Nearly all nations condemn the use of torture (de Wet, 2004). Yet in contrast to the consensus over its prohibition, there is considerable disagreement over what specific acts constitute torture. Most laws define torture in terms of the severity of pain the act produces. The United Nations (1984) Convention Against Torture—ratified by more than 150 countries— defines torture as the infliction of severe physical or mental pain or suffering (Article 1.1). Nearly all country-specific standards similarly define torture in terms of pain severity. Consequently, determining whether a particular interrogation tactic constitutes torture requires an accurate assessment of how much pain the tactic inflicts. Because policymakers do not subject themselv...
The international convention against torture needs to be strengthened, argues Ben Saul Summary Th...
Torture is used by government\u27s across the world in order to extract information from unwilling v...
This article describes issues needing to be resolved before policies on the use of enhanced interrog...
American legal discourse on torture takes for granted some, usually all, of the following propositio...
The infamous memos that concluded that torture only existed where there was infliction of pain equiv...
The War on Terrorism generated a correlation between terrorism and torture. This article analyzes th...
In the fight against terrorism the United States government has tried to draw a line between proper ...
Declaring a “war against terror,” the United States has detained foreign nationals suspected of terr...
Prohibition of torture in the international law The prohibition of torture and other forms of ill-tr...
What are the moral, pragmatic, and legal dimensions of torture as an interrogation method? This pape...
Convention against Torture (CAT) prohibits admissibility of evidence obtained by torture but fails t...
The prohibition of torture is one of the most emblematic norms of the modern human rights movement, ...
This thesis seeks to identify the moral wrong of torture, and to trace the relationship between that...
CC BY-NCThe article aims at revealing the concept of torture in international law as well as focuses...
Under international law, the United States is obligated to criminalize acts of torture and cruel, in...
The international convention against torture needs to be strengthened, argues Ben Saul Summary Th...
Torture is used by government\u27s across the world in order to extract information from unwilling v...
This article describes issues needing to be resolved before policies on the use of enhanced interrog...
American legal discourse on torture takes for granted some, usually all, of the following propositio...
The infamous memos that concluded that torture only existed where there was infliction of pain equiv...
The War on Terrorism generated a correlation between terrorism and torture. This article analyzes th...
In the fight against terrorism the United States government has tried to draw a line between proper ...
Declaring a “war against terror,” the United States has detained foreign nationals suspected of terr...
Prohibition of torture in the international law The prohibition of torture and other forms of ill-tr...
What are the moral, pragmatic, and legal dimensions of torture as an interrogation method? This pape...
Convention against Torture (CAT) prohibits admissibility of evidence obtained by torture but fails t...
The prohibition of torture is one of the most emblematic norms of the modern human rights movement, ...
This thesis seeks to identify the moral wrong of torture, and to trace the relationship between that...
CC BY-NCThe article aims at revealing the concept of torture in international law as well as focuses...
Under international law, the United States is obligated to criminalize acts of torture and cruel, in...
The international convention against torture needs to be strengthened, argues Ben Saul Summary Th...
Torture is used by government\u27s across the world in order to extract information from unwilling v...
This article describes issues needing to be resolved before policies on the use of enhanced interrog...