Introduction: Global Social Issues in Perspective -- A -- Adoption -- Affirmative Action -- AIDS/HIV -- Alcohol Use and Abuse -- Animal Rights -- Antiquities Theft and Restitution -- Arms Trade -- Aviation Security -- B -- Biodiversity and Extinction -- Brain Drain and Talent Mobility -- C -- Cancer -- Capital Punishment -- Cardiovascular Disease -- Child Labor -- Children's Rights -- Climate Change -- Conservation and Recycling -- Consumer and Investor Rights and Protections -- Corporate Social Responsibility -- Credit and Debt, Personal and Business -- Crime, Organized -- Crime, Violent -- Crimes Against Humanity -- Cultural, Historic, and Linguistic Preservation -- Cybercrime -- D -- Defense Spending -- Deficits and Sovereign Debt -- Deforestation -- Desertification -- Diabetes -- Digital Divide -- Disability Rights -- Domestic Violence -- Drug Abuse -- Drug Resistance -- Drug Trade -- E -- Education, Higher -- Education, Primary and Secondary -- Elections and Voting -- Energy, Alternative -- Environmental Illnesses -- Environmental Justice -- Ethnic and Religious Conflict -- F -- Failed States and Nation-Building -- Fair Trade -- Farm Policy -- Financial Crises -- Fishing and Fish Stocks -- Food and Drug Safety -- G -- Gambling -- Gastrointestinal Disease -- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues -- Genetically Engineered Crops and Foods -- Government Corruption and Transparency -- H -- Health Care -- Hepatitis -- Homelessness -- Housing Costs, Finance, and Affordability -- Human Rights -- Hunger and Malnutrition -- I -- Identity Fraud -- Immigration, Illegal and Irregular -- Indigenous Peoples' Rights -- Inequality, Income and Wealth -- Infant Mortality -- Influenza -- Infrastructure -- Intellectual Property Rights -- K -- Kidnapping and Hostage-Taking -- L -- Land Mines -- Law, Rule of -- Literacy --

M

Marriage and Divorce

Mental Health

Migrant Labor

Mining Issues

Money Laundering and Illegal Transfers

Mosquito-borne Disease

N

Natural Disasters, Preparedness and Response

Neurological Disease

Nuclear Energy

Nuclear Proliferation

O

Obesity and Eating Disorders

Oil, Economic and Political Aspects

Oil, Environmental and Health Aspects

Organ and Tissue Trade

P

Parasitic Disease

Pesticides and Artificial Fertilizers

Pharmaceuticals: Availability, Cost, Efficacy, and Safety

Piracy, Maritime

Police Corruption and Brutality

Polio

Pollution, Air

Pollution, Water

Population Growth and Demographic Issues

Poverty

Press, Freedom of

Prisoners and Prisoner Rights

Privacy

Privatization

Protectionism and Free Trade

Public Health

R

Rape and Sexual Assault

Refugees, Displaced Persons, and Asylum Seekers

Regulation, Business and Financial

Religious Freedom

Reproductive Issues

Respiratory Disease

S

Sanctions, International

Secrecy, Government

Self-Determination and Sovereignty

Sex Tourism and the Sex Trade

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Slavery

Social Networking

Social Welfare

Suicide

T

Taxation

Terrorism

Tobacco

Torture

Toxic Waste

Traffic and Mass Transit

Tuberculosis

U

Underground Economies

Unemployment

Unions and Workers' Rights

Urbanization

V

Vaccination

W

War Crimes

Waste Disposal

Water Supply and Access

Waterborne Disease

Wetlands

Women's Rights

Working Conditions

Master Bibliography

Books

Web Sites.