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Smart cities for all toolkit
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/12/smart-cities-for-all-toolkit/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 12, 2017 Just launched by G3ict and World a free toolkit which aims to eliminate the digital divide for persons with disabilities and older persons in Smart Cities programs worldwide.
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Standards of conduct in banking
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/17/standards-of-conduct-in-banking/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2014 Read the recent Financial Conduct Authority reports to find out which 5 banks it fined for failing to control business practices in their foreign...
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The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/26/the-international-day-against-homophobia-transphobia-and-biphobia/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2015 IDAHOT is commemorated on 17th May.
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Violence against women and girls annual report
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/29/violence-against-women-and-girls-annual-report/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 29, 2015 Just released from the CPS, the report shows a substantial increase in the number of crimes reported and the number of successful prosecutions in the UK.
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Global Gender pay gap
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/24/3028/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2017 For details on the Global Gender Pay gap see the recent United Nations Stop the Robbery campaign which has been launched on social media It is supporting the http://www.unwomen.
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Documenting Hate
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/08/documenting-hate/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2017 A recent new project supported by Propublica, US media and human rights organisations including University of Miami School of Communication, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Human...
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How do the media create and spreads stories?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/08/how-do-the-media-create-and-spreads-stories/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2017 An interesting open-source site is M edia Cloud. This is a joint project by the MIT Center for Civic Media and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
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Freedom to Marry, Oral History Collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/26/freedom-to-marry-oral-history-collection/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2017 Free access to this important collection from the University of California Berkeley The Bancroft Library’s Oral History Center .
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‘Domestic violence is a form of arbitrary execution’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/14/domestic-violence-is-a-form-of-arbitrary-execution/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 14, 2017 …according to the latest report issued by Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (Gender-sensitive approach to arbitrary killings) – Advance...
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Crimes committed by American corporations
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/16/crimes-committed-by-american-corporations/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 16, 2017 University of Virginia School of Law has launched the Corporate Prosecutions Registry .