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Introduction: applying a criminological framework -- State-corporate crime: origins of the "ship of death" -- The Probo Koala arrives at Abidjan -- The development of the state of Ivory Coast -- Explanation's for impunity -- Civil society's role -- Researching civil society in Ivory Coast -- Organisational crime and the "commodification of victimhood" -- Cover-up and denial : the battle in Britain -- Conclusion.

"Religion and religious ideas have played a fundamental role in the shaping of Asian history, society, and cultural practices. In this engaging and informative book, Thomas David DuBois sets out to explain how religious traditions and philosophies in China and Japan have evolved and intersected since the birth of Confucianism in China and the arrival of Buddhism in Japan. Crossing a broad terrain from Tokyo to Tibet, the book concentrates on the post-fourteenth century, when the long-lasting political dynasties that transformed the political, social, and economic institutions of both countries came into being. It is these connections that the author is keen to highlight, and he does so to effect by using key moments, such as the Taiping Uprising and the Boxer Rebellion, to underscore the importance of religion in transforming the course of Asian history. Contemporary chapters reflect on the wartime deification of the Japanese emperor, Marxism as religion, and the persecution of the Dalai Lama"--

Of the four countries most active in independent Central America - Britain, the United States, France, and Germany - historians know the least about the full extent of the involvement of the Germans. Germany, however, played a crucial role in Central American history. Germany in Central America reveals the stories of the institutions that supported and organized German migration, the immigrants' continuing ties with the homeland, and the preservation of their culture on foreign soil. This unique book traces the political and economic changes in Germany (and to some extent also in Central America) to serve as background for narrating or analyzing the relationship between Germany and Central American countries. Schoonover utilizes extensive private and public manuscript material from Central America, Europe, and the United States, including private collections and German federal and state government archives, to reveal this relationship within the framework of the rivalry of European powers and the United States.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Standards -- 1. Human Rights and Forced Displacement: Converging Standards -- 2. Human Rights Standards: A Paradigm for Refugee Protection? -- 3. Forced Displacement: The Relevance of International Humanitarian Law -- 4. Forced Displacement and the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- 5. The Development of lnternational Standards to Protect Internally Displaced -- II. Monitoring and Reporting -- 6. Protecting the Rights of Displaced Children: Some Suggestions for Enhanced Monitoring and Reporting -- 7. Monitoring & -- Reporting: A Search for New Advocacy Strategies -- 8. Through Rose-Coloured Glasses: UNHCR's Role in Monitoring the Safety of the Rohingya Refugees Returning to Burma -- 9. Rights and Responsibilities of Refugees and Their Protectors -- III. Solutions -- 10. Land and Resource Access Rights and Forced Displacements of People: Can Democracy in the Countryside Help? -- 11. The Future: Articulating Responsibilities to Identify and Bring to Justice Perpetrators of Serious Human Rights Violations and International Crimes -- 12. Solutions: Human Rights Verification and Accountability -- 13. Human Rights and Forced Displacement: CARE's Perspective on Solutions -- 14. A New Role for Human Rights Organisations in Refugee Protection? -- IV. The Future -- 15. CIS Migration Conference and Program of Action: A Model for Addressing Human Rights and Forced Displacement -- 16. The Future of Refugee Protection -- 17. Further Promotion and Encouragement of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Including the Programme and Methods of Work of the Commission: Human Rights, Mass Exoduses and Displaced Persons -- 18. United Nations Initiatives in Humanitarian Emergencies Causing Forced Displacement.

AbstractIt is commonly asserted that Chinese diets before the market and production reforms of the 1980s contained little or no meat. Yet this nearly universal assumption remains untested: Unlike other forms of material consumption, the question of meat in Chinese diets has received almost no systematic attention from historians. Focusing on the early twentieth century, this article examines who in China ate meat, and how meat consumption was shaped by regional and household patterns. It combines insights from three sorts of data. First, Japanese price surveys from the 1920s show a high degree of variation in the preference for one type of meat over others, and the price availability of meat versus wages or other food products. Second, production data, including slaughterhouse tallies and industry estimates of animal by-products show the seasonality of animal slaughter and the vast scale and dispersed geography of China's livestock production. Finally, nutrition and diet studies from the 1920 to the late 1940s examine actual household consumption, emphasizing how social forces and cyclical fortunes shaped individual choices. The composite picture from these three perspectives confirms that China's meat consumption was hardly inconsequential. But more than simply triangulating a result, the exercise of comparing perspectives of price, production, and nutrition also highlights the collection of survey data as a series of historical moments.