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Title

Torture in the eighties : an Amnesty International report.

Author

Amnesty International

Publication

London, U.K. : Amnesty International Publications, 1984.

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Description

263 p. : ill., ports.; 22 cm.

Alternative Title

• Torture in the 80s.
• Torture in the 80s

Subject

Torture

Note

• "AI Index: ACT 04/01/84"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Introduction -- Torture as an institution -- The moral argument -- The methods, victims and agents -- "Preconditions" for torture -- Definitions -- The Process of torture -- Action against torture -- Action by victims and their families -- Action by national groups -- Action by inter-governmental organizations -- Actions by international non-governmental organizations -- Pressure for improvements -- Northern Ireland -- Brazil -- Safeguards and remedies -- Preventive safeguards -- Remedial measures -- The evidence -- Global survey -- Africa -- Angola (the People's Republic of) -- Cameroon (the United Republic of) -- Chad (the Republic of) -- Comoros (the Federal and Islamic Republic of the) -- Congo (the People's Republic of the) -- Djibouti (the Republic of) -- Ethiopia -- Gabon (the Gabonese Republic) -- Ghana (the Republic of) -- Guinea (the Revolutionary People's Republic of) -- Kenya (the Republic of) -- Lesotho (the Kingdom of) -- Mali (the Republic of) --^
• Mozambique (the People's Republic of) -- Namibia -- Rwanda (the Rwandese Republic) -- Somalia (the Somali Democratic Republic) -- South Africa (the Republic of) -- Uganda (the Republic of) -- Zaire (the Republic of) -- Zamibia (the Republic of) -- Zimbabwe (the Republic of) -- The Americas -- Argentina (the Argentine Republic) -- Bolivia (the Republic of) -- Brazil (the Federative Republic of) -- Chile (the Republic of) -- Colombia (the Republic of) -- El Salvador (the Republic of) -- Guatemala (the Republic of) -- Guyana (the Republic of) -- Haiti (the Republic of) -- Honduras (the Republic of) -- The United Mexican States) -- Paraguay (the Republic of) -- Peru (the Republic of) -- Suriname (the Republic of) -- Uruguay (the Eastern Republic of) -- Asia -- Afghanistan (the Democratic Republic of) -- Bangladesh (the People's Republic of) -- China (the People's Republic of) -- India (the Republic of) -- Indonesia (the Republic of) and East Timor -- Korea (the Republic of) --^
• Pakistan (the Islamic Republic of) -- Philippines (the Republic of the) -- Sri Lanka (the Democratic Socialist Republic of) -- Taiwan (the Republic of China) -- Europe -- Albania (the People's Socialist Republic of) -- Italy (the Italian Republic) -- Poland (the Polish People's Republic) -- Romania (the Socialist Republic of) -- Spain (the Spanish State) -- Turkey (the Republic of) -- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (the) -- Yugoslavia (the Socialist Federal Republic of) -- The Middle East and North Africa -- Bahrain (the State of) -- Egypt (the Arab Republic of) -- Iran (the Islamic Republic of) -- Iraq (the Republic of) -- Israel (the State of) and the Occupied Territories -- Libya (the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) -- Morocco (the Kingdom of) and Western Sahara -- Saudi Arabia (the Kingdom of) -- Syria (the Syrian Arab Republic) -- Tunisia (the Republic of) -- The Prevention of torture -- Amnesty International 12 Point Program for the Prevention of Torture.

ISBN

0939994062 (pbk) :

LCCN

^^^84177974^

OCLC

11261567

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Harvard Library