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  • United Nations Yearbook on Human Rights

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2019 Yearbook on Human Rights (1946-1988) now available online Between 1946 and 1988 the United Nations published annual editions of the Yearbook on Human Rights.

  • Women are not represented in Local Government

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 24, 2018 According to the latest report issued by the Fawcett Society   The proportion of female councillors is still only 34%.

  • Observatory of killed journalists

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2018 New database from UNESCO. Shocki ngly  the The  Observatory  records 1,293 killings since 1993, including more than 80 recorded in 2018 .

  • Measuring rural poverty

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2014  Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool (MPAT)  The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has just released this new tool which can be used to measure rural...

  • UNICEF report shows children hit hard by financial crisis

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 Children of the Recession  has used official data to rank the impact on children from EU and OECD countries. For UK data see the CPAG website .

  • State of the World 2014/15: Amnesty International

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2015 Amnesty International’s annual review of human rights includes overview essays and country surveys covering  freedom, rights, discrimination and abuses.

  • UK elections

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2015 ‘Only 16% of 18-24 year olds certain to vote’ One of the findings from the latest annual audit of UK political engagement published by the Hansard Society.

  • Theresa May’s Brexit speech

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2017 A transcript of Theresa may’s speech of 17th January is available at https://www.gov.

  • Trump’s inauguration

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2017 On inauguration day The Guardian news is experimenting with a number of live news features. See the first filmed inauguration in 1901 via the Library of Congress website.

  • We need more women in science.

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 10, 2017 The UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science was celebrated on 11 February.

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