Browsing by Subject "Torture"

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    Communication: United Nations Human Rights Committee
    (2005) Caparas, Perfecto "Boyet"
    Communication to United Nations Human Rights Committee re the violation by the Philippine government of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, pursuant to the committee's individual complaint mechanism. Filed on the occasion of International Human Rights Day on 10 December 2005, as a culmination of struggle by Filipino street children and child prisoners, who originally sued then Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo before the Ombudsman on 10 December 2003 for human rights violations stated in this communication to the UN Human Rights Committee. Identity and identifying information of the children prisoner petitioners had been deleted.
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    Strange bedfellows: torture and medical professionals
    (2008-05-28) Gaffney, Margaret M.
    The lecture, sponsored by the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics, outlines the history of physician participation in torture, identifies professional, international and military codes that are relevant to torture, and describes current controversies related to medical personnel and treatment of prisoners.
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    Strange Bedfellows: Torture and Medical Professionals
    (2018-02-21) Gaffney, Margaret M.