* tmc * in patientia vestra habetis animam vestram * tmc *

Dear Reader,

The ASIAN STUDIES WWW MONITOR
(including all its subsidiary (and/or sister) pages on "coombs.anu.edu.au" server) has permanently ceased its publishing operations on Friday 21st January 2011.

All of the online resources reported here have been thoroughly checked at the time of their listing. However, it is possible that, with the with the passage of time, many of the originally reported materials might have been removed from the Internet, or changed their online address, or varied the scope and quality of their contents.

Fortunately, in several cases it is possible to access many of the older versions of the resources listed in the MONITOR. This can be easily done via the free services of the "The Internet Archive" http://web.archive.org/, a remarkable brainchild of Brewster Kahle, San Francisco, CA.

- with warm regards -

Editor, Dr T. Matthew Ciolek.

Canberra, 21 January 2011.


04 September 2008

World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples

http://www.minorityrights.org/directory

5star
04 Sep 2008

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

Please note that the above details were correct on the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com