Online resource centres

	The online library of the International Labour Office - LABORDOC Labordoc contains references to a wide range of print and electronic publications, including journal articles, from countries around the world on all aspects of work and sustainable livelihoods, and the work-related aspects of economic and social development and human rights. Labordoc provides an ever increasing number of links to online publications available on the Internet.
	Subregional Office for the South Cone of Latin America: SRO-Santiago - Publicaciones The Subregional Office for the South Cone of Latin America provides three kinds of publications (books, series and electronic documents), among which some are dedicated to social security. Electronic documents include topics that cover the sub-regional Office's countries - Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, and other Latin American countries. In Spanish.
	ISSA Country Profiles The Country Profiles serve as an overview of social security programmes in the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Europe. Produced by the International Social Security Association (ISSA) with the support of the ILO.
	Social Security Worldwide (SSW) Covers six different databases on social protection: Scheme Description, Complementary and Private Pensions, Reforms, Legislation, Bibliography and Thesaurus. Produced by the International Social Security Association (ISSA) with the support of the ILO.
	The Information Center on Social Protection (CIPS) is a website that provides information in Portuguese on the social protection area. Its main purpose is to, on the one hand, respond to the knowledge needs of the Portuguese Speaking Countries: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tome and Principe, Timor-Leste. On the other hand, make available information on the existing social protection realities of these countries. CIPS is a joint initiative from the Executive Secretariat of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP), ILO Lisbon Office and ILO/STEP Portugal Project.
	The Instituto de Seguridad Social - BPS, Uruguay (Spanish website) includes important documentary and statistical materials; of reasearch nature, in some cases; and of informative nature, in others.