CHILDHOOD ABUSED
To My Husband James Michael
Programme on International Rights of the Child
Series Editor: Geraldine Van Bueren
Titles in the Series:
Childrens Rights and Traditional Values
Edited by Gillian Douglas and Leslie Sebba
Cultural Pluralism and the Rights of the Child
Michael Freeman
Of Innocence and Autonomy
Children, Sex and Human Rights
Eric Heinze
The Human Right to Education
Douglas Hodgson
The Child and the European Convention on Human Rights
Ursula Kilkelly
Legal Secrets, Cultural and Scientific Truths
Katherine ODonovan
Childhood Abused
Protecting Children against Torture, Cruel, Inhuman and
Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Edited by Geraldine Van Bueren
First published 1998 by Dartmouth and Ashgate Publishing
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Dr Dora Black is now honorary consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist and honorary senior lecturer at the Traumatic Stress Clinic, London, as well as holding honorary consultant posts at Great Ormond Street Hospital, Tavistock Clinic and Royal Free Hospital. She founded the Childrens Psychological Trauma Clinic first at the Royal Free Hospital and then at the Traumatic Stress Clinic. She is a Fellow of both the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. She has been advisor to UNICEF in former Yugoslavia. She has made a special research and clinical study of bereavement in children and of the effects of trauma and is author of over 70 papers and four books, including When Father Kills Mother: Guiding Children through Trauma and Grief (with J. Harris-Nedriks and T. Kaplan, Routledge, London, 1993); Psychological Trauma: A Developmental Approach (with M. Newman, J. Harris-Hendriks and G. Mezey, Gaskell, London, 1997).
Christine Chinkin is Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics, University London. Her main teaching and research interests are in international law with a particular emphasis on the international guarantee of womens rights. She has published widely in this area, including Violence Against Women: A Global Issue, in J. Stubbs (ed), Women, Male Violence and the Law (Sydney, 1994) (with H. Charlesworth); Womens Rights as Human Rights under International Law in C. Gearty and A. Tomkins, Understanding Human Rights (1996); Feminist Approaches to International Law, 85 American Journal of International Law (1991) (with H. Charlesworth and S. Wright); The Hunger Trap: Women, Food and Self-Determination, 14 Michigan Journal of International Law.
Len Doyal has taught the philosophy of science and moral and political philosophy at Middlesex University for over 20 years. For the past six years he has worked at St Bartholomews and the Royal London Hospital School of Medicine and Dentistry and is now Professor of Medical Ethics within the new clinical faculty of Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. He provides advice on ethicolegal matters to the Royal London Hospitals Trust where he is an honorary consultant.
Judith Ennew is a Senior Research Associate in the Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge, where she is International Coordinator of the Childwatch International Monitoring Childrens Rights Project. A social anthropologist by training she has been working since 1979 as a researcher in childrens issues, particularly street and working children, in many different countries. She is also an activist for childrens rights. Child-related publications include The Sexual Exploitation of Children (Polity, 1986), The Next Generation: Lives of Third World Children (with Brian Milne; Zed, 1989), Street and Working Children: a Guide to Planning (SCF UK, 1994) and Children in Focus: a Manual for Participatory Research with Children (with Jo Boyden, 1997).
Gisela Perren-Klingler has since 1978 been in private practice as a child psychiatrist. Since 1980 she has been a medical delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva and in this capacity has inspected prisons in Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. She is the co-author of the Guidelines for Traumatized Populations for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She is also a Member of the Commission for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman Treatment in European Prisons, Strasbourg.
Jeremy McBride is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Birmingham where he directs a Human Rights Law and Practice Programme for judges and lawyers from Central and Eastern Europe. He is a co-founder and currently treasurer of INTERIGHTS and acts as a consultant on human rights to governments, NGOS and individuals.
Edith Montgomery is Chief Psychologist at the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims in Copenhagen, Denmark. She trained as a psychologist and is head of the family team of the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims, a multidisciplinary treatment team for torture survivors with children and for children who have themselves been exposed to torture. Edith Montgomery has carried out research into the psychological effects of war and other organized violence for children and has published widely on this issue.
Martin Newman is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist to Pathfinder Mental Health Services NHS Trust and honorary senior lecturer in child and adolescent psychiatry at St. Georges Hospital Medical School, London SW17. Prior to training in psychiatry, he served for eight years in the Royal Navy and saw active service in the Falklands conflict. He has worked extensively with children who have witnessed violence, including those who have witnessed the murder of one parent by the other. He worked in Bosnia during the civil war. He has published articles on the effects of violence on children, and is second editor of
