Is the Lunatic Detention Act of 1917 appropriate for modern Gambia?

RESUMO: OS distúrbios mentais, neurológicos e devidos ao abuso de substâncias tem uma grande prevalência e peso em todo o Mundo. O objetivo principal deste estudo é contribuir para a melhoria dos direitos humanos das pessoas com deficiências mentais na Gâmbia, através de uma revisão e análise críticas de uma obsoleta legislação de saúde mental do País o "Lunatic Act Detention (LDA) de 1917".----- ABSTRACT: Mental, neurological, and substance use disorders are highly prevalente and burdensome worlwide. The violations of human rights directed towards people with this disorders compound the problam. This study mainly aims to contribute do the improvement of human rights of people with mental disabilities in Gambia by doing a critical review and analysis to the countries outdated mental health legislation - Lunatic Detention ct (LDA) from 1917.

The union of securitisation and demography: immigration detention in Israel

The chapter sets its analysis of the historical and contemporary detention of asylum seekers in Israel against a wider context of that country's national immigration policy. The chapter demonstrates that Israel perceives asylum seekers as a threat to its self-defined Jewish character. Its twofold conclusion argues that the government therefore subjects asylum seekers to harsh detention practices that afford detainees limited procedural guarantees, and that these procedures cut against the justification for detention as a measure to facilitate deportation.

The influence of floc size and hydraulic detention time on the performance of a dissolved air flotation (DAF) pilot unit in the light of a mathematical model

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

County jail and detention facility report.

Title from cover.

Soviet detention of Andrei Sakharov : markup before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session ... February 4, 1980.

Hearing on H. Con. Res. 251, 259, 265, 266, and 272.

Human rights and the detention of Andrei Sakharov, update [microform] : hearing before the Subcommittee on International Organizations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session, April 24, 1980.

Reuse of record except for individual research requires license from Congressional Information Service, Inc.

Annual report - Bureau of Detention Standards & Services.

Mode of access: Internet.

City of Sycamore flood control project (Bethany Road Detention Pond) : Small Projects Program : city of Sycamore, DeKalb County, Illinois.

"OWR/SPR/01-001"

Governor's Task Force on Detention Standards report, 1987.

Fred L. Foreman, Chairman.