389Organized fraud and organizing frauds:Unpacking research on networks and organizationMICHAEL LEVI1University of Cardiff, UKAbstractThis article examines the settings for frauds in the context of crimenetworks, fraud opportunities and of a victim-centric typology offraud. It demonstrates the variety of actors, settings and the variableneed for knowing collaboration between co-offenders in frauds ofdifferent types. It explores what…
1 November 2011 False Confessions by Palestinian Childrenand adolescents under Coercion Amany Dayif & Fatmeh El-‘Ajou Israel’s detention policy of Palestinians in the West Bank, includingEast Jerusalem, and in particular Palestinian children andadolescents, is part of Israel’s policy of occupation. It is apowerful instrument in the hands of the Israeli occupation forpolitically repressing the Palestinian…
Cooperation and coercionJenny AudringUniversity of Amsterdamj.audring@uva.nlGeert BooijLeiden UniversityG.E.Booij@hum.leidenuniv.nl Abstract: Coercion is a much-discussed topic in the linguistic literature. This article expandsthe usual range of cases at the most subtle and the most extreme end: it demonstrates howcoercion extends into semantic flexibility on the one hand and into idiomaticity on the other.After discussing a broad variety…
CYBER-TORTUREEU-COALLITION AGAINST CYBERTORTURE UN STARTS INVESTIGATION TO BAN CYBER TORTURE (PRESS RELEASE)UN STARTS INVESTIGATION TO BAN CYBER TORTURE Magnus Olsson, Geneva 8 March 2020 UN Human Rights Council (HRC) Special Rapporteur on torture revealed during the 43rd HRC that Cyber technology is not only used for internet and 5G. It is also used to target…
A/HRC/43/49Advance Unedited Version Distr.: General14 February 2020Original: EnglishHuman Rights CouncilForty-third session24 February–20 March 2020Agenda item 3Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,political, economic, social and cultural rights,including the right to developmentTorture and other cruel, inhuman or degradingtreatment of punishmentReport of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel,inhuman or degrading treatment of punishment*SummaryIn the…