"What hell feels like" : acid violence in Cambodia /
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Author / Creator: | Bleckner, Julia, author. |
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Imprint: | [New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, [2019]. ©2018 |
Description: | i, 48 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11764758 |
Related Items: | Online version:
"What hell feels like". |
Summary: | "This report documents the use by private actors of nitric or sulfuric acid to inflict pain and permanently scar victims, and efforts by survivors to get justice and medical care. After several highly publicized acid attacks in Cambodia, the government in 2012 passed the Law on Regulating Concentrated Acid to curb the availability of acid used in attacks and to provide medical care and legal support to victims. Since passage of the law, acid attacks have dropped and regulations have reduced the availability of acid in the capital, Phnom Penh. However, Human Rights Watch found that many survivors of these attacks are unable to get adequate health care and meaningful compensation as the law requires, and that those responsible for attacks are rarely prosecuted."--Publisher website, viewed February 8, 2019. |
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Item Description: | "February 2019"--Table of contents page. "This report was researched and written by Julia Bleckner ..."--Page 48. |
Physical Description: | i, 48 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9781623137014 1623137012 |