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Nine former detainees protest against their detention by the Singapore government in a statement which instantly precipitated the re-arrest of all except one (who was abroad)

A child is the best sort of gift imaginable. Every child deserves love, care, protection, education and a legacy of all the moral values which theyll be passing on to their young ones someday. These are some of the mandatory requirements that parents or care givers need to provide to their children, failing to do so makes a child vulnerable to abuse. If parents, guardians or primary caregivers fail to provide a protective environment then being part of this civilized society its our responsibility to protect the child from such horror and report the failures. Injuries might vary from child to child but any trauma due to abuse explains itself. Dentists and other health professionals can easily highlight many of these traumas during the regular check-ups. The following information specifically emphasizes on the evolution of the Law and Order since first case till today, why is it necessary to report a case, how such cases can be reported, Laws protecting the children, Governmental and Non-Governmental organizations working for the protection of children. One can spend a lifetime trying to forget a few minutes of his childhood therefore the objective of this paper is to spread awareness in communities in order to protect children and their childhood.

To describe the health effects of the political system in Zaïre on asylum seekers seen at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture a retrospective study was performed of the records of 92 asylum seekers from Zaïre who were seen for medical reports at the medical foundation in 1993 and 1994. Eighty one had been imprisoned; the others had been severely treated at home by the security services. Sixty six had been detained for up to one year. Prison conditions were invariably unsanitary, and food of poor quality when provided. All had been beaten on arrest, and all but two had been beaten repeatedly in prison. Nearly all the women and some of the men described sexual abuse. Almost all left prison through bribery or because a guard had a similar background. Seventy two asylum seekers had scarring, consider to be consistent with the history, and 70 were considered to have suffered persistent psychological damage. Asylum seekers from Zaïre will have health effects from experiences unimaginable to the ordinary Briton. An understanding of the background will help clinicians manage them.

There are few quantitative studies that show the workplace is experienced in a different way by employees with disabilities. This article fills this gap using data from the British Workplace Behaviour Survey, which found that employees with disabilities and long-term illnesses were more likely to suffer ill-treatment in the workplace and experienced a broader range of ill-treatment. Different types of disability were associated with different types of ill-treatment. The survey also showed who employees with disabilities blamed for their ill-treatment and why they believed the ill-treatment had occurred. Drawing on the existing literature, four possible explanations for ill-treatment are considered: negative affect raises perceptions of ill-treatment; ill-treatment leads to health effects; ill-treatment results from stigma or discrimination; ill-treatment is a consequence of workplace social relations. Although some of these explanations are stronger than others, the discussion shows that more research is required in order to decide between them.

Who is a vulnerable person in human rights law? This important book assesses the treatment of vulnerability by the European Court of Human Rights, an area that has been surprisingly under explored by European human rights law to date. It explores legal-philosophical understandings of the topic, providing a theoretical framework that can be used when examining the question. Not confining itself to the abstract, however, it provides a bridge from the theoretical to the practical by undertaking a comprehensive examination of the Court's approach under art. 3 ECHR. It also pays particular attention to the concept of human dignity. Well written and compellingly argued, this is an important new book for all scholars of European human rights. The open access edition of this book is available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.