04 Sep 2008

World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples
Minority Rights Group International (MRGI), London, UK.
Self-description: "Minority Rights Group International (MRG) is a non governmental organisation working to secure the rights of ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities and indigenous peoples worldwide."
Site contents: * Country in Focus; * Minority in Focus; * Search across the five Regions (Africa, Americas, Asia and Oceania, Europe, Middle East), 221 Countries (Bahrain to Zimbabwe, with details of the Environment, Peoples, History, Governance, and Current state of minorities and indigenous peoples for each of the countries), and over 700 Minorities (Abakore to Zoroastrians, with details of the Profile, Historical context, and Current issues for each of the minorities); * About us; * Contact us; * News; * Updates;
URL http://www.minorityrights.org/directory
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Kurt Mills (mills--at--mail.h-net.msu.edu), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 3,000