Cruel and inhuman treatment causes more mental damage than physical torture

...more distressing. CIDT was also associated with higher rates of PTSD than physical torture. In response to views that a broad definition of torture downplays the importance of the problem of torture, the author noted that the definition of torture implied by these findings cannot be deemed overly inclusive ...

Family Income Impacts Children's Health

...ildren of the wealthiest, most educated families and everyone else," she said. "The report spotlights poverty as a cause of ill health in kids, and downplays the role of health insurance," said Steffie Woolhandler, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and co-founder of Physicians For...

Let Us All Join Government To Ban Child Labour

...ke poverty, family expectations and traditions, abuse of the child, lack of education, lack of other services such as health care, public opinion that downplays the risk of early work for children, uncaring attitude of employers The Labour and Employment Ministry planning to enforce it strongly has warned pu...

downplays in Biological Technology

Father of life patents downplays historic role

Madison, Wis. - Ananda Chakrabarty is modest about the role he played in sparking the American biotechnology industry, but others are willing to do the boasting for him. Chakrabarty Chakrabarty, the first person to successfully patent life forms, visited Wisconsin this week to lecture stu...