Eric Stover

University of California, Berkeley, Human Rights Center, School of Law, Faculty Member

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Virginia Tech

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University Of Roehampton

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Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques

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Stanford University

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Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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University of Delhi

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California State University, Los Angeles

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Exposition aux crimes de guerre et implications pour le processus de paix dans le nord de l'Ouganda

Human rights and mass disaster: lessons from the 2004 tsunami

by Eric Stover and Laurel Fletcher

Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health

This paper describes the results of an investigation into how the December, 2004 tsunami and its ... more This paper describes the results of an investigation into how the December, 2004 tsunami and its aftermath affected the human rights of the survivors. Teams of researchers interviewed survivors, government officials, representatives of international and local nongovernmental organisations, UN officials, the military, police, and other key informants in India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Indonesia, and Thailand. We also analysed newspaper articles, reports released by governments, UN agencies, NGOs, and private humanitarian aid groups, and we examined the laws and policies related to survivors' welfare in the affected countries. We found worsening of prior human rights violations, inequities in aid distribution, lack of accountability and impunity, poor coordination of aid, lack of community participation in reconstruction, including coastal redevelopment. Corruption and preexisting conflict negatively impact humanitarian interventions. We make recommendations to international agenc...

The Cumulative Effect: A Medico-Legal Approach to United States Torture Law and Policy

by Eric Stover and Laurel Fletcher

In the weeks following the events of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration granted the CIA ... more In the weeks following the events of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration granted the CIA authority to set up detention facilities known as ‘black sites’ outside the United States, and to employ new interrogation procedures on suspected terrorists taken into custody. Recently released legal memoranda by the US Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel condoned the use of several interrogation techniques (such as water-boarding and prolonged sleep deprivation), which the US itself had previously condemned as torture. This paper examines the legal rationalizations the Bush administration advanced to circumvent international and national laws prohibiting torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. It also juxtaposes these rationalizations with medical evidence of the physical and psychological effects of torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. Finally, it recommends several prohibitions and safeguards that the Obama admin...

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