Global Social Issues: An Encyclopedia

Christopher G. Bates, James Ciment

• Global Social Issues: Table of Contents.Introduction: Global Social Issues in Perspective.A-Z Entries.1: Adoption.2: Affirmative Action.3: AIDS/HIV.4: Alcohol Use and Abuse.5: Animal Rights.6: Antiquities Theft and Restitution.7: Arms Trade.8: Aviation Security.9: Biodiversity and Extinction.10: Brain Drain and Talent Mobility.11: Cancer.12: Capital Punishment.13: Cardiovascular Disease.14: Child Labor.15: Children's Rights.16: Climate Change.17: Conservation and Recycling.18: Consumer and Investor Rights and Protections.19: Corporate Social Responsibility.20: Credit and Debt, Personal and Business.21: Crime, Organized.22: Crime, Violent.23: Crimes Against Humanity.24: Cultural, Historic, and Linguistic Preservation.25: Cybercrime.26: Defense Spending.27: Deficits and Sovereign Debt.28: Deforestation.29: Desertification.30: Diabetes.31: Digital Divide.32: Disability Rights.33: Domestic Violence.34: Drug Abuse.35: Drug Resistance.36: Drug Trade.37: Education, Higher.38: Education, Primary and Secondary.39: Elections and Voting.40: Energy, Alternative.41: Environmental Illnesses.42: Environmental Justice.43: Ethnic and Religious Conflict.44: Failed States and Nation-Building.45: Fair Trade.46: Farm Policy.47: Financial Crises.48: Fishing and Fish Stocks.49: Food and Drug Safety.50: Gambling.51: Gastrointestinal Disease.52: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues.53: Genetically Engineered Crops and Foods.54: Government Corruption and Transparency.55: Health Care.56: Hepatitis.57: Homelessness.58: Housing Costs, Finance, and Affordability.59: Human Rights.60: Hunger and Malnutrition.61: Identity Fraud.62: Immigration, Illegal and Irregular.63: Indigenous Peoples' Rights.64: Inequality, Income and Wealth.65: Infant Mortality.66: Influenza.67: Infrastructure.68: Intellectual Property Rights.69: Kidnapping and Hostage-Taking.70: Land Mines.71: Law, Rule of.72: Literacy.73: Marriage and Divorce.74: Mental Health.75: Migrant Labor.76: Mining Issues.77: Money Laundering and Illegal Transfers.78: Mosquito-borne Disease.79: Natural Disasters, Preparedness and Response.80: Neurological Disease.81: Nuclear Energy.82: Nuclear Proliferation.83: Obesity and Eating Disorders.84: Oil, Economic and Political Aspects.85: Oil, Environmental and Health Aspects.86: Organ and Tissue Trade.87: Parasitic Disease.88: Pesticides and Artificial Fertilizers.89: Pharmaceuticals: Availability, Cost, Efficacy, and Safety.90: Piracy, Maritime.91: Police Corruption and Brutality.92: Polio.93: Pollution, Air.94: Pollution, Water.95: Population Growth and Demographic Issues.96: Poverty.97: Press, Freedom of.98: Prisoners and Prisoner Rights.99: Privacy.100: Privatization.101: Protectionism and Free Trade.102: Public Health.103: Rape and Sexual Assault.104: Refugees, Displaced Persons, and Asylum Seekers.105: Regulation, Business and Financial.106: Religious Freedom.107: Reproductive Issues.108: Respiratory Disease.109: Sanctions, International.110: Secrecy, Government.111: Self-Determination and Sovereignty.112: Sex Tourism and the Sex Trade.113: Sexually Transmitted Infections.114: Slavery.115: Social Networking.116: Social Welfare.117: Suicide.118: Taxation.119: Terrorism.120: Tobacco.121: Torture.122: Toxic Waste.123: Traffic and Mass Transit.124: Tuberculosis.125: Underground Economies.126: Unemployment.127: Unions and Workers' Rights.128: Urbanization.129: Vaccination.130: War Crimes.131: Waste Disposal.132: Water Supply and Access.133: Waterborne Disease.134: Wetlands.135: Women's Rights.136: Working Conditions.Master Bibliography.