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Economic impact of Ebola
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/10/20/economic-impact-ebola/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 20, 2014 The economic impact of the 2014 Ebola epidemic with short and medium term estimates for West Africa from the World Bank.
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Stonewall Good University Guide
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/03/stonewall-good-university-guide/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 Stonewall have recently created a good universities guide . This rates what specific UK colleges are doing to support LGBT students. Leicester is on the list http://www.
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The most dangerous places for a journalist
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/07/the-most-dangerous-places-for-a-journalist/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 7, 2014 According to data from the Committee to Protect Journalists in 2013 it was Syria, Iraq and Egypt. See the Guardian Datablog visualisation graphic.
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Global slavery index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/15/global-slavery-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2014 According to the Walk Free Foundation there are 38.5 million slaves worldwide. including 8,300 in the UK.
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Education for all 2015
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/20/education-for-all-2015/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2015 The latest report for 2015 from UNESCO monitors progress towards achieving worldwide access to 6 goals.
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World refugee day 2016
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/24/world-refugee-day-2016/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2016 Find out why we need to support refugees by consulting the UNHCR Global Trends report 2015. More than 65.
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Mentions of Trident on Historical Hansard
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/07/21/mentions-of-trident-on-historical-hansard/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 21, 2016 Blog post on the Talking Humanities blog analyses the use of the word Trident in parliamentary debate: https://talkinghumanities.blogs.sas.ac.
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2017 Atlas of Sustainable development goals
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/08/2017-atlas-of-sustainable-development-goals/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2017 Just released by the World Bank a visual mapping of progress towards the 17 Sustainable Development goals which include: ending poverty, good health, access to education, sustainable cities.
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Never mind the ballots
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/02/never-mind-the-ballots/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 2, 2017 BFI Player’s fascinating collection of election films from the early 20 th century to the 1970s They range from the funny Clangers voting cartoon from 1974 (ask your candidate in 2017 –...
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Sexual harassment in the workplace
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/09/sexual-harassment-in-the-workplace/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 9, 2018 “Urgent action” is needed to better protect victims of sexual harassment in the workplace a fter shocking incidents were reported to the Equality and Human Rights Commission.