动物权利导论--孩子与狗之间

[美]G·L·弗兰西恩著,张守东、刘耳译中国政法大学出版社2005年版人类经过了几千年的斗争,普通老百姓的权利才在法律中得到了确立和保障。但是,动物的权利至今尚未在法律中得到确立和保障。的确,已有不少有识之士认识到法律应保障动物的应有权利,要求用人道的方式对待动物。然     

质量保障是领导力的重要部分

基于结果的评估,就是建立一个系统程序,重复思考和回答一系列问题。欧盟和美国十分重视高等教育质量保障问题,并比较广泛地运用了基于结果的评估方法。它对提升中国高校领导力和教育质量具有参考借鉴作用。     

双女结伴走川藏

去年春天,《南风窗》“城市故事”的专栏编辑收到一封来信,两个广州女孩在信中说,她们将要用3年的时间,自筹资金,结伴走遍祖国的大江南北,完成一个被她们称为“中华女子第一行”的壮举。这封信在“城市故事热线”中刊登之后,编辑收到了不少来信,有的要求与两个姑娘结伴而行,也有的主动提出为她们解决沿途的吃住问题,也有各地的希望小学来信邀请她们前往参观考察。3月8日,两个女孩离开广州,开始了她们的第一站行程——川藏之行。8个月的时间,行程3万多公里,走完了云、贵、川、新疆和西藏5省区,拍摄了大量图片,记录了许多宝贵的经历。两个年轻姑娘一个叫吴颀一个叫雨雁,吴颀原本是一个摄影记者,而学绘画的雨雁则刚从学校毕业不久。为了实现她们这次全国之游的理想,吴颀将以前工作的积蓄全部拿出,雨雁则不断为人画一些商业画来赚钱。另外,她们的家庭也在经济上给了她们很大的支持。而为能够顺利而安全地走完全程,她们准备了两个大行囊的物品,还特意到公安部门买回一些防身的装备。不过,在旅途中,她们仍经历过不少危险,而吴颀还受了伤。至发稿日,她们已经完成了第一站的行程,正在努力工作赚钱。今年暮春之时,她们又将出发,奔向新的旅途。在这里,我们编发她们在第一站行程中的一些经历和她们的摄影绘画。     

China Revisited

It was in November 1975 that Iwas posted to the People's Re-public of China as Tanzanian Am-bassador Extraordinary and Pleni-potentiary. I served in China fornine years. During that period Ivisited many places in all the prov-inces except Tibet and Taiwan.China was coming to the end of     

美国行政诉讼若干问题

<正> 一个律师要代理当事人向法院起诉政府当局或管理机构的行为,控告行政机关的行为是违法的,他怎么向法院提起诉讼呢?他的案件属于哪个法院管辖呢?他所控告的行政行为是否属于法院的审查对象?当事人具有诉讼资格吗?对该行政行为起诉的诉讼时机是否已经"成熟"?当事人是否已穷尽了行政救济途径?本文将分别讨论这些问题。     

Fiji: country profile

Fiji is a country consisting of 300 South Pacific islands, of which the largest is Vitu Levu, which includes the capital, Suva. The islands are home to 700,000 people, of whom 50% are Indian, 46% Melanesian, and the rest Chinese or European. The official language is English, and the major religions are Hinduism and Christianity. Literacy is 79% for men and 64% for women, whose status is generally low in this patriarchal society. Infant mortality is 27/1000 live births, but life expectancy is 70 years. The British began sending missionaries and manufactured goods in the early 1800s and annexed the islands in 1874 as a source of sugar, for which they expropriated the land and imported the Indians as agricultural workers. Sugar remains the largest export along with coconut oil, gold, and timber. Manufactured goods, food, fuel, and chemicals are imported, and the national debt is over $200 million. Foreign investment, mostly by Australia, is $13.2 million. Inflation is 20%; 200,000 people are unemployed, and poverty is general except for the urban elite. The Fijian dollar is worth US. 80. Independence, granted in 1970, replaced colonial control with military governments, currently that of Colonel Rambuka, who refused to allow a democratically elected government to take office. Faced with a declining economy and the political power of the fascist Taukei movement, the Indians, who had been the shopkeepers, craftsmen and bureaucrats during the later period of colonial rule, have been emigrating en masse.     

Swaziland: country profile

Although Swaziland had been independent from colonialism for 20 years, a powerful monarch, King Mswati II, continues to control the country's political, religious, and social system. Swaziland has a population of 676,000, half of whom are under 15 years of age. The infant mortality rate is 105/1000 live births and 25% of children die before they reach their 5th birthday. Life expectancy is 54 years. Tribal chiefs, representing the king, hold and distribute about half of the national land. Most of the fertile land remains in the hands of white settler farmers. The concentration of income in foreign companies and urban centers has exacerbated poverty in rural areas. Depreciation of rand-linked local currency has boosted export earnings, but it has also raised the price of food and medical imports. Swaziland's main exports are sugar, wood pulp, chemicals, and fruit, most of which go to the UK and South Africa. The major food crops are maize, beans, groundnuts, and sorghum. About half of the working population is engaged in small-scale subsistence farming, but food yields are declining. The major producers are foreign companies attracted by Swaziland's low taxes and cheap labor supply.     

Comprehensively Advance Reform of the Urban Housing System Opinion. [Summary 1991

On 31 December 1991, the Chinese State Council Housing System Reform Leading Group announced this Opinion, setting out targets, principles, and policies for the reform of the system of provisional housing in urban areas. Section 1 of the Opinion provides that the long-term goal of reform is to convert the distribution of housing from a system based on welfare allocation to one based on commodity exchange either by purchase or rental. Section 2 sets the following targets for reform: a) within the period of the Eighth Five-Year Plan, the system will be converted from one of low rent to one in which the calculation of rent will be based on cost of upkeep, administration costs, and depreciation; b) by 2000, the calculation of rent will be based on the above factors, as well as interest on investment and property taxes; and c) in the long term, the calculation of rent will be based on all of the above factors, as well as land rent, insurance premiums, and profit. Section 4 deals with policies for managing various problems such as rent increases and subsidies, sales of housing, financing for housing, the system of investment in and construction of housing, and administration of housing. This Section provides that a three-level housing investment fund based on municipalities, work units, and individuals will be established.     

Consequences and dilemmas in therapeutic relationships with families resulting from mandatory reporting legislation

Mandatory reporting legislation has been adopted in every state to insure the protection of children from maltreatment. These statutes have become a significant factor in the lives of mental health professionals who work with children and families. Thirty psychotherapists who had made a recent report of child maltreatment on a client in treatment were interviewed about their experiences with reporting and the consequences of reporting for therapeutic relationships. Several potentially problematic consequences and dilemmas were identified by the therapists, including immediate and long-term effects on the therapeutic alliance and course of therapy, and conflicts of interest in working with children and families.