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• 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 .

• 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.

• 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.

• MAVISE

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/08/30/mavise/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 30, 2011 A database of TV companies and channels in the European Union and Candidate countries. http://mavise.obs.coe.

• US Armed Forces: Overseas activity

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/us-armed-forces-overseas-activity/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2013 Useful reference report from Congressional research services, 23 pages long.