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...doing in France." More surprising is the apparent serenity with which the topic is considered in Spain, despite the country's Catholic heritage. Last week Justice Minister Juan Fernando López Aguilar listed an initiative for gay marriage among proposed amendments to the Spanish penal code. A vote is expected in the National Assembly by early 2005. There and elsewhere in Europe, the question of children - what the French call homoparentalité - may be the most difficult. In an interview last week in Le Monde, French Family Minister Marie-Josée Roig signaled that as open...
...they replaced. They did introduce tortures of their own, from the amputation of limbs to the common beating of the soles of the feet, the falaka, that are cruel by our standards. But Muslim societies were guided by ideals and values that Westerners can recognize and which still animate penal reform today. A look at the evolution in the region of both torture and attitudes about...
...hundreds of thousands of North Koreans who live?and in many cases die?in actual prison camps. Last week, the private U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea released The Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Korea's Prison Camps, a chillingly comprehensive description of Kim Jong Il's hellish penal system. Written by veteran human rights investigator David Hawk, the report draws on interviews with 30 former guards and inmates, including escapees forcibly repatriated from China. Among their revelations...
...VALERIE BRESNIHAN, Irish Penal Reform Trust
...where conditions were often "filthy," sometimes left naked or in their underwear. The delegation called these practices "inhuman and degrading" and called on the authorities to end them immediately. The government has promised new observation cells for inmates with psychiatric problems, but according to Valerie Bresnihan of the Irish Penal Reform Trust, "they aren't abolishing padded cells, just revamping them. Our prisons remain in serious breach of international standards on human rights," she says. The Irish government has long promised an independent police-complaints commission, but even if it is created, critics fear the vast majority of complaints will...