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  • Global Gender pay gap

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2017 For details on the Global Gender Pay gap see the recent United Nations Stop the Robbery campaign which has been launched on social media It is supporting the http://www.unwomen.

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • Graduate starting salaries

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2014 Graduate starting salaries.  The Complete University Guide has data which compares starting salaries between 2007-2012.

  • Women and pension schemes

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 21, 2014 The latest annual report from Scottish Widows shows that more British are  women saving into pension schemes.  However women  typically still saved less than men.

  • Homosexuality – is it still considered a disease?

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2015 Controversy continues concerning the WHO stance towards homosexuality.

  • 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.

  • For South Asian Heritage Month

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 28, 2023 CrossAsia Portal The portal has been set up by the Specialised Information Service Asia (Fachinformationsdienst Asien) at Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.

  • 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.

  • Violence cost the world 13.6 Trillion US dollars in 2015

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 17, 2016 Shocking statistics The latest annual edition of the Global Peace index from the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) .

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