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• 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...

• 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.

• World Wide Income Inequality Database – updated

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/24/world-wide-income-inequality-database-updated/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2017 Latest release 2017 WIID3.

• 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.

• Labour Together

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/03/labour-together/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 3, 2016 Find out more about this new political grouping launched this week by members of the Labour Party to unify and renew the party.

• Missing Migrants Project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/28/missing-migrants-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 28, 2023 The  Missing Migrants Project  from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) documents reported cases of deaths or missing people in international migration since 2014.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.