An Australian lawyer tasked by the United Nations with monitoring and documenting allegations of torture and cruelty is ...

Why is torture wrong? It may seem like an obvious question, or even one beneath discussion. But it is now inescapably before us, with the introduction of the McCain Amendment banning all "cruel, ...

, June 25 -- Young people have a vital role to play in preventing torture, protecting human dignity and strengthening the rule of law, speakers said at a dialogue organised to mark the United Nations ...

In the wake of the Senate report cataloging a whole lot of torture committed by the CIA, Dick Cheney has been reduced to arguing that torturing people — even innocent ones — is worth doing if you ...

Torture has profound psychological and physiological consequences for survivors. While some brain structures and functions appear altered in torture survivors, it is unclear how torture exposure ...

Dnipro, Ukraine — Russian airstrikes targeted gas, electricity and other key infrastructure across Ukraine on Thursday, knocking out heating and water supplies to a huge number of civilians just as ...

It's clear throughout history that the human mind lacks no ingenuity when it comes to thinking up hideous ways to torture or kill people. But this may be the worst in the history books. Rumoured to ...

Forms of ill treatment during captivity that do not involve physical pain -- such as psychological manipulation, deprivation, humiliation and forced stress positions -- appear to cause as much mental ...

Tqhe thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world," George Orwell wrote in 1984. It "varies from individual to individual. It may be burial alive, or death by fire, or by drowning, or by ...

Getting justice for victims of torture and other abuses used to be just about impossible. It's still extremely difficult, but decades of work by activists, lawyers — and increasingly by doctors — have ...