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Marshall Islands
| Location |
N Pacific Ocean, WSW of U.S. State of Hawai’i |
| Latitude and longitude |
9 00 N, 168 00 E |
| Sovereignty |
Independent
|
| United Nations member? |
Yes |
| Political status notes |
Officially, "Republic of the Marshall Islands";
freely associated with the United States
|
| Population |
55,400 |
| Census notes |
est. June 2004 |
| Land area in square kilometers |
181 |
| Capital |
Majuro |
Fundamental legal document(s) online
|
| Compact
of Free Association: original
1986 and as
amended (2003)(PDF 526K), from Digital
Micronesia: The Marshall Islands, from Professor Dirk H.R.
Spennemann |
| Compact
of Free Association, as amended (2003) (PDF 526K), from the Pacific Islands Development
Program at the East-West Center |
| Constitution
of the Marshall Islands, from the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute
at the University of the South Pacific School of Law |
Other legal documents online
|
| Marshall
Islands Law, a collection of statutes, laws, judicial decisions
and other materials from the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute
at the University of the South Pacific School of Law |
| Marshall Islands
- Politics, a selection from Digital
Micronesia: The Marshall Islands, from Professor Dirk
H.R. Spennemann;
particularly good for historical legal documents |
| Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands Concerning Cooperation to Suppress the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Their Delivery Systems, and Related Materials by Sea
(August 13, 2004) |
| Trusteeship
Agreement for the Former Japanese Mandated Islands, from the Legal
Information System of the Federated States of Micronesia |
Sources and other useful websites
|
| For citizens of the Marshall Islands, How
to Apply for a Work Permit in the United States on this website |
| Bank of Hawaii, Economics Research Center, Republic
of the Marshall Islands Economic Report (2001) (PDF 207K) |
| Bikini
Atoll |
| Compacts
of Free Association Renegotiations, from the Pacific Islands
Development Program/East-West Center |
| Country
profile: Marshall Islands, from the BBC News |
| Digital
Micronesia: The Marshall Islands, from Professor Dirk
H.R. Spennemann |
| Economic Policy, Planning and Statistics Office,
Office of the President, Republic of the Marshall Islands |
| Fishery
Country Profile—Marshall Islands, from the Food and
Agriculture Organization |
| Independent
States in the World, Office of the Geographer and Global Issues,
Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State,
Washington, D.C. |
| Marshall
Islands, Background Notes, from the U.S. Department of State
(2003) |
| Marshall
Islands, map and basic demographic and economic data from the
South Pacific Island Web Atlas, provided by the GIS Unit of the
University of the South Pacific |
| Marshall
Islands, from the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
Trade |
| Marshall
Islands, from Radio Australia’s Charting the Pacific |
| Marshall
Islands, from Radio Australia’s Time to Talk |
| Marshalls,
Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington,
D.C. |
| Nuclear
Claims Tribunal, Republic of the Marshall Islands |
| Nuclear
Nomads, photo collection from the Micronesian Seminar |
| Reagan
Test Site, from the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command
(PDF); see also, via the Internet Archive, the map
of the Marshall Islands |
| RMI Online,
Internet Guide to the Republic of the Marshall Islands, from the Embassy
of the Republic of the Marshall Islands to the United States,
Washington, DC |
| Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Pacific
Island Populations 2004 (Microsoft Excel spreadsheet 78K) |
| United Kingdom, Foreign & Commonwealth
Office, Country
Profile: Marshall Islands |
| U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The
World Factbook |
| Yokwe Online,
a searchable directory of Marshall Islands resources online |
| More
ISLAND LAW links for the Marshall Islands |
Selected articles on law and political status
|
The
Amended U.S. Compacts of Free Association with the Federated States of
Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands: Less Free, More
Compact,
by Robert A. Underwood, formerly Delegate from Guam to the United States
House of Representatives, from East-West Center Working Papers, Pacific
Island Development Series , No. 16 (PDF 162K) |
| Micronesian Governments: A View from the Outside,
by Frances X. Hezel, SJ, from the Micronesian Counselor (April 2004) |
| The
Nuclear Claims Tribunal of the Republic of the Marshall Islands: An
Independent Examination and Assessment of its Decision-Making Processes,
by Dick Thornburgh, Glenn Reichardt, and Jon Stanley (2003) (PDF 147K) |
| Republic
of the Marshall Islands, by Michael R. Ogden for the World
Encyclopedia of Political Systems (3d ed. New York: Facts on File) |
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