Evans Tackling Torture

Prevention in Practice
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5292-2570-9
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Evans, Malcolm D.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: The Solution
1. What Is Torture?
2. Why Prevention?
3. Establishing the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture
4. What the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture Requires
5. The Visiting Mandate of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
6. The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and National Preventive Mechanisms
Part 2: The Problem
7. Visits: An Insider’s Story
8. Accepting the Unacceptable
9. Excusing the Inexcusable
10. Prescribing the Inappropriate
11. Working with Fictions
12. Thinking Positively about Prevention

Über Autor(innen)

Evans, Malcolm D.
Sir Malcolm Evans, KCMG, OBE, FLSW is Principal of Regent’s Park College, Oxford. He was formerly Professor of Public International Law at the University of Bristol and Chair of the United Nations Sub-Committee for Prevention of Torture. In 2015, he was appointed KCMG for services to the prevention of torture and the promotion of religious liberty, having previously been awarded the OBE in 2004.

Malcolm D. Evans is Principal of Regent’s Park College, Oxford. He was formerly Professor of Public International Law at the University of Bristol and Chair of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture. In 2015, he was appointed KCMG for services to the prevention of torture and the promotion of religious liberty, having previously been awarded the OBE in 2004.