Torture au sein des services de santé: Réflexions sur le rapport thématique de 2013 du Rapporteur Spécial sur la Torture

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Torture au sein des services de santé: Réflexions sur le rapport thématique de 2013 du Rapporteur Spécial sur la Torture

11 avril 2014

Ce rapport cherche à résoudre les lacunes existantes entre la loi et les politiques afin d’empêcher l’occurrence d’actes de torture et de mauvais traitements dans le cadre de soins dits « médicaux » offerts au sein d’établissements de santé.

Pour en savoir plus, veuillez lire les informations ci-dessous (en anglais).

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If a group of men grab you off the street, call you a danger to society, and lock you in a “treatment” facility where you are beaten for trying to escape, who should protect you? This is one of the many troubling questions raised in a new report edited by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and funded by the Open Society Foundations.

Though human rights groups have criticized government-run drug detention centers for practices including forced labor and torture in countries in East and Southeast Asia, private centers—often run by vigilante groups or religious institutions—can be just as abusive. Accounts of life in these centers have also emerged from Russia and Serbia.

Even countries throughout Latin America—a region of the world has lately lauded for its increasingly progressive stance on drugs—allow these punitive institutions. Governments in these countries at best turn a blind eye, and at worst are complicit.

This report seeks to address existing gaps in law and policy to prevent torture and ill-treatment in the name of medical treatment in health care settings worldwide.

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