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• 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.

• Index of African Governance

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/02/03/index-of-african-governance/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 3, 2023 The  2022 Ibrahim Index of African Governance has just been published.

• African American Student Project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/07/29/african-american-student-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 29, 2022 Database – African American Student Project  University of Michigan resource covering 1853-1970 which documents and maps black students enrolled at the university.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 .

• What is the state of open data?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/16/what-is-the-state-of-open-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 16, 2017 The Open Knowledge Foundation has just published its open Data index.

• Trump’s remarks and speeches

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/01/20/trumps-remarks-and-speeches/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2020   FactCheck.org has launched a special section on its website for fact checking transcripts of the presidents remarks and political speeches .

• 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.

• More data portals

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/01/more-data-portals/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 O pen Data Inception   has mapped over 1600 open data portals around the world.  Hover over the maps to get statistics on different nations.