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health-care policies, and emphasizes how certain treatments run afoul of the prohibition on torture and ill-treatment. It identifies the scope of State‟s obligations to regulate, control and supervise health-care practices with a view to preventing mistreatment under any pretext.
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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 failure to ...
Mar 13, 2013 · For Méndez, the significance of categorizing abuses in healthcare settings as torture and ill-treatment and examining abuses in healthcare settings from a torture protection framework “provides the opportunity to highlight the positive obligations that States have to prevent, prosecute and redress such violations.”. 13 March 2013.
Mar 5, 2013 · For the Special Rapporteur, the significance of categorizing abuses in health-care settings as torture and ill-treatment, as examining abuses in health-care settings from a torture protection framework, “provides the opportunity to solidify an understanding of these violations and to highlight the positive obligations that States have to prevent, prosecute and redress such violations.”
Torture and ill-treatment are antithetical to every notion of health care and human dignity. Health settings should be places where human rights are realized and fulfilled, not debased and violated. To stop the scourge of torture and ill-treatment in health care, health providers and anti-torture advocates must come together to listen to the ...
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 ...
Jan 22, 2010 · Government policies that prohibit effective treatment for individuals who use drugs, and instead endorse forced labor and detention can meet the specific criteria for torture as set out in article ...
