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Liberalism, Torture, and the Ticking Bomb [PDF]
, 2005 Torture used to be incompatible with American values. Our Bill of Rights forbids cruel and unusual punishment, and that has come to include all forms of corporal punishment except prison and death by methods purported to be painless.
Luban, David
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Medico-legal evaluation of torture victims in the USA before the Istanbul Protocol
Torture, 2023 The article reviews the historical precedents of the Forensic Assessment of Torture Survivors in the US in the 1970s and 1980s, setting the precedents of the US branch of the construction of the Istanbul Protocol that was developed in the late 1990s.
Jose Quiroga, Ana Deutsch
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Military Medicine, 2001 Torture represents an exceptionally traumatic experience in which horror, helplessness, and hopelessness are extreme. Therefore, it can be expected that depression, along with other trauma-related disorders is present in torture victims at higher rates than in other psychotraumatized individuals. To demonstrate this, we examined two groups of refugees,
Rončević-Gržeta, Ika +3 more
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Freedom From Torture in the "War on Terror": Is it Absolute? [PDF]
, 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
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The UN Committee Against Torture: Human Rights Monitoring and the Legal Recognition of Cruelty [PDF]
, 2009 Focusing on the Committee Against Torture, this article argues that human rights monitoring can hide as much as it reveals. In particular, monitoring Should he understood as a "second order" process that displaces the discussion of the Causes and ...
Kelly, Tobias
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Psychological, social and welfare interventions for psychological health and well-being of torture survivors [PDF]
, 2011 This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: Primary objective 1. To assess beneficial and adverse effects of psychological, social and welfare interventions versus no treatment for the reduction of ...
Basoglu +37 more
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Torture, 2019 Introduction: Medical professionals have a key role in addressing torture and need an awareness and knowledge of torture in relation to rehabilitation approaches, prevention and international standards. This study was undertaken with the aim of assessing
Brenda Van den Bergh +7 more
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BMC Family Practice, 2020 Background Despite an unparalleled global refugee crisis, there are almost no studies in primary care addressing real-world conditions and longer courses of treatment that are typical when resettled refugees present to their physician with critical ...
Andrea K. Northwood +8 more
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The Jouissance of the Torturer in Zero Dark Thirty and the Enjoyment of the Unacceptable [PDF]
, 2014 : In the scene of torture we can see a paradox at work in which the torturer is both sanctioned by positive law and prohibited by oedipal law. This latter prohibition brings the perpetrator into the proximity of, what can be understood as a Lacanian mode
Rogers, Juliet Brough
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Voices of torture survivors in Tanzania: A qualitative study
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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