The Struggle Against Torture: Towards greater Effectiveness

Torture is prohibited by public international law and explicitly forbidden by domestic legislation in many countries. Yet the least that can be said is that it continues to be practised today, whether by the use of violence or by increasingly insidious methods, more and more frequently involving children. To such an extent that in 1976, realizing the magnitude and seriousness of the problem, the ICRC felt obliged to speak out and explain the efforts it deploys to combat torture. And perhaps never since the end of the seventies have so many governmental and non-governmental international organizations been so active in the fight against torture.

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The Struggle Against Torture: Towards greater Effectiveness author:

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Efforts to eliminate torture through international law author: Hans Haug

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How the International Committee of the Red Cross Helps to Combat torture: ICRC visits to persons deprived of their freedom in situations of internal disturbances and tension: aims and methods author: Francis Amar, Hans-Peter Gasser

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SOS-Torture author: Pierre de Senarclens

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The Swedish Red Cross Centre for the rehabilitation of tortured refugees author: Britt Wikberg

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Synopsis VII—Combatant and prisoner-of-war status author: Jean de Preux

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Youth and peace author: Leon Stubbings

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Appointments within the ICRC author:

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Death of Dr. Jacques de Rougemont Honorary Member of the ICRC author:

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Africa — Latin America — Asia — Middle-East author:

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Nineteenth Conference of Arab Red Crescent and Red Cross Societies (Cairo, 5–9 November 1988) author:

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Pan-African Conference of National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (Dakar, 21–23 November 1988) author:

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