Download or read book Torture and Human Rights in Northern Ireland written by Aoife Duffy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a compelling and highly sophisticated politico-legal history of a particular security operation that resulted in one of the most high-profile torture cases in the world. It reveals the extent to which the Ireland v. United Kingdom judgment misrepresents the interrogation system that was developed and utilised in Northern Ireland. Finally, the truth about the operation is presented in a comprehensive narrative, sometimes corroborating secondary literature already in the public domain, but at other times significantly debunking aphorisms, or, indeed, lies that circulated about interrogation in depth. The book sets out the theoretical reference paradigm with respect to the culture and practice of state denial often associated with torture, and uses this model to excavate the buried aspects of this most famous of torture cases. Through the lens of a single operation, conducted twice, it presents a fascinating exposé of the complicated structures of state-sponsored denial designed to hide the truth about the long-term effects of these techniques and the way in which they were authorised.
Download or read book Human Rights and the UN written by Michael O'Flaherty and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides up-to-date and comprehensive information on the working methods of the six UN human rights bodies, which, through their administration of internationally-binding law, provide a significant defence against the violation of all commonly-recognised categories of human rights. This book offers an insight into their practices, and provides practical guidance for individuals and legal professionals, defining in clear terms the manner in which they can avail themselves of UN procedures. The six Treaty bodies are: the Human Rights Committee; the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women; the Committee against Torture; and the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
Download or read book United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment written by Great Britain. Home Office and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transitional Justice and Legacies of State Violence written by Lisa White and published by . This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Various consultative groups, non-governmental bodies, civil society organisations, practitioners, politicians and government ministers have all displayed an interest in exploring the legacy of the conflict in Northern Ireland, yet little attention has been paid to those whose 'truth sharing' experiences have already taken place. This book explores the motivation, significance and consequences of republican former detainees' public narratives about experiences of state violence within the detention system of Northern Ireland. This book examines the diverse range of factors that led to the creation of narratives of trauma, and the ways in which such 'truths' are often contested - both during times of conflict and in the years which follow. Through an original mix of literature, documentary analysis and qualitative interview data, the book disentangles and evaluates the discourses presented by former detainees who feel that they have been the victims of state violence and human rights abuses and makes an important contribution to knowledge about conflict and conflict transformation.
Download or read book United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment written by Great Britain. Home Office and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Towards a Culture of Human Rights in Ireland written by Ivana Bacik and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two leading civil liberties advocates look at the state of human rights in their respective jurisdictions.
Download or read book Ireland and the Convention Against Torture written by Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unspeakable Acts Ordinary People written by John Conroy and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling investigation of three incidents of torture in the Western world and what they tell us about how ordinary people can become torturers, about the rationalizations societies adopt to justify torture, about the potential in each of us for acting unspeakably. Using firsthand interviews, official documents, and newspaper accounts, John Conroy examines interrogation practices in a Chicago police station, two raids conducted by the Israeli army, and the case of Northern Ireland's "hooded men," who were tortured by British forces. He takes us inside the experience of the victim, the mind of the torturer, and the seeming indifference of the bystander. In the spirit of Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, Conroy visits with former torturers, describes their training and family backgrounds, and examines the justifications they and their societies offer for the systematic abuse of men, women, and children. He interviews survivors of torture and learns of the coping mechanisms they deployed and the long-term effects of their ordeals. He draws on those meetings and on previous studies, such as Stanley Milgram's "Obedience to Authority, to help us understand the dynamics of torture. Recent events -- particularly the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and well-publicized cases of police brutality in our own country -- make it essential that we understand such acts of violence, as the first step in eradicating them. Lucid and unblinking, Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People takes us further toward this goal than any book we have had yet.
Download or read book To Serve Without Favor written by Julia Hall and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1997 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of force
Download or read book The Hooded Men written by Denis Faul and published by Wordwell Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the Irish internees who were subjected to torture in the 1970s, at the hands of RUC and the British Army.
Download or read book The RUC written by Denis Faul and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brutality in an Age of Human Rights written by Brian Drohan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : counterinsurgency and human rights in the post-1945 world -- A lawyers' war : emergency legislation and the Cyprus Bar Council -- The shadow of Strasbourg : international advocacy and Britain's response -- Hunger war : humanitarian rights and the Radfan campaign -- This unhappy affair : investigating torture in Aden -- A more talkative place : Northern Ireland
Download or read book U N Convention Against Torture written by Michael John Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Content: (1) Overview of the Convention Against Torture (CAT): CAT Requirements Concerning the Criminalization of Torture, and the Availability of Civil Redress for Victims of Torture; CAT Enforcement and Monitoring Measures; (2) Implementation of the CAT in the U.S.; Criminalization of Torture Occurring Outside the U.S.; Prohibition on Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment; Army Field Manual Restrictions on Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment; Restrictions on Interrogation of Detainees by the CIA; (3) Decisions by Non-U.S. Bodies Concerning Whether Certain Interrogation Techniques (IT) Rise to the Level of Torture: British IT Employed in Northern Ireland; Israeli IT Employed Against Palestinian Security Detainees.
Download or read book Portraits of Irish Art in Practice written by Jennifer Keating and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book mines the space where aesthetic expression meets lived experience for Irish artists Rita Duffy, Mairéad McClean, Paula McFetridge and Ursula Burke. Portrait essays woven with photographs, document each artist’s coming of age in Ireland and Northern Ireland, in the context of her emerging practice. As individuals, their work considers infringements on human rights, systemic violence, gender roles and the negotiation of figurative and literal borders and boundaries. Together, they interrogate past and present conflict and emergence from conflict, locally and globally. Their critical work is threaded with hope in the context of past and present political fragmentation. Works considered include Rita Duffy’s paintings, drawings and animation like Siege, The Emperor Has No Clothes and Anatomy of Hope; Mairéad McClean’s films No More, Broadcast and Making Her Mark; Paula McFetridge’s productions like convictions, staged at the Crumlin Road Courthouse, This is What We Sang, performed at the Belfast Synagogue and Belfast Quartered, A Love Story, a promenade through Belfast’s LGBTQ+ underground; and Ursula Burke’s sculptures like Bonfire, Blue Sphinx and Peach Caryatid, and embroidery like The Politicians Frieze.
Download or read book Truth Commissions and Courts written by William A. Schabas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-12 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminal justice for human rights abuses committed during periods of political repression or dictatorship is one of the great challenges to post-con?ict societies. In many cases, there has been no justice at all. Sometimes serious political concerns that e?orts at accountability might upset fragile peace settlements have militated in favour of no action and no accountability. In many cases, the outgoing tyrants have conditioned their departure upon a pledge that there be no prosecutions. But thinking on these issues has evolved considerably in recent years. Largely driven by the view that collective amnesia amounts to a violation of fundamental human rights, especially those of the victims of atrocities, attention has increasingly turned to the dynamics of post-con?ict accountability. At the high end of the range, of course, sit the new international criminal justice institutions: the ad hoc tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the various ‘‘hybrid’’ tribunals in Kosovo, East Timor and Cambodia, and the new International Criminal Court. But in terms of sheer numbers, the most signi?cant new institutions are truth and reconciliation commissions. Of va- able architecture, depending upon the prerogatives of the society in question and the features of the past con?ict, they have emerged as a highly popular mechanism within the toolbox of transitional justice. In some cases, the truth commission is held out as an alternative to criminal justice.
Download or read book Northern Ireland written by Rona M. Fields and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The troubles in Ireland are not new. They have taken a heavy toll in lives and, perhaps more importantly, in psychological health. This book is not concerned with events in themselves, although it includes historical analysis of the conflict in Northern Ireland. It does attempt to discover the human effects of long-term conflicts such as those occurring in Ireland. From testing and interviews with the children, women, and men of Northern Ireland beginning in 1969, the author has developed a case study of the long-term effects of stress on a population. She identifies certain social control mechanisms that produce a mixture of chaos and docility in the troubled North and argues that England has established these in order to destroy the identity of the people—a process she calls "psychological genocide.", Northern Ireland: Society Under Siege applies social-psychological theory to a concrete and ongoing situation in a way that is illuminating for the general reader and for the specialist. Dr. Fields has done what might appear obvious: find out the effects of stress on a population by going to that population and observing what their lives are like. The remarkable fact is, however, that until now no one has done so., ...a wide-ranging and perceptive book.... A significant thrust and contribution of this book is Fields' discussion of psychological and social control procedures and practices....(Fields') report is a challenge to humanity and an indictment of English patricianism, racism, and imperialism. Alfred McClung Lee, Dr. Rona Field is a brave and deeply compassionate human being, a committed researcher who cannot be intimidated by gunmen, English soldiers, bigots, ferocious politicians, or the horrors of confronting human suffering in dreadful forms. This valiant woman deserves international praise and recognition for the unflinching study of a tragic society. Dennis Clark, National Catholic Reporter
Download or read book The Inter State Application under the European Convention on Human Rights written by Isabella Risini and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comprehensive analysis about the Inter-State Application under the ECHR by Isabella Risini fills a gap in the literature. The study provides an informed proposal to strengthen the protection of human rights in Europe and the role of the Court.
