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• US Government publications new website

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/19/us-government-publications-new-website/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 19, 2016 GPO Launches Beta of govinfo.gov.   The site will eventually replace Federal Digital System (FDsys) in 2017.

• EU referendum

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/27/eu-referendum/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2016 View Demos visual mapping of the Brexit Twitterosphere f or a stunning visual examination of key players and networks.

• Trends monitor

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/30/trends-monitor/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 30, 2018 Trends Monitor is a research project being undertaken by Media Matters for Democracy to identify and document potential manipulation of political hashtags and conversations on Twitter in...

• Violence against women in elections

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/16/violence-against-women-in-elections-2/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 16, 2018 IFES release reports about violence against women in elections.  Their website now includes a section which documents efforts to measure and combat this.

• Global data hub on human trafficking

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/09/global-data-hub-on-human-trafficking/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 9, 2018 Counter-Trafficking Data Collaborative is the first global data hub on human trafficking publishing harmonized data from counter-trafficking organizations around the world.

• Observatory of killed journalists

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/16/observatory-of-killed-journalists/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2018 New database from UNESCO. Shocki ngly  the The  Observatory  records 1,293 killings since 1993, including more than 80 recorded in 2018 .

• Oxfam launch land rights website

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/10/oxfam-launch-land-rights-website/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 10, 2018 Oxfam have now gathered together reports, news and indicators on all aspects of their work on land rights on a new website .

• United Nations Yearbook on Human Rights

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/02/08/united-nations-yearbook-on-human-rights/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2019 Yearbook on Human Rights (1946-1988) now available online Between 1946 and 1988 the United Nations published annual editions of the Yearbook on Human Rights.

• Press freedom is declining

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/29/press-freedom-is-declining/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2019 According to the latest annual report from Reporteurs Sans Frontières which ranks 180 nations worldwide only 24% are rated as having a good level of press freedom, a decline from...

• Historic election data

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/03/historic-election-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2019 For historic elections data see the  Elections centre University of Plymouth It provides free access to  detailed handbooks of trends and results from 1991-2011 Historic election...