US election data sets
Covering 2000-2016. Recently released by Library of Congress data package on data.labs.loc.gov/packages/, with associated new resources to help researchers understand and use the data. The new data package includes enhanced documentation explaining the contents of the dataset and how it was created, as well as metadata for candidate campaign sites extracted from the United States Elections Web […]
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. […]
Surveys: displaced people
UNHCR and the World Bank-UNHCR Joint Data Center Questionnaire Dashboard enables users to explore questionnaires hosted on the Microdata Library related to forced displacement. It is possible to filter searches by country, year, population type , and topics to locate the most appropriate survey and its datasets.
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.
Mary Middleton
On campaign. This page from English Heritage by historians Andrew Roberts and Lisa Berry-Waite recounts the life of one of the early women political campaigners, Mary Middleton, who sought to be elected in 1924. Her story reveals how the pre-war period and the First World War created new opportunities for women politicians but also the […]
Monitoring and Impact Assessment of Unilateral Coercive Measures on the Enjoyment of Human Rights
A UN online Tool to monitor the negative impact of sanctions imposed on a country on human rights i that country.The UN Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures and human rights, Alena Douhan, has launched a tool for monitoring and assessing the humanitarian impact of unilateral coercive measures. Users can look at the map of sanctioning […]
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:
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.
Palestinian Feminist Reading list
https://palestinianfeministreading.org/list A resource curated by the Palestinian Feminist Reading List Collective comprised by specialist librarians and Palestinian authors. It recommends English language books written by Palestinian authors and directly about the Palestinian experience which have been published in the last 5 years. Sections include memoirs, non fiction history and fiction.
Gender dynamics within the UN Security Council
The UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library has completed a project to provide statistical data on the gender composition of the UN Security Council from 1946 onward. Access and utilize this dataset to gain deeper insights into the gender dynamics within the UN Security Council. The csv file is derived from the UN Digital Library personal names […]
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