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A conference to raise awareness on torture and the Istanbul Protocol [PDF]
Introduction: 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 ...
Weishut, Daniel +2 more
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A problematic Israeli High Court dismissal of a torture complaint. A commentary by Hans Draminsky Petersen, MD [PDF]
, 2019 It is not for the documenting medical experts (Shir, 2019), but for the court to decide whether the level of pain and suffering inflicted reaches the threshold of torture [while disregarding ill-treatment], i.e., the court upholds the prerogative to ...
Petersen, Hans Draminsky
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Has Australia lost control of its tobacco and nicotine markets?
Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background Australia has adopted two policies that the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends as best practice for tobacco control: it has steeply increased tobacco taxes since 2010 and only allowed access to nicotine vapes for medical use.
Ron Borland +4 more
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Criminalising torture and enforced disappearance in Thailand
Torture, 2020 Torture Journal Editorial Team
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Endogenous and Exogenous Drivers of Refugee Policy of the Transit State: The Case of Indonesia
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Most studies on transit states emphasise exogenous influences on domestic refugee policymaking, with little consideration of endogenous factors to the state itself. Exploring literature from migration studies, refugee studies and international law studies, we identify and classify nearly identical endogenous and exogenous drivers of refugee ...
Anita Herlina +2 more
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Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores how mainstream print and online news publications have reported on the role of Commonwealth commissions and parliamentary inquiries in responding to gender‐based violence in Australia. Analysing coverage of the release of the Royal Commission on Human Relationships (1974–1977) together with three parliamentary inquiries ...
Meghan Hopper
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Torture as a tool of domination: The logic behind the use of torture against Palestinians. A human rights approach [PDF]
This article explores the psychopolitical logic of torture within the Palestinian context, focusing on its role as a tool of domination and resistance.
Helbich, Maria, Jabr, Samah
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(Non)belonging and (un)freedom
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract This article centers on the concept of “belonging” to argue that belonging and freedom are fundamentally related, and that this relationship cannot be easily captured in formal terms alone. I contend that experiences of incomplete belonging among citizens deserve attention from political science because, in addition to their more obvious ...
Yuna Blajer de la Garza
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Women and the double standard of ambition
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Few human qualities are as morally unstable as ambition: We seem unable to decide whether to admire or condemn the desire for self‐advancement. This instability guarantees double standards—and none has been more enduring than that of women's ambition.
Geertje J. Bol
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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Anthropologists have long grappled with how to analyze the structural production of harm. Foundational formulations of structural violence demonstrated how social forces became embodied as disparities in health and survival but were difficult to operationalize across anthropological subdisciplines.
Meredith G. Marten +8 more
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