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The Prevention of Torture

Author : Danielle Celermajer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108633897
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Prevention of Torture written by Danielle Celermajer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an urgent need to analyze and assess how we prevent torture, against the background of a rigorous analysis of the factors that condition and sustain it. Drawing on rich empirical material from Sri Lanka and Nepal, The Prevention of Torture: An Ecological Approach interrogates the worlds that produce torture in order to propose how to bring about systemic institutional and cultural change. Critics have decried human rights approaches' failure to attend to structural factors, but this book seeks to go beyond a 'stance of criticism' to take up the positive project of reimagining human rights theory and practice. It discusses key debates in human rights and political theory, as well as the challenges that advocates face in translating situational analyses into real world interventions. Danielle Celermajer develops a new, ecological framework for mapping the worlds that produce torture, and thereby develops prevention strategies.

Does Torture Prevention Work?

Author : Richard Carver
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781383308
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Does Torture Prevention Work? written by Richard Carver and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture

Author : Rachel Murray
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191029742
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture written by Rachel Murray and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) establishes an independent international monitoring committee (SPT) which itself will visit states and places where persons are deprived of their liberty. It also requires states to set up independent national bodies to visit places of detention. This book, drawing upon events held and interviews with governments, civil society, members of UN treaty bodies, national visiting bodies and others, identifies key factors that have shaped the operation of these visiting bodies since OPCAT came into force in 2006. It looks in detail at the background to the adoption of the Protocol, as well as how the international committee, the SPT, has carried out its mandate in its first few years. It examines the range of places of detention that could be visited by these bodies, and the expectations placed on the national visiting bodies themselves. The book also places the OPCAT within the broader system of torture prevention in the UN and elsewhere and identifies a range of trends arising from the different geographical regions. As well as providing an insight into its work, this detailed examination of OPCAT also provides valuable lessons for other new human rights treaties such as the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Convention on Enforced Disappearances, which have similar provisions concerning national mechanisms.

The United Nations Convention Against Torture and Its Optional Protocol

Author : Manfred Nowak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198846177
Total Pages : 1361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Book Synopsis The United Nations Convention Against Torture and Its Optional Protocol by : Manfred Nowak

Download or read book The United Nations Convention Against Torture and Its Optional Protocol written by Manfred Nowak and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 1361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published with the support of Austrian Science Fund (FWF): PUB 644-G."

The United Nations Convention Against Torture

Author : H. Danelius
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004478302
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The United Nations Convention Against Torture written by H. Danelius and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Research Handbook on Torture

Author : Malcolm D. Evans
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788113969
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook on Torture written by Malcolm D. Evans and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-25 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Preventing Torture

Author : Malcolm David Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Preventing Torture written by Malcolm David Evans and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 19th century the prohibition of judicial torture was celebrated as a triumph of civilisation. But in the aftermath of the 2nd World War it was necessary for the International community to re-emphasise, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, its abhorrence of torture: theproscription of torture became part of international customary law. But torture by agents of contemporary states persists, not least in the heart of Europe where reliance on the use of custody is growing once again. This pathbreaking documentary and empirical study - of a kind rarely undertaken inthe field of international human rights law - considers in detail the work of the latest actor on the international stage attempting to prevent torture. The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (the CPT), established in 1989, represents anew phase in international human rights intervention. The Council of Europe member states have given a Strasbourg-based Committee of experts an almost unfettered hand to examine their places of custody and report on what they find. The authors, an international lawyer and a criminologist, bringtheir different analytical perspectives to bear on this innovative human rights mechanism. The authors consider the nature of torture in the late 20th century and, given the pervasive culture of denial, the difficulties in combating it. They argue that utilitarian justifications for torture lurkjust beneath the surface of modern liberal democratic state practice. They describe the background to the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, examine the text and the modus operandi of the Committee, set the CPT's standards against those of other international bodies and discuss howthe work of the Committee should best be carried forward in an enlarged and increasingly diverse European community of nations.

The Prevention of Torture

Author : Danielle Celermajer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108470459
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Prevention of Torture written by Danielle Celermajer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving past theoretical critiques of human rights, this book considers how we might translate situational analyses of torture into effective strategies for preventing it.

Does Torture Prevention Work?

Author : Richard Carver
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781383529
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Does Torture Prevention Work? written by Richard Carver and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic analysis of the effectiveness of torture prevention.

Preventing torture in Europe

Author : Christine Bicknell
Publisher : Council of Europe
ISBN 13 : 9287189099
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book Preventing torture in Europe written by Christine Bicknell and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive insight into the valuable work carried out by one of the Council of Europe’s highly influential mechanisms, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT). Since its inception in 1989, specialist members of the CPT (lawyers, prosecutors, prison experts, doctors, psychiatrists, etc.) have visited thousands of police stations, prisons, immigration detention centres, psychiatric hospitals and other places of detention all over Europe, to monitor the living conditions (hygiene, provision of food and drink, health care, etc.) of those being detained. Following these visits, the CPT issues reports suggesting improvements and laying down standards. The purpose of this book is twofold. In the first part, the authors explain the background and origins of the CPT, its membership and modus operandi, as well as how it interacts with other bodies, such as the UN’s Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) and the national preventive mechanisms (NPMs). In the second part, the authors describe the CPT’s key findings and standards in the main situations of deprivation of liberty (police, prison, immigration detention, mental health and social care). In a detailed appendix, the authors provide summaries of the key CPT findings for the 47 states visited by the CPT.

Monitoring Detention, Custody, Torture and Ill-treatment

Author : Jason Payne-James
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351812726
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Monitoring Detention, Custody, Torture and Ill-treatment written by Jason Payne-James and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Tackling Torture

Author : Malcolm D. Evans
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529225701
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Tackling Torture written by Malcolm D. Evans and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-09-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How big a problem is torture? Are the right things being done to prevent it? Why does the UN appear at times to be so impotent in the face of it? In this vitally important work, Malcolm D. Evans tells the story of torture prevention under international law, setting out what is really happening around the world. Challenging assumptions about torture’s root causes, he calls for what is needed to enable us to bring about change. The author draws on over ten years’ experience as Chair of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture to give a frank account of the remarkable capacities of this system, what it has achieved in practice, or not been able to achieve – and most importantly, why.

The European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment

Author : Association for the Prevention of Torture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (715 download)

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Download or read book The European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment written by Association for the Prevention of Torture and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Combating Torture in Europe

Author : Rodney Morgan
Publisher : Council of Europe
ISBN 13 : 9789287146144
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Combating Torture in Europe written by Rodney Morgan and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set up in 1989, specialist members of the Committee, including doctors and lawyers, have visited places of detention, prison and psychiatric hospitals throughout Europe to monitor the living conditions of those being detained. Following these visits, the committee has published reports suggesting improvements and laying down standards. This book provides a clear and comprehensive insight into the work carried out by one of the Council of Europe's highly influential non-judicial committees. Issues discussed include: the framework of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and the mandate of the Committee; the key terms used and the safeguards the Committee has recommended to be adopted by states; the impact of the Committee's work and possible options for the future. The book also contains the text of the Convention, the Protocols, and explanatory notes.

Protocol No. 2 to the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment

Author : Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
ISBN 13 : 9789287124555
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book Protocol No. 2 to the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment written by Council of Europe and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parallel texts in English & French. - Parallel title: Protocole no. 2. á la Convention europâeenne pour la prâvention de la torture et des peines our traitements inhumans our dâgradants

Istanbul Protocol

Author : United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Publisher : United Nations Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Istanbul Protocol written by United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and published by United Nations Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although international human rights and humanitarian law consistently prohibit torture under any circumstance, torture and ill-treatment are practiced in more than half the world's countries. This manual was developed to enable states to address one of the most fundamental concerns in protecting individuals from torture - effective documentation. The Istanbul Protocol is intended to serve as international guidelines for investigating cases of alleged torture and for reporting findings to the judiciary or any other investigative body.

Ninth Annual Report of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment

Author : United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Ninth Annual Report of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment written by United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: