There is compelling evidence that trauma as a result of neglect and abuse has negative impacts on development, including, for the very youngest children, measurable effects on processes of brain maturation.

On the contrary, it was designed specifically with a view to making due allowance for inherent imbalances in the natural maturation processes. These include the fact that generally speaking boys develop later than girls do.

Article 5 draws on the concept of evolving capacities to refer to processes of maturation and learning whereby children progressively acquire knowledge, competencies and understanding, including acquiring understanding about their rights and about how they can best be realized.

424. The HIV AIDS pandemic has established itself in Peruvian territory and is undergoing rapid growth and maturation in increasingly broad sectors of the population the number of HIV infected persons reported in 1992 1993 is higher than the total number for the previous nine years (1983 1991).

The Nehruvian consensus facilitated India s democratic maturation and accommodated the country s many diverse interests, without permitting any one group or section to dominate the nascent nation state. It is fashionable today to decry Nehruvian socialism as a corrupt and inefficient system that condemned India to many years of slow economic growth.

Indeed, there is evidence from many fisheries of earlier maturation such changes take place fast enough to be detected over the decades. For example, early in the twentieth century, you would not find a mature cod in the North Sea less than about 50 centimeters in length, whereas by the 1980's mature cod were as small as 15 centimeters.