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Global trade liberalization with regard to the readymade garments industry is a topic of highest relevance for the Bangladeshi economy and linked very strongly to its changing social structure. Garment industry actually is a very new, export-oriented sector of the Bangladesh economy. It was only some twenty years ago that this sector was fully established in Bangladesh. Today it has grown to the number eighteen exporter world-wide, employing some 1.8 million people directly, of whom most of them are women, and another 10 million indirectly. The main markets are the EU and NAFTA. The development of Bangladesh garments industry was facilitated by the different Multi Fibre Arrangements. Therefore ¿ as many other new competitors have grown over the last couple of years, namely South and East Asian including China, the ASEAN, Mexico and 24 Caribbean countries ¿ Bangladesh¿s garment industry will face a difficult period after 2004.

This book follows the protection of religious ministers in armed conflict from its roots in religious law to the present-day status of religious personnel in international humanitarian law. The details of this legal protection are discussed as well as the practice of religious ministry to troops and prisoners of war. The author provides a comparison of protection of spiritual assistance to armed forces with protection granted to civilian ministry. Considering the example of German chaplaincy, he also examines interactions of international protection with the national status of religious personnel. Finally, problematic issues as new developments in the definition of religious personnel or their role in the conflicts of the 21 century are raised and relevant recent cases identified.

Dieser Band enthält 53 Beiträge von Teilnehmern am 37. Linguistischen Kolloquium, das im September 2002 an der Universität Jena stattfand. Der Leitgedanke ist auf die Rolle insbesondere der neuen Medien im Sprachgebrauch und in der Sprachwissenschaft gerichtet. Darstellungen zum Sprachsystem bedienen sich medialer Sprachkorpora oder legen ihren Untersuchungen bestimmte mediale Repräsentationsformen von Sprache zu Grunde. This volume contains 53 contributions by participants of the 37 Linguistic Colloquium which took place at Jena University in September 2002. The contributions are focused on the role of the modern media in language use and linguistics. Research into the language system is based on media language corpora or forms of language use in the media.

The Missing Link identified by Michèle Kaiser-Cooke explains the fundamental translatability of the world. Based on Darwin¿s theory of evolution, a link is established between various human interpretations of reality, as manifested in cultures, languages and disciplines. These different constructions of reality are essentially commensurable and therefore also translatable because of the common experience of the conditio humana. The only limits to translatability, whether between cultures, languages or disciplines, are set by the limits of human communication. By clearly defining the translation paradigm, the author makes it possible to explain the commensurability of all languages within the concept of the indissoluble unity of theory and practice.

By bringing together three different academic disciplines ¿ anthropology, political science and history ¿ and covering a variety of different parliamentary assemblies, both in Europe and in the United States, this book aims to offer a fresh approach to parliamentary studies. The authors assess the importance of ritual and symbolic communication in different parliamentary settings. The underlying question that each practitioner and scholar addresses is: Do parliamentary rituals really matter? Some of the contributors argue that legislative procedure is more telling of the role and reputation that a parliament has in a given society than its rituals and ceremonies. Others stress the relevance of these ritual expressions for conveying political sense and meaning to the public.