Human Rights
20 years OHCHR (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights) A new official website to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this major UN agency . It includes news and links to key achievements. A timeline highlights some of the key events in the human rights field in the past 20 years, from the Vienna Declaration and […]
Social mobility and child poverty
The Social Mobility and Child Poverty (SMCP) Commission releases major report. This body aims to monitors the progress of government and others in improving social mobility and reducing child poverty in the United Kingdom. Its official website has press releases and papers. Politics live blog from the Guardian has some interesting rounds up of twitter […]
Cornell University Political Americana Collection
Cornell University Political Americana Collection Hundreds of images of political commemorative items from the USA from 1789 to 1980. These include cartoons, election leaflets, badges, flyers and lots of election materials. The majority of the collection was donated to Cornell University by private collector Susan H. Douglas between 1957 and 1961.
ECPR YouTube channel
European Consortium for Political Research YouTube channel ECPR is an independent, scholarly association, established in 1970. Its YouTube channel is currently providing access to videos of recent discussion and lecture workshops covering political science scholarship. For other useful videos of political events try UK Political Studies Association channel. This also has some conference materials as […]
US Presidential Papers online
Now available from the GPO online from 1991 – They include statements, speeches and remarks. Other great presidential resources. MillerCenter presidential resource has an extensive speech archive and an image gallery The American Presidency Project was established in 1999 as a collaboration between John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara. […]
theHive
World Bank’s theHive This site has been in beta for a while but is developing well. Register for free to get the most benefits. It aims to gather in one place reports and resources relating to human conflict, human security and violence. It also takes items from the Human Security Report Project which was renowned for its […]
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 […]
Primary Sources: speeches
Library of Congress Recorded Sound Collections. The National jukebox is its open access section. Which has classic recordings. For speeches, choose spoken word speeches. Presidential Speech Archive Maintained by the Scripps Library, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia. Offers free access to transcripts, and for more recent examples, audio and videofiles of important […]
Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Twitter
Foreign Policy magazine Release their annual list of top 100 key people to follow on Twitter See the full list that includes politicians, diplomats and key political thinkers. Also useful on this AFP e-diplomacy hub Maintained by French news agency Agence France-Presse. Find out about twitter and foreign policy. Aims to offer a window on […]
News clips archives
University of Virginia Library WSLS-TV. Archive online: http://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-library-launches-online-archive-historical-tv-news-footage Access historic news clips and news transcripts, currently 3,600 news clips items covering 1951-1971. These years cover the civil rights movement and desegregation as well as feminism and Vietnam. An online exhibit page has a collection of themed items including news clips and scripts related to the […]
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