Tackling Torture

Prevention in Practice

Malcolm D. Evans (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2023
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-2568-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Malcolm D. Evans is Principal of Regent’s Park College, Oxford. He was formerly Professor of Public International Law at the University of Bristol and Chair of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture. In 2015, he was appointed KCMG for services to the prevention of torture and the promotion of religious liberty, having previously been awarded the OBE in 2004.

Part 1: The Solution
1. What Is Torture?
2. Why Prevention?
3. Establishing the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture
4. What the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture Requires
5. The Visiting Mandate of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
6. The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and National Preventive Mechanisms
Part 2: The Problem
7. Visits: An Insider’s Story
8. Accepting the Unacceptable
9. Excusing the Inexcusable
10. Prescribing the Inappropriate
11. Working with Fictions
12. Thinking Positively about Prevention

Erscheinungsdatum	26.09.2023
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
ISBN-10	1-5292-2568-X / 152922568X
ISBN-13	978-1-5292-2568-6 / 9781529225686
Zustand	Neuware