News Report and Human Rights Protection——Interview with Xinhua News Agency Deputy-Editor-in-Chief Ju Mengjun

Q: What progress has China’s journalism circle made over the past 30 years of reform and opening up? How do you assess the situation in     

跨文化背景下的人权对话

On the cold morning of February 24, 2009, a few hundred people were gathered outside Beijing Cultural Palace of the Nationalities. Among them were ethnic Tibetan students of the Central University for Nationalities, retired Tibetan cadres and people from all walks of life. They were waiting for the opening of the exhibition 50 Years of Democratic Reform in Tibet.     

Fourth Beijing Human Rights Forum Held in Beijing

The Fourth Beijing Forumon human Rights was heldin Beijing from September 21-23,2011.Jointly sponsored by the China Society for human Rights Studies and the China human Rights Development Foundation,the forum was centeredon the theme of"Cultural Tradition     

Human Rights Reading Materials Series Publication Symposium Held in Beijing

The China Society for Human Rights Studies(CShRS),together with the China Foundation for Human Rights Development(CFHRD)and hunan University Press,organizeda symposium on the publication of the human rights reading materials serieson Jan.11,2013,in Beijing.More than 30 representatives from governmental offices     

Tibetan Cultural Heritages under Protection

From the annual grand gala celebrating the Spring Festival on the state broadcaster China Central Television to the World Expo in Shanghai in 2010,Tibetan culture is a highlight in the show,which has grabbed the attention of do-mestic and international audience with its uniqueness and rich diversity. Its pre-sentation has been regarded as a result of protection efforts of intangible Tibetan cultural heritages over half a century.     

China’s First Blue Book on Human Rights Development

The China Society for the Studies of human Rights and the Social Sciences Documentation Press held a joint press conference on September 8, 2011, officially launching the publication of China’s first blue book, the China human Rights Development Report no. 1 (2011). Present at the briefing were Luo haocai, president of the China Society for human Rights Studies, vice-chairman of the national Committee of the 10th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and former chairman of the China Zhi Gong Dang and head of the editorial committee of the     

EXPLAINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMPLOYMENT AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY*

Most criminological theories predict an inverse relationship between employment and crime, but teenagers' involvement in paid work during the school year is correlated positively with delinquency and substance use. Whether the work–delinquency association is causal or spurious has been debated for a long time. This study estimates the effect of paid work on juvenile delinquency using longitudinal data from the national Monitoring the Future project. We address issues of spuriousness by using a two-level hierarchical model to estimate the relationships of within-individual changes in juvenile delinquency and substance use to those in paid work and other explanatory variables. We also disentangle the effects of actual employment from the preferences for employment to provide insight about the likely role of time-varying selection factors tied to employment, delinquency, school engagement, and leisure activities. Whereas causal effects of employment would produce differences based on whether and how many hours respondents worked, we found significantly higher rates of crime and substance use among nonemployed youth who preferred intensive versus moderate work. Our findings suggest the relationship between high-intensity work and delinquency results from preexisting factors that lead youth to desire varying levels of employment.