Childhood Abused

Geraldine Van Bueren

1. Shame and Physical Pain: Cultural Relativity, Children , Torture and Punishment, Judith Ennew. 2. The Ill-Treatment of Children – Some Developmental Considerations, Martin Richards. 3. Activism, Politics and the Punishment of Children, Pamela Reynolds. 4. Opening Pandora’s Box – Protecting Children Against Torture, Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Geraldine Van Buren. 5. International Conventions Against Torture and on the Rights of the Child – The Work of Two United Nations Committees, Brent Sorensen. 6. Torture of the Girl-Child, Christine Chinkin. 7. The Violation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as Torture or Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment, Jeremy McBridge. 8. Are the Rights of Refugee Children Protected Adequately Against Torture? Louise Williamson. 9. A Non-Governmental Organization Perspective of the United Nations’ Approach to Children and Torture, Eric Sottas. 10. Can Medicine be Torture? The Case of Children, Len Doyal. 11. Children in Reintegration, Gisela Perren – Klingler. 12. Children Exposed to War, Torture and Other Organized Violence – Developmental Consequences, Edith Montgomery. 13. The Effects on Children of Witnessing Violence Perpetrated against their Parents or Siblings, Dora Black and Martin Newman. 14. The Torture of Children: Assessing Torture and Devising, Lois Whitman.