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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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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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Launch of IRCT report on conversion therapy
Torture, 2020 On 23 April 2020, IRCT published its re- search on the global practice of conversion therapy. The report, entitled “It’s Torture Not Therapy,” compiles information on the “practices, practitioners and roles of states in conducting, supporting, promoting ...
Torture Journal Editorial Team
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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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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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Torture, 2018 Classical perspectives on sexualized torture are being increasingly challenged by contemporary debates informed by emerging claims (Mendez, 2016; Sáez, 2016; Sifris, 2014).
Pau Pérez-Sales, Maggie Zraly
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European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2021 Background: Victims of torture and organized violence are among the most vulnerable refugees. The nature of torture promotes shame, secrecy and silencing of the survivors, and there is a need for studies to provide a testimony to the experiences of ...
Nina Thorup Dalgaard +2 more
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Human Rights and Antiterrorism: A Positive Legal Duty to Infringe Freedom From Torture? [PDF]
, 2012 In law freedom from torture and ill-treatment is “absolute,” meaning that a state cannot infringe the right for purposes that would seem legitimate such as the protection of national security.
Turner, Ian David
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International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2021 Background A range of services within Australia and internationally have been developed that are focused on the engagement of individuals who are of refugee background to work as a liaison between their communities and mental health services.
Karen Wei +6 more
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Review of International Studies, 2007 ABSTRACTI develop a framework to account for torture, which I argue should be understood with reference to international relations. I show that torture is intended as a tool to ensure the security, stability and legitimacy of elites, often transnationally, but there is often a disjuncture between its intended and actual outcomes.
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