The Transformation Of The Prohibition Of Torture In International Law

Author : Professor of International Human Rights Law Lutz Oette
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ISBN 13 : 9780198885627
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Download or read book The Transformation of the Prohibition of Torture in International Law written by Professor of International Human Rights Law Lutz Oette and published by . This book was released on 2024-08-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the nature, significance, and implications of the transformation of the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman treatment or punishment in international law. Through an integrated human rights approach, it argues that the prohibition plays a critical role in highlighting and addressing widespread structural suffering.

Author : Lutz Oette
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198885768
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transformation of the Prohibition of Torture in International Law written by Lutz Oette and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment or punishment has a special status. It is the foremost international human rights norm protecting persons from attacks on their dignity and integrity. Consequently, it has been at the forefront of a series of developments in international human rights law and international law more broadly. Having withstood sustained challenges to its absolute nature in the 'war on terror', it has broadened its scope of application, becoming more sophisticated and complex in the process. The prohibition of torture increasingly interacts with other fields of human rights law, such as non-discrimination law, international criminal law, international humanitarian law, and international migration law. The Transformation of the Prohibition of Torture in International Law analyses the nature and significance of this transformation and looks into the scope of the prohibition's further evolution. Empirical scholarship, innovative human rights body practice, and challenges from activists, particularly from the Global South, have focused on the relational nature of torture and other ill-treatment, its embeddedness in wider structures of power, and the role of international law in legitimizing-if not facilitating-widespread suffering, from mass incarceration to poverty and climate change. This analysis reveals an inherent tension in the prohibition between a conventional, narrow focus on direct State violence and a wide lens encompassing myriad forms of suffering. To retain its validity and effectiveness in the twenty-first century, argues Lutz Oette, the prohibition on torture must navigate this tension and successfully address and transform abusive power asymmetries.

Author : Malcolm D. Evans
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788113969
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook on Torture written by Malcolm D. Evans and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-25 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Research Handbook is of great importance in an era where torture, whilst universally condemned, remains endemic. It explores the nature of the international prohibition of torture and the various means and mechanisms which have been put in place by the international community in an attempt to make that prohibition a reality.

Author : Lutz Oette
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198885776
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transformation of the Prohibition of Torture in International Law written by Lutz Oette and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment or punishment has a special status. It is the foremost international human rights norm protecting persons from attacks on their dignity and integrity. Consequently, it has been at the forefront of a series of developments in international human rights law and international law more broadly. Having withstood sustained challenges to its absolute nature in the 'war on terror', it has broadened its scope of application, becoming more sophisticated and complex in the process. The prohibition of torture increasingly interacts with other fields of human rights law, such as non-discrimination law, international criminal law, international humanitarian law, and international migration law. The Transformation of the Prohibition of Torture in International Law analyses the nature and significance of this transformation and looks into the scope of the prohibition's further evolution. Empirical scholarship, innovative human rights body practice, and challenges from activists, particularly from the Global South, have focused on the relational nature of torture and other ill-treatment, its embeddedness in wider structures of power, and the role of international law in legitimizing-if not facilitating-widespread suffering, from mass incarceration to poverty and climate change. This analysis reveals an inherent tension in the prohibition between a conventional, narrow focus on direct State violence and a wide lens encompassing myriad forms of suffering. To retain its validity and effectiveness in the twenty-first century, argues Lutz Oette, the prohibition on torture must navigate this tension and successfully address and transform abusive power asymmetries.

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Total Pages : 148 pages
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Download or read book Articles and Essays Analyzing the Prohibition of Torture Under International Law written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Simon Frankel Pratt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009090399
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Normative Transformation and the War on Terrorism written by Simon Frankel Pratt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pratt investigates the potential erosion of prohibiting assassination, torture, and mercenarism during the US's War on Terrorism. In examining the emergence and history of the US's targeted killing programme, detention and interrogation programme, and employment of armed contractors in warzones, he proposes that a 'normative transformation' has occurred, which has changed the meaning and content of these prohibitions, even though they still exist. Drawing on pragmatist philosophy, practice theory, and relational sociology, this book develops a new theory of normativity and institutional change, and offers new data about the decisions and activities of security practitioners. It is both a critical and constructive addition to the current literature on norm change, and addresses enduring debates about the role of culture and ethical judgement in the use of force. It will appeal to students and scholars of foreign and defence policy, international relations theory, international security, social theory, and American politics.

Author : H. Danelius
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004478302
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United Nations Convention Against Torture written by H. Danelius and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Morten Bergsmo
Publisher : Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
ISBN 13 : 8283481207
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law written by Morten Bergsmo and published by Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Max Hilaire
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3832553509
Total Pages : 295 pages
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Download or read book The Evolution and Transformation of International Law written by Max Hilaire and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developments in International Law, from the Peace of Westphalia to the Post-United Nations Charter

Author : Dire Tladi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004464123
Total Pages : 806 pages
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Download or read book Peremptory Norms of General International Law (Jus Cogens) written by Dire Tladi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peremptory Norms of General International Law (Jus Cogens): Disquisitions and Dispositions is a collection of contributions on various aspects of jus cogens in international law.