Reporting Killings as Human Rights Violations Handbook

Combating Torture

A Manual for Judges and Prosecutors

By Conor Foley

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Table of Contents - Search - Introduction - 1: The Prohibition of Torture in International Law - 2: Safeguards Against Torture - 3: The Role of Judges and Prosecutors - 4: Conducting Investigations and Inquiries - 5: Prosecuting Suspected Torturers and Providing Redress - Appendices

Further Reading

Amnesty International, End Impunity: Justice for the Victims of Torture, ACT/40/024/2001

Amnesty International, Fair Trials Manual, POL 30/02/98

Ineke Boerefijn (ed), Prevention of Torture, a digest of cases of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the United Nations Committee Against Torture, Netherlands Institute for Human Rights (SIM) and the Open Society Institute, 2001

Ahcene Boulesbaa, The UN Convention on Torture and the Prospects for Enforcement, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1999

Malcolm Evans and Rod Morgan, Preventing Torture, a study of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Clarendon Press, 1998.

Camille Giffard, The Torture Reporting Handbook, The Human Rights Centre University of Essex, 2000

Nigel Rodley, The Treatment of Prisoners under International Law (2nd ed.), Clarendon Press, 1999

Anna-Lena Svensson McCarthy, Human Rights in the Administration of Justice: A Manual on Human Rights for Judges, Prosecutors and Lawyers, (Professional Training Series No. 9), United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in co-operation with the International Bar Association, 2003

Lene Wendland, A Handbook on State Obligations Under the UN Convention Against Torture, Association for the Prevention of Torture, 2002

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Manual links: website home page
Table of Contents - Search - Introduction - 1: The Prohibition of Torture in International Law - 2: Safeguards Against Torture - 3: The Role of Judges and Prosecutors - 4: Conducting Investigations and Inquiries - 5: Prosecuting Suspected Torturers and Providing Redress - Appendices
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