The Torture Reporting Handbook

How to document and respond to allegations of torture within the international system for the protection of human rights

By Camille Giffard

The Web version of the Torture Reporting Handbook

The English language edition of the Handbook has been converted into an online edition, available at: www.essex.ac.uk/torturehandbook/handbook/

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The English language version of the Handbook is available to download from this site in the following formats:

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