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Malcolm D. Evans tells the story of torture prevention under international law, setting out what is really happening in places of detention around the world. Challenging assumptions about torture's root causes, he calls for what is needed to enable us to bring about change.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Evans, Malcolm D. (Malcolm David), 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2023.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Torture (International law)
Torture > Law and legislation.
Torture (Droit international)
LAW / International
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Tackling Torture: Prevention in Practice
  • Copyright information
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part I The Solution
  • 1 What Is Torture?
  • Introduction
  • The definition of torture in international law
  • Pain and suffering and the prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
  • Avoiding the stigma of torture?
  • Repentance
  • Notes
  • 2 Why Prevention?
  • Introduction
  • The thresholds
  • The danger of thresholds
  • The never-ending question
  • The obligation to prevent torture
  • Notes
  • 3 Establishing the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture
  • Introduction
  • The background
  • The road to a result
  • The accidental OPCAT
  • Notes
  • 4 What the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture Requires
  • Introduction
  • The basic principles of the OPCAT system
  • Deprivation of liberty
  • The SPT
  • From theory to practice
  • Notes
  • 5 The Visiting Mandate of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
  • Introduction
  • A system of 'regular' visits?
  • Visits to where?
  • Practical constraints
  • Announcing visits
  • The aftermath of a visit
  • Notes
  • 6 The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and National Preventive Mechanisms
  • Introduction
  • The protean forms of an NPM
  • Working with NPMs
  • The NPM Guidelines
  • NPM visits
  • Regional teams
  • 'Egregiously overdue ...'
  • Accentuating the positive
  • Notes
  • PART II The Problem
  • 7 Visits: An Insider's Story
  • Introduction
  • Visiting in practice
  • Bananas
  • Dealing with the expected and the unexpected
  • The power of the Protocol
  • Notes
  • 8 Accepting the Unacceptable
  • Introduction
  • Calm and normal
  • Lies, not excuses
  • 'It's all fine'
  • Remand detention
  • High-end security
  • Conclusion
  • 9 Excusing the Inexcusable
  • Introduction
  • Buckets
  • Padlocks
  • Overcrowding
  • Watching and waiting
  • Water
  • Conclusion
  • 10 Prescribing the Inappropriate
  • Introduction
  • Write on
  • Taken to court
  • Unusual answers to unusual problems
  • Conclusion
  • 11 Working with Fictions
  • Introduction
  • What's really going on?
  • Who's really in charge?
  • The professionalism of the professionals
  • The relevance of the law
  • Conclusion
  • Note
  • 12 Thinking Positively about Prevention
  • Introduction
  • Revisiting 'what is torture?'
  • Working towards prevention with the UN: the art of the possible
  • What might be done next?
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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