Research Catalog

Title

Istanbul Protocol : manual on the effective investigation and documentation of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment / Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Publication

New York : United Nations, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Description

x, 73 p. : ill.; 30 cm.

Series Statement

Professional training series, 1020-1688 ; no. 8

Uniform Title

• Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, (1984 December 10).
• Professional training series ; no. 8.

Alternative Title

Manual on the effective investigation and documentation of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

Subject

• Human rights
• Torture (International law)
• Torture > Prevention > Handbooks, manuals, etc

Genre/Form

• Handbooks and manuals
• Handbooks and manuals.

Note

• "HR/P/PT/8"--T.p. verso.
• "Sales No. E.01.XIV.1"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• I. Relevant international legal standards -- II. Relevant ethical codes -- III. Legal investigation of torture -- IV. General considerations for interviews -- V. Physical evidence of torture -- VI. Psychological evidence.
• Annexes -- I. Principles for the effective investigation and documentation of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment -- II. Dignostic tests -- III. Anatomical drawings for the documentation of torture and ill-treatment -- IV. Guidelines for the medical evaluation of torture and ill-treatment.

ISBN

9211541360

LCCN

^^2002390463

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library