Travel Safety Resources
By Volker Poelzl
General Country Information and Travel Safety
U.S. State Department, www.state.gov, travel.state.gov
Overseas Security Advisory Council, www.ds-osac.org.
Bureau of Consular Affairs, travel.state.gov.
CIA World Factbook 2002, www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook.
Library of Congress Country Studies, www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html.
Humanitarian Concerns
Human Rights Watch, www.hrw.org.
Amnesty International, www.amnesty.org.
International Red Cross, www.ifrc.org.
United Nations Development Program, www.undp.org.
Air Travel News
Air Transport Assn., www.airlines.org.
Federal Aviation Administration www.faa.gov.
Airwise News news.airwise.com.
International Affairs and News
Council on Foreign Relations, www.cfr.org.
United Nations News, www.un.org/News/dh/latest/headline.html.
Newsdirectory.com (links to English online editions of newspapers and magazines worldwide - www.newsdirectory.com).
Information on Terrorism
Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism www.state.gov/www/global/terrorism/index.html.
Terrorism Research Center, www.terrorism.com.
Federal Emergency Management Agency, Fact Sheet: Terrorism, www.fema.gov/library/terrorf.htm.
Volker Poelzl is a freelance writer and frequent contributor to Transitions Abroad. He lived in Rio de Janeiro and the Amazon, and has explored Brazil extensively over the past decade. He recently volunteered at a private forest preserve in the Amazon to help with reforestation efforts. Visit his Wide World Cafe blog for lively and thought-provoking posts. Contact him at volkerpoelzl@cox.net.
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