Torture and Violence
Torture and the Material-Semiotic Networks of Violence Across Borders 1
... like torture by questioning their alleged source or origin “at the es- sence of man’s body or soul or of the political regime” (Ophir 2005, ...of torture can be un- derstood solely through an analysis of ...
Risky Dis/Entanglements : Torture and Sexual Violence in Conflict
... sexual violence has become increasingly recognised in international spaces as a serious, political form of ...‘sexual violence’ and ‘torture’ have blurred as scholars and other actors have sought to ...
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Patriarchal theory reconsidered: torture and gender based violence in Turkey
... own government. To this extent, if the Turkish government appears to be in scrutiny throughout this research, it is indeed confirming the view that was widespread across all participants who were mainly human rights ...
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Modern Imperialism: Canadian Renditions to Torture and the Production of Impunity for Sovereign Racialized State Violence
... of torture, as their false confessions connected them to one another as members of a Canadian terrorist sleeper-cell with links to al-Qaeda and Osama bin ...state violence. The burden of violence was ...
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Mental health interventions and priorities for research for adult survivors of torture and systematic violence: a review of the literature
... of violence to report symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depression, and elevated anxiety, and these symptoms often have severe consequences for daily functioning long after the events that ...
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Household exposure to violence and human rights violations in western Bangladesh (II): history of torture and other traumatic experience of violence and functional assessment of victims
... matic experience, and a further study with a control group is needed. Our study was also the first to assess standing balance per- formance in an oppressed population. Impaired lower extremity performance is associated ...
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Testimonial Therapy: Impact on social participation and emotional wellbeing among Indian survivors of torture and organized violence
... of torture and organized violence (TOV) are prone to several health disorders such as depression, anxiety disorders, substance abuse and chronic ...countries, torture is perpetrated frequently, and ...
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Reporting and Interpreting Legal Violence in Asia: The East India Company's Printed Accounts of Torture, 1603–24
... 8 Torture, an extreme dimension of legal violence overseas, offers promising avenues for analysing how companies understood the law, violence and their ongoing struggle to better clarify their ...
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Torture at Home: Borrowing from the Torture Convention to Define Domestic Violence
... domestic violence or 2) does respect such a rebuttable presumption but likewise recognizes a rebuttable presumption in favor of granting joint custody to both parents so that these two presumptions counter each ...
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Group treatment for survivors of torture and severe violence: A literature review
... for torture survivors differed in that they were often part of an initial treatment approach, as opposed to being offered after the processing of trauma memory, and were also offered throughout the course of ...
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A criminal tribunal and a wide-ranging reparation programme is necessary for the victims of sexual violence and torture in Iraq
... TORTURE Volume 29, Number 1, 2019 conflict, would need to be embedded in a wider transitional justice strategy of the GOI and KRG. Besides addressing criminal accountability, truth-seeking, and reparation issues, ...
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Scoring violence : the importance of Riz Ortolani's music in Don't Torture A Duckling (1972)and Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
... featured extensively in scoring in 70s and 80s Italian horror - as are the electric guitar, electric bass, and drums – but I contend that the way the synth is used in these particular films is more complicated than she ...
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From sexualized torture and gender-based torture to genderized torture: The urgent need for a conceptual evolution
... TORTURE Volume 28, Number 3, 2018 victims in war, thus compounding their invisibility in the global political economy of the war. A more acceptable gender perspective would include an analysis on where women’s ...
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Seeing Torture Anew: A Transnational Reconceptualization of State Torture and Visual Evidence
... State torture comprises not only a subject’s corporeal encounter with the state or its extensions, but also the representational violence whereby the state seeks to determine to whom torture will be ...
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The psychological impact of torture
... symptoms, torture survivors have elevated rates of anxiety, depression, and adjustment problems, 15 including outbreaks of anger and violence directed towards family ...many torture survivors have ...
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Torture and ill-treatment
... Its mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination. In this ...
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Torture and torture practices in Tanzania: Knowledge, attitudes and practice among medical professionals
... of torture in Tanzanian society may lead to fear and ...for torture victims (Eisenman & Kim, 2000), and awareness and accurate identification is necessary for an informed history taking and physical ...
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PIL - 3rd Degree Torture
... `quite voluntarily' divulges information. But the act or threat of violence is where the element of coercion is housed. In narco analysis, the drug contained in the syringe is the element of compulsion. The rest ...
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The Problem of Saw Torture Porn
... denounce violence (“the brave one” is the person who lives without the gun), it shamelessly targets poor minorities, necessarily portrayed as total- ly deranged, with no more embarrassment than the Charles Bronson ...
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Right to freedom from torture in Nepal
... of violence in various sectors of the societies is deeply rooted in Nepalese ...school violence such as corporal punishment is used as a means of maintaining discipline in school, 157 and sexual ...
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