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• Israel Elections 2015

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/13/israel-elections-2015/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2015 Elections are due to take place on 17th March. The Israel Democracy Institute website is a good starting point for background information on the electoral process.

• International Day of the Girl Child

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/17/international-day-of-the-girl-child/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2016 was celebrated by the UN on October 11th   The official website has news , related resolutions and a resource section with reports including empowerment guidelines and statistics...

• Violence against older people

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/16/violence-against-older-people/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 16, 2017 15th June has been designated by the United Nations as World Elder Abuse Awareness Day to increase knowledge and work to eliminate abuse and violence against older people worldwide.

• Race and Diversity in UK Academia

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/04/11/race-and-diversity-in-uk-academia/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 11, 2014 Race and Diversity in UK Academia An analysis by the  Conversation  shows worrying under representation of black and Asian ethnic groups in UK universities both as students...

• Surveillance Industry Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/12/surveillance-industry-index-2/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 12, 2016 Just launched by Privacy International and Transparency Toolkit this new tool aims to track the development of the global surveillance industry.

• Everyday sexism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/21/everyday-sexism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 21, 2016 A new podcast of a public lecture from Laura Bates, author of the Everyday Sexism Project. It was record at the LSE on 11 th   October 2016 and lasts 1 hour 25 minutes.

• Inclusive Growth Monitor

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/inclusive-growth-monitor/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 New from the Joseph Rowntree Trust a tool for examining and measuring the relationship between poverty and growth .

• Family Online Safety Grid Directory update

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/03/family-online-safety-grid-directory-update/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 3, 2016 Global Resource & Information Directory (GRID ) was first launched in 2010 by the Family Online Safety Institute in partnership with UNICEF.

• VoxDev launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/30/voxdev-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 30, 2017 Free access to a great new portal   from the Centre for Economic Policy Research, the International Growth Centre and the Private Enterprise Development in Low Income Countries...

• Modern slavery

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/11/modern-slavery/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 11, 2017 The commercial company Maplethrorpe have just released their 2017 modern slavery index . You can view a summary on their website.