Prohibition of Torture in UK Law
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‘Their Way of Punishing’ Corporal Punishment by Indigenous Peoples and the Prohibition of Torture
Both the right of indigenous peoples to cultural integrity and the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatments and punishments are vital features of the character of mo...
- Challenges to the Absolute Nature of the Prohibition of Torture and Ill-Treatment
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Rotten Fruit: State Solicitation, Acceptance, and Use of Information Obtained through Torture by Another State
The author argues that a State violates international law when it transmits questions for use in the interrogation of an individual by another State, or informally uses for its own national securit...... ... The sources of law relied upon include: the comprehensive, absolute, and non-derogable prohibition of torture under treaty and customary international law; rules ascribing individual criminal responsibility for complicity or participation in acts ... ...
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The Committee against Torture: One Step Forward, One Step Back
The Committee against Torture, the supervisory body of the UN Convention against Torture, performs functions with respect to the implementation of anti-torture measures similar to the functions per...... ... article appraises the Convention against Torture, the role of its Committee, as well as their contribution to the international prohibition of torture and other cruel treatment. Introduction The aim of the Convention against Torture' is to strengthen the existing prohibition ... ...
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Prison and the brain: Neuropsychological research in the light of the European Convention on Human Rights
Prison is by its nature a deliberately impoverished environment, with few physical, mental and social activities. Various studies have shown negative effects of an impoverished environment on anima...... ... insights could be relevant inthe context of the prohibition of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment (Article 3 of theEuropean ... ...
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Late modernity: Human rights under pressure?
Human rights as a product of modernity are hugely successful in terms of number of treaties and ratifications, activities of international human rights bodies, expansion into new areas such as rela...... ... impact of weak state institutions on human rights such asthe prohibition of torture; (2) the utilitarian challenge to the validity of core ... ...
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The boundaries of universality - migrant women and domestic violence before the Strasbourg Court
... ... Taken tog ether, these bias es make the purporte dly absolute prohibition of tort ure as laid down in Article 3 ECHR ma lleable in respect of mig ... in Article 3 of the ECHR: ‘No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment’. This provision is ... ...
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II Acquisitions
... ... an al y si s o f th e Court’s jurisprudence in the a rea of torture and il l-treatment. Because thi s is an article-s peci c book, a ll ... e prohibition of torture and ill-treatment in the Inter-American human r ights system: ... ...
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I Book Review: Why Not Torture Terrorists? Moral, Practical and Legal Aspects of the ‘Ticking Bomb’ Justification of Torture
... ... In particular, the absolute prohibition of torture and ot her cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, rmly ensh rined in international hu man rights law and ... ...
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A Pragmatist Defence of the Ban on Torture: From Moral Absolutes to Constitutive Rules of Reasoning
This article seeks to contribute to the growing literature on pragmatism in political theory by revisiting the role of moral absolutes in politics. More specifically, it proposes the idea that prag...... ... The article suggests that the torture prohibition ought to be reinterpreted as one such banister. Keywords: pragmatism; political violence; torture Over the past ten years, the reception of ... ...
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