Monitoring And Investigating Torture Cruel Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment And Prison Conditions

Author : Agnès Callamard
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Total Pages : 82 pages
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Download or read book Monitoring and Investigating Torture, Cruel, Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment, and Prison Conditions written by Agnès Callamard and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jason Payne-James
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351812726
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monitoring Detention, Custody, Torture and Ill-treatment written by Jason Payne-James and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark practical guide assists all those involved in monitoring detention conditions and investigating and preventing torture. The prestigious global author team identify the medical, legal and professional frameworks and international instruments applicable to those detained, and highlight how torture or other cruel and inhuman degrading treatments or punishments are identified, investigated and should be prevented. · A comprehensive and wide range of detention settings and circumstances are covered including police stations, prisons, mental health, and social care civil conditions to prisoner of war, detention camps, military, and armed conflict. · Advice, monitoring, and assessment is given for special groups, including the custody of women, children, vulnerable adults, and individuals on hunger strike · Practical guidelines are given for the assessment of ill-treatment of individuals in custody including sexual abuse · Online links to the latest legal, ethical, and medical guidelines for key countries help to make this book appropriate for all. Challenging, thought-provoking yet thoroughly practical, this book is essential reading for anyone involved in the monitoring of detention conditions and the treatment and investigation of individuals in any form of custody. The content is aimed primarily at healthcare professionals but it also highly relevant for anyone who may form part of a visiting team, including lay individuals, lawyers and law enforcement professionals, as well as for academics.

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Download or read book Monitoring and Investigating Torture, Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment, and Prison Conditions written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of the provisions of article 7 of the ICCPR is to protect both the dignity and the physical and mental integrity of the individual. [...] Patterns in the circumstances of the arrest • Do all arrests present common characteristics? Such characteristics may include: the rank and number of people proceeding with the arrest, the existence or not of an arrest warrant, the time and day of the arrest, etc. [...] X went to: • the police station • the actual cell of the prisoner • the hospital • the court • the mortuary Page 36 Torture, Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment, and Prison Conditions He interviewed: • police officers • the Head of the Criminal Investigation Unit • probably the victim's wife and other prisoners In the majority of alleged cases of torture or CID treatment, these places and indivi. [...] illnesses Page 39 UKWELI: Monitoring and Documenting Human Rights Violations in Africa • The survivor's description of the circumstances, location, procedures, individuals involved, the sequence and timing of the events • the identity of the alleged perpetrators • the responsibility of the state or of the armed group Please refer to Annexe Two for a check-list of data to get from the victims. [...] Are they consistent with what others who witnessed similar events at the same time and place say; or with the patterns in torture and CID treatment? • The survivor's account of the sequence and timing of the events • Consistency of the testimony: Whether the testimony concurs with others as well as with any previous pattern of torture or CID treatment in the country/region? Does the survivor contr.

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Publisher : New York : United Nations
ISBN 13 : 9789211541373
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Training Manual on Human Rights Monitoring written by and published by New York : United Nations. This book was released on 2001 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual is one component of a two-part package of materials for training on human rights monitoring for UN human rights officers and other human rights monitors. This training manual provides practical guidance principally for the conduct of human rights monitoring in United Nations field operations, but it may also be useful to other human rights monitors. The two components of the package are designed to complement each other and, taken together, provide the basis for the conduct of programmes for human rights officers in field operations and for other human rights monitors, under the approach developed by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

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Publisher : Criminal Justice Handbook
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook on Prisoner File Management written by and published by Criminal Justice Handbook. This book was released on 2008 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook discusses the importance of effective prisoner file management, illustrating the consequences of poor or non-existent management. It will be of particular relevance to prison systems that do not have electronic systems for managing files. It outlines the key international human rights standards that apply to prisoner and detainee file management. It also summarizes and illustrates the key requirements of prison systems in relation to prisoner and detainee file management in order to meet international human rights standards and how these might be met.

Author : Association pour la prévention de la torture (Genève)
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ISBN 13 : 9782940337279
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Torture in international law : a guide to jurisprudence written by Association pour la prévention de la torture (Genève) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christoph Wilcke
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
ISBN 13 : 156432382X
Total Pages : 97 pages
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Download or read book Torture and Impunity in Jordan's Prisons written by Christoph Wilcke and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 2008 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs (United Nations)
Publisher : New York : United Nations
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Compendium of United Nations Standards and Norms in Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice written by Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs (United Nations) and published by New York : United Nations. This book was released on 1992 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part Two. HUMAN RIGHTS

Author : United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Publisher : New York and Geneva : United Nations
ISBN 13 : 9789211541410
Total Pages : 885 pages
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Download or read book Human Rights In The Administration Of Justice written by United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and published by New York and Geneva : United Nations. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 885 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Independent legal professionals play a key role in the administration of justice and the protection of human rights. Judges, prosecutors and lawyers need access to information on human rights standards laid down in the main international legal instruments and to related jurisprudence developed by universal and regional monitoring bodies. This publication, which includes a manual and a facilitator's guide, seeks to provide a comprehensive core curriculum on international human rights standards for legal professionals. It includes a CD-ROM containing the full electronic text of the manual in pdf format.

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ISBN 13 : 9782940337057
Total Pages : 277 pages
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Download or read book Monitoring Places of Detention written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: