Handbooks
Michael Peel,
Noam Lubell and Jonathan Beynon (2005)
This Handbook is intended to raise awareness of the use of torture and the
wounds, both physical and psychological, that it leaves on its victims. It
advises doctors and other health workers on the most appropriate way of
examining a person who has been tortured and looks at the uses to which the
effective documentation of injuries can be put, including battling impunity,
helping prosecute perpetrators, seeking redress for survivors, and helping
asylum seekers substantiate their accounts of persecution.
Funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, this manual outlines the duties and
responsibilities of judges and prosecutors to prevent and investigate acts of
torture, and other forms of ill-treatment, to ensure that those who perpetrate
such acts are brought to justice and to provide redress for their victims. It
also provides practical advice, drawn from best practice, about how torture can
be combated at a procedural level. Although primarily aimed at judges and
prosecutors, it can be used as a resource by defence lawyers and others
concerned with the prevention and investigation of acts of torture. A
well-informed and sensitised legal profession has a vital role to play in
eradicating torture and this manual is also aimed at helping its members to
fulfil that professional function.
More information and downloadable copies of the
Combating Torture Handbook.
Modelled on The Torture Reporting Handbook, the Centre researched and
published the
Reporting
Killings as Human Rights Violations handbook on the reporting of extra-judicial, summary and arbitrary
executions.
The Reporting Killings as Human Rights Violations Handbook is a reference
guide for anyone who wishes to know how to take action in response to
allegations of suspicious deaths. It explains, simply and clearly, how the
process of reporting and submitting complaints to international bodies and
mechanisms actually works; how to make the most of it: how you might go about
documenting allegations, what you can do with the information once it has been
collected, how to choose between the various mechanisms according to your
particular objectives, and how to present your information in a way which makes
it most likely that you will obtain a response.
Funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Centre researched and
published a practical manual, for non-governmental organisations and other human
rights field workers, on how to document allegations of torture and present
those allegations to international human rights bodies.
The Torture Reporting Handbook
has been translated into Russian, Chinese, Arabic, French, Portuguese and
Spanish and has been extensively distributed and utilised by non-governmental
organisations and others, worldwide.
All of the publications, apart from the Manual, were funded from the Human
Rights Project Fund of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Ralph Crawshaw, a Fellow of the Centre and former Chief Superintendent of
Police, researched and co-authored the following books all published by Martinus
Nijhoff Publishers:
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Crawshaw, Cullen and Williamson Human Rights and Policing, second revised
edition 2007. This is a text book that provides a concise account and analysis
of international human rights and humanitarian law standards relevant policing;
sets out arguments for compliance with those standards; shows how they may be
met in two key areas of policing; and makes practical recommendations on the
management of police agencies.
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Crawshaw Police and Human Rights – a Manual for Teachers, Resource Persons
and Participants in Human Rights Programmes 1999. A second edition will be
published late 2007 or early 2008.
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Crawshaw and Holmstrom Essential Texts on Human Rights for the Police – a
Compilation of International Instruments 2001. A second edition will be
published in 2007.
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Crawshaw and Holmstrom Essential Cases on Human Rights for the Police –
Reviews and Summaries of International Cases 2006.