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British Virgin Islands
(Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom)

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British Virgin Islander Government Information

• United Kingdom: Country Guide

• Government of the British Virgin Islands
• Government of the British Virgin Islands: London Office

• British Virgin Islands Tourist Board
• Deputy Governor's Office
• Development Planning Unit
• Governor's Office
• International Affairs
• The Virgin Islands Constitution
• Overseas Territories - Queen Elizabeth: Constitutional Monarch

Overseas Territories Information

• British Overseas Territories Act 2002
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Overseas Territories

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Country Profiles

• Australian Government - British Virgin Islands
  Country profile, economic and trade information, and foreign relations from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
• BBC News Territory Profile - British Virgin Islands
  A guide to history, politics and economic background of countries from BBC News.
• CIA World Factbook - British Virgin Islands
  Country profile provides information on country background, geography, people, government, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.
• ITC - British Virgin Islands
  Country-specific trade and market profiles, map, and trade statistics from the International Trade Centre (ITC).
• Library of Congress - British Virgin Islands
  Country portal and resources compiled by the Library of Congress subject experts.
• UNESCO Communication & Information - British Virgin Islands
  Country profile, news and links to related projects and websites.
• UNESCO Institute for Statistics - British Virgin Islands
  A selection of national statistics on education, literacy, science and technology, culture, and communication.
• UNFPA Caribbean
  The UNFPA office in Jamaica serves the English and Dutch Speaking Caribbean inclusive of 21 member countries: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and The Turks and Caicos Islands.
• United Kingdom's Foreign and Commonwealth Office - British Virgin Islands
  Country profile covering history, politics, economy, human rights, relations with the UK, and travel.
• United Nations Statistics Division: Environment Snapshot - British Virgin Islands
  Country snapshots offer national environment statistics.
• United Nations Statistics Division: National Accounts - British Virgin Islands
  "Statistics database contains a complete and consistent set of time series from 1970 onwards of main national accounts aggregates for all UN Members States and all other countries and areas in the world."
• U.S. Census Bureau Foreign Trade Statistics - British Virgin Islands
  U.S. trade in goods (imports, exports and balance) with the British Virgin Islands.
• U.S. Commercial Service - Caribbean Region
  Regional profile about doing business in the Caribbean (Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bahamas, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Curacao / Aruba, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Jamaica, Netherlands Antilles, St. Maarten, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks, and Caicos Islands) by the Commercial Service, the global business solutions unit of the Department of Commerce.
• U.S. Department of Energy - British Virgin Islands
  Country energy profile for production, consumption, U.S. oil imports, and CO2 emissions.

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Articles and Databases

• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Declassified Documents
  Declassified information available from the FOIA Electronic Reading Room. Enter "British Virgin Islands" as the search term.
• CRS Reports - LexisNexis Congressional CU
  The Congressional Research Service (CRS), the research arm of Congress, prepares reports (usually under 20 pages long) on topics of interest to members of Congress. Enter "British Virgin Islands" as the search term.
• Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
  Department of Defense Scientific and Technical Reports Collection provides access to citations to unclassified unlimited documents that have been entered into DTIC's Technical Reports (TR) Database, as well as the electronic full-text of many of these documents. The site also includes databases that focus on individual topics.
• Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)
  "Public database of official texts of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations."
• International Area Studies General CU
  Collection of general databases from the University of Colorado covering international issues.
• International Area Studies Latin America CU
  Collection of databases from the University of Colorado covering Latin America.
• International Area Studies Statistics CU
  Collection of international statistics databases from the University of Colorado.
• PAHO/WHO Databases
  Regional Core Health Data Initiative Table Generator System from the Pan American Health Organization, a regional office of the World Health Organization. Provides national health statistics and other data on the health situation in the Caribbean and North, Central, and South American countries.

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Diplomatic Relations
Diplomacy, Programs and Aid

• CARICOM - British Virgin Islands
  The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was established by the Treaty of Chaguaramas in 1973. It is a regional organization dedicated to improving development, trade and economics, international competitiveness and economic leverage, coordination of foreign economic policies, and standards of living and work.
• Delegation of the European Commission in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean
  The Delegations of the External Service serve European Union interests throughout the Eastern Caribbean (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines).
• EU Relations with the British Virgin Islands
  Overview, country strategy, agreements, and documents on the European Union's relations with the British Virgin Islands.
• OECS - British Virgin Islands
  The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) member states include Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands are associate members.
• ReliefWeb - British Virgin Islands
  ReliefWeb, administered by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), provides news, documents, maps, and background information on emergency assistance by country.
• UNHCR - British Virgin Islands
  News, operations, statistics, background, analysis and policy, and maps from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Barbados and the OECS Subregional Office
  UNDP helps countries work toward human rights, democratic governance, poverty reduction, crisis prevention and recovery, energy and environment for sustainable development, and HIV/AIDS prevention. UNDP Barbados is a subregional, multi-country office that serves the Member States of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Christopher and Nevis (also called St. Kitts and Nevis), Saint Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines).
• United Kingdom Overseas Territories Association (UKOTA) - British Virgin Islands
  "UKOTA exists to promote the interests of the United Kingdom Overseas Territories and co-operation between them. Specifically UKOTA demonstrates the collective and individual partnerships between the territories and Her Majesty's Government."

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Health

• PAHO/WHO
  Official site of the Pan American Health Organization, a regional office of the World Health Organization.   
  • Country Health Profile - British Virgin Islands
    Information, health situation analysis, and statistics about countries in the Americas.

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Peacekeeping and Military Information

• Defense is the responsibility of the United Kingdom
  • see UK Ministry of Defence

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Resources in the Catalog

• The Library Catalog, Chinook
  There are numerous secondary, federal, and international sources of information on the British Virgin Islands available in the collection.
  
  Try these searches to see some of the resources in Chinook, the library catalog:

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  british virgin islands	british virgin islands
  british virgin islands (government publications only)	british virgin islands (government publications only)

  
  

• Foreign Relations and International Aid
• United Kingdom: Country Guide