Country Profile (BBC)
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/country_profiles/1106425.stm
Includes a brief overview, facts, and information about leaders and media in Estonia.
A Country Study (Library of Congress)
lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/eetoc.html
The Country Study presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political and national security systems and institutions of Estonia.
Estonian
Human
Development Fact Sheet
hdrstats.undp.org/countries/country_fact_sheets/cty_fs_EST.html
This report provides statistics on
alcohol and drug use, criminal careers, homicide, and suicide in
Estonia. Reports are available for each year from 1998 through 2002 in
both Estonian and English.
Homicides
in
Estonia in the 1990s
www.om.fi/optula/4875.htm
This research is part of a program carried out by the National Research Institute of Legal Policy in Helsinki surveying crime in Eastern Europe. Increases in homicides are reported.
Statistical
Office of
Estonia
www.stat.ee/
Contains crime statistics on offenses registered by the police, persons under prosecution, discovery rate, indicators of work of the State Prosecutor's Office, convicts, and persons detained in penal institutions.
The World Factbook (CIA)
www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/en.html
Povides a description of the geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues of Estonia. Other country descriptions are written to a common template so that comparisons of similar functions in different countries can be made easily.
Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) - Council of Europe
GRECO evaluation procedures involve the collection of information through questionnaire(s), on-site country visits enabling evaluation teams to solicit further information during high-level discussions with domestic key players, and drafting of evaluation reports. These reports, which are examined and adopted by GRECO, contain recommendations to the evaluated countries in order to improve their level of compliance with the provisions under consideration. Measures taken to implement recommendations are subsequently assessed by GRECO under a separate compliance procedure
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) has published its Third Round Evaluation Report on Estonia. The report has been made public with the agreement of the country’s authorities. It focuses on two distinct themes: criminalization of corruption and transparency of party funding.
Estonia
2004 - Country Fact Sheet, Eurasian Narcotics
www.silkroadstudies.org/new/inside/research/narcotics_crime/FactSheet/2004/Estonia.pdf
This site provides information about drug production and smuggling and counter-narcotics efforts of Estonia.
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) - Country Overview
www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/country-overviews/ee
This overview presents a comprehensive overview of the drugs situation in Estonia. Topics covered in the country overview include: drug use among the general population and young people, prevention, problem drug use, treatment demand, drug-related infectious diseases, drug-related deaths, treatment responses, harm reduction responses, drug markets and drug-related offences, national drug laws, national drug strategy, coordination mechanism in the field of drugs and drug-related research. Also included in the country report are key statistics on the drug situation and a barometer that indicates the prevalence profile and relative rating of the country.
Amnesty International - International Report
An overview of the current human rights status of Estonia as determined by the Amnesty International Report. In Arabic, English, French, and Spanish.
Annual Reports to Congress on International Religious Freedom - Estonia
These reports, produced by the U.S. Department of State, describe the status of religious freedom in Estonia, government policies violating religious belief and practices of groups, religious denominations, and individuals, and U.S. policies to promote religious freedom around the world. It is submitted in compliance with the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998.
Freedom Watch - Political Rights and Civil Liberties
Country report including basis political, economic, and social data arranged in the following categories: population, gross national income per capita (GNI/per capita), life-expectancy, religious groups, ethnic groups, captial, political rights, civil liberties, status, and a ten-year ratings timeline. Includes reports from 2002-2007, 2008.