Study Links

| Issues & Concerns | Lands & People | United Methodist News | United Nations Resources |

   These links add supplementary material for this study on "Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos."

Lands and People

   Choose a Geographical Area | Asia-Pacific | Cambodia | Laos | Vietnam |

Asia-Pacific

• 2001-2002 Geographic Mission Study: Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos, New World Outlook, May-June 2001

• Asia Search Engines
• BBC Asia-Pacific News
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/default.stm

• Global Connections: Asia-Pacific, GBGM
  http://gbgm-umc.org/global/asia-pacific/

• Mission Study Tour Group Witness New Life in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam by Brenda Wilkinson
  http://gbgm-umc.org/news/2001/mar/MissionStudy.stm

• United Methodist Women's Mission Outreach in Asia and the Pacific
  http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/umwmap/regmaps/Asia/Asia.htm
  

Cambodia

• Cambodia Initiative by Ronald D. Tompkins, New World Outlook, July-August 1998
  http://gbgm-umc.org/nwo/98ja/cambodia.html
• Daily Devotions from Cambodia, Response, May 2001
  http://gbgm-umc.org/Response/articles/Cambodia_devotions.html

• Fighting AIDS: A New War Is Killing Cambodians, New York Times, July 7, 2001
  http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/07/world/07CAMB.html
• Cambodia , Human Rights Watch
  http://www.hrw.org/wr2k1/asia/cambodia.html

• Global Connections: Cambodia, GBGM
  http://gbgm-umc.org/asia-pacific/cambodia/
• Global Ministries Photos: Cambodia
  http://gbgm-umc.org/photos/asia/indexca1.htm

• United Methodist Headquarters for Cambodia Up and Running in Phnom Penh by Franklin Fisher, GBGM, May 27, 1999
  http://gbgm-umc.org/asia-pacific/cambodia/cambodiaff.html

Laos

• Discovering Laos: Land of a Million Elephants, Lao Embassy, Washington D.C
  http://www.laoembassy.com/discover/

• Global Connections: Laos, GBGM
  http://gbgm-umc.org/laos/
• Yahoo Full Coverage: Laos
  http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/Asia/Laos/

Vietnam

• Global Connections: Vietnam, GBGM
  http://gbgm-umc.org/asia-pacific/vietnam/
• In Mission Together: Vietnam by Brenda Wilkinson
  http://gbgm-umc.org/asia-pacific/vietnam/gbgm110700bwbm.html
• Vietnam, Human Rights Watch
  http://www.hrw.org/wr2k1/asia/vietnam.html

• Yahoo Full Coverage: Vietnam
  http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/World/Vietnam

Issues and Concerns

• Asia Issues, General Board of Church and Society, UMC
  http://www.umc-gbcs.org/asia_issues.htm
  

Landmines

• Don't Touch! A Story and Activities for Children by Faye Wilson
  http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor/emergency/esperanza.stm
  

• Healing the Land, GBGM Initiative on Removal of Landmines by Faye Wilson
  http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor/emergency/altmines.stm

• Landmines Information and Action Page, New World Outlook
  http://gbgm-umc.org/nwo/lmines.html
  News, Links, Action Suggestions
  

• Watch Your Step! Why We Care About Landmines (Upfront with Youth) by Faye Wilson
  http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor/emergency/watchstep.stm
  

Mothers and Children

• Mother and Child Survival
  http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor/hunger/motherchild.stm

United Methodist News and Features

• GBGM Mission News, General Board of Global Ministries
  http://gbgm-umc.org/mission/news/gbgmnews.stm

• Mission Stories from Around the World
  http://gbgm-umc.org/resources/stories/

• New World Outlook, Mission Magazine
  http://gbgm-umc.org/nwo/

• Response, Magazine for United Methodist Women
  http://gbgm-umc.org/response/

• UMCOR Stories for Adults and Children
  http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor/stories/
  

Resources from the United Nations

• Landmines: Hidden Killers, UNICEF
  http://www.unicef.org/sowc96pk/hidekill.htm
  A section of UNICEF's The State of the World's Children 1996

• The Progress of the Nations, UNICEF
  • 2000 Edition
    http://www.unicef.org/pon00/
  • 1999 Edition
    http://www.unicef.org/pon99/
  • 1998 Edition
    http://www.unicef.org/pon98/

• Rights of the Child, UNICEF.
  http://www.unicef.org/crc/
  Includes the complete document The Convention on the Rights of the Child and other material.

• The State of the World's Children 2001, UNICEF
  • English: http://www.unicef.org/sowc01/
  • Spanish: http://www.unicef.org/spanish/sowc01/
  • French: http://www.unicef.org/french/sowc01/

• The State of the World's Children 2000, UNICEF
  • English: http://www.unicef.org/sowc00/
  • Spanish: http://www.unicef.org/spanish/sowc00/
  • French: http://www.unicef.org/french/sowc00/

• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
  http://www.unicef.org/
  The web site is in three languages: English, Spanish, and French.

• United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS)
  http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/mine/
  UNMAS is responsible for the management and coordination of all UN activities in the areas of humanitarian mine action and peacekeeping demining.

• The World Health Organization (WHO)
  http://www.who.int