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Gender and Women, Peace and Security
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/09/11/gender-and-women-peace-and-security/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 11, 2020 To highlight the important role of women in peacemaking and to mark the 20th anniversary of the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on women, peace and security, the...
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Measuring rural poverty
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/04/29/measuring-rural-poverty/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2014 Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool (MPAT) The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has just released this new tool which can be used to measure rural...
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Global data hub on human trafficking
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/09/global-data-hub-on-human-trafficking/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 9, 2018 Counter-Trafficking Data Collaborative is the first global data hub on human trafficking publishing harmonized data from counter-trafficking organizations around the world.
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United Nations Yearbook on Human Rights
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/02/08/united-nations-yearbook-on-human-rights/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2019 Yearbook on Human Rights (1946-1988) now available online Between 1946 and 1988 the United Nations published annual editions of the Yearbook on Human Rights.
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MediArXiv launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/08/mediarxiv-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 8, 2019 A new scholar-led digital archive for media, film and communication studies—has just been launched by Jeff Pooley , Associate Professor of Media & Communication,...
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Press freedom is declining
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/29/press-freedom-is-declining/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2019 According to the latest annual report from Reporteurs Sans Frontières which ranks 180 nations worldwide only 24% are rated as having a good level of press freedom, a decline from...
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Cuban Radionovelas
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/06/11/cuban-radionovelas/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 11, 2019 Currently being digitised by Tulane University library this collection of original Spanish-language radio soap operas — better known as radionovelas produced by Cuban Emigres in Miami...
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African women own fewer assets than men
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/25/african-women-own-fewer-assets-than-men/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 25, 2019 Latest Afrobarometer finding on opinion polls conducted in 34 African nations 2016-18. It also covers attitudes towards household decision making.
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Results UN
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/02/23/results-un/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 23, 2021 A new website from The Office of Programme Planning and Finance Budget (OPPFB) and the Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) of the United Nations.
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Oman Library at the Middle East Institute Digital Library
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/17/oman-library-at-the-middle-east-institute-digital-library/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 17, 2021 Oman Library at the Middle East Institute (MEI) digital collection includes rare books published from 1700 to 1921 in 7 Middle Eastern languages including Arabic, French and Turkish.