Report reveals 500 custody deaths
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Between 500 and 600 people die every year in state custody in England and Wales, a report will say.
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Psychiatric patients released into the community have killed over 400 people in eight years, a study will say.
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More than 80 people died after being either suffocated or crushed while in police custody in south Thailand. The deaths followed the breaking up of a demonstration outside a police station in Narathiwat province.
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Hundreds more Iraqis died in violence   in July and August than in the previous two months, many of   them tortured to death because of their religion with cables,   acid and power drills, a U.N. report said on Wednesday.
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More than half the world&#39;s children are suffering extreme effects of poverty, war and HIV/Aids, denying them a healthy and safe childhood, according to a report published today.
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More than 100 journalists and media employees have been killed so far this year, according to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).
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Five years after the report into Victoria Climbie's death, its author says child protection is still failing.
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LONDON, Nov 17 (IPS) - Hundreds of thousands of child soldiers are being   used in conflicts around the world and governments are doing  little to  stop this, says a report published Wednesday.
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The fifth report of an inquiry into serial killer Dr Harold Shipman, who murdered over 200 of his patients, has criticised the watchdog governing doctors for putting the needs of doctors above patients.
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More than an inmate a day died violently in Venezuela's crowded prisons last year, as riots and weapons trafficking ran rampant behind bars, a human rights group said in an annual report.
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Leadership failures at the highest levels contributed to an environment in which detainees were abused, a panel concluded.
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A human rights group said it had evidence of two previously unreported deaths of Afghan prisoners in US custody in Afghanistan, and accused Washington of covering up abuse of detainees.
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A report into the death of the youngest person to die in custody demands a national review of the use of restraints.
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ONE in 12 children worldwide died before their fifth birthday, with half of all such deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, the United Nations reported yesterday in its annual survey of infant mortality.
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The Shipman Inquiry investigated the deaths in the early 1970s of 137 hospital patients, it has been revealed.
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There is a report out today in The Lancet (discussed here in the Guardian) which attempts to measure the number of deaths from coalition actions in Iraq .
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Software aimed at standarizing prison sentences had been applied to more than 1,500 cases, newspaper says.