| Author | : Amnesty International |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2016-11-11 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780862104948 |
The United Nations Convention Against Torture and Its Optional Protocol
| Author | : Manfred Nowak |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1361 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0198846177 |
"Published with the support of Austrian Science Fund (FWF): PUB 644-G."
Does Torture Prevention Work?
| Author | : Richard Carver |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 688 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1781383308 |
In the past three decades, international and regional human rights bodies have developed an ever-lengthening list of measures that states are required to adopt in order to prevent torture. But do any of these mechanisms actually work? This study is the first systematic analysis of the effectiveness of torture prevention. Primary research was conducted in 16 countries, looking at their experience of torture and prevention mechanisms over a 30-year period. Data was analysed using a combination of quantitative and qualitative techniques. Prevention measures do work, although some are much more effective than others. Most important of all are the safeguards that should be applied in the first hours and days after a person is taken into custody. Notification of family and access to an independent lawyer and doctor have a significant impact in reducing torture. The investigation and prosecution of torturers and the creation of independent monitoring bodies are also important in reducing torture. An important caveat to the conclusion that prevention works is that is actual practice in police stations and detention centres that matters - not treaties ratified or laws on the statute book.
Torture in international law : a guide to jurisprudence
| Author | : Association pour la prévention de la torture (Genève) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Torture (International law) |
| ISBN | : 9782940337279 |
Monitoring Detention, Custody, Torture and Ill-treatment
| Author | : Jason Payne-James |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 419 |
| Release | : 2017-09-13 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1351812726 |
This landmark practical guide assists all those involved in monitoring detention conditions and investigating and preventing torture. The prestigious global author team identify the medical, legal and professional frameworks and international instruments applicable to those detained, and highlight how torture or other cruel and inhuman degrading treatments or punishments are identified, investigated and should be prevented. · A comprehensive and wide range of detention settings and circumstances are covered including police stations, prisons, mental health, and social care civil conditions to prisoner of war, detention camps, military, and armed conflict. · Advice, monitoring, and assessment is given for special groups, including the custody of women, children, vulnerable adults, and individuals on hunger strike · Practical guidelines are given for the assessment of ill-treatment of individuals in custody including sexual abuse · Online links to the latest legal, ethical, and medical guidelines for key countries help to make this book appropriate for all. Challenging, thought-provoking yet thoroughly practical, this book is essential reading for anyone involved in the monitoring of detention conditions and the treatment and investigation of individuals in any form of custody. The content is aimed primarily at healthcare professionals but it also highly relevant for anyone who may form part of a visiting team, including lay individuals, lawyers and law enforcement professionals, as well as for academics.
The Principle of Non-Refoulement under the ECHR and the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
| Author | : Eman Hamdan |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 414 |
| Release | : 2016-05-23 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9004319395 |
In this study, Eman Hamdan examines the protection against refoulement under the European Convention on Human Rights and the UN Convention against Torture, with the aim to determine which of those Conventions affords better protection for international protection seekers. Hamdan explores the scope and content of the principle of non-refoulement under both Conventions and the application of the principle to the immigration control measures and the extraordinary rendition operations. The author provides a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the case-law of both the European Court of Human Rights and the UN Committee against Torture on the procedural and substantive aspects of the principle of non-refoulement, in order to help practitioners to determine which of these human rights treaty bodies is more favorable for their specific non-refoulement case. This book was chosen to participate in the Professor Walther Hug Prize 2014-2015, which is a prize for the best legal researches in Switzerland for each academic year.
Protecting Prisoners
| Author | : Rodney Morgan |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780198298212 |
PArt I: The CPT
Torture
| Author | : Edward Peters |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2018-03-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1512821691 |
"Torture has ceased to exist," Victor Hugo claimed, with some justification, in 1874. Yet more than a century later, torture is used routinely in one out of every three countries. This book is about torture in Western society from earliest times to the present. A landmark study since its original publication a decade ago, Torture is now available in an expanded and updated paperback edition. Included for the first time is a broad and disturbing selection of documents charting the historical practice of torture from the ancient Romans to the Khmer Rouge.
