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The Abu Ghraib Images are all too Familiar to Irish Republicans
www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/
Story/0,2763,1232058,00.html
Gerry Adams talks of the systematic use of torture in the British Army.

Advocates for Survivors of Trauma and Torture
www.astt.org
Organisation based in the US, but the website has some useful information and articles on the subject of trauma and torture.

Barbarity is the Inevitable Consequence of Foreign Rule
www.doublestandards.org/milne2.html
An excellent article on how Britain's empire was built on vast ethnic cleansing, enslavement, enforced racial hierarchy, land theft and merciless exploitation.

Britain Accused Over CIA's Secret Torture Flights
www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0210-11.htm
UK airports are believed to be operational bases for two executive jets used by the CIA to carry out the abuse and torture of suspected terrorists.

European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
www.hri.org/docs/ECHR50.html
Sets out the ECHR, first introduced in 1950, and lists its five protocols that were introduced in the years that followed.

Human Rights Internet
www.hri.ca/index.aspx
Gateway site, with an extensive clearinghouse of articles and links related to human rights.

Standards of Conduct for Interrogation
www.humanrightsfirst.org/us_law/etn/gonzales
/memos_dir/memo_20020801_JD_%20Gonz_.pdf
Full text of the 2002 US department of justice memo that defines and justifies the use of torture.

Torture at Abu Ghraib Followed CIA's Manual
www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/
oped/articles/2004/05/14/torture_at_abu_ghraib_
followed_cias_manual/
Looks at the different torture techniques used by the CIA, and how the use of psychological torture appears in the CIA manual.

The Torture Reporting Handbook
www.essex.ac.uk/torturehandbook/
Excellent reference guide for anyone who wishes to know how to take action in response to allegations of torture or ill-treatment. It's a comprehensive guide, in a wide number of languages.

UK Forces Taught Torture Methods
www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1212197,00.html
Special forces soldiers are taught a full battery of torture methods that include hooding, sleep deprivation, time disorientation and sexual humiliation. These techniques are now being disseminated among ordinary troops and contractors who do not know what they are doing.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
www.unhchr.ch/html/menu6/2/fs2.htm
Looks at the background to, and the declaration of, the Bill of Human Rights, introduced in 1948. It states that 'all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood'.

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