HR260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Michel Foucault, Alien Tort Statute, United Nations Convention Against Torture
12 Oct 2020
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Torture is one of the most common human rights violations. Amnesty international has documented torture in more than 150 countries including china, russia, and the united. It is usually associated with interrogation procedures, but is often inflicted to intimidate political opponents, reinforce cultural practices, or spread gratuitous violence. This lesson is meant to guide you through chapter 18 of your textbook. As noted in this section of chapter 15, almost never; they are ordinary people trained under adverse, abusive conditions in the art of torture. As previously noted, one thing that virtually every victim of torture has in common is that he or she has been defined as alien to the dominant culture; one of them, not one of us. Those who are labelled outsiders, as having violated our most sacred values, can be thought to have sacrificed their claim to the protection of rights, including the right to be regarded as human.
