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Helen Bamber will address the use of torture as part of the ‘war on terror’ and the particular impact of torture on women in the context of Amnesty International’s Stop Violence Against Women campaign.
Thursday 09 December 2004
Thursday 09 December 2004
07:30
09:00
QUB- Peter Froggatt Centre- G06
free
The 'war on terror' has brought a sharp rise in the use of torture around the world, with the Home Secretary David Blunkett giving the green light to torture by accepting 'evidence' extracted under torture. In August, even though torture is banned under international law, the Court of Appeal decided that 'evidence' obtained by torture is admissible in the UK.
Helen Bamber is one of the world’s most prominent campaigners against torture. For more than half a century, she has devoted her life to the care of survivors of horror and violence. She and her colleagues have provided therapy to more than 30,000 people, from more than 90 countries. As a 19 year-old, she volunteered to go into the Belsen concentration camp to help with the physical and psychological recovery of Holocaust survivors. Later, while with Amnesty International, she worked to expose torture regimes in such countries as Chile and Argentina. In the 1980s, she founded the Medical Foundation for the Care of the Victims of Torture to help torture survivors pick up the pieces of their lives.
On the eve of Human Rights Day, as our guest lecturer for 2004, Helen Bamber will address the use of torture as part of the ‘war on terror’ and the particular impact of torture on women in the context of Amnesty International’s Stop Violence Against Women campaign.
This event is held in association with the Human Rights Centre at Queen's University.
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