Gender-based violence: Africa
Afrobarometer surveys of Africans on gender-based violence This dispatch reports on a special survey module included in the Afrobarometer Round 9 (2021/2023) questionnaire to explore Africans’ experiences and perceptions of gender-based violence. Survey findings show that across Africa, GBV ranks as the most important women’s-rights issue that citizens want their government and society to address.
Women, Life, Freedom
Woman, Life, Freedom Movement of Iran web archive aims to preserve web archive snapshots from the Woman, Life, Freedom movement of Iran which emerged in the wake of the 2022 police killing of Mahsa Jîna Amini. Her arrest by the morality police, on alleged grounds of non-compliance with the compulsory Hijab Law, caused mass protest. […]
Banned Books and Academic Freedom
Sage has launched a new collection of free-to-read research of articles from its academic journals highlighting the effects of academic censorship on democracy, social-emotional learning, higher education, and more.Categories in the collection include:
Connecting Africa
Connecting-Africa is supported by the Netherlands African Studies Association (NVAS). It provides free access to digital resources on Africa. Full-text of publications, images and sound from institutional repositories many based in African nations.
Discover Macpherson
DiscoverMacpherson.com A free, fully-searchable website which has been developed by Professor Brian Cathcart and Kingston University. It gives access to most of the records of the 1998-9 public inquiry into the Stephen Lawrence case including press coverage at the time.
New Jiscmail mailing list for researchers of Queer Bibliography launched
The description provided is: QUEERBIB@jiscmail.ac.uk: , a discussion list for all those interested in queer bibliography, book history, print culture and queer approaches to printed matter and the material text. It is a restricted discussion list, which means you need to subscribe. Subscriptions will be approved by the list owners (Malcolm Noble and Sarah Pyke) and only subscribers […]
Political violence
ACLED Early Warning Dashboard, a new hub that offers interconnected tools for tracking political violence and demonstrations around the world. It provides a single access point to four previous early warning resources — the Volatility & Risk Predictability Index, Conflict Change Map, Subnational Threat & Surge Trackers, and Emerging Actor Tracker — into a single, easy-to-use platform. Various […]
250 iconic objects from the National Archives
The National Archives collection provides records of 250 iconic objects which cover gender, race and sexuality. Each record has images, documents and audio-visual resources. Great educational sources. Topics include biographies of key people such as Mrs Pankhurst and details of the Mangrove Nine trial.
Free to view LGBTQIA+ books
The publisher Taylor and Francis have made a collection of LBGTQIA-related books free to view for pride month. Topics covered include History, Politics, Religion, Culture, Social Media and Education.
Rainbow map of Europe – LGBTQ+ rights
To mark International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (May 17th) and #Standup4HumanRights and to promote an equal, just and inclusive world for all, ILGA has updated its rainbow map of Europe for 2023.ILGA-Europe have produced the Rainbow Map and Index since 2009. It ranks 49 European countries on their respective legal and policy practices for LGBTI […]
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