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Women’s Resilience to Disasters (WRD) Knowledge Hub
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/03/22/womens-resilience-to-disasters-wrd-knowledge-hub/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2022 Launched by UN Women in partnership with the Australian Governmen t this new site aims to spotlight research and resources relating to gender-responsive disaster risk...
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EU referendum – some predictions
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/17/eu-referendum-some-predictions/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 17, 2016 Who will win – leave or remain? Get some predictions and look at the social monitoring from the SENSE-EU which has been developed by the SENSEI European Project.
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The Blue Book
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/04/26/the-blue-book/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 26, 2024 The Blue Book collection (1946-1994) is a great factual resource for tracing diplomatic missions to the UN.
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Globally women earn 24% less than men
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/01/globally-women-earn-24-less-than-men/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 1, 2015 Regional gender pay gaps vary from an average 33% in South Asia to 14% in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Violence against older people
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/16/violence-against-older-people/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 16, 2017 15th June has been designated by the United Nations as World Elder Abuse Awareness Day to increase knowledge and work to eliminate abuse and violence against older people worldwide.
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Peacekeeping Resource Hub
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/02/24/peacekeeping-resource-hub/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 24, 2023 The official UN website on peacekeeping now has an improved design.
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Radio Times Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/16/radio-times-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2014 Radio Times Archive Free access to all pre war editions from 1936-1938. These are fascinating for social historians as they include all the original TV listings.
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Quality of Life in the EU
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/08/quality-of-life-in-the-eu/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 8, 2015 Eurostat has just released a new series of statistics which present a multi-dimensional measure of well-being, considering social as well as economic factors.
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Gender pay gap at the BBC
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/12/gender-pay-gap-at-the-bbc/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 12, 2018 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jan/08/carrie-gracie-letter-in-full The BBC’s China editor resigned this week over pay inequality.
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Men continue to dominate positions of power in British Life
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/01/20/men-continue-to-dominate-positions-of-power-in-british-life/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2020 According to the latest Fawcett sex and power report . The situation is even worse for BAME women.