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Full-Text Articles in Human Rights Law
Trends. Colombian Rebels And Elite Interests: Rights And Wrongs On Human Rights, Ibpp Editor
Trends. Colombian Rebels And Elite Interests: Rights And Wrongs On Human Rights, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article discusses and analyzes the reactions of elites to rebel actions (e.g., human rights violations, other violent actions) in Colombia.
The International Law Of Torture: From Universal Proscription To Effective Application And Enforcement, Winston P. Nagan, Lucie Atkins
The International Law Of Torture: From Universal Proscription To Effective Application And Enforcement, Winston P. Nagan, Lucie Atkins
UF Law Faculty Publications
This Article presents a comprehensive review of world torture and the efforts to eradicate it through both official and unofficial strategies of intervention, with special emphasis on the legal strategies. This Article recognizes the complexity of these strategies as they form a vast number of initiatives emerging from various elements of the international community. Part II of the Article touches on matters of definition and legal history. This enables the examination of the inherent characteristics of torture as they impact issues of governance, social control, and principles of basic respect and human dignity. Part III examines the efforts to universally …
Introduction To Torture As Tort: From Sudan To Canada To Somalia, Craig M. Scott
Introduction To Torture As Tort: From Sudan To Canada To Somalia, Craig M. Scott
Articles & Book Chapters
The present work is chapter 1 of the edited volume, Torture as Tort: Comparative Perspectives on the Development of Transnational Human Rights Litigation (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2001). At the time the book was generated, the controversial nature of seeking globalised justice through national courts had become starkly apparent in the wake of the Pinochet case in which the Spanish legal system sought extradition of the former President of Chile from the United Kingdom in order to bring him to account under Spanish criminal law for a variety of alleged violations in Chile of human rights, most notably involving torture. Yet, …