Keywords: Psychological Torture
-
RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 26 May 2008
1 Comment
The text is from Professor Frank Brennan's 2008 Institute of Justice Studies Oration from 22 May 2008.
READ MORE
-
INTERNATIONAL
- Vacy Vlazna
- 14 November 2007
4 Comments
In July 2002, Australia voted against a proposal to strengthen the 1984 UN Convention against Torture. John Howard's friendship with George W. Bush has compromised and tainted our once reputable record on human rights advocacy.
READ MORE 
-
INTERNATIONAL
- Peter Hodge
- 31 October 2007
There is extensive evidence of US intelligence gathering techniques, much of it derived from declassified documents. It points to a clearly navigable path from the paranoia of the anti-communist post-WWII era to Abu Ghraib.
READ MORE
-
AUSTRALIA
- Anthony Ham, Kath O’Connor, Bruce Duncan, Clive Shepherd
- 01 July 2006
Any excuse, Privatise or perish, Clear and present danger, Keep left unless undertaking
READ MORE
-
INTERNATIONAL
- Andra Jackson
- 26 June 2006
Justice has become a life’s work for the Guildford Four’s Paul Hill.
READ MORE
-
INTERNATIONAL
- Sushma Joshi
- 12 June 2006
The three metre long red wooden pole is an instrument of humiliation for convicted criminals that is chillingly reminiscent of the Chinese Red Army. It has made its appearance, not under Maoist inspiration, but because of the absence of a functioning state legal system.
READ MORE
-
AUSTRALIA
The following essays by Morag Fraser and John Schumann are edited addresses from the Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series held in February–March 2005.
READ MORE
-
INTERNATIONAL
- Dorothy Horsfield
- 10 May 2006
Dorothy Horsfield investigates an initiative to help the survivors of torture
READ MORE
-
AUSTRALIA
- Katherine Wilson
- 23 April 2006
Jack Thomas is one of the first Australians charged under the Howard Government’s new anti-terror laws, but is he really a threat to national security or merely a sacrifical lamb?
READ MORE
-
INTERNATIONAL
- Lucy Turner
- 23 April 2006
As the government apologises to victims’ families for state-sanctioned atrocities during the civil war, the perpetrators remain free
READ MORE