Search Results - "torture"
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Torturous Dialogues: Geographies of Trauma and Spaces of Exception
Published 2010“…Trauma in its various significations – the banal, the aesthetic, the philosophical, the medicalized, the political, the pathologized – is an essential form of currency in the torturous dialogues that make, define and delineate the contours of disaster, damage and suffering. …”
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Regulating the protection of women during armed conflict against sexual violence and torture / Norhalijah Yusoff … [et al.]
Published 2013“…Throughout time no matter where the location, rape, torture and other acts of sexual violence towards women have always been a part of war. …”
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A mental disorder of a kind or degree warranting confinement: examining justifications for psychiatric detention
Published 2012Subjects: “…mental health mental disability psychiatric detention European Committee for the Prevention of Torture CPT dangerousness mental capacity United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; CRPD European Convention on Human Rights ECHR…”
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A move towards UNCAT accession by Malaysia: challenges and prospects
Published 2021“…The Convention against Torture and Other CAruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 1984 (UNCAT) which was drafted after having regard to certain international human rights instruments such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966, is an instrument specifically drafted to put an absolute prohibition on any forms of torture, and other acts of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment. …”
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Sexual politics in Ian McEwan's The Innocent
Published 2013“…Recent studies show that despite several attempts to stop sexual torture as the consequences of war it is an ongoing process in every part of the world. …”
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The Prophet of mercy and prisoners of war : a study in ethical inferences
Published 2011“…Prisoners of war throughout the history have often been subjected to merciless torture: death, dishonor, negligence, brutality, unnecessary harassment or starvation and other ways of inhuman persecution. …”
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Management of children who come into conflict with the law during pre-trial stage in Malaysia. Do the current practice and procedures accord to international standards? / Fon Thiam...
Published 2015“…Despite all this commitments and obligations, children still experience arbitrary arrest, torture and illtreatment while undergoing police investigation. …”
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Mental disability, the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, and the Sustainable Development Goals
Published 2017“…Since Winterwerp v the Netherlands in 1979, the European Court of Human Rights and, later, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, have been developing law and policy on human rights and mental disability (taken in this chapter to include psychosocial disability/mental health problems, and mental disabilities related to old age). …”
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The Limitations of Monitoring Immigration Detention in Australia
Published 2015“…This article explores the inhibiting factors of monitoring immigration detention in Australia and offshore locations, and the prospects for securing systematic and transparent independent scrutiny should Australia ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT). It also highlights the limits of an OPCAT-consistent monitoring system in the promotion and protection of the rights of asylum seekers.…”
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The Libyan NTC Law No.38 2012: a disguised amnesty
Published 2019“…During the conflict serious violations of human rights and humanitarian rights law (IHL) occurred and both sides committed serious crimes included of willfull killings, rape, looting, torture and aarbitrary arrests. After the fall of Ghoddafi, a transitional government came to power in Libya that was known as the National Transitional Government of Libya (NTC). …”
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The legal protection for woman against violence: problems and prospects / Fadzilah Hassan
Published 1986“…Mental violence are the mental torture that the women has to endure in the hands of men. …”
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Haptic visions of unstable bodies in the work of Claire Denis
Published 2015“…In 2004 French writer/director Claire Denis remarked that her films are sometimes unbalanced, a comment made with reference to her eighth feature film, L'intrus (2004), which like the earlier Trouble Every Day (2001), and her most recent film Les Salauds (2013), features protagonists involved in graphic acts of murder and/or torture. Denis offers little psychological depth to her protagonists in these films, preferring to keep the focus on the surface of their bodies. …”
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Oh Comrade, What Times those Were! History, Capital Punishment and the Urban Square.
Published 2006“…Drawing from Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish and its implications on how we might begin to re-read the history of the urban square, the following seeks to explore those practices and modes of rationality that underpinned the once public spectacle of executions and torture as a vital condition of urban life. In particular, this discussion will question the assumptions of an historical tradition that continues to reduce our understanding of the city and its open spaces of public appearance and action to an idealistic and illusory reality of the urban realm and its narrow framing of collective conduct, necessity and significance.…”
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The baby’s not for burning: the abject in Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Helen Oyeyemi’s Juniper’s Whitening
Published 2015“…In both plays, a sense of domesticity being a farce underscoring brutality, torture and infanticide is present.…”
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