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In the early years of the 21st Century, 2000 to 2025                                                  gvnet.com/torture/Palau.htm

Republic of Palau

Law enforcement agencies maintain internal order, and instances of abuse or impunity are rare, though overcrowding in the country’s limited detention facilities is a problem.

  [Freedom House Country Report, 2018]

Description: Description: Palau

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Students

If you are looking for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on this page and others to see which aspects of Torture by Authorities are of particular interest to you.  You might be interested in exploring the moral justification for inflicting pain or inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment in order to obtain critical information that may save countless lives, or to elicit a confession for a criminal act, or to punish someone to teach him a lesson outside of the courtroom.  Perhaps your paper might focus on some of the methods of torture, like fear, extreme temperatures, starvation, thirst, sleep deprivation, suffocation, or immersion in freezing water.  On the other hand, you might choose to write about the people acting in an official capacity who perpetrate such cruelty.  There is a lot to the subject of Torture by Authorities.  Scan other countries as well as this one.  Draw comparisons between activity in adjacent countries and/or regions.  Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources that are available on-line.

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2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Palau

U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, 30 March 2021

www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/palau/

[accessed 3 August 2021]

TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN, OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT

The constitution and law prohibit such practices, and there were no reports that government officials employed them.

Impunity was not a significant problem in the security forces.

PRISON AND DETENTION CENTER CONDITIONS

Physical Conditions: The country’s only jail, in Koror, with a capacity of 58, held 86 prisoners as of September.

Freedom House Country Report

2018 Edition

freedomhouse.org/country/palau/freedom-world/2018

[accessed 13 May 2020]

IS THERE PROTECTION FROM THE ILLEGITIMATE USE OF PHYSICAL FORCE AND FREEDOM FROM WAR AND INSURGENCIES? -- Law enforcement agencies maintain internal order, and instances of abuse or impunity are rare, though overcrowding in the country’s limited detention facilities is a problem.

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Human Rights Reports » 2006 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, March 6, 2007

www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78786.htm

[accessed 10 February 2013]

2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61622.htm

[accessed 4 July 2019]

TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN, OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT – The law prohibits such practices, and there were no reports that government officials employed them.

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