Project Ploughshares is an agency of the Canadian Council of Churches and provides expertise and analysis to the Council and its members on peace and security issues.

Organisation campaigning to stop the use of child soldiers. 

United Nations website, Peace and Security section. Includes information on the structure and purpose of bodies such as the General Assembly and the Security Council.

Information on the status of children in areas of armed conflict.

UNIFEMi is the women's fund at the United Nations. The organisation assists programs and research into gender equity and women's empowerment. Information on peace, security and women.

Organisation assisting children affected by armed conflict.

Information on the effects of conflict on women.

Women, War and Peace is the web portal from UNIFEMi on women, peace and security:
 

The ICRC responds to the needs of people affected by armed conflict. The site provides good information on specific geographical areas of current conflicts.

Data, videos, programs and papers on America's defense spending and monitoring.

Amnesty's struggle for implementation of universal human rights includes camaigns for control of the arms trade, and for human rights in war. Their international site includes links to Australian and other local campaigns.

Reaching Critical Will is a WILPFi project aiming to increase effective participation of civil society at international disarmament fora. WILPF believes that nuclear disarmament needs sustained effort by governments, non-governmental organizations and the UNi.  Reaching Critical Will presents disarmament information in plain English.

Information concerning conventional weapons, weapons of mass destruction including nuclear weapons, UNi treaties restricting their use, and the human costs of war, can be found on this UN site.