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Jan 20, 2010 · Human Rights Watch research into torture and CIDT in health settings includes health care providers' involvement in forcible anal and vaginal exams, female genital mutilation, and...
- Uzbekistan: Dissident Forced Into Psychiatric Detention
In a return to a Soviet-era tactic of repression, the Uzbek...
- Where Darkness Knows No Limits
This 37-page report based on research in Yunnan and Guangxi...
- Prisons No Place for Mentally Ill
It is rare to find police, sheriffs, prosecutors, defense...
- Uzbekistan: Dissident Forced Into Psychiatric Detention
In 2009 Human Rights Watch found that health providers in Iraqi Kurdistan were involved in both performing and promoting misinformation about the practice of female genital mutilation.
Mar 5, 2013 · The groundbreaking report analyses all forms of abuse labeled as ‘health-care treatment’ which try to be premised or justified by health-care policies. It also identifies the scope of State’s obligations to regulate, control and supervise health-care practices with a view to preventing maltreatment under any pretext and the policies that ...
Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment (CIDT) is treatment of persons which is contrary to human rights or dignity, but is not classified as torture. It is forbidden by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, the United Nations Convention against Torture and the International Covenant on ...
Mar 5, 2013 · An independent United Nations human rights expert today unveiled a new report in which he calls for an international debate on abuses of patients under medical supervision ranging from compulsory...
Jan 21, 2010 · In its annual World Report for 2010 the group summarises major trends in human rights issues worldwide, and this year has a section documenting healthcare providers’ alleged complicity in torture or in cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment in countries throughout the world.
Jan 21, 2010 · Human Rights Watch called on national and international medical societies to reinforce health providers' understanding of how their actions can result in torture and ill-treatment, and to speak...
