Society

Provides information on worldwide trade in contraband. Covers organized crime activities and other outlawed revenue-generating activities.

Professional association founded in 1984 to promote understanding and research. Site contains member list, book reviews, news, links.

An international source of information about missing persons and unidentified victims. Searchable database, index of hot cases, media center, news stories and form for submitting a case.

Online resource to report criminal activity anonymously regarding unsolved murders and wanted criminals. Information about the organization, listing of unsolved crimes, member links and online tip submission form.

Death Care news and information site. Includes message boards, free daily newsletter, chat rooms, and specials.

Honor loved ones on this board. Stories, poems, links to memorial sites or sharing feelings about loss. A candle will be lit in memory of the loved one.

Offers free obituaries.

Obituaries from the state. FAQs and contact form.

Offers free obituaries. FAQs and bereavement related articles

Provides a searchable database of free obituaries.

For the staff and former students. Includes obituaries with photographs and newspaper articles.

Offers free obituaries and a professional writing service if required.

Provides remembrance pages for text and photographs of a loved one. Offers plans to further upgrade the site if required. Includes testimonials.

An Australian government project presents factsheets, links, policies, and statistics.

Indian helpline. Provides statistics.

An art center and gallery for adults with developmental disabilities in Claremont, California. Produces art in painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, collage, assemblage, art books and creative writing.

Watercolour paintings, tutor tips, news and photo album. Frome, Somerset, England

Promotes the appropriate use of technology for students with disabilities in school programs.

Publishes the newsletters Augmentative Communication News (ACN) and Alternatively Speaking (AS), which provide information on hot topics in the field, discussion of vital issues for AAC stakeholders, and news from the AAC community.

A non-profit organization assisting families who have a child with a disability. Details of their offices in Pullman Washington, Moscow, Idaho and Rockville Maryland.

Highlighting U.S. conferences, continuing education, speakers, and other events of interest to people who are disabled, their families, and carers.

Lists disability goods, aids, services, information and mobility products. Includes access issues, disabled sports and the arts. Contains disability related news and offers free listings.

Directory of disability related websites that provide resources and services to the disabled community.

Promoting pride in the history, activities, and cultural identity of individuals with disabilities throughout the world.

Expands the opportunities for disabled people in sustainable work both within Remploy and externally. Britain's largest employer of people with disabilities. (United Kingdom)

Vocational training geared toward those with learning needs-in Cardiff, Wales.

A housing initiative designed to provide information and technical assistance on affordable housing issues to people with disabilities, their families, advocates, and service providers across the United States.

National non profit free of charge group rehabilitates homes for low-income homeowners, particularly the elderly and those with disabilities.

Producing spoken-word recordings of short-subject literary works. Includes articles in realaudio format, as well as information on the organization and its directors.

An all volunteer nonprofit organization devoted to aiding people with disabilities and who are also in need.

Highlights the story of Kieron, born in 2000 with cerebral palsy. Details of his treatments, education and home life plus offers related links.

Statistics about the prevalence of various disabilities.

Information and resources on home modification and universal design.

An international effort to make all home visitable. Provides detailed construction guidelines and cost estimates for barrier-free design in new homes.

Features history, origins, culture, and related news and information. Includes a forum, chat, and classifieds.

History of Baltic peoples, tribes and nations.

Supports the organizing of cultural congresses and promotes relations between Finno-Ugrian peoples. Overview of Finno-Ugrian peoples, relevant news, organizational structures. [English, Estonian, Finnish, Russian]

An online museum of Bavarian lederhosen, including numerous photos, reference materials, artwork, and online forum.

An internet resource for those interested in retablos, santos, exvotos, milagros, Spanish colonial and folk art from Mexico and the Americas.

Resources for indigenous cultures around the world: directory and news.

A Digital library of the Indigenous people of today.

Photographs by Paul Ross of the Latimer Road caravan site outside London.

A joik performer of the Sami or Laplander people, Somby also is a designer and photographer, and he is associate professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Tromsø.

Academic site fostering the interdisciplinary growth of Oral Tradition Studies, a highly complex field derived from the older and more defined areas of folklore, anthropology, literary studies, and linguistics.

Description of course studies and a reading list.

Recounts how beliefs about death and dying brought by colonists from the Northern British Borderlands survive in the Chesapeake region and North Carolina.

Very interesting account of a Greek Catholic Baltic Finnic people's beliefs in death, omens of death and the afterlife.

Perpetuating Hungarian folklore by exchanging thoughts, experiences, and ideas (in Hungarian and English).

A partnership of the Michigan State University Museum and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs. Providing documentation, preservation, and education regarding folklife and the folk arts.

Consultant with expertise in industrial automation offers technology foresight, business strategies, angel investing, and merger and acquisition services; site features extensive essay collection and annotated bibliography.