Over the last fifteen years, the problem of human trafficking has become a focus of
government and advocacy agendas worldwide. Increasingly referred to as “modern-day …

This open access book theorises and concretises the idea of 'absolute rights' in human
rights law with a focus on Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). It …

Legal scholars have historically studied and shaped attitudes and approaches to torture–in
its infliction, identification, and inhibition. The role of law in the contemporary anti-torture …

This article will place the discussion of human subject research within the larger context of
human rights law, both at the international and regional level, and examine existing …

States have obligations to protect the right to life, which include obligations to prevent and
respond to violations of this right by non-State actors. Yet, there is no clear approach to …

In the deep jungle that lies along the border between Thailand and Malaysia are the graves
of hundreds of Burmese and Bangladeshi migrants. The graves were discovered by Thai …

Victoria Canning is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Bristol. Her
research and activist interests lie in gendered harms, zemiology, state power and violence …

Although scholars have shown longstanding interest in the boundaries of interpretation of
the right not to be subjected to torture and other prohibited harm, the existing body of work …

2 Washburn Law Journal[Vol. 58 including the American Psychiatric Association's
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual; the views ofmental health experts, medical professionals …

The prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment or punishment has
a special status. It is the foremost international human rights norm protecting persons from …