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ABORTION back to index

WEBSITES

• National Right to Life - http://www.nrlc.org/
• Abortion Subject Guide - http://www.rh.cc.ca.us/library/Subject_Guides/abortion.htm
• The Abortion Law Homepage - http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/abtrbng/index.htm?mtbrand=AOL_US
• NOW and Abortion Rights/Reproductive Issues - http://www.now.org/issues/abortion/index.html
• Abortion Information - http://www.plannedparenthood.org/abortion/DEFAULT.HTM
• The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice - http://www.rcrc.org/

AIDS back to index

WEBSITES

• HIV InSite Gateway to HIV and AIDS Knowledge - http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite
• The HIV Daily Briefing - http://www.aegis.com/main/default.asp
• AIDS.ORG - Quality Treatment Information and Resources - http://www.aids.org/index.html
• The Body: Legal Issues and HIV/AIDS - http://www.thebody.com/legal.html

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION back to index

WEBSITES

• Politics1-Issue: Affirmative Action - http://www.politics1.com/issues-affirm.htm
• Affirmative Action and Diversity Page - http://aad.english.ucsb.edu/
• AAD Project: History of Affirmative Action - http://aad.english.ucsb.edu/docs/history-aa.html
• CA Secretary of State - Vote96 - Proposition 209 - http://vote96.ss.ca.gov/Vote96/html/BP/209.htm
• Affirmative Action Review - http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/EOP/OP/html/aa/aa-lett.html
• Affirmative Action - http://www.rh.cc.ca.us/library/Subject_Guides/affirmative_action.htm

ALCOHOLISM back to index

WEBSITES

• National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence - NCADD - fights the stigma and the disease of alcoholism and other drug addictions - http://www.ncadd.org/
• MEDLINEplus: Alcoholism - http://medlineplus.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/alcoholism.html
• Alcohol Studies Database - http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/alcohol_studies/alcohol
• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism - http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/publications.htm
• Alcoholism Home Page - http://alcoholism.miningco.com/

ANIMAL RIGHTS back to index

WEBSITES

• World Animal Net - http://worldanimal.net/
• Animal Protection Institute - Welcome - http://www.api4animals.org/
• AWIC Animal Legislation and Policies Home Page - http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/legislat/awicregs.htm
• Animal Rights Subject Guide - http://www.rh.cc.ca.us/library/Subject_Guides/animal_rights.htm

BILINGUAL EDUCATION back to index

WEBSITES

• BRJ Online - http://brj.asu.edu/
• Bilingual Education Resources - http://www.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/depts/edu/textbooks/bilingual.html
• Proposition 227-English for the Children - http://www.onenation.org/
• The Case Against Biligual Education - 98.05 - http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98may/biling.htm
• Center for Multilingual, Multicultural Research - http://www.usc.edu/dept/education/CMMR/margin.html
• Center for Multilingual Multicultural Research - http://www.usc.edu/dept/education/CMMR/cmmrhomepage.html
• NCBE ERIC/CLL Online Directory of ESL Resources - http://www.cal.org/ericcll/ncbe/esldirectory/
• Bilingualism Database: Browse - http://www.edu.bham.ac.uk//bilingualism/database/dbase.htm
• NABE - National Association for Bilingual Education - http://www.nabe.org/
• Hoover Essay- Bilingual Education: A Critique - http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/publications/he/22/22a.html
• Topic Areas-Bilingual Education - http://www.cal.org/topics/bilinged.html

BIRTH CONTROL back to index

WEBSITES

• Ann Rose\'s Ultimate Birth Control Links Page - http://www.ultimatebirthcontrol.com/
• The Alan Guttmacher Institute: Home Page - http://www.guttmacher.org/index.html
• Contraceptive Guide - http://www.mjbovo.com/Contracept/
• Sanger, Margaret. 1920. Woman and the New Race - http://www.bartleby.com/1013/
• MEDLINEplus: Birth Control/Contraception - http://medlineplus.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/birthcontrolcontraception.html

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT back to index

WEBSITES

• Death Penalty Curricula for High School - http://deathpenaltyinfo.msu.edu/
• Death Penalty News & Updates - http://people.smu.edu/rhalperi/
• John Stuart Mill; Capital Punishment; Death Penalty - http://ethics.acusd.edu/Mill.html
• Capital punishment; the death penalty - http://www.religioustolerance.org/execute.htm
• Death Penalty - http://www.aclu.org/death-penalty/
• Frontline: the execution - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/execution/
• Bureau of Justice Statistics Capital Punishment Statistics - http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cp.htm
• Death Penalty; Capital Punishment; Ethics; Punishment - http://ethics.acusd.edu/death_penalty.html
• Death Penalty Information - http://www.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim/dp/dp.html
• Capital Punishment Subject Guide - http://www.rh.cc.ca.us/library/Subject_Guides/Capital_punishment.htm
• Death Penalty Information Center - http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org

CENSORSHIP back to index

WEBSITES

• The Censorship Pages - Information on Censorship of the Written Word - http://www.booksatoz.com/censorship/
• Freedom - http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/freedom.html
• Banned Books Week, Free People Read Freely - http://www.ala.org/bbooks/
• Humanities-Interactive Literature and Our Imaginative Heritage Exhibitions - http://www.humanities-interactive.org/literature/
• The Censorware Project: Exposing the secrets of censorware since 1997 - http://censorware.net/
• Culture Shock - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/index_1.html
• eLab Research - The Cyberporn Debate - http://elab.vanderbilt.edu/research/topics/cyberporn.debate.html
• Enough is Enough Home Page - http://www.enough.org/
• First Amendment Handbook - http://www.rcfp.org/handbook/viewpage.cgi
• Index on Censorship: Latest News - http://www.indexonline.org/
• Forbidden Library: Banned and Challenged Books - http://www.forbiddenlibrary.com

CHILD ABUSE back to index

WEBSITES

• How to Report Suspected Abuse - http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cb/publications/rpt_abu.htm
• National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect - http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/
• Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption - http://www.nisc.com/factsheets/can.htm
• Nat\'l Academy Press, Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect (1993) - http://www.nap.edu/books/0309048893/html/
• Prevent Child Abuse California - http://www.pca-ca.org/

CLONING back to index

• Conceiving a Clone - http://library.thinkquest.org/24355/
• Human Cloning Foundation - http://www.humancloning.org
• New Scientists | Cloning - http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/cloning
• Cloning Fact Sheet - http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/elsi/cloning.html

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE back to index

WEBSITES

• Family Violence Prevention - http://endabuse.org/
• Institute on Domestic Violence in teh African American Community - http://www.dvinstitute.org
• Stop Abuse for Everyone - http://www.safe4all.org/
• MenWeb - Domestic Violence - http://www.batteredmen.com

DRUGS back to index

WEBSITES

• Partnership for a Drug-Free America - http://www.drugfreeamerica.org/
• Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade - ONDCP - http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/streetterms/
• Office of National Drug Control Policy - http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/
• DRCNet Online Library of Drug Policy - http://www.druglibrary.org/
• NIDA - Club Drugs Home - http://www.clubdrugs.org
• Addiction & Life Page Drug Related Street Terms/Slang Words - http://addictions.org/slang.htm

EMIGRATION & IMMIGRATION back to index

WEBSITES

• American Family Immigration History Center - http://www.ellisislandrecords.org
• Migration Information Source - http://www.migrationinformation.org/
• Population Migration - http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/migrations/home.html
• Center for Immigration Studies - http://www.cis.org
• American Immigration Resources on the Internet - http://www.wave.net/upg/immigration/resource.html
• VoteBook Citizenship Test - http://www.herald-sun.com/votebook/citizenship/citstart.html

ENDANGERED SPECIES back to index

WEBSITES

• Animal Info - Rare, Threatened and Endangered Mammals - http://www.animalinfo.org
• California\'s Endangered Insects - http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/essig/endins/
• Endangered Species on EE-Link - http://eelink.net/EndSpp/

EUTHANASIA back to index

WEBSITES

• Frontline: The Kevorkian Verdict - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kevorkian/
• National Right to Life - http://www.nrlc.org
• Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide: All Sides - http://www.religioustolerance.org/euthanas.htm

GANGS back to index

WEBSITES

• National Alliance of Gang Investigators Associations - http://www.nagia.org
• The Coroner\'s Report - http://www.gangwar.com
• Gang Land - http://www.ganglandnews.com
• Gangresearch.net - http://www.gangresearch.net

GAY RIGHTS back to index

WEBSITES

• International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission - http://www.iglhrc.org
• Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force - http://www.lgirtf.org
• Human Rights Campaign: Working for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equal Rights - http://www.hrc.org
• Amnesty International - http://www.ai-lgbt.org
• GLADD - http://www.gladd.org/org/index.html

GENDER ISSUES back to index

WEBSITES

• Women\'s Studies and Women\'s Issues - http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/
• Transexualism and Gender Transition - http://www.tsfaq.info/cgi-bin/index.cgi
• Gender Issues, Women\'s Studies Database - http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/GenderIssues/

GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS back to index

WEBSITES

• True Food Network - http://www.truefoodnow.org
• New Scientist | GM Foods - http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/gm/

GLOBAL WARMING back to index

WEBSITES

• EPA: EPA Global Warming Site - http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/index.html
• Global Warming: Early Warning Signs - http://www.climatehotmap.org
• Environmental Defense - http://www.environmentaldefense.org
• NOAA Paleo Global Warming - http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/home.html
• Pew Center on Global Climate Change - http://www.pewclimate.org
• Trends Online Contents - http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/trends.htm

GUN CONTROL back to index

WEBSITES

• The Brady Campaign to Prevent gun Violence - http://www.bradycampaign.org
• Gun Laws, Gun Control and Gun Rights - http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/gunlaw.htm
• Gun Violence Home Page - http://www.jointogether.org/gv/
• Firearms Violence - http://www.pcvp.org/pcvp/firearms/guncntn2.shtml
• National Rifle Association - http://www.nra.org

HATE CRIMES back to index

• Hate Crimes - http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hatecrimes.html
• Tolerance.org - http://www.hatewatch.org

HOMELESSNESS back to index

WEBSITES

• Institute for the study of Homelessness and Poverty at the Weingart Center - http://weingart.org/institute
• National Coalition for the Homelessness - http://www.nationalhomeless.org/

JUVENILE DELINQUENCY back to index

• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention - http://www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org
• Juvenile Death Penalty - http://www.abanet.org/crimjust/juvjus/
• LII: Laws about...Juveniles - http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/juvenile.html

PROSTITUTION back to index

• San Francisco Task Force on Prostitution - http://bayswan.org/1TF.html
• Prostitution Issues: Prostitutes Education Network - http://www.bayswan.org/index.html
• Commerical Sex Information Service: Legal Analysis - http://www.walnet.org/csis/papers/index.html

TEENAGE PREGNANCY back to index

• NOAPPP - http://www.noappp.org/
• National Campaign to Prevent Pregnancy - http://www.teenpregnancy.org
• Teenage Pregnancy: Overall Trends and State-byState Information - http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/teen_preg_stats.html
• MEDLINEplus: Teenage Pregnancy - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/teenagepregnancy.html
• Teen Sex and Pregnancy, 1999 - http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_teen_sex.html