom/gfap.asp

Government of Canada, The Canadian Economy, Globalization:
http://canadianeconomy.gc.ca/english/economy/globalization.html

Artpolitic Political Encyclopedia, Globalization:
http://www.artpolitic.org/infopedia/gl/Globalization.html

The World Bank Group, Globalization:
http://www1.worldbank.org/economicpolicy/globalization/

International Monetary Fund, What is Globalization:
http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/ib/2000/041200.htm#II

International Forum on Globalization:
http://www.ifg.org/analysis.htm

The Children of the Earth series provides an accurate picture of quality of life and local human development projects in various parts of the world:
http://www.maryknollmall.org/description2.cfm?ISBN=135

The Mennonite Central Committee has produced a variety of videos about international development and social justice issues:
http://www.mcc.org/manitoba/

Manitoba Council for International Cooperation (MCIC):
http://www.mcic.ca/

Mennonite Central Committee:
http://www.mcc.org/

Canadian Council for International Cooperation (CCIC):
http://www.ccic.ca/

Oxfam Canada:
http://www.oxfam.ca/

Earth Charter Initiative:
http://www.earthcharter.org/

Greenpeace:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international_en/

Nobel E-museum, the Nobel Foundation:
http://www.nobel.se/nobel/nobel-foundation/index.html

UNESCO:
www.UNESCO.org

UNICEF:
http://www.unicef.ca

Médecins sans frontières (Doctors without borders):
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

Canadian International Demining Corps:
http://www.cidc.ws/CIDC-CanadianInternationalDeminingCorps.htm

Peace Corps (American):
http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=learn

Plan Canada (founded as Foster Parent’s Plan in 1937):
http://www.plancanada.ca/

War Child Canada:
http://www.warchild.ca/

World Vision International:
http://www.wvi.org/wvi/wviweb.nsf

International Committee of the Red Cross:
http://www.icrc.org/eng

Canadian Red Cross:
http://www.redcross.ca

Human Rights Watch:
http://www.hrw.org/

Project Ploughshares:
http://ploughshares.ca/index.html

Free the Children:
http://www.freethechildren.org/

CUSO, Canadian University Students Overseas:
http://www.cuso.org/index.php?lang=en&Itemid=1

Union of Concerned Scientists:
http://www.ucsusa.org/

One World:
http://www.oneworld.net/article/frontpage/10/3

Care Canada:
http://care.ca/

Manitoba Council for International Cooperation (MCIC):
http://www.mcic.ca/

Mennonite Central Committee:
http://www.mcc.org/

Canadian Council for International Cooperation (CCIC):
http://www.ccic.ca/

Oxfam Canada:
http://www.oxfam.ca/

Earth Charter Initiative:
http://www.earthcharter.org/

Greenpeace:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international_en/

Nobel E-museum, the Nobel Foundation:
http://www.nobel.se/nobel/nobel-foundation/index.html

UNESCO:
www.UNESCO.org

UNICEF:
http://www.unicef.ca

Médecins sans frontières (Doctors without borders):
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

Canadian International Demining Corps:
http://www.cidc.ws/CIDC-CanadianInternationalDeminingCorps.htm

Peace Corps (American):
http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=learn

Plan Canada (founded as Foster Parent’s Plan in 1937):
http://www.plancanada.ca/

War Child Canada:
http://www.warchild.ca/

World Vision International:
http://www.wvi.org/home.shtml

International Committee of the Red Cross:
http://www.icrc.org/eng

Canadian Red Cross:
http://www.redcross.ca

Human Rights Watch:
http://www.hrw.org/

Project Ploughshares:
http://ploughshares.ca/index.html

Free the Children:
http://www.freethechildren.org/

CUSO, Canadian University Students Overseas:
http://www.cuso.org/english_home.htm

Union of Concerned Scientists:
http://www.ucsusa.org/

One World:
http://www.oneworld.net/article/frontpage/10/3

Care Canada:
http://care.ca/

The United Nations: An Introduction for Students:
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/unintro/unintro.asp

Further Internet resources for teachers on the United Nations:
http://www.unac.org/learn/wrld/what.htm

Peace education resources from the United Nations: 
http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/peace/index.asp

Canadian Red Cross, Manitoba Office:
http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=002944&tid=085

Visit the UNESCO website, Peace Is in Our Hands, Manifesto 2000:
http://www3.unesco.org/iycp/uk/uk_sum_manifesto2000.htm