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These links were prepared by Suhasini Kumar, Assistant Professor and Reference Librarian. is the head of the Government Documents Department in the University of Toledo's Carlson Library. If you would like more information, on reference materials or government documents that are specific to women, please contact Ms. Kumar by e-mailing her at skumar@utnet.utoledo.edu
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Government Links The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Affairs (DRL) is concerned with U.S. human rights-related labor issues. DRL offers fact sheets, statements, speeches, testimony, press releases, and reports on human rights.
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/wh-toc.html The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) presents information for women on food safety, nutrition, and cosmetics. This database also includes information on aids, cancer, diabetes, gastrointestinal disorders, eating disorders, heart disease, high blood pressure, etc.
The International Women’s Issues section of the U.S. Department of State offers policy statements, speeches, press releases, and reports on improvement of human rights of women within American foreign policy.
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Violence Against Women Office provides directories of state, regional, and national organizations concerned with domestic violence. Information about the National Domestic Violence hotline and links to individual police department web pages about domestic violence are provided. This site includes full text of federal laws and regulations about domestic violence, violence against women, sex offender registration, and child abuse. Information regarding federal grants for prevention and assistance programs relating to violence against women is also provided.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshom.html Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921. The Library of Congress’s National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection consists of books, pamphlets, and other artifacts describing the woman suffrage in America, and information about other works in the NAWSA collection is provided. |