OPT PROTOCOL UN CONVEN AGAINST TORTURE C

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-960219-3
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 561 g

The Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) establishes an independent international monitoring committee (SPT) which itself will visit states and places where persons are deprived of their liberty. It also requires states to set up independent national bodies to visit places of detention. This book, drawing upon events held and interviews with governments, civil society, members of UN treaty bodies, national visiting bodies and others,
identifies key factors that have shaped the operation of these visiting bodies since OPCAT came into force in 2006. It looks in detail at the background to the adoption of the Protocol, as well as how the international committee, the SPT, has carried out its mandate in its first few years. It examines the
range of places of detention that could be visited by these bodies, and the expectations placed on the national visiting bodies themselves.

The book also places the OPCAT within the broader system of torture prevention in the UN and elsewhere and identifies a range of trends arising from the different geographical regions. As well as providing an insight into its work, this detailed examination of OPCAT also provides valuable lessons for other new human rights treaties such as the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Convention on Enforced Disappearances, which have similar provisions concerning national
mechanisms.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of international human rights law and international criminal law, and in particular of torture; practitioners, legal advisers and policy-makers involved in torture litigation or the establishment and regulation of national preventive mechanisms

Autoren/Hrsg.

Al, Murray Et

Murray, Rachel

Steinerte, Elina

Evans, Malcolm

Hallo de Wolf, Antenor

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Strafrecht, Internationales Verfahrensrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Zusammenarbeit (Recht, Kultur, Umwelt etc.)
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Vereinte Nationen, UN Organisationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: The origins and development of OPCAT
2: Drafting of OPCAT: Towards deadlock 1991-2000
3: The text of OPCAT
4: The Scope of OPCAT
5: The Role of the SPT
6: The Role of NPMs
7: OPCAT within the Broader UN and Regional System
8: Regional Trends towards Ratification and Implementation of OPCAT
9: Conclusion: Emerging Trends and the Future of OPCAT
Appendix I: OPCAT
Appendix II: Rules of Procedure of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
Appendix III: Guidelines of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in relation to visits to States parties
Appendix IV: Preliminary Guidelines on NPMs
Appendix V: Guidelines on National Preventive Mechanisms
Appendix VI: The approach of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture to the concept of prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment under the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Appendix VII: Members of the SPT as at January 2011
Appendix VIII: Chronology of States visited by the SPT

Über Autor(innen)

Rachel Murray is Professor of International Human Rights Law at the University of Bristol and Director of its Human Rights Implementation Centre.

Dr Elina Steinerte is a Research Associate at the Human Rights Implementation Centre of the University of Bristol.

Professor Malcolm Evans is Professor of International Law at the University of Bristol.

Antenor Hallo de Wolf is based at the University of Groningen.