Report Card
Schonemann, Natalie Pearson and Raoul
REPORT CARD Natalie Pearson and Raoul Schonemann Statistically Speaking WOMEN ... a WORLD SURVEY by Ruth Leger Sivard World Priorities, Box 25140, Washington, DC 20007. 44 pp. $5. This report...
...Nations must limit the power multinational corporations exercise and require those corporations to inform people of the dangers posed by their operations, the authors conclude...
...40 pp...
...The author focuses on changes that have occurred over the last thirty-five years and on the differences between the developed and developing worlds...
...Fifteen years ago, the two superpowers together accounted for four-fifths of the world arms exports...
...Nevertheless, the information contained in No Place to Run points up the necessity for action to prevent another Bhopal...
...The statistics contained in this report of the Government's Arms Control and Disarmament Agency document the flourishing proliferation of military hardware to every corner of the globe...
...Single copy free...
...The statistics in his agency's report show, however, that there has been little restraint on any side...
...The report, a joint project of the Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee and two research groups in New Delhi, goes beyond Bhopal to address global concerns about hazardous products...
...Kenneth Adelman, director of the agency which compiled this report, argues in his foreword that the Soviet Union, not the United States, stands in the way of real arms limitations...
...It explores women's work, education and health, and closes with a discussion of the effect legal reforms have had on women's roles...
...Even a tragedy of the proportion of Bhopal has not yet caused the kind of popular mobilization that is needed to press for changes in legislation and regulations," the report states...
...Women...
...This report breathes life into statistics dealing with the lives of women around the world...
...Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Washington, DC 20451...
...5 plus $1 postage...
...The numbers document author Sivard's contention that "there is no major field of activity and no country in which women have attained equality with men...
...Although the data show, unsurprisingly, that the United States and the Soviet Union dominate both military expenditures and arms exports, other countries are getting into the act...
...In addition to providing extensive statistical tables of arms transfers involving 145 nations, the publication also contains a brief essay section with articles on the Soviet Union's acquisition of Western military technology, Soviet options in Third World arms transfer, and the growing use of barter by developing nations to purchase weapons...
...A World Survey looks at the impact of population growth, economic development, and social change on women's lives...
...145 pp...
...World of Weapons WORLD MILITARY EXPENDITURES AND ARMS TRANSFERS 1985 by the U.S...
...Unfortunately, the strategies it proposes to effect such change are pedestrian, emphasizing international cooperation among workers and activists without demonstrating how such coalitions can get off the ground...
...And the benefits of chemical-based agriculture and development must be weighed against the overall costs...
...in 1984, for the first time, their share of the world total dropped to less than half...
...Bhopal and Beyond NO PLACE TO RUN by Rajesh Tandon, Anil Agarwal, and Juliet Merrifield Highlander Center, Route 3, Box 370, New Market, TN 37820...
...This booklet recounts the tragic story of Union Carbide's gas leak in Bhopal to demonstrate that "human and environmental safety is too important a subject to be left to government and corporations alone...
Vol. 49 • November 1985 • No. 11
