published 1999 Before me there were four very prominent European jurists who were in charge of it. avg rating 3.95 — I enjoyed reading about Victoria's ongoing recovery, reminding us that people don't just walk away and all is good.
But Sands went ahead and interviewed the authors of those memos and tried to get to the bottom of their motivation. published 2007 published 2013 published 2012 avg rating 4.12 — If you've enjoyed this interview, please support us by Juan E Méndez is a visiting professor of law at the American University, Washington College of Law, and the UN special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment. Here Ben Bland, author of We ask experts to recommend the five best books in their subject and explain their selection in an interview.This site has an archive of more than one thousand interviews, or five thousand book recommendations. published 2014
4,303 ratings — published 2008 Shame on anyone that says why don't they just leave, clearly this little girl/ young woman had been told such horrible things about herself for so long and been so sheltered she believed it was normal. avg rating 4.33 — The more I didn’t see her, and her cold, dark eyes, the more strength I gained. Shows the struggles of a young girl and I like that it shows even after she escapes her feelings and how it impacts on her life even to this very day. avg rating 4.00 — Once a torturer feels free to exercise control over somebody else for the purposes of interrogation or any other purpose then they actually persuade themselves that the victim has no reason to be treated with any kind of dignity. This book is like nothing I have ever read before, and the detail in which her story is told is sometimes just too much to handle.
published 1987 published 2013 Would love to meet this lady and say how amazing she really is!
No, says the UN special rapporteur, who tells us how torturers try to excuse themselves and what remedies should be available to surviving victimsIt’s a pretty long title, the UN special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment.
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avg rating 4.16 — In all the time of reading have I never had to put down a book and come away from it to take a break because I could stand to see what was written on the page. I wish everyone could read stories like these and gain empathy for the survivors.
20,029 ratings — 3,501 ratings — avg rating 4.13 — 53,673 ratings — I commend the author on her bravery and ability to tell her story in such intimate detaThis book is a solid 5 stars. avg rating 4.09 —
It is also several forms of psychological and mental torture that can happen even on a massive scale.Of course 1984 came and went and we didn’t have the kind of dramatic tyranny George Orwell predicted. she couldn't escape the memories which were just asthis book tore me to pieces it was really hard to imagine a three-year-old eating cat food or having her fingers pressed on hot plates I put the book down not wanting to read any further but I remembered that this was a true story and I wanted to hear about her survival.
avg rating 4.11 — 50,394 ratings — Wow what a book. absolutely not!I really respected the author's decision to tell the whole story - so many books in this category end with the child in the back of a police car, free, happy ever after etc. Me.”“The only good thing was that every day I was away from Mum, I felt stronger. avg rating 3.73 — published 2010 What kinds of things do you do for your work?The rapporteurship has a long trajectory. What do you think of that?I think that has been a very important setback in the last 10 years. published 2015
They said it would help me come to grips with my own struggles to trust God in the midst of deep suffering and loss. avg rating 3.87 —
3,948 ratings — The punishments she puts the children through are not something an average person would have any child good, bad, or otherwise endure. published 2016 avg rating 4.00 — published 2014 1,428 ratings — published 2012 Welcome back. I could not believe that anyone could be so cruel, and so decided to read Victoria's whole story.What an amazing but sad book.
updated Mar 23, 2015 05:51PM — “For years and years my mum had got away with what she’d done, no one had ever stood up to her. published 2014
1,673 ratings — This book is not well paced and it jumps a lot which can make it quite confusing. In those years these places were shielded from any monitoring by courts or anyone else. 71,281 ratings —
avg rating 3.85 — The book was Tortured for Christ, and my college-bound friends insisted I read it. 12,651 ratings — published 2014
The mother Eunice has been named the most abusive woman in Britain. Richard Wurmbrand, also known as Nicolai Ionescu (March 24, 1909 – February 17, 2001) was a Romanian evangelical Christian minister of Jewish descent.
In all the time of reading have I never had to put down a book and come away from it to take a break because I could stand to see what was written on the page. 666 ratings — avg rating 4.46 — As a result, he experienced imprisonment and torture by the then Communist regime of Romania, for his beliefs. 2,905 ratings — published 2015