Research Catalog

Title

The treatment of prisoners under international law / Nigel S. Rodley.

Author

Rodley, Nigel S.

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Details

Description

xxix, 479 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The first edition of this book set down and examined a field of international human rights law that had barely existed a decade or so earlier. The present edition takes account of 12 years' substantial developments, in what has remained a field of dynamic growth. There have been changes in the norms and institutions available to deal with some of the most evil practices that those in power inflict on those subject to their power: torture, enforced disappearence, summary and arbitrary execution, the death penalty, corporal punishment, and wantonly cruel conditions of deprivation of freedom."--Jacket.

Subject

• Political prisoners > Legal status, laws, etc
• Torture
• 86.81 human rights
• 86.44 penitentiary law
• Prisonniers politiques
• Droit international
• Gefangener
• Menschenrecht
• Völkerrecht
• Gevangenen
• Rechtsbescherming
• Mensenrechten
• Internationaal recht
• Detention
• Detainees
• Political prisoners
• Inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
• Human rights
• Prisonniers politiques > Statut juridique
• Droits de l'homme (droit international)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes and bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Response of the United Nations General Assembly to the challenge of torture -- Legal prohibition of torture and other ill-treatment -- What constitutes torture and other ill-treatment? -- Legal consequences of torture and other ill-treatment -- International remedies for torture and other ill-treatment -- Extra-legal executions -- Death penalty -- 'Disappeared' prisoners : unacknowledged detention -- Conditions of imprisonment or detention -- Corporal punishment -- Guarantees against abuses of the human person : arbitrary arrest and detention -- International codes of ethics for professionals -- Annexes : Declaration on the Protection of all Persons from Being Subjected to Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment ; Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment ; Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture ; European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment ; Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners ; Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment ; Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials ; Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials ; Declaration on the Police : Part A ; Principles of Medical Ethics relevant to the Role of Health Personnel, particularly Physicians, in the Protection of Prisoners and Detainees against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment ; Principles on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-legal, Arbitrary, and Summary Executions ; Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance ; Inter-American Convention on the Forced Disappearance of Persons ; Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, Common Article 3 ; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Articles 6, 7, 9, and 10 ; European Convention on Human Rights, Articles 2, 3, and 5 ; American Convention on Human Rights, Articles 4, 5, and 7 ; African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, Articles 4-7.

ISBN

• 0198265646
• 9780198265641
• 0198265638
• 9780198265634

LCCN

98045050

OCLC

• ocm39887168
• 39887168
• SCSB-9016668

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library