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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%.

• Foreign Aid Explorer (US)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/06/11/foreign-aid-explorer-us/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 11, 2019 USAID has developed a new tool which aims to increase aid transparency in relation to US historical foreign aid.

• 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 .

• Security Council Meetings 1946-2020

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/16/security-council-meetings-1946-2020/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2020 Another resource for those interested in international relations:  A list of vetoes and decisions . It has been prepared and maintained by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library.

• Global State of Freedom of Information is ‘worrying’…

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/03/global-state-of-freedom-of-information-is-worrying/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2016 …according to the annual Open Data Barometer from the World Wide Web Foundation.  It says that only 50% of the 92 included countries have ‘reasonably strong’ laws.

• How many times a day do you look at your phone?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/01/how-many-times-a-day-do-you-look-at-your-phone/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2014 http://www.tecmark.co.

• State of Bitcoin 2015

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/01/16/state-of-bitcoin-2015/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 16, 2015 The latest report from  Coin Desk  stated that in 2014 Bloomberg regarded Bitcoin as the worst performing currency.

• 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.

• Coronavirus: Media coverage

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/30/coronavirus-media-coverage/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2020 Media Cloud is monitoring global media  coverage of the pandemic and has some interesting facts and figures on its website.

• Open Access book on Higher Education

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/27/open-access-book-on-higher-education/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 27, 2023 Higher Education for Good : Teaching and Learning Futures by Laura Czerniewicz (editor) Catherine Cronin (editor).