Download or read book Preventing Torture written by United Nations Publications and published by UN. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide was developed in the context of the OHCHR Treaty Body Capacity Building Programme, established by General Assembly Resolution 68/268 to support States parties in building their capacity to implement their treaty obligations, in this case, their obligations under the Optional Protocol. It seeks to respond to key questions frequently asked about National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs), and to explain the four core functions of the mechanisms - visiting, providing advice, enhancing cooperation and educating - which are key to their effective functioning. It includes checklists and other guidance offering practical tools to aid their performance. It aims to assist both States planning to establish or seeking to strengthen their NPMs, as well as the staff of the NPMs themselves.

Download or read book Preventing Torture The Role of National Preventive Mechanisms written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture written by Rachel H. Murray and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) establishes an independent international monitoring committee (SPT) which itself will visit states and places where persons are deprived of their liberty. It also requires states to set up independent national bodies to visit places of detention. This book, drawing upon events held and interviews with governments, civil society, members of UN treaty bodies, national visiting bodies and others, identifies key factors that have shaped the operation of these visiting bodies since OPCAT came into force in 2006. It looks in detail at the background to the adoption of the Protocol, as well as how the international committee, the SPT, has carried out its mandate in its first few years. It examines the range of places of detention that could be visited by these bodies, and the expectations placed on the national visiting bodies themselves. The book also places the OPCAT within the broader system of torture prevention in the UN and elsewhere and identifies a range of trends arising from the different geographical regions. As well as providing an insight into its work, this detailed examination of OPCAT also provides valuable lessons for other new human rights treaties such as the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Convention on Enforced Disappearances, which have similar provisions concerning national mechanisms.

Download or read book Does Torture Prevention Work written by Richard Carver and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past three decades, international and regional human rights bodies have developed an ever-lengthening list of measures that states are required to adopt in order to prevent torture. But do any of these mechanisms actually work? This study is the first systematic analysis of the effectiveness of torture prevention. Primary research was conducted in 16 countries, looking at their experience of torture and prevention mechanisms over a 30-year period. Data was analysed using a combination of quantitative and qualitative techniques. Prevention measures do work, although some are much more effective than others. Most important of all are the safeguards that should be applied in the first hours and days after a person is taken into custody. Notification of family and access to an independent lawyer and doctor have a significant impact in reducing torture. The investigation and prosecution of torturers and the creation of independent monitoring bodies are also important in reducing torture. An important caveat to the conclusion that prevention works is that is actual practice in police stations and detention centres that matters - not treaties ratified or laws on the statute book.

Download or read book Preventing torture in Europe written by Christine Bicknell and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive insight into the valuable work carried out by one of the Council of Europe’s highly influential mechanisms, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT). Since its inception in 1989, specialist members of the CPT (lawyers, prosecutors, prison experts, doctors, psychiatrists, etc.) have visited thousands of police stations, prisons, immigration detention centres, psychiatric hospitals and other places of detention all over Europe, to monitor the living conditions (hygiene, provision of food and drink, health care, etc.) of those being detained. Following these visits, the CPT issues reports suggesting improvements and laying down standards. The purpose of this book is twofold. In the first part, the authors explain the background and origins of the CPT, its membership and modus operandi, as well as how it interacts with other bodies, such as the UN’s Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) and the national preventive mechanisms (NPMs). In the second part, the authors describe the CPT’s key findings and standards in the main situations of deprivation of liberty (police, prison, immigration detention, mental health and social care). In a detailed appendix, the authors provide summaries of the key CPT findings for the 47 states visited by the CPT.

Download or read book Establishment and Designation of National Preventive Mechanisms written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report on the National Preventive Mechanism Advisory Visit to Ecuador Made by the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment written by United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Seventh Annual Report of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment written by United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention Against Torture written by Kerstin Buchinger and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Preventing Torture at Home written by Amnesty International and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ninth Annual Report of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment written by United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report on the Visit Made by the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment for the Purpose of Providing Advisory Assistance to the National Preventive Mechanism of the Republic of Armenia written by United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Eighth Annual Report of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment written by United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Visit Made by the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment for the Purpose of Providing Advisory Assistance to the National Preventive Mechanism of the Republic of Armenia written by United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Second Annual Report of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment b February 2008 to March 2009 written by United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The United Nations Convention Against Torture and Its Optional Protocol written by Manfred Nowak and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 1361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published with the support of Austrian Science Fund (FWF): PUB 644-G."

Download or read book Tackling Torture written by Malcolm D. Evans and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-09-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.