CIVICUS

CIVICUS (World Alliance for Citizen Participation) is an international alliance of over 1000 members from 105 countries that has worked for over a decade to strengthen citizen action and civil society throughout the world, especially in areas where participatory democracy and citizens’ freedom of association are threatened.
Its website hosts the CIVICUS Civil Society Index (CSI): an action-research project that aims to assess the state of civil society in countries around the world, with a view to creating a knowledge base and an impetus for civil society strengthening initiatives.

Online Women in Politics

An online bulletin which gives a round up of articles focusing on women’s involvement in politics, governance and decision making in the Asia-Pacific region.

América Latina en Movimiento

ALAI is a communications organization committed to the full respect of human rights, gender equality and people’s participation in development and policy making in Latin America and views the struggle for the democratisation of communication as a basic prerequisite for democratic society and social justice. The agency offers resources and information services, produces publications, including the monthly magazine America Latina en movimiento, and helps to coordinate and network groups.
Its website, also available in Portuguese and Spanish, has news updates, a FTAA Watch, articles on the WSF and details of the women’s programme. See also the site movimientos.org, a web community of social movements in Latin America that it has contributed to.

Electionworld.org

This website gives detailed breakdowns of election results and details of active political parties in every country in the world.