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  • 2017 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2018 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices These are Published annually by the US State Department and cover the status of human rights and worker rights in nearly 200 countries worldwide.

  • Advertising on Social Media

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 2, 2018 As a move to greater transparency Facebook has  launche d this searchable database about political adverts appearing on Facebook and who is funding them.

  • What happens when gender quotas are introduced for  academic hiring committees?

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 18, 2019 Interesting working paper covering the situation in France which found that after gender quota in academic hiring committees were imposed in France in 2015 there was a negative impact...

  • Cyberpolicy portal launched

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2019 The United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) has just launched a Cyber Policy Portal that provides researchers with a single route to quickly get information and...

  • Global Gender Pay Gap report

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2021 Closing the gender pay gap will take 135 years according to shocking statistics from the  latest Economic Forum report  This report benchmarks the evolution of...

  • The Blue Book

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 26, 2024 The Blue Book collection (1946-1994) is a great factual resource for tracing diplomatic missions to the UN.

  • Data centres for researchers

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 6, 2016 The Economic and Social Research Council are funding three data centres – the Consumer Data Research Centre https://www.cdrc.ac.

  • Europe-wide data

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 26, 2016 T he European Data portal has now passed from Beta to permanence.  You can now use it to quickly find news and the latest open data from EU nations.

  • Examining UK government performance

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 Just released from the Institute for Government the Annual Whitehall Monitor 2015 .

  • Religious and Ethnic Groups Data

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 12, 2014 Composition of Religious and Ethnic Groups Data Free access the University of Illinois to statistical data which provides information on religious and ethnic diversity in over 100 nations...

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