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  • Expanded Hansard coverage for UK Parliament website

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 3, 2018 A new redesigned site now offers 200 years of parliamentary debates from the main UK website . You can quickly search by Members, debates and petitions.

  • Myanmar – human rights concerns

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 3, 2018 T his week the United Nations has raised concerns about  genocide in Myanmar.   What are the human rights concerns? Try these free resources. UN Press releases.

  • Food security

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 24, 2018 Numbers starving worldwide rising Shocking news from the latest Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report released by the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization.

  • Mexican Intelligence Digital Archive

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 24, 2018 Free access to this new full-text resource, MIDAS, the Mexican Intelligence Digital Archives ( los Archivos del Autoritarismo Mexicano ), is supported by the Center for Research...

  • Eurostat regional yearbook 2018 released

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2018 Get free access to sub-national level data on Europe’s regions.

  • Mapping Segregation: Google Maps and the Human Rights of Palestinians

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2018 Interesting report by 7amleh – Arab Center for Social Media Advancement which argues that the boundaries and names used on Google Maps favour the cause of the Israeli government in the...

  • EU Customs Union explained

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 19, 2018 The EU Customs Union created a free-trade area where goods circulate freely, without customs duties at the borders between EU countries.

  • Brexit Statutory Instruments Dashboard

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 26, 2018 Westminster Lens A new tool launched by the Hansard Society . It aims to monitor how many Brexit SIs are being laid before Parliament each week.

  • Twitter release data on state-backed propaganda from Iran and Russia

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 26, 2018 https://about.twitter.com/en_us/values/elections-integrity.

  • 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.

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