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Tackling Torture

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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 te...
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  • 24 October 2023
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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.

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Price: $29.95
Pages: 208
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Publication Date: 24 October 2023
ISBN: 9781529225693
Format: Paperback
BISACs: LAW / International, Public international law, LAW / Criminal Law / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Public international law: international organizations and institutions, Public international law: human rights
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"Writing eloquently and accessibly, Evans dwells on the readily achievable. This is an essential text for those interested in questions of detention, monitoring and anti-torture." Human Rights Law Review
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.

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