Is canada a torture free zone new

Is Canada a Torture Free Zone?
For more information open this pamphlet:
http://www.ritualabusetorture.org/cdntorturefree.pdf
Jeanne Sarson & Linda MacDonald © 2010

THE GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Torture
&
Human Rights

NAMING TORTURE
State torture
Refers to torture by government/state officials or representatives: i.e., police, military or prison guard personnel.
Refers to torture that happens in the public sphere such as in prisons, military bases, jail or embassies for example.
Non-state torture
Refers to torture by parents, spouses, other kin, guardians, neighbours, trusted adults, or strangers, for example.
Refers to torture that happens in the private or domestic sphere, i.e., in homes, cabins, apartments, secluded woods, on boats, farms or in private.

State torture
In Canada
Is recognized as a specific and distinct crime in the Criminal Code of Canada
Is illegal under section 269.1 of the Criminal Code, Part VIII.2 Offences Against the Person and Reputation
Law only applies to state officials/representatives whether inside or outside of Canada
Source: http://everything2.com/title/Criminal+Code+of+Canada+-+Part+VIII.2+Offences+Against+the+Person+and+Reputation+continued

Non-state torture
In Canada is:
Trivialized
Minimized
Misnamed
Invisibilized
Discriminatory
Why?
Because the government’s position is:
“Canada recognized torture a State-actor offence and prohibited it categorically. What was sometimes referred to as torture by non-State actors was covered by the criminal law as simple, aggravated or sexual assault, forcible confinement, kidnapping or trafficking in persons.”
(Reference: Ms. Morency, CEDAW. (2009). CEDAW/C/SR.854 (A), p. 7, para. 46.)http://www.iwraw-ap.org/resources/pdf/42_official_documents/canadaSR854.pdf)

What criminally happens to torturers
In Canada:
State torturers can be criminally charged for acts of torture whether inflicted in Canada or elsewhere.
Non-State torturers have impunity for their acts of torture, instead are charged using “existing provisions”, i.e., charged with simple assault, aggravated or sexual assault, forcible confinement, kidnapping or trafficking in persons.

Political Activism Email this message: to all below: 1. Prime Minister of Canada:http://pm.gc.ca/eng/contact.asp?featureId=102. Minister of Justice:webadmin@justice.gc.ca3. Your Member of Parliament: ____
“Make Canada a torture free zone - add torture
by non-state actors as a specific and distinct crime in the Criminal Code of Canada”

Add your voice
QUESTIONNAIRE:
WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS?
http://www.ritualabusetorture.org/Questionnaire_website.pdf
Purpose: To develop a record of civil society’s opinion of what constitutes torture

Some readings
Article re sexualized non-state actor torture and guns entitled,
Canada: Torturers, Guns and Bullets: http://www.iansa-women.org/sites/default/files/newsviews/en-iansa-wn-bulletin22-web.pdf
Article of women's stories connected to spillover warring/military non-state actor torture, civil society responses to the previous linked questionnaire and the discriminatory existence of a patriarchal divide that has valued identifying & criminalizing state torture while invisibilizing non-state actor torture - Peace Studies Journal: http://www.peacestudiesjournal.org/archive/winter09/mcdonald.pdf
Article re spousal non-state actor torture - Defining Torture by Non-State Actors in the Canadian Private Sphere,pp. 29-33 : http://www.ccvt.org/pdfs/firstlighwinter2009.pdf

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