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  •  Gender dynamics within the UN Security Council

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 20, 2024 The UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library has completed a project to provide statistical data on the gender composition of the UN Security Council from 1946 onward.

  • A Cross-country Database of Fiscal Space

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 11, 2017 New for economic and economic historian researchers from the World Bank: a database of fiscal data which can be downloaded in Excel or Stat format.

  • International Day of the Girl – 11th October

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 16, 2018 Girls ‘banned from using mobile phones’ in many nations Shocking findings from a global survey released on the International Day of the Girl.

  • Too poor to afford school holidays?

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 28, 2017 This week the Trussell Trust published research that during school holidays more children receive and rely on food bank emergency supplies.

  • Employers who underpay workers

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 17, 2017 The UK government has released a list of 350 employers who failed to the minimum wage . The page also has facts on the key industrial sectors concerned.

  • Friendly Numberhood

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 23, 2011 http://www.numberhood.

  • Aid Worker Security database

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2013 https://aidworkersecurity.org/ Produced by the Humanitarian Outcomes, a team of specialist consultants, this database provides statistics on violence against aid workers.

  • University pledges to offer a hundred Sanctuary Awards to displaced people worldwide

    Read more about University of Leicester offering one hundred distance learning scholarships to displaced people across the world.

  • Cybersecurity and privacy of data

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2015 The Culture, Media and Sport Committee have launched an inquiry into cyber security following the recent cyber-attack of TalkTalk’s website.

  • Global Terrorism database updated

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 The total number of terrorist attacks and total deaths due to terrorist attacks worldwide decreased by 12% in 2015, according to the latest annual update of the Global Terrorism...

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