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HOWL
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/18/howl/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2023 History of Women’s Liberation has just been launched The main aim of the HOWL website is to collect the memories and stories of feminists involved in women’s liberation movement in...
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Women are not represented in Local Government
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/09/24/women-are-not-represented-in-local-government/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 24, 2018 According to the latest report issued by the Fawcett Society The proportion of female councillors is still only 34%.
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Violence against women in elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/16/violence-against-women-in-elections-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 16, 2018 IFES release reports about violence against women in elections. Their website now includes a section which documents efforts to measure and combat this.
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Digital Data Gender Divide
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/30/digital-data-gender-divide/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2018 Today worldwide 327 million fewer women than men have a smartphone and can access the mobile Internet. This report from the OECD considers what can be done.
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Where is the World’s Most Expensive City?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/22/where-is-the-worlds-most-expensive-city/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2019 …according to the latest EIU intelligence report? In 2019 it was shared by Singapore, Hong Kong and Paris. The least expensive city is Caracas, Venezuela.
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Principled Aid Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/29/principled-aid-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2019 Launched in March by the Overseas development index , this index ranks bilateral Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donors by the extent to which they give aid to countries...
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Trump’s remarks and speeches
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/01/20/trumps-remarks-and-speeches/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2020 FactCheck.org has launched a special section on its website for fact checking transcripts of the presidents remarks and political speeches .
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Financial Secrecy Index launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/financial-secrecy-index-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 Which jurisdictions have the most secret offshore tax havens? Find out in the latest annual ranking from the Tax Justice Network which covers transparency and accountability .
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Minecraft game: Uncensored Library
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/30/minecraft-game-uncensored-library/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2020 Uncensored Library by Reporters without Frontiers A minecraft game created by RSF which is filled with articles and websites which are censored in their countries of origin.
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Reading the riots
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/09/23/reading-the-riots/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 23, 2011 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/series/reading-the-riots and The LSE http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/news/archives/2011/09/riots.