Asian Studies 397: Human Rights/Asian Contexts

An instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio and video clips from BBC archives.

Ranks countries via a matrix of individual 'freedoms' as noted in the openness of media, expression, religion, governmental policy, etc.

"The mission of Transparency International is to stop corruption and promote transparency, accountability and integrity at all levels and across all sectors of society." You can look up an individual country in the Knowledge Hub and see documents related to corruption there.

Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. Fact Sheets are published and maintained by the State Department's Office of Electronic Information and Publications of the Bureau of Public Affairs.

V-dem is a group of social scientists that "provide[s] a multidimensional and disaggregated dataset that reflects the complexity of the concept of democracy as a system of rule that goes beyond the simple presence of elections. The V-Dem project distinguishes between five high-level principles of democracy: electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, and egalitarian, and collects data to measure these principles."

Published by the Central Intelligence Agency, the World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.