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Torture"Violence is always inevitable, when you turn a human into a thing" - Jean Kilbourne, 1987
Reproduced with
Websites18 USC, Sec. 2340(1) 1990 U.S.
reservations, declarations, and understandings, Convention Against Torture and
Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 1998 Public Law
105-320 - Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998 2003 Public Law
108:21 - Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to end the
Exploitation of Children Today Act About Torture by Amnesty
International African-American Holocaust Amnesty International's Report on the Abuses of Stun
Technology Association for the Prevention of Torture
(APT) The Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) CIA Official: "If You Don't Violate
Someone's Human Rights, You Probably Aren't Doing Your Job": On the
Necessity of Torture by Mark Engler,
Counterpunch, May 11, 2004 Cruel and Unusual Punishment by William F.
Shulz,
New
York Review of Books. Cruel Science: The Long Shadow of CIA Torture
Research by Alfred W. McCoy,
Counterpunch, May 29/31, 2004 D&D Security Products - Stun Guns Decoupling neural
networks from reality: Dissociative experiences in torture victims are reflected
in abnormal brain waves in left frontal cortex by William J. Ray, Michael
Odenwald, Frank Neuner, Maggie Schauer, Martina Ruf, et al,
Psychological Science, vol. 17, Issue 10 Denounce Torture:
Stop It Now!,
Amnesty International USA Department of medical history - History of
medical involvement in torture -- then and now by Giovanni Maio, Lancet,
2001, 357:1609-11. Fact Sheet No. 17, the Committee against
Torture, U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Hot Shot: Power Mite Prod Maximum pain is aim
of new US weapon by David Hambling, 3/5/05, New Scientist North American Freedom Foundation
(NAFF) OMCT (World Organization Against Torture) People Against Child
Torture and Trafficking Alliance (PACTTA) The Phoenix Program, Revisited: ABCs of American
Interrogation Method by Douglas Valentine, Counterpunch, May 15/16, 2004 REDRESS The Roots of Torture by John Barry, Michael Hirsh and
Michael Talkoff SOA Watch/NE Stop Torture Stress and Duress' Techniques Used Worldwide Taser International, Inc. Therapy, Ethics, Malpractice, Forensics, Critical Thinking
(and a few other topics) Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Committee (TASSC) Torture and its consequences by Hernan Reyes, M.D.,
ICRC,
1/1/95 Torture FOIA, American Civil Liberties Union, 3/7/05 Torture Tales May Alter Holocaust History by Larry
Neumeister, AP, 1/26/04 Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998, Pub.
L. 105-320 United Nations' 1948 Universal
Declaration of Human Rights United Nations' 1989 Convention on
the Rights of the Child University of Minnesota Human Rights Library: Committee Against Torture U.S. State Laws restrict use of
electronic and/or electromagnetic weapons US police slammed for stun guns on
kids Visits to Prisoners and Documentation of Torture by
Hernan Reyes What Does a Torturer Tell His Kids? by Richard Thieme,
AlterNet,
10/23/02.
PublicationsCaution: we strongly advise trauma survivors, who have problems with amnesia and/or memory gaps, not to read other survivors' personal stories, to avoid possible memory contamination and confusion. A Question of Torture: CIA
Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror by Alfred McCoy The Atrocity
Paradigm: A Theory of Evil by Claudia Card At the Side of Torture Survivors: Treating a Terrible Assault
on Human Dignity by Sepp Graessner (Editor), Norbert Gurris (Editor),
Christian Pross (Editor), Jeremiah Michael Riemer (Translator), and Desmond
Mpilo Tutu The Body in Pain: The
Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry The Breaking of Bodies and Minds:
Torture, Psychiatric Abuse, and the Health Professions edited by Eric Stover
and Elena O. Nightingale, MD A Child Called It: One Child's Courage
to Survive by David Pelzer Combatting Torture: A Manual for Action The Hidden Crimes...Children: Torture, Summary
Executions, Disappearances compiled by Yalile Rovira-Figueroa The Instruments of
Torture by Michael Kerrigan The Mental Health
Consequences of Torture, Ellen Gerrity, Terence M. Keane and Farris Tuma,
Editors
Sadistic Abuse: Definition, Recognition, and Treatment
by Jean M. Goodwin, MD, MPH. The Sadomasochism of Everyday Life: Why We
Hurt Ourselves - and Others - and How to Stop by John Munder Ross, Ph.D Tax-Funded Torture of
Children Behavioral and Medical experimentation Programs - 1945 to the Present
by Lynn Schirmer They Cage the Animals at Night: The True Story of a
Child who Learned to Survive by Jennings Michael Burch Torture: A
Collection. Sanford Levinson, Editor Torture:
A Human Rights Perspective. Edited by Kenneth Roth and Minky Worden The Torture Debate in
America, Karen J. Greenberg, Editor Torture: Expanded
Edition by Edward Peters Truth, Torture, and
the American Way: The History and Consequences of U.S. Involvement in Torture
by Jennifer K. Harbury Unshackled: A Survivor's Story of Mind Control by
Kathleen Sullivan Unspeakable
Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture by John Conroy Voices of Truth:
An Anthology by Survivors of Ritual Abuse. Edited by Gentlewinds. When Rabbit Howls by Truddi
Chase
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children are sold into virtual slavery or traffic for the worst forms of sexual
abuse - President Bill Clinton, U.N.
Protocol Orders Signing Ceremony
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