Civil Rights cold case portal
Recently launched by the US National Archives this site provides access to records of unsolved racially-motivated crimes during the 20th century in the USA. During the Civil Rights era, thousands of racially-motivated crimes went unsolved. In many cases, local, state and/or federal authorities examined evidence, conducted interviews, and compiled detailed investigations into these crimes and violations. […]
ACLED Conflict Index 2024
ACLED Conflict Index 2024 Get reputable data from the team who measure and assess political violence worldwide using indicators based on deadliness, danger to civilians, geographic diffusion, and armed group fragmentation. It enables nation states to be ranked and compared according to levels of conflict. Regional and global assessments made.
Violation Tracker Global
A new website created by the U.S. non-governmental organization Good Jobs First, Violation Tracker Global documents a wide range of misconduct by multinational corporations in their operations around the world. These are grouped into broad categories including: Competition/Antitrust, Consumer Protection, Employment, Environment, Financial, Government Contracting, Healthcare, and Safety. It is possible to search by company […]
Global Cybersecurity Index
The Global Cybersecurity Index 2024 (5th Edition) report by the International Telecommunication Union which reviews trends and threats since the last report was published. On average, countries have taken more cybersecurity-related actions and improved their cybersecurity commitments since the last index was released in 2021. Worrisome threats highlighted in the report include ransomware attacks targeting government […]
NAACP Legal Defense Fund records
A major resource documenting the funding and activities of the NAACP fighting for Black civil rights in 20th Century America. It includes materials relating to key cases including:
Locating London’s past
Locating London’s past This revamped website enables searching of digital resources relating to early modern and eighteenth-century London. The results are then mapped on to a version of John Rocque’s Survey of London, Westminster & Southwark, 1746. Datasets include:
Conflict, Justice and Peace platform
The LSE have launched the Conflict, Justice, and Peace (CJP) platform https://www.lse.ac.uk/european-institute/cjp This provides free access to resources – news, blogs, papers and recordings from scholars based at the London School of Economics and their associates. It is arranged by region and also has a directory of specialist academics and researchers.
Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence
“Taking Action Against Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence,” is a toolkit launched by the World Council of Churches (WCC) to document and address online gender abuse worldwide. The 32 page paper aims to educate trainers about the impact of tech-facilitated gender-based violence and how to monitor gender violence and misogyny on X and other social media networks.
Real-time crime index, USA
An initiative to provide real-time updated data and mappings of crime in the USA. It has been built by AH Datalytics and supported by Arnold Ventures. It includes data by state with national comparison and data on trends of types of crime over several years. The latter include murders and rapes. Data can be downloaded […]
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