Combating Torture
A Manual for Judges and Prosecutors
By Conor Foley
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Combating TortureA Manual for Judges and ProsecutorsBy 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 | |
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First edition published in Great Britain 2003
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ISBN: 1-874635-40-4
Other books in this series:
- The Torture Reporting Handbook, ISBN 1-874635-28-5
http://www.essex.ac.uk/torturehandbook/- Reporting Killings as Human Rights Violations, ISBN 1-874635-37-4
http://www.essex.ac.uk/reportingkillingshandbook/Design: Louise Ang
louiseang@mailworks.orgEditing: Al Doyle
mankf4@hotmail.com
Project Director: Professor Sir Nigel Rodley KBE
Author and Researcher: Conor Foley
Administrative and Secretarial Support: Anne Slowgrove and Heidi Wiggam
Online edition and website: Keith Brooke, infinity plus
We should like to thank the following people who contributed time and effort to the project, read drafts, offered comments and otherwise assisted: Meghna Abraham, Clive Baldwin, David Bergman, Jean-Nicolas Beuze, Judith Bueno de Mesquita, Ian Byrne, Ralph Crawshaw, Param Cumaraswamy, Eugenio Aragão, Tina de Cruz, Jan Doerfel, Graham Dossett, Helen Duffy, Malcolm Evans, Gláucia Falsarelli, Camille Giffard, Geoff Gilbert, Lisa Gormley, Gabriela Gonzalez, Mel James, Michael Kellett, Mark Kelly, Sam Kincaid, James Logan, Debra Long, Jeremy McBride, Daniel Machover, Greg Mayne, Fiona McKay, Lutz Oette, Grainne O'Hara, Joanna Salsbury, Ian Seiderman, Helen Shaw, Anna-Lena Svensson McCarthy, Wilder Taylor, Mark Thomson and John Wadham.
We should also like to thank the following organisations: Amnesty International, Association for the Prevention of Torture, the Committee for the Administration of Justice, the Global Justice Centre Brazil, Inquest, the International Bar Association, the International Commission of Jurists, Interights, the Law Society, Liberty, the Office of the Public Prosecutor São Paulo, Redress, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
The following people attended a day-long seminar held at the Foreign and Commonwealth Offfice to discuss an early draft of the manual. We are grateful to them for their contributions and to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for their hospitality.
Seminar participants: Jean-Nicolas Beuze, Param Cumaraswamy, Eugenio Aragão, Helen Duffy, Malcolm Evans, Geoff Gilbert, Lisa Gormley, Mel James, Mark Kelly, Jeremy McBride, Joanna Salsbury, Ian Seiderman, Anna-Lena Svensson McCarthy, Wilder Taylor and Mark Thomson.
Seminar Rapporteur: Gabriela Gonzalez.
This project was financially supported by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. We are especially grateful to David Geer and Alisdair Walker of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Human Rights Policy Department for their personal commitment to and support for the project.
