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Torture
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tortures
The intentional infliction of physical or mental suffering upon an individual or individuals, including the torture of animals.
National Institutes of Health
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Antisocial behavior
Human Rights Abuses
Mental Suffering
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2014
2014
The rule of law at a crossroad: Enforcing corporate responsibility in international investment through the alien tort statute
Jennifer M. Green
2014
Corpus ID: 152471596
Rape and forced labor as part of the construction of a natural gas pipeline project. Medical experimentation on children without…
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2009
2009
Africa's New Human Rights Court: Whistling in the Wind?
Sonya Sceats
2009
Corpus ID: 159264613
Review
2005
Review
2005
Health care rights and responsibilities: a review of the European charter of patients' rights.
Dónal P à Mathúna
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P. Scott
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A. McAuley
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Anne Walsh-Daneshmandi
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B. Daly
2005
Corpus ID: 155068944
This review of the European Charter of Patients' Rights includes chapters on the different kinds of rights found in Irish law…
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2005
2005
Silencing Sexual Violence: Recent Developments in the CDF Case at the Special Court for Sierra Leone
S. Kendall
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M. Staggs
2005
Corpus ID: 155927855
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
The Blood of Martyrs : Unintended Consequences of Ancient Violence
Joyce E. Salisbury
2004
Corpus ID: 44918509
‘‘The blood of martyrs is the seed of Christians,’’ wrote Tertullian in the third century. He recognized the importance of…
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2002
2002
Group Counseling with Traumatized East African Refugee Women in the United States
Michael I. Loewy
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Di Williams
,
Aster Keleta
2002
Corpus ID: 143300877
The Kaffa ceremony is a unique, culturally appropriate, group counseling intervention for female East African refugees. A…
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2001
2001
Treating survivors of war trauma and torture.
K. L. Hanscom
American Psychologist
2001
Corpus ID: 23284664
Psychologists are in a unique position to assist individuals and groups in the world who have survived torture and war trauma…
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2000
2000
Psychiatric help for survivors of torture
S. Turner
2000
Corpus ID: 73377785
When asked for advice about a survivor of torture (or of some other form of organised state violence), there are at least two…
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1999
1999
European Perspectives on the Accused as a Source of Testimonial Evidence
G. Van Kessel
1999
Corpus ID: 157925775
1998
1998
Female Genital Mutilation
J. E. Frader
,
J. Botkin
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+7 authors
N. King
Pediatrics
1998
Corpus ID: 79200061
The traditional custom of ritual cutting and alteration of the genitalia of female infants, girls, and adolescents, referred to…
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