It was also claimed she had ill-treated a number of other people in her care.

BBC: Huddersfield care home workers walk free

In Hungary, asylum-seekers, including children, were held and sometimes ill-treated in detention centres, despite government denials.

CNN: Torture report: Many European countries guilty

Across the UK it is caring for about 600 horses and ponies, which have been abandoned or ill-treated.

BBC: Abandoned horses 'double in year', RSPCA says

Two senior nurses at Stafford Hospital changed waiting time figures and ill-treated patients, a disciplinary hearing was told.

BBC: Stafford Hospital senior nurses 'changed records'

The prosecution claimed the toddler's injuries were not an "isolated event" and that he had been ill-treated for months.

BBC: Keanu Williams's mother and partner 'beat him to death'

Binyam Mohamed's allegation that British agents fed questions to his interrogators who ill-treated him in Morocco and elsewhere is under investigation.

BBC: MI5 'does not collude in torture'

Indeed, protesters, including Ms Klein's anti-globalisation supporters, can use the power of the brand against companies by drumming up evidence of workers ill-treated or rivers polluted.

ECONOMIST: Brands

Floodwaters had isolated the hospital, where about 312 patients -- many of them critically ill -- were being treated when Katrina hit.

CNN: RELATED

Eight of these victims - who were treated on acute care wards for seriously ill patients - have now died.

BBC: Rebecca Leighton

One in five consultants questioned also said they had treated less severely ill or disabled patients in preference to those with more severe problems - simply to fulfill waiting list initiative requirements.

BBC: Milburn attacks waiting list 'fiddles'