The Web Index
… “tracks the Web’s contribution to social, economic and political progress across 86 countries.” Find it at: http://thewebindex.org/
Voices and Visibility
The Voices and Visibility poster, http://lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Wall-Chart-A0_V7.2_low.pdf created by UCU to commemorate LGBT History month is available for loan from the library in two sizes: https://library.le.ac.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/57/5/3?searchdata1=1429811{CKEY}&searchfield1=GENERAL^SUBJECT^GENERAL^^&user_id=WEBSERVER
Celebrating LGBT History month
February is LGBT History month http://lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/ Take a look at the Gay t-Shirt archive! Wearing Gay History a digital archive of American LGBT t-shirts. created by Doctoral student Eric Gonzaba who digitized the entire t-shirt collection of the Chris Gonzalez Library and Archives in Indiana T-shirts have been used to express gay identity, politics and pride […]
Freedom in the World 2016
Freedom in the World is a yearly survey and report by the U.S.-based non-governmental organization Freedom House that measures the degree of civil liberties and political rights in every nation and significant disputed territories around the world. Read the methodology for the full facts and download the data in a zip file. International Idea also […]
New LGBT Archive
U.S. Homophile Internationalism is a new online exhibit which can be found on the Outhistory.org website. The website states “This archive and exhibit explores U.S. homophile magazine references to various regions of the world in the 1950s and 1960s. The regions are (1) Africa; (2) Asia and the Pacific; (3) Canada; (4) Latin America and the Caribbean; […]
Nigerian Security
Nigerian Presidential elections are due to take place soon. The Nigeria Security Tracker from the Council on Foreign Relations provides a useful tool for understanding the background of political violence since 2011.
State of the World 2014/15: Amnesty International
Amnesty International’s annual review of human rights includes overview essays and country surveys covering freedom, rights, discrimination and abuses. Other annual surveys include: Freedom House- Freedom in the World report. Department of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices Foreign and Commonwealth Office Human Rights and Democracy Report.
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Try these recommended sources: BBC radio and TV archive footage 1948-1990 Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg has 250 short videos on life in divided Berlin Chronicle of the Wall is a multimedia history compiled by Federal Centre for Political Education, Deutschlandradio and the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam Good contemporary news coverage of the 25th anniversary can […]
Human rights resolutions portal
Human rights resolutions portal Created by the Universal Rights Group. The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations system. This database has the full text of every resolution, decision and presidential statement adopted by the Council since 2006. Another good resource for human rights is hurisearch which cross searches over 5,000 specialist […]
Leicester Hate Crimes Project
Leicester Hate Crimes Project The broad aims of the Leicester Hate Crime Project were to examine people’s experiences of hate, prejudice and targeted hostility understand the physical and emotional harms suffered by individuals and their families identify ways of improving the quality of support available to victims Five strands of victim identity (race, religion, disability, […]
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