TY - JOUR PY - 2022// TI - Istanbul Protocol 2022 empowers health professionals to end torture JO - Lancet A1 - Iacopino, Vincent A1 - Haar, Rohini J. A1 - Heisler, Michele A1 - Lin, James A1 - Fincancı, Şebnem Korur A1 - Esdaile, Chris A1 - Modvig, Jens A1 - Sveaass, Nora A1 - Nathanson, Vivienne H. A1 - Melzer, Nils A1 - Cohen, Juliet SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - Torture, one of the most heinous crimes known to humanity, inflicts profound harms on individuals and threatens the health, dignity, and wellbeing of families and communities. Health professionals have a duty both to document torture and to protect human rights as a foundation for human health and wellbeing. 1 Effective clinical investigation and documentation are essential to corroborate allegations of torture and other forms of ill-treatment and to achieve prevention, accountability, and redress for such crimes. Yet, until the 1990s, there were no internationally accepted standards for documenting torture and ill-treatment.

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