Wednesday, September 5, 2012

New Issue: International Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the International Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 16, no. 6, 2012) is out. Contents include:
  • Special Issue: Torture Prevention and Disability
    • Dorottya Karsay & Oliver Lewis, Disability, torture and ill-treatment: taking stock and ending abuses
    • Peter Bartlett, A mental disorder of a kind or degree warranting confinement: examining justifications for psychiatric detention
    • Anna Lawson, Disability equality, reasonable accommodation and the avoidance of ill-treatment in places of detention: the role of supranational monitoring and inspection bodies
    • Elina Steinerte, Rachel Murray & Judy Laing, Monitoring those deprived of their liberty in psychiatric and social care institutions and national practice in the UK
    • Charles O'Mahony, Legal capacity and detention: implications of the UN disability convention for the inspection standards of human rights monitoring bodies
    • Nell Munro, Define acceptable: how can we ensure that treatment for mental disorder in detention is consistent with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities?