Combating Torture and Other Ill-Treatment
Author : Amnesty International
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 2016-11-11
Category :
ISBN : 9780862104948
Author : Amnesty International
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 2016-11-11
Category :
ISBN : 9780862104948
Author : Manfred Nowak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1361 pages
File Size : 32,55 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Law
ISBN : 0198846177
"Published with the support of Austrian Science Fund (FWF): PUB 644-G."
Author : Conor Gearty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 11,13 MB
Release : 2012-11-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 110701624X
Captures the essence of the multi-layered subject of human rights law in a way that is authoritative, critical and scholarly.
Author : Jason Payne-James
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 29,87 MB
Release : 2017-09-13
Category : 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.
Author : Richard Carver
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 38,29 MB
Release : 2016
Category : 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.
Author : Edward Peters
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : 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.
Author : Malcolm D. Evans
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 36,27 MB
Release : 2020-12-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 1788113969
This Research Handbook is of great importance in an era where torture, whilst universally condemned, remains endemic. It explores the nature of the international prohibition of torture and the various means and mechanisms which have been put in place by the international community in an attempt to make that prohibition a reality.
Author : Amnesty International
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 28,60 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Metin Baolu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199374627
This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to definition of torture by a group of prominent scholars of behavioral sciences, international law, human rights, and public health. It represents a first ever attempt to compare behavioral science and international law perspectives on definitional issues and promote a sound theory- and evidence-based understanding of torture.
Author : Association pour la prévention de la torture (Genève)
Publisher :
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 11,47 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Torture (International law)
ISBN : 9782940337279