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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...

• LGBTI inclusion index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/03/lgbti-inclusion-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2019 United Nations Development Programme has just devised the first indicators on how to measure LGBTI inclusion.

• 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...

• Parliamentary rules database

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/18/parliamentary-rules-database/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2019 ParlRulesData.org  is a machine‐readable dataset of House of Commons Standing Orders between 1811 and 2015.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Political behaviour and communication during the COVID-19 pandemic

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/04/27/political-behaviour-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2020 PandemicPolitics   A group of UK academic staff and researchers are blogging and writing on political behaviour, crisis management theory, international relations and political...

• Explosive Violence Monitor

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/09/14/explosive-violence-monitor/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 14, 2020   Explosive Violence Monitor 2019   Latest annual report by Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) – demonstrates that civilians continue to be disproportionately affected by the...

• Freedom in the world, 2021

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/17/freedom-in-the-world-2021/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 17, 2021 The latest annual report from Freedom House which maps trends in democracy worldwide. This year it has materials on the impact of the pandemic on democracy.