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Convention on Human Rights]. 7. The European Convention on Human Rights reproduces the U.N. Declaration formula in its Article 3 but omits the word "cruel." Id. art. 3. The Convention on the Rights of the Child contains the provision with... more
Michel Foucault has explored the ways in which, beginning in the eighteenth century, punishment started to become "'the most hidden part of the penal process'" and justice ceased to take "'public responsibility for the violence that is... more
Avrupa İnsan Hakları Mahkemesi (AİHM), 2010 yılında vermiş olduğu Gäfgen v. Almanya kararı ile ceza muhakemesi alanında bitmek bilmeyen bir tartışmayı, daha da içinden çıkılmaz hale getirmiştir. On bir yaşındaki bir çocuğun hayatını... more
A two-day international conference titled Music in Detention organized at the University of Goettingen in the context of a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship MUSTERMAN, held by Anna Papaeti at the Musicology Department. Keynote... more
The Philippine-American War (c.1899 – 1913), which led to the colonial subjugation of the Philippines by the United States for over forty years and the suppression of the first independent republic in South-East Asia, is one of America’s... more
Fallon documents the source of misguided interrogations and torture after 9/11.
Review of 'Ethics for Enemies: Terror, Torture, and War' and 'The Moral Target: Aiming at Right Conduct in War and Other Conflicts'
A recent report submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, raises a number of issues related to health care... more
Este artículo realiza un acercamiento a la crítica a la tortura judicial que se recoge en el libro de Cesare de Beccaria, Dei delitti e delle pene, publicado en 1764. Las ideas de este pensador, junto a las circunstancias... more
Context. Refugee survivors of torture in the United Kingdom have multiple problems, of which pain may be underrecognized, given the high prevalence recorded in similar populations in Denmark.
Why do some organized crime groups (OCGs) carry out face-to-face killings where perpetrators debase their victims and defile their bodies? Leading criminologists contend that OCGs carry out extreme killings deliberately to attain specific... more
En "El Mismo Horror, la Misma Responsabilidad: perspectiva de género sobre la tortura", publicado en septiembre de este año en El Reporte judicial, de la Escuela de Capacitación Judicial de la Provincia del Chubut, Rawson, Argentina, la... more
Abstract: This article examines the impact of Mexico’s 2008 criminal justice reform on the practice of utilizing torture and mistreatment to extract criminal confessions. Complaint data submitted to the National Commission on Human... more
This historical research report presents and analyzes 2 recently identified narratives of women who underwent sterilization experiments at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. A description of the historical and... more
Η συγκεκριμένη μεταπτυχιακή εργασία, αφορά το μεταπτυχιακό σεμινάριο με τίτλο << Πολιτισμική θεωρία και ανθρωπολογία του ήχου>>. Αφορά τα ηχοτοπία του τραύματος, το πως η μουσική γίνεται ήχος και ο ήχος , βασανισμός, και κυρίως τους... more
Ausstellungsrezension: https://artlabberlin.wordpress.com/2016/03/26/ausstellungsrezension-drinnen-drausen-im-art-lab-berlin-im-iphonedoctor/ Exhibition Review:... more
// - - - With link to full text / Abstract in Polish is included below This article explores legal consequences arising from Italy’s European human rights legal commitments in confrontation with the migration crisis. The... more
The bequest of early modern England is blemished with official acts of cruelty. Tudor and Stuart England, the society which gave the world Shakespeare, contains as well a stark legacy of punitive violence. Specifically,... more
Purpose: To describe war-related trauma history, immigration factors, problems, and coping of Somali and Oromo refugee youth. Methods: Analysis of a subset of participants (N ؍ 338) aged 18 -25 years from a population-based survey of... more
The photographs of sexual abuse and humiliation of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison are shocking and disgusting. They are also familiar. I have seen images like these before in other places and contexts.
Book chapter in Annick Wibben (ed.): Researching War: Feminist Methods, Ethics and Politics, Routledge Interventions Series, 2016.
The Universal Periodic Review is an innovative mechanism for protecting and promoting human rights within the United Nations. Instituted by the Human Rights Council in 2006, it reviews human rights situations in all States. This article... more
Pese a doscientos años de documentos y leyes que la prohíban, y el compromiso e intervención política y jurisdiccional de diversos actores, la tortura continúa siendo una práctica regular y sistemática de gobierno de las prisiones en la... more
A retrospective study was performed to document the physical and psychological methods of torture and their sequelae on 90 victims of torture who attended the Family Rehabilitation Centres in Vavuniya, Trincomalee and Anuradhapura, using... more
Mariano Longo, L'etnometodologia e la costruzione situazionale della devianza Lorenzo Sabetta, La rilevanza dell'irrilevante: epistemologia di un paradosso sociologico Ludovico Virtù, Formare ai saperi trans nel lavoro sociale: una... more
Purpose To present a review of the literature concerning medically unexplained physical symptoms in refugees. Methods We outline a variety of definitions and explanations of somatization, as well as the role of culture in the concept of... more
“The room was very small, I could not move. My joints were all
sore. My intestines felt as if torn apart; I felt somehow artificial
within my own body; my viscera were not mine”
sore. My intestines felt as if torn apart; I felt somehow artificial
within my own body; my viscera were not mine”
Until the mid-1980s, international human rights organisations gave Pacific Islands states a clean bill of health. Apart, that is, from colonised East Timor and Irian Jaya (West Papua), which figured regularly in the annual Amnesty... more
Legalizzare la tortura? Ascesa e declino dello Stato di diritto, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2013, 208 pp. Legalizzare la tortura? Una domanda che non ci si dovrebbe mai porre, un interrogativo scabroso, un tema che suscita vergogna, disgusto ed... more
Responding to Torture: Latin American perspectives on a Global Challenge brings together articles by an extraordinary group of multidisciplinary professionals who have worked alongside the IBAHRI in recent years, promoting the effective... more
“Violencia institucional” es una categoría ampliamente utilizada en la Argentina, promovida por la articulación entre grupos del movimiento de derechos humanos, del movimiento de víctimas de hechos de violencia policial y de... more
Derek Jarman - here only illustrated with pictures about San Sebastiane - is a brilliant film maker that deals with homosexuality all the time before it was called gay. He died of AIDS because he was of his time and considered promiscuity... more