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• Critical race theory  

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/08/16/critical-race-theory/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2022 UCLA Law school project tracking attacks on the teaching of critical race theory in the USA. Critical race theory seeks to expose systematic racism and racist cultures.

• Global State of Freedom of Information is ‘worrying’…

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/03/global-state-of-freedom-of-information-is-worrying/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2016 …according to the annual Open Data Barometer from the World Wide Web Foundation.  It says that only 50% of the 92 included countries have ‘reasonably strong’ laws.

• Little Data book on Gender

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/31/little-data-book-on-gender/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 31, 2019 A new handy reference tool from the World Bank for those seeking accessible statistics on gender. It covers 217 countries, tracing progress in closing gender gaps between 2000-2017.

• Portal on Gender-Based Violence in Africa 

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/09/20/portal-on-gender-based-violence-in-africa/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 20, 2024 Created by Alt Advisory, based in South Africa, this website provides information on and mapping of responses to gender-based violence in African nations.

• ACLED Conflict Index 2024

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/12/13/acled-conflict-index-2024/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 13, 2024 ACLED Conflict Index 2024 Get reputable data from the team who measure and assess political violence worldwide using indicators based on deadliness, danger to civilians, geographic...

• Bullying

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/10/bullying/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 10, 2017 Released recently the UNESCO Global status report on school violence and bullying .

• 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.

• Humanitarian Data

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/08/19/humanitarian-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 19, 2014 The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has launched the  Humanitarian Data Exchange   to offer a single access point to statistics from the...

• UNV Knowledge Portal on Volunteerism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/09/11/unv-knowledge-portal-on-volunteerism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 11, 2020 The UNV Knowledge Portal on Volunteering  is  a great new resource it  includes a volunteering database containing country laws, policies, statistical measurement.

• Opendata for Africa

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/26/opendata-for-africa/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2013 Great free open data portal just launched by the African Development Bank. Covers over 50 nations providing recent data.