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New practice note prioritises survivors in the fight for justice

open access: yesTorture
In May 2025, the International Accountability Platform for Belarus (IAPB) published a practice note called ‘A Survivor-Centred Approach to Documentation for Criminal Accountability’.
Andrea Mølgaard
doaj   +1 more source

Rehabilitation of torture survivors in five countries: common themes and challenges

open access: yesInternational Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2010
Background Torture continues to be a global problem and there is a need for prevention and rehabilitation efforts. There is little available data on torture survivors from studies designed and conducted by health professionals in low income countries ...
Zuñiga Arely PA   +19 more
doaj   +1 more source

Caring for victims of torture: Lecture & reception with Professor Michael Grodin [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
A discussion with Professor Michael Grodin on caring for victims of ...
Boston University Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground
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“I Own My Life Now”: Implications of Trauma Survivors' Language Acquisition for a Pedagogy of Empowerment in TESOL

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the language experiences of refugees and asylum seekers who survived sex trafficking, domestic slavery, and sexuality‐based persecution. Drawing on a longitudinal study of 15 respondents followed across two time points separated by 6 years, all members of an England‐based therapeutic community, we focus here on four ...
Sally Rachel Cook, Jean Marc Dewaele
wiley   +1 more source

Non-State Torture of Women: Reclaiming Their Human Right

open access: yesWitness, 2022
Jeanne Sarson, Linda MacDonald
doaj   +1 more source

Productive Destruction: Torture, Text, and the Body in the Old English \u27Andreas\u27

open access: yes, 1994
Writing in the Old English Andreas is at once both a productive and a destructive activity. We first become aware of the dangerous power of the written word quite early in the poem, when we learn that the Mermedonians have subverted the normally ...
Fee, Christopher R.
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International Proscription Against Torture and the United States’ Categorical and Qualified Responses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Although the prohibition against torture is a jus cogens and proscribed by multiple international treaties and United States law, such bans did not prevent the torture of detainees in United States’ custody.
Shaw, Christopher B
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Modeling the Paths from L2 Use and Socio‐Affective Variables to Communication Skills: A Mixed‐Methods Approach

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Previous research demonstrated that communication anxiety reduces L2 learners' willingness to communicate and communication frequency, but left unexplored its impact on performance. The current mixed‐methods study investigated factors impacting L2 communication skills.
Debra M. Hardison
wiley   +1 more source

Building survivor activism: An organisational view

open access: yesTorture, 2018
The purpose of this perspectives paper is to share how different models of survivor activism can be built in a clinical charity with a human rights ethos and to set out the value that has come from growing survivor activism organically, based on ...
Shameem Sadiq-Tang
doaj   +1 more source

Bases for Refusing International Extradition Requests - Capital Punishment and Torture [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
This Essay is an attempt to contribute to the scholarly investigation into how to reconcile the complementary and competing goals of protecting national security in the interest of law enforcement while still guaranteeing the protection of basic human ...
Nanda, Ved P.
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