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Mason Brenhouse

UN Investigator Urges Probe of Alleged US Torture | CommonDreams.org - 1 views

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  • Nowak, an Austrian human rights lawyer who has been U.N. special rapporteur on torture for six years, called for an investigation of all allegations of U.S. torture and collusion with states that use torture since the fight against militants began in earnest after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.
  • Nowak also reiterated calls by him and other U.N. officials for the Obama administration to investigate reports from reams of leaked military documents showing U.S. troops killed Iraqi civilians or ignored prisoner abuse by Iraqis.
  • "What we need is a full investigation into torture practices by U.S. officials -- whether it's military officials, CIA officials or private security companies," he said, adding it should include those "who willingly and knowingly handed over detainees to other states" that torture. An ideal probe, Nowak said, would be conducted by a special prosecutor or panel of international experts.
  • Mason Brenhouse on 02 Nov 10
     
    Changes in the US torture policies. An Austrian human rights lawyer named Manfred Nowak works for the U.N. as a special rapporteur and has been doing so for six years. Nowak wants to have a full scale investigation done on what exactly is happening regarding their policies on torture. He questions exactly what the Obama administration is doing and hopes for an investigation. 
  • Kelsey Adams on 03 Nov 10
     
    I am so happy you found this information because after reading how U.S troops killed iraqi civilians and ignored prisoner abuse, I was in total shock. Nowak is doing a great thing fighting for the rights of humans because no one deserves torture, it only makes matters worse.
  • Ali Goldman on 03 Nov 10
     
    Manfred Nowak is trying to accomplish an amazing task and I greatly agree with what he is doing. I hope that this investigation happens regarding the policies of torture. Hopefully was can also see what Obama's administration is doing. Torture is never the answer.
mira ahmad

BBC - Ethics - Torture: Why is torture wrong? - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...wrong_1.shtml

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  • [Torture] dehumanizes people by treating them as pawns to be manipulated through their pain.
  • Torture is sometimes used to destroy the autonomy of the victim
  • Torture violates the rights and human dignity of the victim
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  • each act of torture makes it easier to accept the use of torture in the future
  • Torture damages the humanity of the torturers
  • Torture damages the institution that carries it out
  • The use of torture is dishonourable. It corrupts and degrades the state which uses it and the legal system which accepts it
  • Torture treats the victim as a means to an end and not an end in themselves
  • Daryl Bambic on 08 Nov 10
     
    This is a great resource Mira. I hope everyone gets a look at this!
Chrissy Le

Torture - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/Torture

torture modern times past law religion

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  • Chrissy Le on 02 Nov 10
     
    Torture: An act by which severe pain and/or suffering is caused, either physically or mentally. It is usually put into action when wanting to bring out a confession, or information in another individual. It has also been used as a form of punishment in the past and is still in use today (to a certain extent). Today, torture is prohibited under international law and the domestic laws of most countries. The method of torturing has been proven to be effective and of use. This website speaks about the definition of torture, the laws against it and what it means in various religions (What purpose it serves). The link will bring you to the different methods of torture that had been used in the past to how it serves us today.
Catherine Delisle

Canada Accused of Torture Collusion - Huffington Post - 1 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...cused-of-torture_b_375133.html

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      Catherine Delisle on 02 Nov 10
       
      In 2002 and 2006, Canada was instensly pressured by Washington to drag 2500 combat troops to the war in Afghanistan, which Canada did. They were then accused of their involvement in torture in the Afghan torture. Richard Colvin, who is a Canadian diplomat, revealed that the government has been sending Afghan prisoner to the secret police of the Kabul government, where prisoners are tortured and executed. Canada claims that they were unaware that Afghan prisons were being used as torture centers by the Communists. These tortures included many horrible things such as burning, beating, raping, sexual humiliations, though Canada claims to be unaware of this even if the Amnesty International and the Red Cross warned Ottawa that the prisoners that Canada was sending were being treated this way. Yet, they kept sending this prisoners over to the Afghan NDS, which is a violation of the Geneva Convection and human rights.
dunya darwiche

Debate.org | Interrogators should have the legal right to torture terrorists. - 0 views

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  • An interrogation is deliberately causing someone pain or anguish in order to extract information out of them.
  • Mind control drugs, sleep deprivation, good cop-bad cop techniques, and verbal intimidation are a few interrogation techniques that are currently legal.
  • Sometimes you have to do wrong thing for the right reason.
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  • chinese water method
  • Wouldn't the government have a moral duty to do whatever is necessary to get the information out of the suspect? Using violence to protect innocent people isn't morally wrong. It's self defense.
  • Water boarding
  • The Rack
  • Chinese Water Torture
  • "Truly Torture
  • New York Times Article entitled
Kelsey Adams

Why Torture is Wrong. - 0 views

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  • Kelsey Adams on 08 Nov 10
     
    This website is a description written by Jim Manzi one the utilitarians point of view as to why torture is wrong. This man is currently the chairman and managing director of Applied Predictive Technologies (a business analytics software company which is a contributing editor at the National Review), a senior worker at the Manhattan Institute, and a continuous blogger. In his writing based on a utilitarian case against torture, he describes how in no matter what was a person looks at torture, you will always be dehumanizing a human being.
matt kogan

Canada complicit in torture of innocent Afghans, diplomat says - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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      matt kogan on 03 Nov 10
       
      This article is important because it hit at home. The article was written by Steven Chase. it talks about how during Canada's earlier southern Afghan mission canadian troops handed over prisoners to Kandahar officials knowing that they would be torture.
  • sara tsapekis on 02 Nov 10
     
    This is about Canadian soldiers torturing people of Afghanistan. Most of the people were picked randomly; they were just local people. they were all most likely innocent. Steven Harper denies that he knew anything about it.
Kelsey Adams

Why torture is always wrong. - 0 views

hubpages.com/...Why-Torture-is-Always-Wrong

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  • Kelsey Adams on 08 Nov 10
     
    This site is more of a blog post explaining various reasons as to why torture continues to look like a process that really does nothing for our societies. The blogger, "Thurstjm," even brings torture back to the topic of terrorism which is a constant discussion world wide.
Kelsey Adams

What is wrong with torture? - 0 views

atheism.about.com/...ook-notes-morality-matters.htm

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  • Kelsey Adams on 08 Nov 10
     
    This website is basically book notes from the book titled, "Morality Matters," by Roger Trigg. It gives us a detailed definition of torture and continuous to explain how the process or torturing in clearly ineffective.
dunya darwiche

When Is Torture Right? - Studies in Christian Ethics - 0 views

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  • torture remains a tool for interrogation, intimidation, and punishing.
sydney goldman

is torture tolerable? - 1 views

www.opendemocracy.net/...torture_2938.jsp

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  • sydney goldman on 03 Nov 10
     
    I really like this site and chose it because it shows in great detail, what it is like to be captured, held prisoner and tortured. it makes you think about the consequences we force apon terrorists and if the they are appropriate, like torturing the tortureres.
  • Daryl Bambic on 08 Nov 10
     
    It`s a graphic account to be sure!
Kelsey Adams

Turkeys: Factory-Farmed Torture on the Holiday Table | PETA.org - 1 views

www.peta.org/...ture-on-the-holiday-table.aspx

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  • More than 273 million turkeys are raised for food every year in the U.S.; about 79 million of them are slaughtered and eaten for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter.(8,9) Before ending up as holiday centerpieces, these gentle birds spend five to six months on factory farms, where thousands of turkeys are packed into dark sheds with no more than 3.5 square feet of space per bird.(10) To keep the extremely crowded birds from scratching and pecking each other to death, workers cut off portions of the birds’ toes and upper beaks with hot blades and desnood the males (the snood is the flap of skin that runs from the beak to the chest).(11) No painkillers are used during these procedures.
  • Genetic manipulation and antibiotics enable farmers to produce heavily muscled birds who can weigh 35 pounds in as little as five months, and “their internal organs are noticeably crammed together in the little bit of space remaining for the body cavity,
  • a stress-induced condition that causes young birds to simply stop eating.
  • Kelsey Adams on 23 Nov 10
     
    This website explains how turkeys are tortured in small dark factories until they are all stuffed up and prepared to be slaughtered.
  • Daryl Bambic on 24 Nov 10
     
    Highlight the important parts.
vince chatigny-barbosa

is torture ever right? - 1 views

www.andersonfreepress.net/...torture-ever-acceptable

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  • Daryl Bambic on 08 Nov 10
     
    Better site than the last one but it argues, ultimately, for the other side!
vince chatigny-barbosa

Is torture acceptable? - 1 views

www.uspoliticsonline.net/...23837-torture-acceptable.html

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  • Daryl Bambic on 08 Nov 10
     
    Not a great site. It`s a discussion forum.
Ali Goldman

Abu Ghraib - 0 views

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  • Ali Goldman on 08 Nov 10
     
    This website shows how torture is used in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. There are many examples of torture and what is going on there. The government knows about what is happening in this prison.
anonymous

Torture - 1 views

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philosophy torture Philip Zimbardo

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  • anonymous on 02 Nov 10
     
    Philip Zimbardo is psychologist and an expert witness of Abu Ghraib. He was the leader of the Stanford Prison Experiment during 1971. He talks about how human can easily become a monster.
  • Daryl Bambic on 03 Nov 10
     
    Excellent choice Michael.
Ali Goldman

Torture and Madness at Guantánamo Bay - 0 views

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  • Ali Goldman on 03 Nov 10
     
    Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Guantanamo Bay prisoner, is incapable of defending himself at his own trial. The reason for this is because he has become insane due to the conditions that he has been living in for six years. He has been living in solitary confinement in a tiny cell for over 22 hours a day. He eats all his meals in the cell and even uses it as a washroom. He has become suicidal, he talks to himself, he hears voices, and he has flashbacks. His laywers have asked for the trial to be postponed and that his living conditions change. The way he is living is psychological torture.
Kelsey Adams

Correctional Service Canada- Torture Laws - 3 views

www.csc-scc.gc.ca/...im4630-02-eng.shtml

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  • Kelsey Adams on 03 Nov 10
     
    In this text we learn how Canada has strict rules against the torture of prisoners. The government believes that no matter what, we must respect the dignity of a human being and that no cruel punishments should ever be brought upon prisoners. There is said to be no international treaty that deals exclusively with the treatment of prisoners and the conditions of incarceration but one of the more known and respected instrument that deals with the rights of these criminals is the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners.
  • mira ahmad on 03 Nov 10
     
    Kelsey, This text is pretty interesting because while reading it, I learned a lot about Canada's correctional service system. I know about the basics but some things were explained in detail and I learned things that I never knew before. Now I will be able to link specific cases with our correctional system and get a better understanding!
steven bloom

Animal Rights Uncompromised: Caged Birds | PETA.org - 1 views

www.peta.org/...caged-birds.aspx

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  • steven bloom on 23 Nov 10
     
    This website talks about how we kill birds for no point. For examples when birds are smuggled into the Usa they have their wings clipped and their beaks shut so we can cram them in tight. Then the 20 percent of birds who survive and are over 8 weeks old are put in a cage for eternity. They have no contact and die alone. Can you imagine having no contact after eight weeks of birth to me that sounds like torture. All the information was provided by the Los Angeles times a notable newspaper.
  • Daryl Bambic on 24 Nov 10
     
    This is the same site.
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