Violations of the right to the physical integrity of the person, such as torture, cruel and unusual punishment, extra-judicial executions, disappearances, and political imprisonment have long been treated as an anomaly in democratically governed societies. In the current literature on human rights, violations of this right are by and large seen the hall- mark of autocratic and repressive regimes.
This study takes on this dominant paradigm and shows, not only that the common assumption that democratic countries effectively limit human rights abuse is simply wrong, but that its...
Violations of the right to the physical integrity of the person, such as torture, cruel and unusual punishment, extra-judicial executions, disappea...
In this edited volume, leading experts of human rights measurement address the challenges scholarship of human rights face as well as explore approaches and means to overcoming them. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Human Rights.
In this edited volume, leading experts of human rights measurement address the challenges scholarship of human rights face as well as explore approach...
