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Using the Internet for Multinational
Investigations
Neil Reisner &
Paul Myers
U.S. Government Resources
www.cia.gov
Quick-hit profiles of every country in the world
International Program Center: www.census.gov/ipc/www/
Trade: www.census.gov/ftp/pub/foreign-trade/www/
- Bureau
of Labor Statistics
www.bls.gov/fls
Foreign labor
statistics
- US
Securities & Exchange Commission
www.sec.gov
All companies traded on
U.S.
stock exchanges must file disclosure documents with the SEC. Use “EDGAR” to
search.
Find out what forms
foreign companies must file here: www.sec.gov/about/forms/secforms.htm#intl
- Foreign
Agents Registration Act
www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fara/
FARA requires persons
acting as agents of foreign principals to disclose their relationship with
the foreign principal, as well as activities, receipts and disbursements in
support of those activities.
International
Organizations
www.un.org
Europa.eu
- International
Statistical Agencies Institute
isi.cbs.nl/
- International
Labor Organization
laborsta.ilo.org
Governments/NGOs
www.gksoft.com
- World
Association of Non-Governmental Organizations
www.wango.org/
- Google
Search for Non-Governmental Organizations
www.google.com/search?q=ngo+directory&ie=UTF-8
www.nationsonline.org.
Portal of gateways to
the countries, cultures and nations in the world, a reference directory and a
destination guide
Legal
Issues
- Guide
to Foreign and International Legal Databases/NYU School of Law
law.nyu.edu/library/foreign%5Fintl/
- Foreign
& International Law Web/Washburn University School of Law
www.washlaw.edu/forint/forintmain.html
- Multilaterals
Project/Texts of international multilateral conventions
fletcher.tufts.edu/multilaterals.html
www.virtualchase.com
A legal researcher’s
guide to research. Many links for foreign issues, plus pretty much anything
else.
Media
www.allnewspapers.com
www.newsdirectory.com/
Other
Useful Sites
www.copnet.org/local/index.html.
www.oecd.org/dac/debt/htm/debto.htm
www.worldbank.org/data/.
Journalism
Organizations
- IRE/Directory
of Investigative Journalists
bolles.ire.org/dij/
- International
Consortium of Investigative Journalists
www.publicintegrity.org/icij/
- Knight Center
for Journalism in the Americas
knightcenter.utexas.edu/index.php
- International
Journalists Network
www.ijnet.org/Director.aspx?P=Home
- Global
Investigative Journalism
www.globalinvestigativejournalism.org/
IRE
Resources
www.ire.org/resourcecenter/initial-search-beat.html
www.ire.org/resourcecenter/tipsheets.php
Find
multinational....
·
business
registries
·
search engines
·
newspapers (or
for graphical representations)
·
radio
·
phone
directories
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websites (by
subject)
International
Google
International
web addresses
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Multiple domain registration localizing sites,
stop impersonation, mirrors
·
General TLD or country
code?
·
Regional differences gouv.fr, edu.au,
ac.uk, iraqigovernment.org
Investigating
website ownership and hosting
Where is a
site hosted?
Example -
the Islamic Army of Iraq's address is iaisite.org
also...
·
iaisite.net
·
iaisite.info
·
iaisite.biz
·
12.158.190.79/~iaisite/index.php
Find the
domain name registrant
·
coolwhois.com
·
find domain authorities in a country
Find the
owner of the server
·
IP address whois
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What
else is on a server?
Find the
geographical location of the server
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Traceroute
Other good whois & ip tools
This
presentation
- http://researchclinic.co.uk/ire.html
Neil's site
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