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• 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.

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

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/18/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...

• Quality of Life in the EU

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/08/quality-of-life-in-the-eu/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 8, 2015 Eurostat has just released a new series of statistics which present a multi-dimensional measure of well-being, considering social as well as economic factors.

• Are girls invisible?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/11/are-girls-invisible/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 11, 2016 Yes according to the most recent report from Plan International .

• Africa Open Data

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/23/africa-open-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2013 Africa open data Useful initiative of the Open Africa Platform which is part of the Ujuzi Initiative and created and funded by the Africa Media Initiative (AMI), the World Bank...

• International day to eliminate violence against women

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/29/international-day-to-eliminate-violence-against-women/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 29, 2013 International day to eliminate violence against women was on 25th November. The official UN website has broadcasts messages as well as links to United Nations resolutions and reports.

• Full text publications from the United Nations Environment Programme

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/01/10/full-text-publications-from-the-united-nations-environment-programme/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 10, 2014 The UNEP Knowledge Repository Access full text publications from the redesigned United Nations Environment Programme website.

• The China and Latin America Finance Database

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/06/the-china-and-latin-america-finance-database/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2014 https://www.thedialogue.org/china_latin_america_finance_database A joint project between the Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) at Boston University and the Inter-American Dialogue.

• Income and Equality

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/21/income-and-equality/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 21, 2014 The Work Foundation Launch Low Pay Project The site offers  online recent papers  and low pay data. Also on this topic, The Office for National Statistics has long-term wage data.

• Compare the NHS with other health services

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/08/compare-the-nhs-with-other-health-services/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2015 Economist Intelligence Unit has just published a report which compares the NHS with healthcare services in 30 other OECD nations.