CALENDAR AGAINST TORTURE–various human-rights groups have designated June as Torture Awareness Month. This link gives you listings of many events, as well as information and email addresses of relevant people, and plans for an anti-torture Congressional lobbying day (June 26)–mostly relevant if you are American and do not live in D.C., but still, I expect that covers most of my readers. I will try to go to at least some of these events and report back.

If you go to any of the events, please let me know.

My long series of posts on torture starts here; you can scroll up, as well, for reader responses. Later this month I will try to do a very big resource post on Catholic teaching against torture, and will also post excerpts and maybe commentary on the section on torture from Elaine Scarry’s study The Body in Pain. I am taking other reading recommendations as well.

Link via Unqualified Offerings.