Internet Links to Information about Nicaragua
- Asamblea Nacional de Nicaragua
- Laws and legislative materials from the Nicaraguan National Assembly (in Spanish).
- Central America Today
- Basic information (with a focus on business) for each country in Central
America, including currency exchange rates, business directories, demographics,
maps, pictures and news services.
- Central Bank of Nicaragua
- This website is a good source of up-to-date Nicaraguan economic
and financial information, such as current capital market interest
rates, prices for consumer and other goods, inflation rate, and
statistics on production of major products such as coffee.
- Fair Trade Zone
- In Nicaragua there are many free trade zones where mainly women work in "sweat shops," producing clothing under unacceptable labor conditions, long hours and low pay. However, this women's sewing cooperative has become the first worker-owned free trade zone.
- Fundación Augusto
Cesar Sandino
- Spanish-language website for one of Nicaragua's largest aid and development
organizations.
- Foundation for Sustainable
Development
- The Foundation For Sustainable Development (FSD) is dedicated to the
support of sustainable development initiatives in the developing world,
with its primary focus on Latin America. FSD supports the efforts of
Latin American grassroots development organizations that are working
to better their communities, environments and economic opportunities
around them.
- International Donors Dialogue
- Today, less than 2% of U.S. giving supports projects outside U.S. borders.
This means that over 96% of humanity, including most of the world's
poorest and neediest people, are denied access to the largest pool of
philanthropic capital in the world. International Donors' Dialogue works
with public and private foundations who share a common desire to expand
and enrich progressive international philanthropy. They hope to arouse
more support for international projects by providing free advice, alternative
sources of information and increased opportunities for communication
among donors.
- Islas Hermanas, Bainbridge y Ometepe
- Home page of the Bainbridge-Ometepe Sister Islands Association
- Nicaragua Network
- For more than twenty years the Nicaragua Network has worked in
the United States to promote social and economic justice for the
people of Nicaragua. It advocates for sound U.S. foreign policies
toward Nicaragua and provides information and organizing tools
to a network of 200 solidarity and peace and justice committees
across the U.S.
- New Haven/León Sister City
Project
- Home page for the New Haven/León Sister City Project.
- Nicaragua
- University of Texas Website with lots of good references, including
basic demographic and economic data, along with links to other websites.
- Nicaragua Educational Travel
- Educational travel programs in Nicaragua for middle and high school
students and teachers.
- Nicaragua
on the Internet
- This profile of Nicaragua is part of a larger website that provides
country-by-country information about all of Latin America.
- Nicaragua Spanish School
- A socially responsible business that offers Spanish language study,
cultural immersion, and eco-tours of Nicaragua.
- Nicaraguan Newspapers
- PeaceWorks
- Non-profit organization working for progressive change in solidarity
with Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala.
- Potters for Peace
- Since 1986, Potters for Peace has been organizing educational and cultural
changes as well as benefit sales to foster a closer relationship between
U.S. and Nicaraguan potters. In recent years its focus has expanded
to include projects around the world., including Latin America, Africa
and South East Asia.In addition to selling unique examples of ceramic
art, they are building an independent, non-profit, international network
of potters concerned with peace and justice issues.
- Puntos de Encuentro (Points of Encounter)
- A website for Nicaraguan feminists. "What we want to create: multiple
meeting-points between women and men, between youth, between youth and
adults together, within the women's movement and the youth movement,
and in particular, between people and groups interested in coming together
and organizing to transform the world in accordance with our desires
into a world in which all individuals will have equal rights and opportunities,
in which the differences -- of sex, age, ethnicity, class, education,
sexual preference, physical capacity or whatever other social condition
-- would not mean that some people give orders and others are obliged
to obey and keep quiet in their daily lives in the street, in the home
and in the bed. And also, in the school, the workplace and the community
-- in sum, in the world in general."
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