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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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01 Jul 2008
TL;DR: There is a great deal of concern in contemporary international relations (IR) with evil individuals as mentioned in this paper, who are held responsible for causing great and unjustified suffering to the innocent, for terrorizing or slaughtering entire populations, and for crimes against humanity on a grand scale.
Abstract: There is a great deal of concern in contemporary international relations (IR) with evil individuals. Slobodan Milosevic was the “face of evil” for many until attention turned to Saddam Hussein, about whose acts of torture and mass killing George Bush stated: “If this is not evil, then evil has no meaning.”2 Deeply unpleasant characters such as Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Charles Taylor, Ratko Mladic, Radovan Karadzic, Jean Kambanda, Josef Kony, and Osama bin Laden line up alongside these men as enemies of the good in late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century life. They are held responsible for causing great and unjustified suffering to the innocent, for terrorizing or slaughtering entire populations, and for crimes against humanity on a grand scale. Despite the horrors of the Holocaust and the conviction that such despicable acts would never be allowed to happen again, evil seems once again to stalk the earth.
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TL;DR: Hong Kong's lack of an adequate refugee policy in a series of judicial review actions grounded in human rights and common law principles was examined in this paper, where the applicants have attempted to rely, in part, on a right to non-refoulement derived from international and domestic law to compel the Government to establish procedures to determine the status of refugees and other similar categories of claimants.
Abstract: Although the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol do not apply to Hong Kong, asylum seekers have challenged Hong Kong’s lack of an adequate refugee policy in a series of judicial review actions grounded in human rights and common law principles. This article focuses on two cases in particular in which the applicants have attempted to rely, in part, on a right to non-refoulement derived from international and domestic law to compel the Government to establish procedures to determine the status of refugees and other similar categories of claimants. The first, Secretary for Security v. Sakthevel Prabakar, led to the creation of a ‘torture screening’ mechanism based on article 3 of the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. In the second, C v. Director of Immigration, the court considered whether a rule of non-refoulement has emerged in customary international law and, if so, whether it applies to Hong Kong and requires government-administered refugee status determination. Although the applicants failed at first instance, 1 an analysis of the judgment with reference to Hong Kong’s human rights obligations reveals gaps in the court’s reasoning and demonstrates potential for greater reliance on these standards as the basis for developing a more comprehensive protection framework. This examination of the Hong Kong experience may have broader comparative value, especially in the Asian region and in jurisdictions not bound by the Refugee Convention or its Protocol.
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TL;DR: The article attempts to isolate the ways in which political abuses may interfere with good medical practice: by allowing health policies to be influenced by undemocratic political considerations; by using health services to reward or punish political supporters or opponents; by direct medical involvement in political acts which contradict accepted medical ethics.
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01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: The Secret Dialogues as discussed by the authors reveal the existence of secret talks between generals and Roman Catholic bishops at the height of Brazil's military dictatorship, revealing that the church sought to retain its privileges and influence by exploring a potential alliance with the military.
Abstract: "Secret Dialogues" uncovers an unexpected development in modern Latin American history: the existence of secret talks between generals and Roman Catholic bishops at the height of Brazil's military dictatorship. New archival sources demonstrate that the church sought to retain its privileges and influence by exploring a potential alliance with the military. From 1970 to 1974 the secret Bipartite Commission worked to resolve church-state conflict and to define the boundary between social activism and subversion. As the bishops increasingly made defence of human rights their top pastoral and political goal, the Bipartite became an important forum of protest against torture and social injustice. Based on more than 60 interviews and primary sources from three continents, "Secret Dialogues" is a major addition to the historical narrative of the most violent yet, ironically, the least studied period of the Brazilian military regime. Its story is intertwined with the central themes of the era: revolutionary warfare, repression, censorship, the fight for democracy and the conflict between Catholic notions of social justice and the anticommunist Doctrine of National Security. "Secret Dialogues" is the first book of its kind on the contemporary Catholic Church in any Latin American country. It is written for undergraduate and graduate students, professional scholars and the general reader interested in Brazil, Latin America, military dictatorship, human rights, and the relationship between religion and politics.
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24 Oct 2011
TL;DR: In this article, the case of Vulnerable Body on Trial and the Verdict: Affirming the Dignity of the Vulnerable body 5. Representing the Human: The Lingua Franca of Human Rights 6.
Abstract: 1. The Case: Vulnerable Body on Trial 2. Slavery, Torture Rape: Assaulting the Dignity of the Vulnerable Body 3. Genocidal Rape as Spectacle 4. The Verdict: Affirming the Dignity of the Vulnerable Body 5. Representing the Human: The Lingua Franca of Human Rights 6. Of the Politics and Pleasures of the Vulnerable Body
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