Author : Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 18,44 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1564324168
"In China, illicit drug use is an administrative offense and Chinese law dictates that drug users 'must be rehabilitated.' In reality, police raids on drug users often drive them underground, away from methadone clinics, needle exchange sites, and other proven HIV prevention services. And every year Chinese police send tens of thousands of drug users to mandatory drug treatment centers, often for years, without trial or due process"--P. [4] of cover.
Author : Stephane Hallegatte
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1464810044
'Economic losses from natural disasters totaled $92 billion in 2015.' Such statements, all too commonplace, assess the severity of disasters by no other measure than the damage inflicted on buildings, infrastructure, and agricultural production. But $1 in losses does not mean the same thing to a rich person that it does to a poor person; the gravity of a $92 billion loss depends on who experiences it. By focusing on aggregate losses—the traditional approach to disaster risk—we restrict our consideration to how disasters affect those wealthy enough to have assets to lose in the first place, and largely ignore the plight of poor people. This report moves beyond asset and production losses and shifts its attention to how natural disasters affect people’s well-being. Disasters are far greater threats to well-being than traditional estimates suggest. This approach provides a more nuanced view of natural disasters than usual reporting, and a perspective that takes fuller account of poor people’s vulnerabilities. Poor people suffer only a fraction of economic losses caused by disasters, but they bear the brunt of their consequences. Understanding the disproportionate vulnerability of poor people also makes the case for setting new intervention priorities to lessen the impact of natural disasters on the world’s poor, such as expanding financial inclusion, disaster risk and health insurance, social protection and adaptive safety nets, contingent finance and reserve funds, and universal access to early warning systems. Efforts to reduce disaster risk and poverty go hand in hand. Because disasters impoverish so many, disaster risk management is inseparable from poverty reduction policy, and vice versa. As climate change magnifies natural hazards, and because protection infrastructure alone cannot eliminate risk, a more resilient population has never been more critical to breaking the cycle of disaster-induced poverty.
Author : Jakob Mökander
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 30,65 MB
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3031098463
This annual edited volume explores a wide range of topics in digital ethics and governance. Included are chapters that: analyze the opportunities and ethical challenges posed by digital innovation; delineate new approaches to solve them; and offer concrete guidance on how to govern emerging technologies. The contributors are all members of the Digital Ethics Lab (the DELab) at the Oxford Internet Institute, a research environment that draws on a wide range of academic traditions. Collectively, the chapters of this book illustrate how the field of digital ethics - whether understood as an academic discipline or an area of practice - is undergoing a process of maturation. Most importantly, the focus of the discourse concerning how to design and use digital technologies is increasingly shifting from ‘soft ethics’ to ‘hard governance’. Then, there is the trend in the ongoing shift from ‘what’ to ‘how’, whereby abstract or ad-hoc approaches to AI governance are giving way to more concrete and systematic solutions. The maturation of the field of digital ethics has, as this book attempts to show, been both accelerated and illustrated by a series of recent events. This text thereby takes an important step towards defining and implementing feasible and effective approaches to digital governance. It appeals to students, researchers and professionals in the field.
Author : Paul Robert Magocsi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 929 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 2010-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1442698799
First published in 1996, A History of Ukraine quickly became the authoritative account of the evolution of Europe's second largest country. In this fully revised and expanded second edition, Paul Robert Magocsi examines recent developments in the country's history and uses new scholarship in order to expand our conception of the Ukrainian historical narrative. New chapters deal with the Crimean Khanate in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and new research on the pre-historic Trypillians, the Italians of the Crimea and the Black Death, the Karaites, Ottoman and Crimean slavery, Soviet-era ethnic cleansing, and the Orange Revolution is incorporated. Magocsi has also thoroughly updated the many maps that appear throughout. Maintaining his depiction of the multicultural reality of past and present Ukraine, Magocsi has added new information on Ukraine's peoples and discusses Ukraine's diasporas. Comprehensive, innovative, and geared towards teaching, the second edition of A History of Ukraine is ideal for both teachers and students.
Author : Rashid White
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 36,57 MB
Release : 2011-02-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1456848291
Listen to The Voice of the People and feel the emotions evoked in this poetry. Inspired by his experience of fulfillment when he had his first attempt of sharing his literature to the world, poet-author Rashid White now assembles beautiful, engaging, and poignant literary pieces penned by various young and new writers into one compelling anthology so you, too, can see through the sentiments brewing in between the verses. He unlocks a gateway to a higher place in life for him and for every other artist with the release of this book. The Voice of the People can now be heard.
Author : Lawrence Cherry
Publisher : Shawn James
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 25,69 MB
Release :
Category : Bibles
ISBN :
The nations of the world seem trapped in a downward spiral characterized by unprecedented levels of political and social unrest, economic stagnation, natural disasters, plagues, famines, and mental distress. As our political leaders, philanthropists, and statesman struggle to find solutions to the myriad crises we face, there is a growing cry from the public to appeal to the rule of law. Many believe the solution to our problems lie in men working together to create, alter or repeal existing regulations, policies and laws in order to create a society and environment that benefits all. After all, it’s what been done for centuries and every era in every country has it’s defining laws that have ostensibly changed the course of history from the Magna Carta to the Affordable Care Act. But is this a tenable solution for these times? A Call to Repent, examines this question and suggests an alternative. In the past, man has always looked to his own ingenuity and intelligence to solve the issues of the day. As the situation with the world continues to deteriorate, and cooperation between opposing parties is undermined by sharp and irreconcilable divisions, we are left to wonder if mankind is indeed able to handle the tidal wave of tumult we are experiencing. It is time to look outside of man’s limited perspective and knowledge to a Greater. It’s time to look…up.
Author : Bill Hybels
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,48 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 0310521815
This analysis of the inconsistencies in the lifestyle of today's Christians is accompanied by specific examples and discussion of how Christians can restore authentic Christianity in their personal lives and thus nurture a troubled world.
Author : Ciaran Brady
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 24,34 MB
Release : 2005-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1139442546
This book offers a perspective on Irish History from the late sixteenth to the end of the seventeenth century. Many of the chapters address, from national, regional and individual perspectives, the key events, institutions and processes that transformed the history of early modern Ireland. Others probe the nature of Anglo-Irish relations, Ireland's ambiguous constitutional position during these years and the problems inherent in running a multiple monarchy. Where appropriate, the volume adopts a wider comparative approach and casts fresh light on a range of historiographical debates, including the 'New British Histories', the nature of the 'General Crisis' and the question of Irish exceptionalism. Collectively, these essays challenge and complicate traditional paradigms of conquest and colonization. By examining the inconclusive and contradictory manner in which English and Scottish colonists established themselves in the island, it casts further light on all of its inhabitants during the early modern period.
Author : Kendon J Conrad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 19,35 MB
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1317844548
Through Homelessness Prevention in Treatment of Substance Abuse and Mental Illness: Logic Models and Implementation of Eight American Projects, psychiatrist, psychologists, and social workers will discover the results of eight, three-year long development projects funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) designed to prevent homelessness in high- risk populations who have problems with alcoholism, drug abuse, and/or mental illness. Through this informative book, you will examine the theory or logic guiding each program, including an up-to-date review of the literature supporting each theory. You will also find a description of the implementation of the program as well as its history, the practical issues involved in delivering services, the pitfalls, lessons learned, and recommendations for the future so you can use the best ideas to implement in your own community and stop these individuals from reaching the streets. Homelessness Prevention in Treatment of Substance Abuse and Mental Illness provides insight into how to deal with many common issues that you are faced with every day, such as matching clients to appropriate services, preventing relapse, case management, training in independent living skills and money management, acquiring and maintaining housing, and benefits and employment for your disadvantaged clients. Compelling and informative, this unique book provides you with many tips and suggestions on how you can help the disadvantaged in our population avoid the added trauma of becoming homeless, such as: examining a new modified therapeutic community (TC) intervention program for mothers recovering from substance abuse who live with their children so you can learn to treat the family as a whole and not just treat the person with a "problem" gaining insight into a new intervention program for families caring for another family member with serious mental illness or substance abuse disorders so you can address such issues as the importance of respite for the family and home visits for relationship building among the entire household discovering a new, independent living model which allows clients with serious mental illnesses to select their own apartments learning about a new program in Philadelphia that offers support services to clients with serious mental illnesses and substance use disorders and provides several levels of housing from emergency shelter to highly supportive permanent housing discovering a community counseling center in Chicago that operates a “bank” that helps mentally ill clients or those with substance use disorders develop skills to independently manage their financial affairs through the use of “vouchers” that can be redeemed for cash for the payment of monthly bills Homelessness Prevention in Treatment of Substance Abuse and Mental Illness provides you with new insights into how you can help your clients overcome political, economic, and environmental barriers to treatment that can lead to homelessness. This essential book will help you improve your services to your clients as well as give you step-by-step guide to implement these new programs in your community.
Author : The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Publisher : Author House
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2015-10-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 149692150X
"The Power of Children Awards program (POCA) was established in 2005. In ten years of its existence, it has recognized fifty young people who have made enormous positive impacts on their communities and the world. The Power of Children offers profiles of these fifty young trailblazers, educators, and helpers, describing the projects that led to their awards"--Back cover.
