International Social Work, 50, 6

Social and economic justice, human rights and peace: The challenge for social work in Canada and the USA • Institutionalized child abuse: The use of child soldiers • Emerging practices of social work in the Dominican Republic: The protection of women’s and children’s safety • Comparing the policy response to violence against women in the USA and South Korea • Peer relationships: A comparison of homeless youth in the USA and South Korea • Factors that influence workfare program participants: Focusing on South Korea’s Self-Sufficiency Program • Walking between worlds: An exploration of the interface between indigenous and first-world industrialized culture • Analyses of postgraduate social work dissertations in Taiwan: Implications for social work research and education