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Book Review: Victoria Canning. Torture and torturous violence. Transcending the definitions of torture
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Theology, International Law, and Torture
Published 2006-04-01“…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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New humanism in times of torture
Published 2016“…Torture targets human dignity in the deepest and most deliberate way. …”
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Rethinking torture in international law
Published 2016“…<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. …”
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Proving torture: demanding the impossible
Published 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. …”
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State Torture: Interviewing Perpetrators, Discovering Facilitators, Theorizing Cross-Nationally — Proposing "Torture 101"
Published 2012-03-01“…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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Definition and meaning of torture in criminal law
Published 2024-03-01Subjects: “…crime of torture…”
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“Tortured Phrases” in Covid-19 Literature
Published 2023-08-01“…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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Torture and ill-treatment in democratic Spain
Published 2020-12-01“…Torture in contemporary and democratic Spain is a worrying reality, as shown by reports from the most relevant international organizations in the fight against and prevention of torture, such as the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture of the Council of Europe, NGO’s, internal Spanish judgments and, grievously, judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. …”
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Nalchik : non-investigation of allegations of torture
Published 2009“…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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Legislative Situational Prevention from the Torture Crime
Published 2019-02-01Subjects: “…"torture"…”
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C. Banham, Liberal Democracies and the Torture of their Citizens
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