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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...

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Women in Congress, 1917-2017

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/04/24/women-in-congress-1917-2017/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 24, 2017 Free access to this reference book from the Library of Congress.

• 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.

• 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 .