Torture and Oppression in Brazil: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements Of..., 94-1, Dec. 11, 19741975 - 51 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 39 - action on behalf of justice and participation in the transformation of the world fully appear to us as a constitutive dimension of the preaching of the Gospel, or, in other words, of the Church's mission for the redemption of the human race and its liberation from every oppressive situation
الصفحة 41 - Europe, has cooperative relations with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States, and has observer status with the Organization of African Unity.
الصفحة 40 - Is needed most of all is a determination to move against the Inequities of income distribution. There is no need to point out that this is politically difficult. Without question it is. But when the distribution of land, income, and opportunity becomes distorted to the point of desperation, what political leaders must often weigh is the risk of unpopular but necessary social reform — against the risk of social rebellion.
الصفحة 15 - Hehir. STATEMENT OF REV. J. BRYAN HEHIR, ASSOCIATE SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE AND PEACE, US CATHOLIC CONFERENCE Reverend HEHIR. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
الصفحة 41 - ... Brazilian affairs closely and bring pressure to bear on the Brazilian authorities for the restoration of human rights, especially through various international agencies such as the United Nations, as well as those bilateral United States-Brazilian programs. In the private sector, we encourage policy makers in multinational corporations and financial institutions to assess the social consequences of their present or contemplated investments in Brazil. And further, since stock ownership entails...
الصفحة 40 - But throughout the decade the poorest 40% of the population benefitted only marginally. In Mexico the picture is similar. Over roughly the past 20 years, the average income per capita grew, in real terms, at 3% per year.
الصفحة 24 - Reverend Morris, I am sorry I did not get to hear your full testimony, but I was going back here and I am a little confused on a couple of things. Did you have any trouble with the Brazilian Government before you were involved in the Time magazine article? Reverend MORRIS. No. I have never had any trouble at all. There was a reference made to me by someone in the consulate about 2 years ago. The phrase was they had heard I was "skating on thin ice...
الصفحة 48 - ... it cut the flesh. Trying to make me confess that I was a Communist, they resumed the questioning. Now my denials were met with shocks as well as fists. The voltage was successively increased, becoming so painful that I doubled over until I fell to the floor. (48) After about 20 minutes, the electrode was shifted from my breast to my right ear. These shocks seemed to be taking off the top of my skull. A blue-white lightning filled my head. Spasms forced open my mouth in screams, then slammed it...
الصفحة 40 - It is not lawful for you to arrest people the way you do, without identification of agents, without communication to judges, without sentencing. Many of the arrests are kidnappings. It is not lawful for you to submit people to physical, psychological or moral torture in order to obtain confessions, even more so when this leads to permanent damage to the health, psychological breakdowns, mutilations and even death. We also associate ourselves with the Brazilian Episcopal Conference in their call for...
الصفحة 33 - Sophisticated instruments used to administer electric shock are said to include the "pianola," a keyboard operating a system of electric current similar to a technique used in South Vietnam, and the "electric microphone." by which the prisoner receives electric shocks varying in intensity and duration according to sounds around him. including his own screams. Other common forms of torture listed are submersion, beating with wooden paddles, wet ropes, plastic hose and rubber or leather whips, steel...