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• 20% of women have experienced some kind of sexual assault since the age of 16

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/09/20-of-women-have-experienced-some-kind-of-sexual-assault-since-the-age-of-16/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 9, 2018 Latest shocking data from the UK Office of National Statistics. This compares with 4% of men. See the methodology and full report on the website.

• Mapping NGOs website

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/02/mapping-ngos-website/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2018 This is the website of a research project run jointly by the Global Development Institute  (GDI, University of Manchester) and the Sheffield Institute for International Development .

• 29th May: UN International Day of Peacekeepers

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/06/01/29th-may-un-international-day-of-peacekeepers/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 1, 2018 29th May is UN International Day of Peacekeepers . On the 70th anniversary view a list of those who died in 2017 and explore other free resources.

• New award for improving agricultural monitoring from Space

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/03/25/new-award-for-improving-agricultural-monitoring-from-space/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 25 March 2020 Leicester physicists have recently been awarded a Met Office Newton grant to monitor vegetation health and stress from Space Food security has always been a major strategic issue related to...

• Where is the Best Place to Grow old?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/09/25/where-is-the-best-place-to-grow-old/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 25, 2015 Find out by consulting the Global Agewatch Index 2015 from HelpAge International which ranks 96 nations .

• What are children worried about?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/09/04/what-are-children-worried-about/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2017 The latest annual Good Childhood report from the Children’s Society measures children’s subject well-being and happiness.

• The World Wealth and Income Database

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/22/the-world-wealth-income-database/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 22, 2018 Launched in 2017 as a single point of access for statistics on global inequality data , t his great site is managed by an international consortium of economists including Thomas...

• International Equal Pay Day

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/09/25/international-equal-pay-day/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 25, 2020 18th September is designated  International Equal pay day Some key documents are:  Human Rights Council resolution on Equal Pay  (2019) ILO Centenary...

• Ageing

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/11/16/centre-for-ageing-better/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2020 Centre for Ageing Better, Community of Practice Resource Library A lottery funded evidence based research organisation.

• Happiness (and the effects of Covid-19 on it)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/22/happiness-and-the-effects-of-covid-19-on-it/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2021 The World Happiness Report  is a survey of the state of global happiness that ranks over 150 countries by how happy their citizens feel themselves to be.