July 2010

Preparing for judgment and the prospect of change: Approaching the 2011 review of the United Nations Human Rights Council

  While much has been said about the shortcomings of the UN Human Rights Council, improvement of the body’s efficiency and efficacy has received few considerations. Recognition that there is considerable room for improvement at the Council inspired an investigation into proposals aimed at changing the structure and substance of the body. This article is based on extensive research which found that...

Author(s): Matthew Mullen

July 2010

Teachers’ disciplinary approaches to students’ discipline problems in Nigerian Secondary Schools

  This paper dealt with teachers’ disciplinary approaches on students’ indiscipline in Nigerian secondary schools. Disciplinary power of teachers’ is proved by the very fact of its exercise; and it is an organic necessity in every society whose members it guides to their end by providing them with rules of action. Students discipline problem had so existed and disciplinary methods employed...

Author(s): E. D. Nakpodia

July 2010

Planting seed for developing community mental health services nationwide: A community-based mental health demonstration project during the armed conflict in Croatia

  250,000 people were displaced within Croatia as a result of the armed conflict in the period from 1991- 1995. This also created an additional burden on the Croatian mental health system. The openings of many community-based mental health and psychosocial programs suppported by the international community in Croatia at that time created an oppportunity to further development of Croatian community mental health...

Author(s): Boris Budosan and Melita Stipancic