Combating Torture and Other Ill-Treatment
Author | : Amnesty International |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780862104948 |
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Author | : Amnesty International |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780862104948 |
Author | : Christine Bicknell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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
Author | : Rodney Morgan |
Publisher | : Council of Europe |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9789287146144 |
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.
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."
Author | : United Nations OHCHR |
Publisher | : United Nations |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2019-03-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 921047905X |
This guide was developed in the context of the OHCHR Treaty Body Capacity Building Programme, established by General Assembly Resolution 68/268 to support States parties in building their capacity to implement their treaty obligations, in this case, their obligations under the Optional Protocol. It seeks to respond to key questions frequently asked about National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs), and to explain the four core functions of the mechanisms – visiting, providing advice, enhancing cooperation and educating – which are key to their effective functioning. It includes checklists and other guidance offering practical tools to aid their performance. It aims to assist both States planning to establish or seeking to strengthen their NPMs, as well as the staff of the NPMs themselves.
Author | : Danielle Celermajer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2018-09-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108633897 |
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.
Author | : Karen J. Greenberg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2005-11-21 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781139447034 |
As a result of the work assembling the documents, memoranda, and reports that constitute the material in The Torture Papers the question of the rationale behind the Bush administration's decision to condone the use of coercive interrogation techniques in the interrogation of detainees suspected of terrorist connections was raised. The condoned use of torture in any society is questionable but its use by the United States, a liberal democracy that champions human rights and is a party to international conventions forbidding torture, has sparked an intense debate within America. The Torture Debate in America captures these arguments with essays from individuals in different discipines. This volume is divided into two sections with essays covering all sides of the argument from those who embrace absolute prohibition of torture to those who see it as a viable option in the war on terror and with documents complementing the essays.
Author | : Amnesty International |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
'Combating Torture' brings together ideas, campaign techniques and government standards, and provides ideas about how they can be best implemented. Case studies highlight how these have been used in practice all over the world.
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.
Author | : United Nations Centre for Human Rights |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Civil rights |
ISBN | : |