Deborah Popowski
Deborah Popowski is an American lawyer, and human rights activist.[1] She graduated from Harvard Law School in 2008, and started working at Harvard's International Human Rights Clinic in 2009. She has been a clinical instructor in the Clinic's teaching program in 2011. She has also a Kaufman-Skirball Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights.[2]
One of her areas of focus has been the offences of psychologists and other medical professionals who played a role in the USA's controversial torture programs.[1]
Popowski has been cited as an expert on the ethics of medical professionals aiding torturers.[3][4][5]
The Open Society Initiative invited Popowski to sit on a blue-ribbon Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers.[6]
In July 2010, Popowski filed a letter of complaint about Larry James, to the Ohio Board of Psychology, challenging his right to remain a certified psychologist, after the prominent role he played in helping to introduce torture to the standard interrogation tools used during the Presidency of George W. Bush.[7][8][9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Liz Mineo (2016-04-12). "Lessons from a post-9/11 world". Harvard Gazette. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/04/lessons-from-a-post-911-world/. Retrieved 2016-04-12. "Since 2009, when Popowski began working as a fellow at the HLS International Human Rights Clinic, she has advocated for torture survivors as part of a movement to seek accountability for U.S. torture through both state and international courts."
- ↑ "Deborah Popowski". Just Security. https://www.justsecurity.org/author/popowskideborah/. Retrieved 2016-04-12. "Previously, she was a Kaufman-Skirball Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights."
- ↑ Lauren Walker (2014-11-13). "U.S. DEFENDS ALLEGED ABUSES OF TORTURE TREATY TO U.N. BODY". Newsweek magazine. http://www.newsweek.com/us-defends-alleged-abuses-torture-treaty-un-body-284355. Retrieved 2016-04-12. "“It’s is at the heart of everything,” Deborah Popowski, a clinical instructor at the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School and a member of Advocates for U.S. Torture Prosecutions said in an interview with Newsweek."
- ↑ Lauren Walker (2015-08-11). "THE MAN WHO VOTED AGAINST BANNING PSYCHOLOGISTS FROM NATIONAL SECURITY INTERROGATIONS". Newsweek magazine. http://www.newsweek.com/man-who-voted-against-banning-psychologists-national-security-interrogations-361996. Retrieved 2016-04-12. "In 2009, Harvard Law Professor Bill Quigley and Deborah Popowski, then a fellow at the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program, described an incident involving James at Guantanamo."
- ↑ Bill Quigley, Deborah Popowski (2009-10-29). "When Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib Come Home" (in English). truthout. http://truth-out.org/archive/component/k2/item/86590:when-guantanamo-and-abu-ghraib-come-home. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
- ↑ Jeffrey Kaye (2012-06-25). "Are Politics Why IMAP Won’t Publish Until 2013 Their Report On Doctors and Torture?" (in English). The Public Record. http://pubrecord.org/torture/10437/politics-wont-publish-until-their/. Retrieved 2016-04-12. "It’s a formidable listing of experts in medical abuse and torture and medical ethics. It includes anti-torture candidate for presidency of the American Psychological Assocation, Steven Reisner; physicians Vincent Iacopino and Brig. Gen. (ret.) Stephen Xenakis, who wrote a PLoS research article last year concluding that military medical personnel at Guantanamo “neglected and/or concealed medical evidence of intentional harm” of detainees; Physicians for Human Rights Chairman of the Board Robert Lawrence; former American Psychiatric Association president Steven Sharfstein; ethicist George Annas; Deborah Popowski from Harvard’s International Human Rights Clinic, and a number of others."
- ↑ Cornelius Frolik (2013-02-01). "WSU dean finalist for Missouri post: Protests surround retired Army colonel for his role at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib prisons". Dayton Daily News. http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/wsu-dean-finalist-for-missouri-post/nWDK2/. Retrieved 2016-04-12. "The complaint, which sought to revoke James’ license to practice psychology, was filed by human rights activists and psychologists, including Deborah Popowski, a clinical instructor for the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School."
- ↑ "Professional Misconduct Complaints". Harvard. http://hrp.law.harvard.edu/areas-of-focus/counterterrorism-human-rights/professional-misconduct-complaints/. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
- ↑ "Complaint Form – Larry C. James, License No. 6492". 2010-07-07. https://harvardhumanrights.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/larry_james_6492.pdf. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
External links
- Deborah Popowski (2015-08-24). "Beyond the APA: The Role of Psychology Boards and State Courts in Propping up Torture". Just Security. https://www.justsecurity.org/25378/apa-role-psychology-boards-state-courts-propping-torture/. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
- Deborah Popowski (2015-08-11). "The APA’s Watershed Move to Ban Psychologists’ Complicity in Torture". Just Security. https://www.justsecurity.org/25336/apas-watershed-move-ban-psychologists-complicity-torture/. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
