The case of Chen Guangcheng, the legal expert, has provoked international concern, as his defense lawyers have argued that officials in Shandong Province arrested him on baseless charges as punishment for his activism against abuses of population control policies.
In addition to limited recruitment of Black women in clinical trials, researchers have found that a history of medical abuse of minority populations in the U.S. contributes to lower participation rates.
As an advocate for people with developmental disabilities and those who help them, I was distressed to learn of the abuse of this vulnerable population by cruel caregivers who violated their position of trust.
Friar Bartolomé de Las Casas, sometimes called the "Apostle of the Indies," wrote Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias (A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, or The Tears of the Indians) in 1542, criticizing Spanish colonial policy and abuse of the native population.
They sent reports to Shelikhov detailing the abuse of the local population, but were ignored.
As the night turned into morning, the degree of the unfolding tragedy only grew as initial indications of abuse of the civilian population began to arrive.
The killings and abuse of the civilian population continued until 18 October, when troops guarding a group of civilians forced them to walk into a minefield at gunpoint and then opened fire upon them.
Finally, we assumed that the prevalence and costs of diagnosed abuse calculated in the OptumHealth claims data were representative of the prevalence and costs of diagnosed abuse of the broader population covered by self-insured employers.
Risk of abuse Half of the population of DR Congo is under the age of 18.
But each concerns what law-enforcement officials and advocacy groups say is a worldwide problem: the wholesale trafficking and abuse of an immense, silenced population of women.
