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Reports have emerged... That the frequency and
intensity [of techniques including waterboarding, and
the, application] to high value detainees constitutes
torture, even if their use in isolation falls short of that
designation.
Reeta Tremblay et al (2008)
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...in December 2005, the UN High Commissioner on
Human Rights declared that U.S. Conduct in the war on
terror was eroding both the United States and
international legal prohibitions on torture.
Reeta Tremblay et al (2008)
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Article 25
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The U.S.A.
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Ideological paradigms
Mike Huckabee
Democracy Now
January 5, 2011
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/1/5/dr_atul_gawande_solitary_confinement_is
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Article 5
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For Wednesday
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Citations & further reading
Lila Abu-Lughod (2002) Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological
Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others, American Anthropologist, Vol. 104,
No. 3: pp. 783-790.
Reeta Tremblay, James Kelly, Michael Lipson and Jean Francois Mayer (2008)
Understanding Human Rights: Origins, Currents and Critiques, Nelson: Toronto. pp. 21-56
(Chapter 2. Human Rights in World Politics).
World Health Organization (2000) The World Health Report — Health Systems:
Improving , Switzerland. Available online
http://www.who.int/whr/2000/en/whr00_en.pdf
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Image sources
Mike Konopacki. 2000. ‘If there was justice in the world‘, 2000 — http://www.veggies.org.uk/calendar/2000.htm
Shane T. McCoy, ‘Detainees at Camp X-Ray’, 11 January 2002. Image in the domain image — http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Camp_x-ray_detainees.jpg
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