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• Kenya and gay rights

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/01/kenya-and-gay-rights/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 1, 2019 The Kenyan Penal code currently criminalises same sex relations in sections 162 and 165.  A penalty can be 14 years in prison.

• Zero hour contracts

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/06/zero-hour-contracts/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2014 The  UK Office for National Statistics  has just released some initial data on the number of individuals employed on zero hours contracts.

• Is Your News Fake?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/02/is-your-news-fake/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 2, 2017 Concerns about fake news are increasingly dominating the headlines and studies have shown that students often have difficulty evaluating the truth of resources .

• gesisDataSearch: a Data Discovery Index for the Social Sciences

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/20/gesisdatasearch-a-data-discovery-index-for-the-social-sciences/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2018 Now in beta, a new tool which will enable researchers to quickly identify high quality social and economic datasets.

• Corruption in developing countries

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/09/05/corruption-in-developing-countries/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 5, 2014 Trillion Dollar Scandal A New One Report which exposes corruption in developing countries.  It argues that more than 3.

• Equal Pay Day

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/11/equal-pay-day-2/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2016 This year equal pay day was 10 th November  This highlights the gender gap in wages as it is calculated by researchers to represent the last day in which women earn the same as men.

• Global corruption data

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/15/global-corruption-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 15, 2013 Find information on the extent of government and political corruption worldwide using the latest annual report from Transparency International: http://www.transparency.

• Opinion polls world-wide

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/21/opinion-polls-world-wide/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2013 Eurobarometer: http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/index_en.

• Socialist and Communist Pamphlets Digital Collection

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/03/socialist-and-communist-pamphlets-digital-collection/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2017 The Socialist and Communist Pamphlets digital collection New in 2017 from the University of Houston, the collection includes 40 socialist, communist, and anarchist pamphlets from a...

• World Press Freedom Day; 3rd May

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/03/world-press-freedom-day-3rd-may/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2019 The  UNESCO official website 2019 focuses  on the role of the media in the fight against misinformation.