HRT No. 1: Going against torture. How to hold powerful states accountable?

We are proud to launch our new podcast "Human Rights Tracks" with an episode on combatting torture featuring CHREN postdoctoral researcher Dr Janina Heaphy.

Janina’s research predominantly revolves around diplomacy, security studies and human rights with one of my projects exploring for instance strategic accountability campaigns against the use of torture and targeted killings in Western counterterrorist operations. She has interviewed a lot of people that are usually very hard to talk to – for instance former high-ranked CIA and military investigators, the former legal advisor to George W. Bush, or the former Attorney General of England and Wales. So – against common believe – Janina’s work very much shows: Research never gets boring.

Enjoy listening and stay true to human rights!

 

Audio file at 00:17 by CNN "⁠Obama: We tortured some folks⁠'"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBLNohqquRk

 

Other sources

PhD project: https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/entities/publication/ed166714-e73a-4e0f-a588-35c15f929402

Senate Select Committee Intelligence Report (USA) on Torture: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/publications/CRPT-113srpt288.pdf

BND Untersuchungsausschuss: https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/16/134/1613400.pdf ISC

Report (UK) Detainee Mistreatment and Rendition 2001-2010: https://isc.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/20180628-HC1113-Report-Detainee-Mistreatment-and-Rendition-2001-10.pdf

Example for Human Rights First Campaign : https://humanrightsfirst.org/library/top-interrogators-declare-torture-ineffective-in-intelligence-gathering/