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Global voices advocacy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/08/global-voices-advocacy/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2013 A report on the internet firewall in China. Surveys the 2013 battle between Chinese netizens and China’s Great Firewall: http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.
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NATO Archives Online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/02/nato-archives-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2015 The official website now contains early committee documents from 1949-1959, press releases from 1961 onwards and over 300 full text books.
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Democracy is in Crisis
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/26/democracy-is-in-crisis/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2018 According to the latest annual report from Freedom House on the state of civil and political liberties worldwide the situation is worsening.
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Trends monitor
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/30/trends-monitor/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 30, 2018 Trends Monitor is a research project being undertaken by Media Matters for Democracy to identify and document potential manipulation of political hashtags and conversations on Twitter in...
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Demos Integration Hub
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/29/demos-integration-hub/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 29, 2015 Think-tank Demos has created a special mapping integration area which is examining evidence of racial and ethnic integration/segregation in Britain today.
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Thousands of women are criminalised needlessly
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/07/03/thousands-of-women-are-criminalised-needlessly/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 3, 2015 According to the latest Report from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Women in the Penal System large numbers of women are being sent to prison for short term sentences which are...
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Media pluralism and democracy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/25/media-pluralism-and-democracy/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 25, 2016 Published this week, the latest Eurobarometer survey of EU citizens on Media pluralism and democracy found that 57% of EU citizens believe that the media in their countries...
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Global Risks in the World 2017
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/13/global-risks-in-the-world-2017/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2017 This week the World Economic Forum released its latest annual report on risk in 2017. It focuses on five areas, economic, social, technological, geopolitical and environmental.
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Women in Congress, 1917-2017
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/04/24/women-in-congress-1917-2017/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 24, 2017 Free access to this reference book from the Library of Congress.
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Is your press free?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/08/is-your-press-free/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2017 Check the 2017 ranking from Reporters without Borders. Since 2002 it has been rating level of freedom available to journalists in over 180 nations worldwide.