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Torture
About: Torture is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 8173 publications have been published within this topic receiving 109895 citations.
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TL;DR: Data showed that the torture survivors seen in these five centres had high levels of exposure to torture events and high rates of clinical symptoms, including high prevalence of symptoms of anxiety, depression, post traumatic stress as well as medically unexplained somatic symptoms.
Abstract: Background
Torture continues to be a global problem and there is a need for prevention and rehabilitation efforts There is little available data on torture survivors from studies designed and conducted by health professionals in low income countries This study is a collaboration between five centres from Gaza, Egypt, Mexico, Honduras and South Africa who provide health, social and legal services to torture survivors, advocate for the prevention of torture and are part of the network of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT)
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TL;DR: From fascist prisons to Communist-era gulags, Romania does not simply have a history of torture, but also an existing infrastructure conducive to its practice as mentioned in this paper. But, human rights organizations do not have a good record of reporting torture in Romania.
Abstract: From fascist prisons to Communist-era gulags, Romania does not simply have a history of torture, but also an existing infrastructure conducive to its practice. Romania, human rights organizations h...
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04 Jan 2002
TL;DR: A new era of violence began, in which the kidnapping, torture and assassination as well as the disappearance of thousands of people became a political strategy for a number of governments.
Abstract: From the 1960s onwards, a number of different revolutionary movements developed
in the so called Third World. In response, many governments embarked on a
systematic repression of the groups involved. But to a large extent, civilians not
involved in any of the parties in conflict became the main victims. So it was that a
new era of violence began, in which the kidnapping, torture and assassination as
well as the disappearance of thousands of people became a political strategy for a
number of governments. In the countries that suffered such repression, the
consequences have been profound and long term, not only within those families
directly affected, but throughout society.
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TL;DR: This work has studied reports, which were made public concerning 78 psychiatric establishments visited by the European Committee for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment between 1990 and 2001, and found several cases of deliberate ill-treatment of patients.
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26 Sep 2008TL;DR: The ubiquity of ethics in international relations and the primacy of international relations in power, politics, and ethics are discussed in this article, with a focus on double anarchy and the threat of self-destruction in civil society.
Abstract: Introduction 1 The ubiquity of ethics in international relations 11 International ethics: thick or thin? 12 Taking the ethical turn 13 Social practices, actors and ethics 14 Power, politics and ethics 15 The primacy of ethics 16 Understanding international relations in ethical terms 17 War in Iraq understood in ethical terms: the Baker Hamilton Report and other interpretations 2 Global ethical practices 21 The anarchical society of sovereign states 22 The anarchical society of civilians: global civil society 3 Ethical incoherence: Individual rights versus states' rights 31 Rights and sovereignty: reframing the tension 32 The ethical underpinning of double anarchy 33 Ethical transformation in a double anarchy 34 Migrants in world politics 35 Assessing humanitarian intervention 36 Assessing globalization 37 Understanding torture in international relations 4 Global terrorism understood in ethical terms 41 The threat of self destruction in civil society 42 The threat of self destruction in the society of sovereign states 5 Defending anarchies
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