Torture in armed conflict is saturated with gender norms and expressions of power. Read my piece in Just Security on the overlaps of torture and conflict related sexual violence

🔈#ASP21 side event on the #intersectional dimensions of #slavery crimes by Emergent Justice Collective Justice Rapid Response CJA Global Justice Center #ASP21 w/Patricia Sellers dr yassin brunger Priya Gopalan Priya Narayanan Angela Mudukuti alexandra lily kather & Carmen Cheung Ka-man supported by Australia, Colombia & Argentina.

*whispers* the call is coming from inside the house

Gender structures the logic of violence by torturers, and so:

A good thing, but why now? Yeah yeah, it’s the anniversary of the attempted coup…but it’d been nice if sanctions on oil/gas/aviation fuel happened looong ago. Do states just sit on effective action to make sure they can do things to mark blood-drenched anniversaries?

Everything just takes so loooonnnggg in international law…there’s gotta be a way we can fix the system to meet the challenges of the 21st century……

let's all say it together: expressions of state power are gendered, especially in custodial settings

My toddler just carried a child’s dose of melatonin around for 20-minutes as if bedtime was Coachella and he wanted it to peak at just the right time

When survivors of #torture have been beaten on the soles of their feet, it has huge physical and mental consequences, explains DIGNITY psychologist Sadia Khan. #Stoptorture #health #trauma #PTSD

Congrats to Alice J Edwards UN Special Rapporteur Torture for her report and dialogue at #HRC52. As she says, preventing torture means investigating torture in all its forms. DIGNITY’s Grant Shubin shares what this means for #GBV 👇

Humbled to be speaking alongside esteemed colleagues next week at the sidelines of the UN HRC. We will discuss systematic torture in Egypt's detention centers, the decades of impunity that allows it to happen, and the role the international community must play in preventing it.

On Wednesday, DIGNITY's Grant Shubin will be part of a side event on #torture in #Egypt at the United Nations Human Rights Council session in Geneva. 👇

And why does this keep happening?!

Burma's junta is not just imprisoning people, "it is ensnaring them in a process of human rights violations aimed at destroying any resistance to its violent assertions of power." great new report by AAPP (Burma)

might it be more cynical? might he be consciously facilitating famine in Africa leading to a new refugee wave into EU, thereby feeding an already frenzied political environment and sowing deeper divisions between an otherwise unified EU approach to the invasion?

Our latest fact sheet is hot off the press: Sexual Torture can be both physical & mental torture & affects all genders. Read our 21st fact sheet. Written with ⁦Lena Schneider⁩ ⁦@grant_shubin⁩ ⁦Brenda van den Bergh⁩ &⁦⁦⁦⁦Jens Modvig⁩ dignity.dk/en/fact-sheets…

“But what about my bottom line?” Said the Free Speech Absolutist

In Egypt, torture is both a policy and a widespread tool. Good on #UNCAT for calling out Egypt’s many violations—including calling out torture as systematic and squalid conditions in Egyptian prisons

we're all going to have our genocide takes today, but hot damn, citations to labor/birth delivery complications? concerns about maternal mortality? In a genocide case? HELL YES, CIJ_ICJ , git it. I see you, Judge Charlesworth.

Thanks Rosemary Grey for pulling together this amazing symposium!