Definition of Torture
Rehabilitation of torture survivors and prevention of torture: Priorities for research through a modified Delphi Study (with Commentaries)
... defining torture, in determining the difference between torture and CIDT, or in documenting torture for legal ...the definition of torture versus CIDT (1); specificities of contemporary ...
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Prohibition against Torture in International Law: United Nations Treaty Body
... The purposes specifically named in Article 1 do not constitute an exhaustive list; “such purposes as” indicates that other similar purposes may be included. The element joining these purposes is perhaps best understood ...
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Voices of torture survivors in Tanzania: A qualitative study
... UNCAT definition of torture, all informants reported having been tortured within the past two ...of torture was beating with clubs to the joints. Other torture included, but was not limited ...
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Torture: The Moral, Pragmatic, and Legal Implications
... Choice Plan is clearly intended to provide criteria for identifying an “emer- gency medical condition” to be covered under Medicare, and simply lists “severe pain” as an indicator of an “emergency medical condition.” It ...
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Two-Lane Blacktop: Refugees & Torture
... of torture, professor La Torre has developed the thesis that there is a conceptual connection between torture and illegality, a phenomenological contradiction between law and torture 4 ...
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Torture-Lite: An Ethical Middle-Ground?
... for torture-lite is the gathering of intelligence and it is the collection of the information that is used in the calculation to offset the harm ...full torture and carry with it the associated ethical ...
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No Guarantee the US Won’t Torture Again
... much-anticipated torture report, which chronicles the CIA’s rendition, detention and interrogation program in the aftermath of 9/11, has unleashed a cascade of recriminations that threatens to eclipse the ...
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Right to freedom from torture in Nepal
... to torture compensation were lodged in district and appellate courts ...to torture compensations have not been lodged in ...that torture victims are more vulnerable and always face challenges to file ...
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Language of self-definition in the disorders of identity
... The very moment a person attempts to define him- or her- self can be considered as the connectedness of the gen- eral and the individual, under discontinuous conditions. We generally think about identity when it is no ...
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Overcoming Necessity: Torture and the State of Constitutional Culture
... Overcoming Necessity Torture and the State of Constitutional Culture SMU Law Review Volume 61 | Issue 2 Article 2 2008 Overcoming Necessity Torture and the State of Constitutional Culture Thomas P Cro[.] ...
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Torture in Lawful Custody: Violation of United Nations Convention against Torture in Criminal Justice System in Bangladesh
... against Torture in Bangladesh because torture is a common sce- nario in the country right now, especially in lawful custody as a part of crimi- nal justice ...because torture represents the ...
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Migration and torture: Building a map of knowledge
... The alternative for survivors whose application has been rejected is to stay undocumented in the host country in even worst conditions than before. If asylum seekers and refugees suffer poverty, stigma, lack of health ...
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A torture free cyber space : a human right
... cases 15 that many models have been developed to predict national suicide numbers based on social media data. 16 Hearing of people committing suicide when their private photos are leaked online puts little doubt on how ...
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The captive brain: Torture and the neuroscience of humane interrogation
... of torture on motivation is positive, facilitating retrieval of veridical ...Ideally, torture should have no effect on the homeostatic or adaptive functions performed by the ...
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Geographical distribution of torture: An epidemiological study of torture reported by asylum applicants examined at the Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen
... One of the included groups, “Torture related to other/unknown reasons in the Middle East (OME)”, needs further explana- tion, as it is a category encompassing a broad spectrum of victims. This category excludes ...
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Customary International Law and Torture: the Case of India
... Nor has India been forthcoming in accepting any non-treaty international legal obligation to prevent torture. At the time the ICCPR was drafted, India was not prepa[r] ...
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The Politics of Prosecutions under the Convention Against Torture
... The dismissal of charges against former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre in Senegal and the detention and release of Peruvian Major Tomas Ricardo Anderson Kohatsu in the United[r] ...
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British torture in the ‘war on terror’
... The role played by the UK in this programme is highlighted by the degree to which British territory was used by CIA aircraft as refuelling stops while undertaking rendition operations. Collation and analysis of flight ...
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The Effectiveness of International Law: Torture and Counterterrorism
... of torture in the ‘war against terror,’ the United States led invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the unhindered re- sort to indiscriminate violence against civilians by groups based in ex- isting states (with or ...
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Obstacles to torture rehabilitation at Guantánamo Bay
... present severe challenges to building a trusting relationship. As Sveaass notes, the following factors are of crucial importance: “The level of confidence that the person has with respect to receiving rehabilitation ...
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