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Debility, dependency and dread: On the conceptual and evidentiary dimensions of psychological torture

open access: yesTorture, 2018
Background: Psychological torture is deployed to break and obliterate human resistance, spirit and personality, but it is rarely afforded sufficient attention.
Ergun Cakal
doaj   +1 more source

Posttraumatic stress and depression among women in Kenya’s informal settlements: risk and protective factors

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2021
Background: Approximately 56% of Kenya´s population resides in informal settlements (UN-Habitat, ). Female residents experience a range of psychosocial stressors including chronic poverty and high rates of interpersonal violence.
Jessica E. Lambert, Christy Denckla
doaj   +1 more source

How Do I Answer This? A Queer Critique of Australian Census Forms and the Reification of Cisheteronormative Families

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a critical examination of Australia's 2021 household, individual and interviewer census forms. Using a form‐led analysis, this research scrutinises the underlying cisheteronormative logic that implicitly shapes the Census process, from data collection to distribution of findings.
Xavier Mills, Sal Clark
wiley   +1 more source

Educational Ethics in Academic Environment: Medical Students' Perspectives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Background and Objective: Educational ethics imply values such as honesty, reliance on one's own personal effort, not to abuse the efforts of others, and respect the dignity and respect for others.
Hosseini nejhad, SM.   +4 more
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Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations‐Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dying with Dignity : Is This a Universal Concept? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
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Centeno C   +3 more
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Beyond Robodebt: Media Representations of Welfare and Fraud Before and After the Robodebt Royal Commission

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The association between health and prison overcrowding, a scoping review

open access: yesBMC Public Health
It is estimated that the majority of prisons globally are overcrowded. There is consensus that overcrowding leads to negative health outcomes, however quantitative research of this association appears limited.
Maha Aon, Simon Oberconz, Marie Brasholt
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Supported Decision‐Making Rights in Behaviour Support Policies

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disability policy emphasises that people with disability have the right to exercise their will and preferences in their lives, and decision‐making support must be provided to realise this right if they request. One context in which people's will and preferences are often restricted is behaviour support.
Sally Robinson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Case Studies Enhancing Women's Dignity Project [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
For two years, between 2009 and 2011, TrustAfrica, with support from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has implemented a Millennium Development Goal 3 (MDG3) project entitled Enhancing Women's Dignity.

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