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Tackling Torture (Evans, Malcolm D)
Tackling Torture
Untertitel Prevention in Practice
Autor Evans, Malcolm D
Verlag Bristol University Press
Sprache Englisch
Einband Kartonierter Einband (Kt)
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
Seiten 208 S.
Artikelnummer 38325927
ISBN 978-1-5292-2569-3
CHF 48.90
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Zusammenfassung
Malcolm D. Evans tells the story of torture prevention under international law, setting out what is really happening in places of detention around the world. Challenging assumptions about torture's root causes, he calls for what is needed to enable us to bring about change.

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.

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.