• Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
• Center for Strategic & International Studies
• Correlates of War Project - COW seeks to facilitate the collection, dissemination, and use of accurate and reliable quantitative data in international relations.
• ETH Zurich: Center for Security Studies
• Foreign Affairs Online
• Forum of Federations: A Global Network on Federalism
• Global Policy Forum
• MIT Center for International Studies
• Worldwide Governance Indicators - World Bank
• World's Constitutions - read, search and compare
• World Policy Analysis Centre

WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs - a frequently updated Internet directory of over 2000 annotated links to high-quality English-language sources of current information and analysis in a wide range of international affairs

International Security

• Center for International Security and Cooperation
• Empirical Studies of Conflict
• Global Terrorism Database
• International Institute for Counter-Terrorism ; Founded in 1996, the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) is one of the leading academic institutes for counter-terrorism in the world, facilitating international cooperation in the global struggle against terrorism
• The September 11 Digital Archive
• Snowden Digital Surveillance Archive  - a collection of all documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that have subsequently been published by news media.

SIPRI Arms Transfers Database - importer / exporter country information

 Costs of War - The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011.

Eurostat: Government expenditure on Defence

NATO: Information on Defence Expenditures - statistics by year

Statistics for Military Arms trade

UNODA United Nations Office for Disarment Affairs - Military Expenditures

• Albert Einstein Institution
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Carter Center
• Disarmament - United Nations Documentation: Research Guide
• Genevea Convention
• Global Peace Index 2020 - Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)
• Institute for Economics & Peace
• Institute for Security & Development Policy
• KROC Institute for International Peace Studies
• Peacekeeping - United Nations Documentation: Research Guide
• Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
• UN Peacemaker
• Veterans History Project - Library of Congress
• Women, War & Peace - United Nations

UN Library Research Guides: War & Peace

• Biological Weapons
• Chemical Weapons
• Conventional Weapons and the Arms Trade
• Disarmament: Global Issues
• Firearms
• Landmines and Explosive Remnants of War
• League of Nations: Disarmament (by United Nations Archives at Geneva)
• Multilateralism
• Nuclear Weapons
• Peace
• Peaceful uses of Outer Space
• Terrorism Prevention
• UN Documentation: Disarmament
• UN Documentation: Peacekeeping

• AAAS - Human Rights Action Network Database
• Amnesty International
• Arab Network for Human Rights Information
• British Archives History of Human Rights
• Child Rights Information Network
• Human Rights Report - US Government
• Human Rights Watch
• Human Rights Web Archive
• Institute for Economics & Peace
• Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
• International Labour Organization
• Minority Rights Group International
• The Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse
• United Nations - Human Rights
• Washington Office on Latin America - Human Rights
• Yad Vashem - the Jewish people's living memory of the Holocaust

Data & Reports

• Humanitarian Data Exchange
• The state of the humanitarian system
• World humanitarian data and trends
• The State of the World's Human Rights 2022/23 - Amnesty International

UN Library Research Guides

• Drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Human Rights Timeline (by OHCHR Library)
• Strengthening of Human Rights Treaty Monitoring Body System
• UN Convention against Torture (1984-2014)
• UN Documentation: Human Rights
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• "BC Immigrant Landings by Source and Class, 2005-2013"
• The Forced Migration of Enslaved People
• International Migration - UN
• IRIN - humanitarian news & analysis
• Migration Information Source  - online journal
• Migration Policy Institute
• National Human Trafficking Resource Centre (NHTRC)
• Refugee Studies Centre - University of Oxford
• Ugandan Asian Migration: Forced to Flee - podcasts about South Asian refugees who had to flee Uganda in 1972

UN Library Research Guides

• Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling

Refugees

• The Refugee Project
• UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
• Population Statistics - UNHCR

UN Library Research Guides

Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Public Opinion Polls & Research Centers

• Angus Reid Institute - The Angus Reid Institute is a national, not-for-profit, non-partisan public opinion research foundation established to enhance and encourage better understanding of issues and trends affecting economic, social, governance, philanthropy, public administration, domestic and foreign policy in Canada and its world.
• Afrobarometer - information on the social, political and economic atmosphere in Africa
• CORA: Canadian Opinion Research Archive
• European Commission: Public Opinion
• Gallup.com - news stories and polling information
• Latin American Public Opinion Project
• New York Times Polls & Public Opinion
• Pew Research Center
• PollingReport.com - searchable collection of US opinion polls, including Gallup
• Public Opinion Research Reports - contracted by Government of Canada, since 2006
• Wall Street Journal Public Opinion
• World Values Survey

York University Guide to Public Opinion Polls

Fact Checking Tools

• FactCheck - a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center
• Government Accountability Project - promotes corporate and government accountability by protecting whistleblowers
• PolitiFact  - a project of the St.Petersburg Times

Bias in Media Sites

• Accuracy in Media - conservative watchdog group for fairness, balance and accuracy in news reporting
• Center for Media & Demogracy  - independent, nonprofit, partisan public interest organization focusing on investigation and counterspin
• Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting  - national media watchgroup reporting on conservative media bias
• WikiLeaks