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Edited by Metin Basoglu. 527 pp. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1992. $95. ISBN 0-521-39299-3.

In 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 5 of this declaration reads: "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." Since then, many international declarations and conventions prohibiting torture and human-rights abuses have followed. Nevertheless, torture and human-rights abuses remain major problems worldwide. It has been speculated that 5 to 35 percent of the world's more than 15 million refugees have been tortured. Add to this the equal number of people displaced within their own countries, and the number becomes staggering. Not . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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