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• Police and hate crime

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/31/police-and-hate-crime/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 31, 2018 Do the police investigate hate crime properly? Serious concerns have been raised this week by an HMIC inspection  report.

• Female Genital Mutilation

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/02/08/female-genital-mutilation/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2019 International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation was 6th February Key resources for researching related topics include: A report published by the UN in July 2018 the...

• International Equal Pay Day

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/09/25/international-equal-pay-day/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 25, 2020 18th September is designated  International Equal pay day Some key documents are:  Human Rights Council resolution on Equal Pay  (2019) ILO Centenary...

• The Paths to Equal

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/28/the-paths-to-equal/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 28, 2023 The Paths to Equal  – new twin indeces on women’s empowerment and gender equality based on data for 114 countries, including data on the progress towards the Sustainable...

• The UK’s humanitarian aid cuts

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/the-uks-humanitarian-aid-cuts/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 There have been proposed cuts to the UK aid budget. For some background and reactions to the proposed cuts see these useful resources: The 0.

• 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/10/16-days-of-activism-against-gender-based-violence/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 10, 2018 This is an international campaign to challenge violence against women and girls.

• MOnetary ValuE of health at older ages (MOVE) Simulator

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/01/13/monetary-value-of-health-at-older-ages-move-simulator/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2025 Developed by the WHO Demographic Change and Healthy Ageing Unit, the MOVE simulator allows a user to estimate the value of changes in health status for an individual or a population...

• ‘Removing womens’ inequality would add $12 trillion to global growth’

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/30/removing-womens-inequality-would-add-12-trillion-to-global-growth/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 30, 2016 …according to the latest report from Mckinsey.   It estimates that gender inequality has vast economic costs.

• Free access to Congressional Research reports

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/02/free-access-to-congressional-research-reports/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 2, 2016 EveryCRSReport.com provides free access to over 8,000 reports from the Congressional Research Service.

• Gender Pay Gap reporting is now compulsory…

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/04/11/gender-pay-gap-reporting-is-now-compulsory/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 11, 2017 … for  employers with 250 or more staff.  To find out about the new system see the UK government website  and read the legislation.