CURRENT SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

This is a HUGE topic and there are so many websites out there....
Try these Subject Directories

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Body Image & Eating Disorders	Child Abuse	Abortion	Animal Welfare
Globalisation	World Conflict Studies	Youth Gangs	Racial Inequality
Crime and Justice	Gambling	Human Rights	Gender Roles
Reproductive Technology	Refugees	Cloning	Internet: Uses & Abuses
Bullying and Peer Pressure	Family Violence	Mental Illness	G M Food
Homelessness	Young Offenders	Stem Cell Research	Euthanasia
Censorship & Free Speech

• Eating Disorders

Dying to be Thin	Minority Women : The Untold Story	National Eating Disorders Assoc.	Eating Disorders Resource Centre (Queensland)
Eating Disorders Foundation (Vic)	Eating Disorders Support Network	Anorexia and Bulimia	Dying to be Perfect
Eating & Image Issues	The Eating Disorder Site	Eating Disorders at Wellness Web	Mirror, Mirror - a Summary of Research Findings on Body Image
ANRED	Body (i)con	EDReferral - Body Image

• Child Abuse

MINCAVA - Child Abuse	Child Abuse: Statistics, Research, and Resources	NAPCAN -  Australia	Children and Family Violence: The Unnoticed Victims

• Community Health & Environment 

Waste Disposal

Western Australia: Department of Environmental Protection: Waste Management
Disposable Planet: Waste	Radioactive Waste Management in Australia	Australian Waste Database: Reports
Waste Management in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Planet Ark: Plastic Bags	History of Australian Recycling

Overfishing

Salinity

Chemical Emissions

Mining

Uranium Information Centre: Melbourne

Ozone Layer Depletion

Water Shortage

Global Education: Water

Global Warming

River Algae

• Globalisation

United Nations	United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF)	United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)	World Health Organization (WHO)
Globalization Website-- From Emory University	Which World?: Scenarios for the 21st Century	oneworld.net	Food and Agriculture Organization

• World Conflict Studies

FBI - 30 Years of Terrorism -  1999	Crisis Web - International Crisis Group	Project Ploughshares - Armed Conflicts Report 2001	FlashPoints - world conflicts
Centre for Reduction of Religion Based Conflict	Contemporary Conflicts in Africa	Conflicts in Africa	The World at War 2000
The White House - War on Terrorism	Newseum - Newspaper frontpages Sept 12 2001

• Youth Gangs
  
  

  Youth Gangs in Australia: Aust Inst. of Criminology	Ethinic Youth Gangs in Australia: Do they Exist?	Gangs in Schools	Gangs in NSW
  The Bulletin Aug 2001: The Other Australians	Asian Organised Crime in Australia	Lateline: Ethnic Gangs Escalating Crime	NAGIA: Gang Related Articles
  Gangs or Us	Gang Prevention and Intervention
  Gangs and Kinship: Gang Organisation Amongst Contemporary Indigenous Culture in Western Australia

  
  
•  Racial Inequality
  
  

  Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission - Racial Discrimination	Racism No Way
  History World Tour Through Time - Slavery	Encyclopdeia of Slavery	The African American: A Journey from Slavery to Freedom
  PBS Africans in America	Jump Jim Crowe	Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism
  	Jim Crowe Laws
  MSN Encarta Apartheid	History of Apartheid in South Africa	African Encyclopedia Apartheid
  From Quong Tarts to Victor Changs:Being Chinese in Australia	Gold: Immigration and Population	Sovereign Hill: Chinese in Ballarat
  Frontier OnLine	The Noongar Stolen Generations	RSJ Bringing Them Home
  New Internationalist: The Stolen Ones	The Stolen Generations	Bringing Then Home
  The Civil Rights Era	Infoplease - Civil Rights Timeline	Black History - Civil Rights Timeline