PPT-The International Prohibition against Torture

Katie Wood Governance Coordinator Amnesty International Australia About Amnesty International Global movement with 28 million supporters in more than 150 countries We campaign to end grave abuses of human rights wherever they occur. Temperance Cartoons. A Nation of Drunkards. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GECsin42oS0. . 6:05. The Anti-Saloon League. The Anti-Saloon League focused only on the legal prohibition of alcoholic beverages. . By: . Monica, Margaret, and Colleen. Burning. Used to execute thieves, witches, blasphemers (a person who speaks disrespectfully of sacred things).. Usually burned with a small fire so they suffer. Like blood loss and heatstroke.. As per WMA declaration1975 –. . Deliberate or intentional systemic or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons acting alone or on the instruction of any authority to force another person to collect information or to make confession or for any other reason. 1920s. Write the main idea of each slide.. Prohibition. The Prohibition era lasted from 1920 through 1933, and was an attempt to legislate morality. It took a Constitutional amendment to enact it, and another one to repeal it. The attempt to decrease the "evils" of alcohol actually created more - and new - types of crime.. Three views on when torture is morally justified. Whenever an act of torture will maximize total happiness (Act . Utilitarians. ). In ticking bomb scenarios*, provided many conditions met (. Dershowitz. By Findley . S. mylie. THE RACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!. On the rack, a victims legs and arms were tied to bars at either end of the device, rollers were then used to stretch the body. The tension was maintained and gradually increased by use of a ratchet.. Society of the 1920s. Prohibition. 18. th. Amendment/ Volstead Act. Ban on sale, manufacture, or transportation of alcohol. 1920-1933. 21. st. Amendment ended Prohibition. Prohibition. Volstead act prohibited sale of alcohol. By: Brock Wilson & Jesse Olmstead. A Little History On Prohibition. Prohibition was largely a struggle between ethnic groups.. In Illinois, for example, “fifty three per of state’s residents were either foreign born or the children of foreign born parents…” (Buenker 363).. The . action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something, or for the pleasure of the person inflicting the pain. .. By: Raven Perring. http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/what-are-human-rights/videos/no-torture.html. No one shall be subjected to torture or cruel and inhuman punishment can get tortured in many ways. . What is Torture . Torture is an action inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment.. People also use torture to get information from other people like from different countries like where people are hiding. . Freedom from torture in Fiji from 2009-2013. Pacific Constitutions Research Network Conference, 23-25 November . 2016. University of the South Pacific . Emalus. Campus, Port Vila, Vanuatu. 1. Introduction. Introduction. History of torture in Turkey – . Sansaryan. Han and the . Harbiye. Military Prison.. Political reasons – . demonsrations. . boycotts and protesting activities.. Even people . deal with literature such as N.H. Ran, . Ms. L Strong. Preston High School. Facts about Torture, and Punishment. Torture was the . most common method of extracting. information, or . confessions. from people during the . M. iddle Ages.. Torture often . History of torture in Turkey – . Sansaryan. Han and the . Harbiye. Military Prison.. Political reasons – . demonsrations. . boycotts and protesting activities.. Even people . deal with literature such as N.H. Ran, .