Governments and Facebook
Government requests for data from Facebook Which governments request information the most from Facebook? First report from Facebook covers 6 months from January-June 2013. Governments make requests to Facebook and many other companies seeking account information in official investigations. The vast majority of these requests relate to criminal cases, such as robberies or kidnappings. In […]
New address for this blog
Hello all. The Social Sciences Librarians’ Blog has a new address https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/ RSS feed addresses have also changed. If you subscribe to an RSS feed from the blog, you will have to update your links.
Global corruption data
Find information on the extent of government and political corruption worldwide using the latest annual report from Transparency International: http://www.transparency.org/gcb2013 Transparency International also publish an annual corruption perceptions list which charts opinion on levels of corruption. On a related theme the World Bank has The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project The reports have governance indicators […]
New online app for reporting sexual violence in Brazil
Innovative use of new technology by UNICEF and UN-Habitat: a website which also works as a smartphone app that brings together information on support services for women and girls who are survivors of violence. This is a big problem in the region. Data from the Rio de Janeiro State Secretariat for Public Security’s “Women’s Dossier […]
Stop and Search
A new report – a joint project by StopWatch and the Open Society Justice Initiative with the support of the Runnymede trust includes case studies of the harm done to individuals and communities: Viewed with suspicion the human costs of stop and search The StopWatch site also has many blog postings of evidence of harm […]
UN and other peacekeeping sites
Useful UN materials include Official twitter account for the latest news. Past missions with a timeline of past missions. A page on women in peacekeeping – which has statements and statistics Other resources Center on International cooperation publishes an annual global review of peacekeeping. Limited news stories are free on the website. Spiri has a multilateral […]
Sweatshops
Following the recent tragedy in Bangladesh- would you pay more for ethical production? Depressingly, a Huff/Post YouGov poll of American shoppers found little awareness about the incident or sources of their clothing. This paper from 2005 found that despite their stated support for free trade coffee consumers often purchased other cheaper brands. Find further economics working […]
Innovative use of social media in the Pakistan elections
The Election commission worked with a site called Jaag Pakistan website which aimed to encourage reporting of electoral fraud and violence. This used crowd sourced technology. View the online map for reported instances.
Islamophobia Studies Journal
Islamophobia Studies Journal is a new a bi-annual peer reviewed academic periodical published by the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project, UC Berkeley, which aims to publish articles and book reviews relating to all aspects of Islamophobia and its impact on culture, politics, media, and the lives and experiences of Muslim people.
Humanitarian crises app
New United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Humanitarian Kiosk iOS app A new application for geting the latest news direct from the UN about humanitarian crises and international aid.
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