Author: Institut interaméricain des droits de l'hommePublisher:
ISBN: 9782940337392
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Optional protocol to the UN Convention against Torture : implementation manual
Author: Institut interaméricain des droits de l'hommePublisher:
ISBN: 9782940337392
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment
Author: Nicolas Boeglin NaumovicPublisher:
ISBN: 9782940337064
Category : Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
And methodology of the preventive mechanisms under Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture. 5. strategies for the rarification and implementation of Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture.
The Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture
Author: Rachel H. MurrayPublisher:
ISBN: 0199602190
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
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.
The United Nations Convention Against Torture and Its Optional Protocol
Author: Manfred NowakPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198846177
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1361
Book Description
"Published with the support of Austrian Science Fund (FWF): PUB 644-G."
Implementation of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture
Author: Association pour la prévention de la torture (Genève)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Implementing the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) in Rwanda
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention Against Torture
Author: Kerstin BuchingerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Author: Rachel HodgkinPublisher: United Nations Publications
ISBN: 9789280641837
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 787
Book Description
"The Handbook aims to be a practical tool for implementation, explaining and illustrating the implications of each article of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and of the two Optional Protocols adopted in 2000 as well as their interconnections."--P. xvii.
The Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture
Author: Rachel MurrayPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191018449
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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.
Does Torture Prevention Work?
Author: Richard CarverPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1781383308
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
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.