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Subscribe to Andrew Dunn's postsFull text publications from the United Nations Environment Programme
The UNEP Knowledge Repository Access full text publications from the redesigned United Nations Environment Programme website. These include publications, technical and assessment reports, guidelines, newsletters, journal articles. Annual reports are available from 2001 onwards. Flagship report the Global Environmental outlook from 2000 onwards. Areas covered include environmental management, natural disasters, climate change, environment law and […]
Factiva tutorials
Library tutorials on how to use Factiva (http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/find/databases/f/factiva) available. Finding newspaper articles: https://connect.le.ac.uk/newsfa Finding company data: https://connect.le.ac.uk/cdf/
UN Women constitutional database launched
http://constitutions.unwomen.org/ Use this great new resource to find out provisions relating to gender in constitutions worldwide. You can download the whole database or search by regions or types of provision.
POOC in participatory media
Media@McGill’s Participatory, Open, Online Course (or “POOC”) on The Participatory Condition Addresses the history, problems and possibilities of participatory media in contemporary society. It was launched to coincide with Media@McGill’s international colloquium on The Participatory Condition, which took place in Montreal on November 15th and 16th, 2013 and also includes video content from this. There […]
World Giving Index
World Giving Index. Charities Aid Foundation launches latest annual report on charitable giving worldwide. They also manage the Future world giving website which provides free aces to articles which discuss charitable donations, philanthropy trends and motivations. Key issues is evidence on how policies implemented by governments around the world have helped or held back philanthropic […]
Two new Chinese Internet archives
…from the Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library, UCLA . Both capture snapshots of chinese websites periodically since 2012, preserving the content and can be searched by keyword. Shanghai Chronicles Local government Shanghai Chronicles is under the leadership of the Shanghai Municipal Government. Websites are captured regularly from 2012 onwards and searchable by keyword content. […]
Surveillance Industry Index
Privacy International Launches Surveillance Industry Index/Database This database includes information provided by WikiLeaks and Omega Research Foundation. It covers over 300 vendors in over 30 nations worldwide. Find out what technologies companies have developed to survey personal data and in many cases who it has been sold to. Each entry has trade brochures and links […]
International day to eliminate violence against women
International day to eliminate violence against women was on 25th November. The official UN website has broadcasts messages as well as links to United Nations resolutions and reports. The UN women website in-depth feature also has testimony and photos. UK government commitment to the day. United States government statements outlining USA policy
Chemical weapons
OPCW-UN Joint Mission Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the United Nations Joint Mission in Syria creates new website . It offers free access to the mandate of the mission, associated news stories, maps, UN resolutions and reports.
Rap music
Rapsats statistics on rap music A tool to plot the frequency of words appearing in rap lyrics from 1988 through to the present day see more on contributors. On a serious note it could give an idea of the use of gender and homophobic words by rap artists. The article on the blog has an […]
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