Amnesty international global annual report on human rights released. Read the whole report or look at reports for individual nations. Also on the theme of rights recently published is the annual US Department of State International Religious Freedom Report for 2012 This also has country reports and a global overview with regard to abuses and […]
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Same-sex marriage: UK
News relating to the recent British Debates Try the UK parliament which contains details of the debate. Politics Live also has coverage of the debate There are some comments on the main political party websites UKIP; Labour and some discussion from conservative party members on Conservative blogs and Libdem blogs as well as the Libdem Lgbt group […]
Same-sex marriage: France
On-going discussion of same-sex marriage in the UK parliament and in France Read the full text of the relevant French law and details of the process in parliament from the main French government portal IFPOP has some polls on recent public opinion Links to the main campaigning groups where you can find images of protests and comment: […]
Bloomberg: Macroeconomic data
The U.K. economy grew 0.3 percent in the first quarter, avoiding a triple dip recession. Bloomberg functions show much of the recovery comes from the services industry. Bloomberg have produced an instruction on how to analyse this trend using the economic functions: find it on your Bloomberg terminals under the FFM function. Remember you can […]
US Armed Forces: Overseas activity
Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2013 Useful reference report from Congressional research services, 23 pages long. Provides a list of deployments and missions chronologically. Information on later military missions is more detailed in terms of aims and type of mission.
Trade monitoring database
The trade monitoring databaseThis new official WTO resource provides detailed information on trade measures implemented by WTO members and observers since October 2008. Trade policy data is taken from the regular trade monitoring reports prepared by the WTO Secretariat. The last update was October 2012. They also have a preferential trade agreements database
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.
Bloomberg: offshore yuan values
The offshore yuan weakened on May 6 by the most since 2011 after Chinese regulators announced a probe of export data and new restrictions on loans. Last month, Hong Kong removed a limit on net open positions in offshore yuan, which lowered trading costs in the currency. Please find the 2-page PDF example which uses […]
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.
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