Against the international backdrop of rising religious tensions, this article explores
contemporary civil society views on religious freedom in Bangladesh. It uses critical frame …

The juncture of human rights and policing is a relatively recent field of scholarship. It tends to
explain the relationship between policing and human rights as one of exigency and …

The title on the front of this text has two meanings, and reflects two intentions on our part.
First, we aim to equip you, whatever your stage as a researcher or practitioner, with a body …

There is an urgent need to analyze and assess how we prevent torture, against the
background of a rigorous analysis of the factors that condition and sustain it. Drawing on rich …

Police who engage in torture are condemned by human rights activists, the media, and
people across the world who shudder at their brutality. Stark revelations about torture by …

In this chapter we present our study design and discuss some of the challenges of
implementation in the hope that the lessons we learned might be of use to others. We …

This article explores civil society organizations'(CSOs) views on the contemporary situation
of LGBT+ people in Bangladesh. It is a lacuna requiring attention because of the country's …

David Garland has written that 'an engagement with human rights is essential for 21st
century criminology that aspires to depth and relevance'. But what does it mean to do human …

This article addresses the question of how human rights practitioners know about harm. In
particular, what forms of torture and ill-treatment are made legible through human rights …

This short essay offers a broad and necessarily incomplete review of the current state of the
human rights struggle against torture and ill-treatment. It sketches four widespread …