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Lecture 11Monday March 21 2011

PEACE ST 2B03 / LABR ST 2W03 / WOMENS ST 2A03: Human Rights and Social JusticeDr Colin Salter, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University

Extraordinary renditionRights and Justice post 9/11

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Outline

What is rendition?

Torture or inhuman(e) treatment?

Social & future implications?

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Article 5

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel,inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

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UN Convention against torture

torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering,

whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on aperson for such purposes as obtaining from him or athird person information or a confession...

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No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a

state of war or a threat or war, internal politicalinstability or any other public emergency, may beinvoked as a justification of torture.

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No State Party shall expel, return ("refouler") or

extradite a person to another State where there aresubstantial grounds for believing that he would be indanger of being subjected to torture.

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Extraordinary rendition

Enemy combatant

torture by proxy

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Matt Lauer & GW Bush

MSNBC, September 102006

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Escalation is the rule, not the aberration.

David Luban (2007)

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Summary

Rewriting or reinterpretations of laws

Selective application

Human Rights abuses

International law breaches

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For Wednesday

Is torture inevitable in war?

What are some of the social characteristics thatinfluence this?

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For Thursday

What are some of the ways in which we can

diminish the use of torture around the world?

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Citations & further reading

David Luban (2007) Liberalism, Torture, and the ticking bomb, in S. P. Lee (ed.), Intervention,Terrorism, and Torture: Contemporary Challenges to Just Wareory, Dordrecht: Springer. pp. 249 262.

United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment orPunishment hp://www.hrweb.org/legal/cat.html

UnIted Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rightshp://www.un.org/events/humanrights/udhr60/hrphotos/declaration%20_eng.pdf

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Image sources

Mike Konopacki. 2000. If there was justice in the world, 2000 http://www.veggies.org.uk/calendar/2000.htm

Human Rights Champions, 2001 http://invisiblecollege.weblog.leidenuniv.nl/2007/03/11/who-wants-to-be-the-new-human-rights-cha

Which do you pet, which do you eat? http://www.meatout.org/action/outreach.htm

Shane T. McCoy, Detainees at Camp X-Ray, 11 January 2002. Image in the domain image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Camp_x-ray_detainees.jpg

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Video sources

Matt Lauer Corners Bush on Torture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp4vLBvU1bA

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