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Child Abuse Negl
December 2024
Behavioral Analysis Unit-3, National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Quantico, VA, USA.
Background: Torture has traditionally been described in the context of politically motivated abuse. Torture of children in the familial context is a less studied phenomenon, with scholarly articles focused on legal or medical viewpoints. Analysis from a frontline professional's perspective is virtually nonexistent in the literature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Rubber bullets are projectiles whose use is potentially lethal. Between 1976 and 2017, they have caused at least 23 deaths and dozens of injuries in Spain, many of them serious, with loss of sight being the main type. In the period 2000 - 2020 alone, more than 40 people have been affected.
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June 2024
Physicians for Human Rights, New York, NY 10018, USA.
People seeking asylum are susceptible to head injury (HI) due to exposure to various forms of violence including war, torture, or interpersonal violence. Yet, the extents to which clinicians assess HI, and if so, what the associated characteristics are, are not well known. We analyzed 200 U.
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August 2023
Legal Department, Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Health professionals and lawyers in Israel have used the Istanbul Protocol (IP), the internationally accepted protocol for documenting torture and ill-treatment, for many years (Abu Akar et al., 2014; Weishut, 2022). A complete IP report requires substantial effort and investment of -mostly pro bono- experts, while the IP interview on which it is based is often an emotionally burdensome experience for clients.
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