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• Are emojis sexist?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/are-emojis-sexist/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 Certainly  Google engineers think so as they recently submitted a proposal to Unicode: s ee Expanding Emoji Professions: Reducing Gender Inequality for  13 proposed designs to...

• Offshore leaks database

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/offshore-leaks-database/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 A new enhanced website launched this week  by the International Committee of Investigative Journalists which contains all the resources from the Panama Papers tax-avoidance scandal...

• Online censorship on social media

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/27/online-censorship-on-social-media/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2016 A first report from OnlineCensorship.org, a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Visualizing Impact .

• Atlas of African Health

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/03/atlas-of-african-health/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 3, 2016 Just released by the WHO includes data on progress towards health-related Millennium Development goals.

• Britain and the EU: two papers

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/18/britain-and-the-eu-two-papers/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 18, 2017 Two key papers have been released by the UK government Future customs arrangements: a future partnership paper- HM Treasury, HM Revenue & Customs, and Department for Exiting the...

• Comics about social and human rights issues

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/18/comics-about-social-and-human-rights-issues/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 18, 2017 Positive negatives:  a n interesting example of comics being used to communicate key social issues.

• Business Multidimensional Poverty Index: Costa Rica

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/09/04/business-multidimensional-poverty-index-costa-rica/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2017 Costa Rica launched the Business Multidimensional Poverty Index developed by the Positive Horizon Association with the technical support of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development...

• The State of the State Report

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/24/the-state-of-the-state-report/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 24, 2017 The State of the State report  from the think tank Reform, and Deloitte which analyses the state of and opinions about the UK public sector.

• End violence against women and girls

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/12/05/end-violence-against-women-and-girls/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 5, 2017 From 25th November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to 10th December, Human Rights Day, the  16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based...

• Yemen Conflict Observatory

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/23/yemen-conflict-observatory/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 23, 2024 Yemen Conflict Observatory   A new site created by ACLED and the Yemen Data project. This site offers up to date data dashboards and mappings of war and violence in Yemen.