Torture and Ill-Treatment Under Perceived: Human Rights Documentation and the Poor
The article is based on research in Kenya, Bangladesh, and Nepal
Abstract
This article addresses the question of how human rights practitioners know about harm. In particular, what forms of torture and ill-treatment are made legible through human rights documentation? We argue human rights documentation techniques can systematically under perceive the extent of torture and ill-treatment among people living in poverty. The article is based on research in Kenya, Bangladesh, and Nepal, and sets out 5 key predispositions in documentation techniques that result in implicit discrimination.
This work is part of ‘A Comparative Analysis of the Documentation of Torture and Ill-Treatment in Low-Income Countries’ project supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the UK Department for International Development.
Citation
Jensena, Steffen , Kelly, Tobias & Andersen, Morten Koch & Christiansen, Catrine & Sharma, Jeevan Raj. “Torture and Ill-Treatment Under Perceived: Human Rights Documentation and the Poor.” Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 39 no. 2, 2017, pp. 393-415. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/hrq.2017.0023
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