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Belize

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  1. Belize Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2006
  2. CIA World Factbook: Belize
  3. Ethnologue Language Database: Belize
  4. Government of Belize
  5. Library of Congress Country Studies: Belize
  6. Maps of the Americas
  7. Political Resources on the Net: Belize
  8. Social Indicators: Less Populous Countries
  9. World Travel Guide: Belize

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Belize Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2006
Detailed assessment of human rights practices in Belize. Topics assessed include torture, arbitrary detention or exile, fair public trial, freedom of speech and press, freedom of assembly, movement and religion; democratic rights, worker rights, and discrimination based on race, sex, religion, disability, language, or social status.
     Author: US Department of State
     Subjects: belize
     DeweyClass: 323.7282
     Resource type: document
CIA World Factbook: Belize
Basic reference information about Belize, including details of geography, people, economy, government, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues. Geographical information includes area, population, flag, maps, high and low points, co-ordinates, boundary length, border countries, climate, land use and natural resources.
     Author: CIA
     Subjects: belize
     DeweyClass: 917.282
     Resource type: document
Ethnologue Language Database: Belize
A catalogue of all the languages and dialects spoken in Belize, with details of the numbers of speakers of each language. Also some demographic data such as rates of literacy, blindness and deafness.
     Author: Summer Institute of Linguistics
     Subjects: belize
     DeweyClass: 409.7282
     Resource type: document
Government of Belize
Official information from the government of Belize, formerly known as British Honduras.
     Author: Government of Belize
     Subjects: belize
     DeweyClass: 351.7282
     Resource type: government
Library of Congress Country Studies: Belize
Detailed handbook describing the history of Belize and analysing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. Particular attention is given to the people who make up the society, their origins, dominant beliefs and values, common interests and the issues on which they are divided, and their attitudes toward each other and toward their social system and political order.
     Author: Library of Congress
     Subjects: belize
     DeweyClass: 972.82
     Resource type: documents
Maps of the Americas
Set of political and relief maps produced by the CIA covering Canada, all the countries in Central and South America and the Caribbean.
     Author: Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin
     Subjects: antigua and barbuda, argentina, bahamas, barbados, belize, bermuda, bolivia, brazil, canada, canadian geography, caribbean, central america, chile, colombia, costa rica, cuba, dominica, dominican republic, ecuador, el salvador, grenada, guatemala, guyana, haiti, honduras, jamaica, mexico, nicaragua, panama, paraguay, peru, saint kitts nevis, saint lucia, saint vincent, south america, suriname, trinidad and tobago, uruguay, venezuela, world maps
     DeweyClass: 912.7
     Resource type: map collection
Political Resources on the Net: Belize
Listing of political resources relevant to Belize, with links to parties, organisations, government, media and results of recent elections, where available.
     Author: Torre Argentina Societa di Servizi - Agora telematica Division
     Subjects: belize
     DeweyClass: 320.97282
     Resource type: documents, index
Social Indicators: Less Populous Countries
Part of the UNICEF Progress of Nations report, giving a summary of the social indicators and relative standing of countries with populations of less than one million. The indicators used to construct the league table include access to sanitation; per cent reduction in under-5 mortality, and women at top levels of government.
     Author: UNICEF
     Subjects: antigua and barbuda, bahamas, bahrain, barbados, belize, brunei, cape verde, comoros, cyprus, djibouti, dominica, equatorial guinea, fiji, grenada, guyana, iceland, kiribati, luxembourg, maldives, malta, marshall islands, micronesia, palau, qatar, saint kitts nevis, saint lucia, saint vincent, samoa, sao tome and principe, seychelles, solomon islands, suriname, swaziland, tonga, tuvalu, vanuatu
     DeweyClass: 338.9
     Resource type: reference document
World Travel Guide: Belize
Basic reference information about Belize, such as area, capital, population, population density, geography, language, religion, time zone, history and government, plus business and social information, including details of accommodation, addresses, climate, regions, travel, visas, passports, money, health and public holidays.
     Author: Columbus Press
     Subjects: belize
     DeweyClass: 917.282
     Resource type: documents