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Human Rights Law

Torture

2012

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Panel 3: Transparency And Access Of Independent Experts To All Places Of Detention Question & Answer Session , Claudio Grossman, Malcolm Evans Oct 2012

Panel 3: Transparency And Access Of Independent Experts To All Places Of Detention Question & Answer Session , Claudio Grossman, Malcolm Evans

Claudio M. Grossman

No abstract provided.


Panel 2: How Are Laws Applied And Detention Practices Reformed? Question & Answer Session , Steven Watt, Claudio Grossman, James Ross, Eugene Fidell Oct 2012

Panel 2: How Are Laws Applied And Detention Practices Reformed? Question & Answer Session , Steven Watt, Claudio Grossman, James Ross, Eugene Fidell

Claudio M. Grossman

No abstract provided.


In Search Of A Forum For The Families Of The Guantanamo Disappeared, Peter Honigsberg Dec 2011

In Search Of A Forum For The Families Of The Guantanamo Disappeared, Peter Honigsberg

Peter J Honigsberg

The United States government has committed grave human rights violations by disappearing people during the past decade into the detention camps in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. And for nearly thirty years, beginning with a 1983 decision from a case arising in Uruguay, there has been a well-developed body of international law establishing that parents, wives and children of the disappeared suffer torture, or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment (CID).

This paper argues that the rights of family members were severely violated when their loved ones were disappeared into Guantanamo. Family members of men disappeared by the United States have legitimate claims …