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State of the World 2014/15: Amnesty International
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/23/state-of-the-world-201415-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.
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Comparing politicians
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/comparing-politicians/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 With the ongoing Labour Party contest you might want to compare politicians.
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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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Observatory of killed journalists
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/16/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 .
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Social Justice Day 2017
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/24/social-justice-day-2017/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 24, 2017 20th February was World Social Justice day the 2017 Theme was “Preventing conflict and sustaining peace through decent work A key document is the adoption in 2008 by the ILO of...
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February is LGBT History Month
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/02/february-if-lgbt-history-month/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2018 To celebrate the arrival LGBT History Month view this collection on which features primary source documents and teaching materials relating to the impact of the 1969 Stonewall...
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Wikipedia bans the Daily Mail as an ‘unreliable source’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/17/wikipedia-bans-the-daily-mail-as-an-unreliable-source/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 17, 2017 See the discussion from the Wikipedia reliable sources noticeboard There is also some interesting discussion by the Nieman Lab Also see this recent article on search strategies in...
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Bitcoin ‘offers opportunities to charities’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/08/bitcoin-offers-opportunities-to-charities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2015 According to the latest report from the Charities Aid Foundation online currencies such as Bitcoin could enable charities to cut currency transfer costs and encourage transparency.
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LGBT Hate crime under-reported
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/29/lgbt-hate-crime-under-reported/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 29, 2015 88% of UK LGBT people have experience emotional or physical hate crime and only 14% have felt able to report the most recent crimes to the police.
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Suffragettes on File
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/16/suffragettes-on-file/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2018 A new educational resource from the National Archives designed for teachers of Key stage 1,3,5 – Suffragettes on File .