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Human rights violations, including war crimes and crimes against humanity, continue to be a prominent feature of world affairs. Torture, unfair trials, abuse of civilians in armed conflict and discrimination against vulnerable minorities are only some of the abuses that take place, both in autocratic regimes and in democracies. Crimes against humanity are currently being committed in more than 160 nations.1 Torture is used in one in three countries, often while the society itself continues to maintain formal contours of democracy (Cohen, 2001, 1996). At the same time human rights abuses continue and go unpunished even in countries that have ratified the Convention against torture.2
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© 2013 Irene Bruna Seu
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Seu, I.B. (2013). Introduction. In: Passivity Generation. Studies in the Psychosocial. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137305039_1
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