Reporting Disasters : Famine, Aid, Politics and the Media 9781849044943, 9781849042888

The media reporting of the Ethiopian Famine in 1984-5 was an iconic news event. It is widely believed to have had an unp

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Reporting Disasters : Famine, Aid, Politics and the Media
9781849044943, 9781849042888

During the twentieth century, 80 percent of all famine victims worldwide died in China and the Soviet Union. In this rig

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Every day, workers are injured, made ill, or killed on the job. Most often, workers experience these harms individually

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Media Reporting and Racism based Crime considers various aspects of media reporting and racism based crime including an

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In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The so

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Tracing the boom of local NGOs since the 1990s in the context of the global political economy of aid, current trends of

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Ireland’s Great Famine of 1845–52 was among the most devastating food crises in modern history. A country of some eight-

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The Western world's responses to genocide have been slow, unwieldly and sometimes unfit for purpose. So argues Davi

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David B. Sachsman and David W. Bulla have gathered a colorful collection of essays exploring sensationalism in nineteent

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Humanitarian intervention has increasingly become the prevalent means of providing protection and aid at a global level.

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