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Is the prohibition against torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment absolute in international human rights law? A reply to Steven Greer [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In a recent article, Steven Greer questions whether the prohibition of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment is really ‘absolute’ in international human rights law, and argues that it is not.
Natasa Mavronicola   +1 more
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DILEMA DIFERENŢIERII RĂSPUNDERII PENALE PENTRU RELELE TRATAMENTE COMISE DE O PERSOANĂ CU FUNCŢIE DE RĂSPUNDERE

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Sociale, 2017
Deoarece unele autorităţi (ca, de exemplu, poliţistul) sunt, potrivit literei legii (art.123 alin.(1) şi alin.(2) CP RM), atât persoane publice, cât şi persoane cu funcţie de răspundere, în contextul relelor tratamente incriminate la art.1661 CP RM, unii
Daniela URSU
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Criminalization on the Basis of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: Reframing the Dominant Human Rights Discourse to include Freedom from Torture and Inhuman and Degrading Treatment

open access: yes, 2017
This article examines the evolving discourse under the international human rights legal framework regarding laws that criminalize people on the basis of their actual or perceived non-normative sexual orientation and/or gender identity.
Melanie Bejzyk
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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND RIGHT TO BE FREE FROM TORTURE

open access: yesIustinianus Primus Law Review, 2015
This article examines the development of the international human rights law, and its application by the international monitoring bodies as well as courts, with respect to violations of the right to be free from torture and inhuman and degrading ...
Bistra Netkova
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Does prison labour rehabilitate, punish, discipline or exploit a traumatised and racialised population in Australian and American prisons?

open access: yesTorture
This article describes the incarcerated population in Australia and the US as being comprised of peo-ple primarily from racialised and marginalised communities, of whom many have histories of trauma.
Andreea Lachsz
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Violations of the right to food during deprivation of liberty: a global socio-legal assessment of United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies and the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment mission reporting on selected prisons since 2015

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Background States have a heightened duty of care owed to persons deprived of their liberty extending beyond the prohibition of torture and discrimination.
Marie Claire Van Hout   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The crime of torture and other inhuman and cruel treatment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The crime of torture and other inhuman and cruel treatment Abstract This master thesis concerns itself with a concept of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and how is this concept perceived through the international ...
Skovajsová, Klára
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Culturally appropriate, human rights compliant police custody monitoring expectations for detained Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people

open access: yesTorture
To support effective implementation of the United Nations Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) in Australia, Culturally appropriate, human rights compliant police ...
Andreea Lachsz
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The Right Not to be Dominated: The Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights on Migrants’ Destitution [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Constitutional Law, 2019
The European Court of Human Rights increasingly deals with migrants’ complaints about desti-tution in their host state under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment). This case law has been
Lieneke Slingenberg
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