The Relativity of Torture

Cultural Relativity of Moral Precepts

The foundation of most intellectual discourse is Western-centric to the exclusion of other views. This includes ideal patterns of social interaction, preference for aesthetic, accepted norms and values, and the concepts of dignity, respectability, morality and ethics. Such a position is culturally myopic. Western cultural influence colors all of them including moral precepts. The assumption is ...

The Defense of Torture

the effect of taftan pozzolan on the compressive strength of concrete in the environmental conditions of oman sea (chabahar port)

cement is an essential ingredient in the concrete buildings. for production of cement considerable amount of fossil fuel and electrical energy is consumed. on the other hand for generating one tone of portland cement, nearly one ton of carbon dioxide is released. it shows that 7 percent of the total released carbon dioxide in the world relates to the cement industry. considering ecological issu...

torture: prohibited but rife! some reflections on the continuance of the torture

the prohibition of torture is considered as jus cogens which, has its specific legal effects. furthermore, international law has criminalized torture and stipule that perpetrators of torture should be adequately prosecuted by any state. this paper attempts to describe briefly, the international practice against torture and to address some deficiencies in this realm with regard to violations tow...

On the permissibility of torture.