Abstract
Since the September 11th terrorist attacks in the United States, concerns that counter-terrorism laws and practices are directly and indirectly causing human rights violations have mounted. Much of the international focus has been on the United States. This paper highlights, however, that it is a debate with a truly global dimension. The author examines particular concerns that Canadian law enforcement and security agencies may have been complicit in the imprisonment and torture abroad of Canadian citizens who were of interest in the context of national security investigations. The cases are situated in the wider debate about torture that has emerged worldwide in recent years, and argues that any move to create exceptions to the absolute prohibition of torture, enshrined in numerous international treaties, would lead to both injustice and insecurity.
DOI
101163/187188607X163293
Recommended Citation
Neve.
2007.
"Extraordinary Rendition, the Canadian Edition: National Security and Challenges to the Global Ban on Torture."
Societies Without Borders
2 (1):
117-130.
Available at:
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/swb/vol2/iss1/8