Sexual torture among Arabic-speaking Shi’a Muslim men and women in Iraq: Barriers to healing and finding meaning [PDF]
Torture, 2018 Introduction: Rape and sexual torture are frequent experiences among torture survivors, but relatively little is known about how victims respond to and find meaning in these experiences.
Christopher Einolf
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TortureThis article explores the psychopolitical logic of torture within the Palestinian context, focusing on its role as a tool of domination and resistance.
Samah Jabr, Maria Helbich
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Remote medico-legal assessment by telephone during COVID-19: Monitoring safety and quality when documenting evidence of torture for UK asylum applicants [PDF]
Torture, 2021 Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we developed remote assessment to provide interim medicolegal reports, ensuring people could obtain medical evidence to support their asylum claim. The Freedom from Torture research ethics committee approved the project.
Juliet Cohen +4 more
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Measuring change and changing measures: The development of a torture survivor specific measure of change [PDF]
, 2019 Freedom from Torture is a UK-based human rights organisation dedicated to the treatment and rehabilitation of torture survivors. The organisation has been working towards the development of a clinical outcome tool for a number of years, and the purpose ...
Horn, Rebecca, Keefe, Andy
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Voices of torture survivors in Tanzania: A qualitative study [PDF]
Torture, 2018 Introduction: No published research has been found on torture in Tanzania, but individual cases were documented by human rights organisations. The aim of this study was to explore the salient physical, mental and social effects of torture in the country,
Maha Aon +4 more
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Hostage-taking as torture: Alice Edwards’ report to the UN Human Rights Council
TortureThe report A/HRC/58/55 entitled Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment: hostage-taking as torture, prepared by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Alice Jill Edwards, was submitted to the Human Rights Council
Berta Soley, Pau Pérez-Sales
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A conference to raise awareness on torture and the Istanbul Protocol
TortureIntroduction: The “Aspects of Trauma and Torture” conference, a collaborative effort between the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel and Physicians for Human Rights Israel, aimed to elevate awareness and deepen comprehension of torture and its ...
Daniel Weishut +2 more
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BJPsych Open, 2023 Torture is designed to silence, render powerless, oppress and terrify not just the individual torture survivor but the whole society where the act of torture occurs.
Kolbassia Haoussou, Katy Robjant
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The Rights of Refugee Children and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Laws, 2019 Refugee children are identified as rights-bearers by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), but their rights are not uniformly honored in the policies and practices of contemporary states.
Jeanette A. Lawrence +3 more
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Dehumanization and self-reported proclivity to torture prisoners of war. [PDF]
, 2013 Several authors have argued that dehumanization may be the psychological process that underlies people's willingness to torture outgroup members. In the current research, we directly examined this question among Christian participants, with Muslims as ...
G. Tendayi Viki +5 more
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