Constitution Executive COURTS AND JUDICIARY Legislative Legal Guides General Sources (includes LC Portals: Colombia)

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• Colombia: Constituciones / Constitutions (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas) Constitución de 1991 con reformas hasta 2005 / Political Constitution of 1991 through 2005 reforms; in Spanish
• Constitución Política de Colombia (Presidente
  de la República de Colombia) in Spanish
• International Constitutional Law: Colombia (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) background information only

EXECUTIVE ARM

• Presidente de la República de Colombia

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• COURTS: Corte Suprema de Justical

LEGISLATIVE

• OFFICIAL GAZETTE: Diario Oficial
• PARLIAMENT: Camera de Representantes and Senado
• Global Legal Network: Global Legal Information Network (Law Legal Issues ) offers 4,678 searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations issued from January 1950 to June 2002
• Government Trade Bureau (Colombian Government Trade Bureau) sponsored by the Embassy of Colombia in Washington, DC; provides information in English about the economics and commercial laws of Colombia
• Derecho de las Comunicaciones en Colombia (www.arkhais.com) includes telecommunication law in Spanish
• E-Transaction Law Resources: Colombia (Baker & McKenzie)
• NATLEX: Colombia (International Labour Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
• Natural Resources Legislation: Colombia (University of Denver College of Law)

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LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Colombia (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• FindLaw: Colombia
• ForIntLaw: Colombia (Washburn University Law Library)
• JURIST: Colombia (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
• World Directory of Parliamentary Libraries: Colombia (Germany Bundestag)
• World Legal Materials from South America: Colombia (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Country Profile: Colombia () December 2004; PDF
• Country Study: Colombia () December 1988
• Handbook of Latin American Studies ()
• Portals to the World: Colombia ()
• Background Notes: Colombia (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Colombia (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• Consular Information Sheet: Colombia (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Information: Colombia (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Profile of Colombia (U.S. Dept. of Labor) - excerpt from By The Sweat and Toil of Children: A Report to Congress, Volume I (July 15, 1994)
• Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices, 1993-2001 (U.S. Dept. of State) see reports listed under Western Hemisphere
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Colombia (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Economic Briefing: Colombia (The Economist)
• Embassy of Colombia, Washington
• Governments on the WWW: Colombia (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in Colombia (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Colombia (U.S. Dept. of State)
• NATIONAL LIBRARY: Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia - information (IFLA)
• NEWS: BBC World Americas
• U.S. Embassy , Bogota (U.S. Dept. of State)
• World Factbook: Colombia (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• World Hunger: Colombia (World Food Programme)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Colombia (Google); Colombia (Yahoo); WWW-VL Latin American Studies: Colombia (University of Texas, Austin)