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• Measuring rural poverty

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/04/29/measuring-rural-poverty/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2014  Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool (MPAT)  The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has just released this new tool which can be used to measure rural...

• UNICEF report shows children hit hard by financial crisis

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/03/unicef-report-shows-children-hit-hard-by-financial-crisis/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 Children of the Recession  has used official data to rank the impact on children from EU and OECD countries. For UK data see the CPAG website .

• Peoples Assembly against Austerity

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/07/peoples-assembly-against-austerity/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2014 Peoples Assembly against Austerity launch new website Includes materials from unions, socialists and campaign groups against welfare cuts.

• Mary Middleton

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/11/mary-middleton/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2024 On campaign.

• Open UNDP

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/15/open-undp/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 15, 2013 http://open.undp.org/ New open data website from the United Nations Development Programme. Get official data on over 6,000 development projects in 177 countries worldwide.

• Human Rights reports

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/24/human-rights-reports/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2013 Amnesty international global annual report on human rights released . Read the whole report or look at reports for individual nations.

• Gender GEDI Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/06/19/gender-gedi-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2014 2014 Gender-GEDI Index Executive Report The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute has produced a  30-country analysis of the conditions that foster high-potential female...

• Stonewall Good University Guide

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/03/stonewall-good-university-guide/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 Stonewall have recently created a good universities guide .  This rates what specific UK colleges are doing to support LGBT  students. Leicester is on the list http://www.

• Global slavery index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/15/global-slavery-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2014 According to the Walk Free Foundation there are 38.5 million slaves worldwide. including 8,300 in the UK.

• How do you access news?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/01/how-do-you-access-news/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 1, 2015 39 out of 50 of the top US news sites now get more traffic from mobile devices than desktop computers.