Human Rights Review articles from July 2000

Human Rights Review archives from July 2000

Editor's Introduction.
July 1, 2000... In this issue, we present a number of articles on the issue of torture. Most of these papers were presented in their early stages at a conference sponsored by the University of Chicago called" Investigating and Combating Torture" from March...

Ordinary Betrayals: Conceptualizing Refugees Who Have Been Tortured in the Global Village [1].
July 1, 2000... Thousands, indeed tens of thousands, depend for their existence on a very active working of this force. Little quarrels of millions of families in their daily lives disappear before the exercise of this force. Hundreds of nations live in peace....

The Rise and Fall of Judicial Torture: Why It Was Used in Early Modern Europe and the Soviet Union.
July 1, 2000... Objections to the employment of torture as a means of extracting truthful or useful testimony date back to the ancient world; they resurfaced in Europe as early as the sixteenth century. [1] Why then have various authorities resorted to torture...

Reconstructing Atrocity: How Torturers, Murderers, and Researchers Deconstruct Labels and Manage Secrecy [1].
July 1, 2000... In countries undergoing democratization after military dictatorships--as throughout Latin America in the last fifteen years, where torture and murder had been systematic government practices--the processes of forgetting and remembering have...

The Influence of French "Revolutionary War" Ideology on the Use of Torture in Argentina's "Dirty War" [1].
July 1, 2000... In 1957, a French military mission arrived in Argentina to teach courses in "Revolutionary War" (also known as "anti-Communist" or "anti-subversive warfare") at the Argentine Army's Escuela Superior de Guerra (the National War College) in...

Torture in Israel [1].
July 1, 2000... On September 9, 1999, the Supreme Court of Israel, sitting as the High Court of Justice, gave its verdict on two main questions: (1) whether the General Security Services (or GSS, also known as Shin Beth) is authorized to conduct interrogations...

An Ideal Victim: Idealizing Trauma Victims Causes Traumatic Stress in Human Rights Workers.
July 1, 2000... Among human rights workers this story is a cliche. Professor C., a historian, is leaving work after his third long week of interviewing torture survivors. Today he interviewed three refugees from Rwanda, each for two or three hours. When he...

Relativism, Rights, and the Rule of Law: Towards Cosmopolitan Virtue.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Relativism, Rights, and the Rule of Law: Towards Cosmopolitan Virtue. Joanne R. Bauer and Daniel A. Bell (eds.), The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). Win. Theodore DeBary, Asian Values and...

Unarmed Bodyguards: International Accompaniment for the Protection of Human Rights.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Unarmed Bodyguards: International Accompaniment for the Protection of Human Rights. By Liam Mahony and Luis Enrique Eguren. West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 1997. While conducting fieldwork with indigenous people in the mid-1990s in...

A Finger in the Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala.(Review)
July 1, 2000... A Finger in the Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala. By Diane Nelson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 450 pp. Diane Nelson's A Finger in the Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala is the most...