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6 Jun 2023, 5:55 am
Both the commission of atrocity crimes and the experiences of the victims are fundamentally shaped by gender roles – from the use of sexual and gender norms to terrorize victims of torture, to the life-and-death stakes of gendered differences in how women, men, boys, and girls are enslaved, to the specific reparation and rehabilitation needs of survivors such as children born of war. [read post]
31 May 2023, 5:55 am
In the IIIM’s early engagement with Syrian victim and survivor communities concerning the most appropriate labels for describing the pervasive mistreatment of detainees, the crime of “torture” resonated far more powerfully than the crime of “persecution”, although this is evolving in light of the IIIM’s two-way dialogue with victims and survivors as part of its victim and survivor-centered approach. [read post]
30 May 2023, 3:23 am
Yesterday evening, nine victims were injured in a shooting in Hollywood Beach, Florida. [read post]
23 May 2023, 2:17 pm
“Summary executions, rape and torture during armed conflict amount to war crimes and could, depending on the circumstances, amount to crimes against humanity,” he said. [read post]
9 May 2023, 9:23 am
A Joint Investigation Team has been established as well as the International Center for Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine. [read post]
9 May 2023, 6:45 am
Interdiction at Sea," Univ. of Miami International & Comparative Law Review, vol. 30, no. 1 (Dec. 2022) [full-text] "Remote evaluations for humanitarian parole of asylum seekers to the United States: The case of MA," Torture Journal: Journal on Rehabilitaiton of Torture Victims and Prevention of Torture, vol. 33, no. 1 (2023) [open access] "Strengths and Resilience Among Central American Parents… [read post]
4 May 2023, 9:00 pm
He is the author of What Changed When Everything Changed: 9/11 and the Making of National Identity (Yale 2013), and is also counsel for Abu Zubaydah, for whose interrogation the torture memo was written. [read post]
25 Apr 2023, 6:05 am
’” The SMO’s testimony was significant because no government official has publicly confirmed that culturally competent medical care, recommended by independent medical experts as required for adequate treatment, is not available at the detention center. [read post]
31 Mar 2023, 5:41 am
The determined victims and their creative lawyers used a U.S. human rights law, the Torture Victims Protection Act, to finally find justice. [read post]
29 Mar 2023, 9:01 pm
At the same time, it is torture for the child sex abuse victims who have bravely come forward. [read post]
20 Mar 2023, 7:39 am
Regime Change Through Lawfare At the very end of 2022, the muqawama abandoned direct challenges to the election’s results and hit upon a new and more successful strategy, centered on Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Court and its chief, Judge Faiq Zaidan. [read post]
3 Mar 2023, 6:05 am
They assaulted the husband, striking him in the groin area, and tortured him with electricity. [read post]
20 Feb 2023, 5:21 am
It would be a torture device! [read post]
16 Feb 2023, 5:55 am
Committee Against Torture; it found France in violation of the Convention Against Torture for failing to take effective measures to protect its nationals in the camps. [read post]
12 Feb 2023, 9:01 pm
“For the sake of the victims and their families,” she said “we’ve got to get this right. [read post]
7 Feb 2023, 5:48 am
In 2017, I joined Peaceful Tomorrows, an organization of family members of 9/11 victims who seek justice and accountability for the 9/11 attacks and for the torture that was subsequently carried out in its family members’ names. [read post]
14 Jan 2023, 7:24 am
“Now the Florida legislature has to take the next step, and that’s to compensate people for being beaten tortured, raped, and some of them buried in unmarked graves. [read post]
12 Jan 2023, 5:54 am
Other laws such as an exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which allows for civil claims against foreign nations for torture and extrajudicial killing, among other violations, explicitly state that a victim’s status as a U.S. national, member of the armed forces, or employee or contractor of the U.S. government must be established “at the time the act … occurred. [read post]
9 Jan 2023, 6:06 am
Other US Victims of Sisi’s Transnational Repression Osman’s plight is better understood in the context of the ever-expanding global reach of Egypt’s authoritarian regime. [read post]
Former guerrilla unit commander found guilty of war crimes by special court investigating Kosovo War
19 Dec 2022, 4:30 am
The trial called 28 witnesses during its course, including 8 victims. [read post]
