The activities of human rights defenders concern all categories of human rights: civil, cultural, economic, political, and social. Inspired and guided by human rights standards, human rights defenders act against the serious problems that affect the life of people throughout the world, such as hunger and poverty, intolerance and discrimination, abuse of power and corruption, insecurity, conflic...

This paper analyses the theme of international service (or international volunteering as it is perhaps better known in the UK) in relation to ideas about globalization and development and presents a framework for future research. Agencies such as the United States Peace Corps, the United Nations Volunteers or a range of specialised non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have long promoted volunt...

The ways to prevent poverty are well known to us all. Allow every baby a chance to be born wanted, raised in good health, educated to full capacity, accepted upon individual merit, welcomed to a range of job choices according to capacity and interest, paid a good wage, insured at adequate levels against the economic hazards of the industrial economy, and assured a comfortable house in a support...

This study explores the intersecting vulnerabilities in individuals who are homeless and have psychiatric challenges. Psychiatric survivors are often perceived as a homogeneous group with similar needs. However, survivors with further minority status are likely to have additional concerns and needs that may not be met by the current systems of care. People further marginalized by visible/cultur...

The Kenya country profile is a description of Kenya covering the demographic, economic, cultural, religious, and health aspects including mental health in the country today. Like any other developing countries, Kenya is faced today with major challenges in terms of poverty, economic decline, and lack of adequate resources to meet the health needs and demands, including the mental health of the ...

Child labour is an issue of growing concern in Afghanistan. According to recent estimates, one in four Afghan children aged seven to 14 is engaged in some form of work.1 This briefing paper explores why children in Afghanistan work, focusing specifically on factors that influence decision-making at the household level. Drawing on findings from an in-depth, qualitative study of poor households t...

Social analyses have often conceptualized small-scale mining as a poverty-pushed economy that offers social safety net to downtrodden populations. While not discarding the importance of this proposition, I argue commonplace notion "poverty-driven" draws attention away from socio-cultural and material particularities inform resource extraction in specific times places. In an attempt foreground t...

It is my pleasure to introduce this small collection of four papers that emerged from sessions on Cultural and Social Issues in Transport at the 2016 World Conference on Transport Research in Shanghai, China. I first became interested with this important topic of transport poverty and inequalities as an early career researcher in 1999 during my time working on the Jubilee Line Extension Impact ...