Book Review: Victoria Canning. Torture and torturous violence. Transcending the definitions of torture by Pau Pérez-Sales

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Pathways to music torture by Morag Josephine Grant

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Theology, International Law, and Torture by Mohamed Elsanousi

“…With such reasoning in mind, the Muslim community has partnered with various faith communities to create the National Religious Campaign against Torture (NRCAT), which was launched during the “Theology, International Law, and Torture: A Conference on Human Rights and Religious Commitment” conference sponsored by Princeton Theological Seminary, 13-15 January 2006, in Princeton, New Jersey. …”
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Review of: Peters, Edward: Torture by Cheesman, T

New humanism in times of torture by Omri, M-S

“…Torture targets human dignity in the deepest and most deliberate way. …”

Rethinking torture in international law by Simonsen, N

“…<p>This thesis seeks to identify the moral wrong of torture, and to trace the relationship between that wrong and the definition of torture in international law. …”

Proving torture: demanding the impossible by Gregg, L, Pettitt, J

“…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. …”

Were They Tortured or Did They Make that Up? Ethnographic Reflections on Torture Allegations in the Basque Country in Spain by Carolijn Terwindt

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State Torture: Interviewing Perpetrators, Discovering Facilitators, Theorizing Cross-Nationally — Proposing "Torture 101" by Martha K. Huggins

“…This article's first theoretical proposition, that modern state torture systems contain four types of actors - perpetrators, facilitators, bureaucratic organizations, and bystanders - is followed by four additional propositions that link torture facilitation and bureaucracy to state torture system geography: (1) While facilitators span systemic boundaries - lending legitimacy, procuring resources, and managing protection - most torture perpetrators operate within the boundaries of their encapsulating micro systems. (2) Some torture facilitators traverse their own nation-state's government and non-government bureaucracies, while others cross national boundaries. (3) Torture system actors operate from a legitimized position within normal bureaucratic organizations; they are not extra-systemic "deviant" outsiders and their torturing does not result from an atypical organizational "break down". (4) Some torture facilitators - such as "private" military contract corporations - mediate between formal national and international bureaucracies and a privatized "terra incognita" - a "nether world" simultaneously inside and outside government and state. …”
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“Tortured Phrases” in Covid-19 Literature by Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva

“…Some Covid-19 papers contain “tortured phrases”, nonstandard English expressions, or imprecise or erroneous terms, that give the impression of jargon but are not. …”
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Two-Lane Blacktop: Refugees & Torture by Jesús García Cívico

Subjects: “…Torture…”
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Complementary Therapies for Treating Survivors of Torture by Claudia María Vargas, Deborah O’Rourke, Malshid Esfandiari

“…The long-term consequences of torture are complex, multidimensional, and pervasive. …”
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The right to life and freedom from torture by Mokhtar, Khairil Azmin

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Nalchik : non-investigation of allegations of torture by Chernikova, Tatiana

“…Following the recommendation of the UN Human Rights Council that the Russian Federation accede to the Optional Protocol of the Convention against Torture, Tatiana Chernikova (EHRAC-Memorial lawyer) discusses some of the legal and practical difficulties which have arisen in litigating on behalf of some of the 'Nalchik detainees' who allege that they were tortured whilst in custody in Kabardino-Balkaria.…”
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Peru since Independence, a Tortured History by Peter Klarén

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4100 Chronic Pain in Refugee Torture Survivors by Gunisha Kaur

“…OBJECTIVES/GOALS: An estimated 87% of torture survivors, or 27 million people globally, suffer from chronic pain such as brachial plexopathy from upper extremity suspension or lumbosacral plexus injury from leg hyperextension. …”
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C. Banham, Liberal Democracies and the Torture of their Citizens by Scott Poynting

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Irish Prisoners Appeal: 'strip-searching is torture' by Irish in Britain Representation Group, IBRG, Irish Prisoners Appeal, IPA

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‘Tortured phrases’ in the neurosciences: A call for greater vigilance by Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, Timothy Daly

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Abu Ghraib and Beyond: Torture as an Extension of the Desiring Machine by Hania Nashef

Subjects: “…Abu Ghreib, Orient, Deviance, Torture, Desiring Machine, Colonialism…”
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