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Thematic briefing: strengthening the recognition and protection of relatives of disappeared persons

Torture, 2023
News in the 2023(1) issue published in 17.03 ...
Pau Pérez-Sales, Berta Soley
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Testimonial Therapy: Impact on social participation and emotional wellbeing among Indian survivors of torture and organized violence

Torture, 2018
Introduction: Traumatizing events, such as torture, cause considerable impairments in psycho-social functioning. In developing countries, where torture is often perpetrated, few resources exist for the provision of therapeutic or rehabilitating ...
Mia Myhre Jørgensen, Jens Modvig, Inger Agger, Lenin Raghuvanshi, Shirin Shabana Khan, Peter Polatin   +5 more
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The mental health of Syrian refugee children and adolescents

Forced Migration Review, 2014
Mental health services can be key to restoring basic psychological functioning and to supporting resilience and positive coping strategies for children, adolescents and adults.
Leah James, Annie Sovcik, Ferdinand Garoff, Reem Abbasi   +3 more
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Perception, practice and proximity. Qualifying threats as psychological torture in international law.

Torture, 2021
Background: Fear is a central dimension of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment (hereafter ‘other ill-treatment’), particularly as a part of verbal or non-verbal threats.
Ergün Cakal
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Proving torture: demanding the impossible

Forced Migration Review, 2017
New research demonstrates that errors by Home Office asylum caseworkers in their handling of expert medical evidence of torture can make it almost impossible for survivors of torture seeking asylum in the UK to prove that they were tortured.
Lucy Gregg, Jo Pettitt
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Multidisciplinary treatment for traumatized refugees in a naturalistic setting: symptom courses and predictors

European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2017
Background: Multidisciplinary treatment approaches are commonly used in specialized psychosocial centres for the treatment of traumatized refugees, but empirical evidence for their efficacy is inconsistent.
Nadine Stammel, Christine Knaevelsrud, Katrin Schock, Lena C. S. Walther, Mechthild Wenk-Ansohn, Maria Böttche   +5 more
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Does multidisciplinary rehabilitation of tortured refugees represent ‘value-for-money’? A follow-up of a Danish case-study

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background The recent surge of asylum seekers in the European Union (EU) is raising questions about the EU’s ability to integrate newcomers into the economy and into society; particularly those who need specialized services for the treatment of severe ...
Line Bager, Kristian Schultz Hansen, Carit Jacques Andersen, Shr-Jie Wang   +3 more
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Sleep deprivation does not work: Epidemiology, impacts and outcomes of incidental and systematic sleep deprivation in a sample of Palestinian detainees

Torture, 2019
Background: Sleep deprivation (SD) is a method used in the context of interrogations aimed to obtain submission, information and confessions. Its impact on producing false confessions has been documented.
Mahmud Sehwail, Pau Pérez-Sales, Khader M.A Rasras, Wisam Sehwail, Alba Guasch, Andrea Galan   +5 more
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The association between health and prison overcrowding, a scoping review

BMC Public Health
It is estimated that the majority of prisons globally are overcrowded. There is consensus that overcrowding leads to negative health outcomes, however quantitative research of this association appears limited.
Maha Aon, Simon Oberconz, Marie Brasholt
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Hikmet Karčić: Torture, Humiliate, Kill. Inside the Bosnian Serb Camp System [PDF]

, 2023
Iva Vukušić
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