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Triggered by the atrocities of World War II, the last few decades have seen an increasing international awareness of the persistence of such practices as torture, abduction and arbitrary, summary, and extrajudical execution committed or tolerated by state agents or officials. The government of the world have, through intergovernmental bodies such as the United Nations, been developing a complex and sophisticated set of rules aimed at ensuring the humane treatment of prisoners and allowing intercedence on behalf of prisoners whose personal saftey is at risk. This book describes and analyzes the main principles of international law that impose limitations on the ways governments may treat those they deprive of liberty.

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• Preface to the Second Edition
• General Introduction
• The Response of the United Nations General Assembly to the Challenge of Torture
• Introduction
• Discussion of Torture at the UN General Assembly 1973-1975
• Developments Following the Adoption of the Declaration against Torture
• Summary
• The Legal Prohibition of Torture and Other Ill-Treatment
• Introduction
• Treaties Prohibiting Torture and other Ill-Treatment
• General International Law and Torture
• What Constitutes Torture and Other Ill-Treatment?
• Introduction
• Defining Torture
• What is ""Other Prohibited Ill-Treatment""?
• The Legal Consequences of Torture and Other Ill-Treatment
• The Legal Consequences of Torture
• The Legal Consequences of Other Prohibited Ill-Treatment
• International Remedies for Torture and Other Ill-Treatment
• Introduction
• General Assembly Questionnaire on Torture
• Sub-Commission Annual Review of Prisoners Rights
• Special Rapporteur on Torture
• Convention Against Torture
• Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture
• Summary
• Extra-legal Executions
• General Prohibition of Murder by Government
• Extra-Legal Executions as Arbitrary Deprivations of Life
• Legal Consequences of Extra-Legal Executions
• International Remedies
• Summary
• The Death Penalty
• Introduction: the Objective of Abolition
• Limits to Capitally Punishable Offences
• Procedural Restriction on the Imposition of the Death Penalty
• Persons Who May Not Be Executed
• International remedies
• Summary
• ""Disappeared"" Prisoners: Unacknowledged Detention
• ""Disappearance""
• The UN Response to ""Disappearances""
• The International Law Prohibition of ""Disappearances""
• Legal Consequences of "" Disappearances""
• International Remedies
• Conditions of Imprisonment or Detention
• The Legal Rules
• Institutional Ill-Treatment
• Solitary Confinement
• Medical or Scientific Experimentation on Human Beings
• Other Areas of Possible Abuse of Prisoners
• Legal Consequences of Unlawful Treatment
• International Remedies
• Summary
• Corporal Punishment
• The Geography of Corporal Punishment
• United Nations Activities Concerning Corporal Punishment
• International Humanitarian Law
• International Human Rights Law
• Summary
• Guarantees Against Abuses of the Human Person
• Arbitrary Arrest and Detention
• United Nations Body of Principles
• Incommunicado Detention and Habeas Corpus Under Existing Law and Legal Instruments
• General International Law
• States of Emergency
• Summary
• International Codes of Ethics for Professionals
• Introduction
• UN Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials
• Council of Europe Declaration on the Police Code(s) of Military Ethics?
• UN Principles of Medical Ethics
• A Code of Ethics for Lawyers
• General Conclusions - An Agenda
• Appendices

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Just as it was hardly possible to write a treatise on the international law of human rights before the advent of the UN in 1945, this study of human rights (with particular relevance to the treatment of prisoners) could not have been written ten years ago. Not until 1975 did the UN General Assembly adopt its landmark declaration on the protection of all persons from being subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment (effective March 23, 1976). The authoritative ``general comments'' of its Human Rights Committee on the scope of the provisions in question appeared only in 1982. In Chapters 1 through 5 the author (legal adviser to Amnesty International) deals with various aspects of torture and other ill treatment; in Chapters 6 and 7 he examines executions; in Chapter 8 he discusses ``disappearances''; in Chapters 9 and 10 he treats formal punishments; and in Chapters 11 and 12 he deals with internationally prescribed rules. Annexes of treaties and other international instruments (and tables thereof) are invaluable. A unique, essential reference volume.-F.W. Neuber, Western Kentucky University