BBC NEWS – Country Profiles

British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Travel Advisory

CIA – The World Factbook

Crisis Group – CrisisWatch (interactive map)

Earth Observing System (7 Top Free Satellite Imagery Sources in 2019)

Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System
The Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System provides near real-time alerts about natural disasters around the world and tools to facilitate response coordination, including media monitoring, map catalogues and Virtual On-Site Operations Coordination Centre.

Global Incident Map

IMB Piracy & Armed Robbery Live Map 2020 – ICC Commercial Crime Services (CCS)
This map shows all the piracy and armed robbery incidents reported to the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre during the year.

Marine Traffic
Provides free real-time information to the public, about ship movements and ports, mainly across the coast-lines of many countries around the world.

The New Humanitarian – humanitarian news and analysis from Africa, Asia and the Middle East (updated daily)

OSAC
The Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) was created in 1985 under the Federal Advisory Committee Act to promote security cooperation between American private sector interests worldwide and the U.S. Department of State. (restricted access)

REACH – an initiative providing granular data, timely information and in-depth analysis from contexts of crisis, disaster and displacement. Created in 2010, REACH is a joint initiative of IMPACT Initiatives, ACTED and the United Nations Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT).

ReliefWeb

Thomson Reuters Foundation News
news, information, country dashboard, connections, legal advice, media development

United Nations Geospatial Information Section

UNITAR – UNOSAT – Operational Satellite Maps and Geographical Information