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Torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of women: Psychological consequences
 

Libby Tata Arcel

Nobody asks a male torture victim whether he has consented to torture but the issue of
consent is always present when a woman wants to reveal that she has been sexually abused by an official.


  • Torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of women: Psychological consequences - Introduction
  • A new branch of human rights law
  • Definition of Gender-based Violence
  • Sexual torture and CIDT of women by State-agents
  • Specific contexts of sexual torture and CIDT: Armed conflict, Police/Penal
  • Recognition of rape by State-officials as torture
  • Why do soldiers commit sexual crimes during war?
  • Torture of women in police/penal custody
  • ‘Safe’ custody in detention-like conditions
  • The experience of sexual torture
  • Physical symptoms
  • Sexual Torture and mental suffering
  • Prevention of torture
  • Note 1
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