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Human Rights and Antiterrorism: A Positive Legal Duty to Infringe Freedom From Torture? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In law freedom from torture and ill-treatment is “absolute,” meaning that a state cannot infringe the right for purposes that would seem legitimate such as the protection of national security.
Turner, Ian David
core   +1 more source

Chronic Illness, Treatment Choice and Workforce Participation [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, 2003
Choices with respect to labor force participation and medical treatment are increasingly intertwined. Technological advances present patients with new choices and may facilitate continued employment for the growing number of chronically ill individuals.
Hirth, Richard A.   +5 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Virtual Reality Haptic Device for Mental Illness Treatment

open access: yesProcedia Computer Science, 2023
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that alters mental functioning and can cause hallucinations, mental disorientation, and a variety of other symptoms, which results in a separation of schizophrenics from society. Despite the fact that the condition has been known about for a long time, there is still an urgent need for research and testing to develop ...
Deusdado, Leonel   +1 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Are diplomatic assurances adequate guarantees of safety against torture and ill-treatment? The pragmatic approach of the strasbourg court [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The use of diplomatic assurances against torture and other ill-treatment has increased in recent years in response to the continued growth of international terrorism.
Volou, Aristi
core   +1 more source

Nobody's responsibility:the precarious position of disabled employees in the UK workplace [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Secondary analysis of a qualitative data set of perceived workplace ill-treatment suggests that human resource and occupational health professionals play too subordinate, belated and haphazard a role, compared to ill-equipped line managers, in the de ...
Foster, Deborah, Scott, Peter
core   +1 more source

Ill-treatment and torture in demonstrations and other noncustodial settings. How can academic research help in the discussion?

open access: yesTorture, 2018
The events in October 2017 in Catalonia exemplify the difficulty of establishing what ‘excessive use of force’ means. Images of violent repression of defenceless people of all ages waiting to vote accompany the Spanish government’s spokeswoman ...
Pau Pérez-Sales
doaj   +1 more source

New appointed Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

open access: yesTorture, 2023
News in the 2023(1) issue published in 17.03 ...
Pau Pérez-Sales, Berta Soley
doaj   +1 more source

Freedom From Torture in the "War on Terror": Is it Absolute? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Freedom from torture is regarded as “absolute,” meaning that a state cannot infringe the right for purposes which would seem legitimate such as the protection of national security.
Turner, Ian David
core   +1 more source

Factor interaction in prevention of torture Reflections based on Carver and Handley’s research (with Comment by the authors of the book and Response by the author of the paper)

open access: yesTorture, 2018
Summary “Does torture prevention work?” is a very comprehensive book based on commendably profound research in 16 countries. It contains a wealth of very important results concerning the relationship between a multitude of factors in the prevention and ...
Hans Draminsky Petersen
doaj   +1 more source

Incommunicado detention and torture in Spain, Part I: The Istanbul Protocol Project in the Basque Country: Istanbul Protocol Project in the Basque Country Working Group

open access: yesTorture, 2018
There is increasing evidence to show that torture is a serious problem in the Basque Country. Whilst such evidence can be found in reports of international human rights monitoring bodies, sentences of Spanish and international courts, and empirical ...
Lilla Hárdi   +32 more
doaj   +1 more source

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