
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?