Nelson Mandela International Day 2018 marks 100 years since the birth of Nelson Mandela (18 July 1918). it aims to refelct on his life and legacy
the official UN website has a timeline of events and links to his key speeches plus United Nations resolutions.
Google Arts and Culture has a digital archive of Mandela material. these include photos, timelines and primary source materials relating to Apartheid.
Nelson Mandela Foundation has links to resources they include a searchable speech database with transcripts. A bibliography database of books about Mandela and a filmography
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Nelson Mandela Resource Guide.
this links to resources available in the New York Public Library. this has links to archives, photos and film clips. many are available free online.
South African Government has an official Mandela site. it includes details of his funeral plus speeches, videos and quotes.
C-Span Video library has an online archive of speeches and addresses from 1990-2008
Teaching resources
Oxfam free lesson plans
Tuesday, 17 July 2018
Wednesday, 11 July 2018
World Population day - free resources
11th July is World population day - here are our free recommended resources.
the official UN website
the official UN website
states that the theme for 2018 is family planning is a human right.
it links to related UN resolutions and documents.
there is also a dataset on World Contraceptive use 2018
UNFPA issues regular reports see this December 2017 publications on reproductive health and human rights in a world of inequality.
WHO documents on the medical and political and development aspects of family planning
Family Planning 2020 is an international partnership organisation. its data section measures progress in over 60 target nations using a range of indicators.
search for articles
Free access to abstracts
Pubmed explore the mesh headings for greater accuracy in searching.
Popline- POPLINE provides access to 380,000 carefully selected publications and resources related to family planning and reproductive health. POPLINE is a free resource, maintained by the Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Global Health, Office of Population and Reproductive Health, and is led by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
Popline- POPLINE provides access to 380,000 carefully selected publications and resources related to family planning and reproductive health. POPLINE is a free resource, maintained by the Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Global Health, Office of Population and Reproductive Health, and is led by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Pride in London - why it still matters.
This week we celebrate pride in London.
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.
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 attitudees are much beetter 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:
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 - se the map and summaries of legislation on the ILGA website
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.
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 attitudees are much beetter 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
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 - se the map and summaries of legislation on the ILGA website
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