Dear all

Here is the latest round up of new and interesting sites for social scientists

 

In the news this week Mexican elections.

INE is the national election commission. It has results from the 2018 elections in Spanish.

IFES has faqs on the electoral system and preliminary assessments of the conduct of the elections.
Global Exchange was also involved in assessments of the elections.

See more in our recent blog posting. These include background information on the state of human rights in the region.

 

Brexit news this week

This week more new documents released relating to Brexit. These include reports of different regional impacts.

An Equal Exit - the distributional consequences of leaving the EU - IPPR
Rural communities face a post-Brexit 'perfect storm' councils warn  Local Government Association.

See links to morer papers and reports on our blog which we update weekly with a brexit section.

 

World Investment report 2018 launched.

The World Investment Report has been published annually since 1991 by UNCTAD . It provides specialist reports on trends in foreign direct investment worldwide. This year/s specialist theme is the adoption of adopted industrial development strategies

For further FDI data see the UNCTAD statistics website which has some free access to indicagors

 

 

AfricArXiv (African Science Archive) Launched

a new and free open access repository on #ScienceinAfrica for African scientists to share their research outputshas just been  launchedCategories include social sciences, medicine, law. It is  hosted by the Centre for Open Science, a non-profit organisation based in Charlottesville in the United States. It allows scientists to upload their preprints—often the manuscripts they have submitted to journals—for quick moderation and publication. This should be a useful place for tracing African research once more titles have been added. At present only a handful are available but worth watching.

 

Voyages of Captain Cook

Take some time to explore the online features of this new webskte from ther British Library which was created . it has original maps and manuscripts plus timelines of events and articles discussing the impact and legacy of cook and the wider imperial expoloration. They present the perspectives of the indigenous commjuunities on the contact with Europeans.See the first European draing of a Kangeroo form 1770

A maori image of trading crayfish with a European Explorer

Pride in London - why it still matters.
This week we celebrate pride in London.



why is it still necessary today?
in 2017 NatCen analysed public opinion towards same sex relationships  charting  greater acceptance than in the past.
In 1987, at the height of the AIDS crisis, those who agreed that same-sex relationships were “not wrong at all” were in the minority (11%). Two thirds (64%) said that they were “always wrong”.
now  thankfully attitudes are much better however, 
This week the Government Equalities office published  a national LGBT survey
which continued to reveal problems 
as a result they have launched an action plan
LGBT Action Plan that sets out what steps the government will take in response to the survey findings.

shocking headline findings included:

• More than two thirds of LGBT respondents said they had avoided holding hands with a same-sex partner for fear of a negative reaction from others
• At least 2 in 5 respondents had experienced an incident because they were LGBT, such as verbal harassment or physical violence, in the 12 months preceding the survey. However, more than 9 in 10 of the most serious incidents went unreported, often because respondents thought ‘it happens all the time’
• two percent of respondents had undergone conversion or reparative therapy in an attempt to ‘cure’ them of being LGBT, and a further 5% had been offered it

Stonewall reaction to the news.
they also launched a report this week that Half of BAME LGBT people (51 per cent) face discrimination within the LGBT community. browse their website for examples of research and surveys relating to attitudes and discrimination faced.

FRA has examples of news and surveys which reveal the extent of discrimination faced in EU nations.

there continue to be many countries worldwide where to be gay is illegal - see the map and summaries of legislation on the ILGA website

 

Final LGBT images

LSE Archives has an online exhibition of images from early gay pride marches on its flickr library 
Find out more about the archive and library collections.

Finally Welcome to Wearing Gay History, digitized t-shirt collections of LGBT archives across USA.

 

Best wishes

Heather

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