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Syllabus area 1: Living in a democracy- the UK

• BBC News Front Page
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/
• Countryside Alliance
  http://www.countryside-alliance.org/
• Greenpeace
  http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/
• CND
  http://www.cnduk.org/
• GM-free Scotland
  http://www.gmfreescotland.net/
• Scottish Parliament
  http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/
• UK Parliament
  http://www.parliament.uk/

Syllabus area 2: Changing society: the UK

• Department of Work and Pensions
  http://www.dwp.gov.uk/
• Age Concern Scotland
  http://www.ageconcernscotland.org.uk/
• New Deal
  http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Jobseekers/LookingForWork/DG_10030662

Syllabus area 3: Ideologies- the USA

• Republican Party
  http://www.rnc.org/
• Democratic Party
  https://www.democrats.org/
• American Civil Liberties Union
  http://www.aclu.org/
• American Federation of Labor/Congress of Industrial Organisations
  http://www.aflcio.org/
• American Association for Retired Persons (AARP)
  http://www.aarp.org/
• Centre for American Women and Politics
  http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/index.php
• Coalition to stop gun violence
  http://www.csgv.org
• National Rifle Association (NRA)
  http://www.nra.org/
• Veterans of Foreign Wars
  http://www.vfw.org/

Syllabus area 4: International relations

• North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
  http://www.nato.int/
• Department for International Development
  http://www.dfid.gov.uk/
• UNAIDS
  http://www.unaids.org