The New Debate on Torture - A Challenge for Human Rights Education

Abstract: Human Rights Education (HRE) involves more than knowledge of rights and wrongs. It developed to enable individuals to act in an informed way to protect human rights or to prevent human rights viola-tions. HRE is therefore both empowering and restraining in order to protect human dignity. Freedom from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading practices is central to human dignity. This article starts from the universal and absolute prohibition of torture under international human rights law. While considering the contradictive relationship between war and torture the article focuses on the war against terror as defined by the US administration as "new type" of warfare "that requires" a "new think-ing in the law of war". From this point of departure the article elaborates the challenges to human rights education developing from the debate on the legalization of torture. While comparing the dis-cussion and application of law in Germany and U.S.A. the author argues for a more coher.... http://www.jsse.org/index.php/jsse/article/view/371

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: The New Debate on Torture - A Challenge for Human Rights Education ; volume:5 ; number:1 ; day:10 ; month:01 ; year:2006 ; Journal of social science education ; 5, Heft 1 (10.01.2006)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Rosemann, Nils

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.4119/jsse-371
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019011815213988381966
• Rechteinformation: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 14.08.2025, 10:55 MESZ