Moreover, they were sexually assaulted and tortured during their incarceration. Barnard, who has been working on the story for seven years, holds the Edward R. Submission to the United Nations Security Council. Subscribe Already registered? Create a commenting name to join the debate Submit.

They have people on the ground and people outside Syria, and they basically just take phone calls, and they also have a form on their Web site that you can fill in. Hana Al-Khamri is a writer and analyst based in Sweden. But elsewhere, the response has been tepid. Ray would also put his victims in wooden contraptions that bent them over and immobilized them while he had his dogs and sometimes other friends rape them. The United Nations convention against torture—a handbook on the convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Start your Independent Premium subscription today.

They have people on the ground and people outside Syria, and they basically just take phone calls, and they also have a form on their Web site that you can fill in. And, really, one of the things that has the most impact for me is that, just as after the Hama massacre, in , it was forbidden to talk about these massacres. I was also sceptical: rumours are rampant in war zones. She was placed under house arrest and examined by doctors at a nearby clinic, who discovered she was 10 weeks pregnant. This paper reports a retrospective study of the frequency, severity, modalities and mental health consequences of torture in 28 Latin American refugee women in Toronto.

The woman partaking in the play lays down on the "horse" face-forward with her arms and legs dangling below, exposing her rear. These prisons are a reason why there was an uprising, and they were also the pivotal tool for suppressing that uprising. Retrieved November 16, Many States do not secure evidence in a gender-sensitive manner, and their laws and court rules are not adapted to the special needs of victims of sexual violence. Retrieved January 9, While undocumented female migrants and poor, underprivileged Saudi citizens were treated abominably in the kingdom's prisons, Saudi activists from privileged backgrounds were being dealt with with relative restraint. Women have been tortured to repress their sexuality, silence their tongues, and conform to standards of beauty.