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Torture : an expert's confrontation with an everyday evil / Manfred Nowak ; English translation by Roger Kaminker.

by Nowak, Manfred, author., Kaminker, Roger, translator.

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]

Pennsylvania studies in human rights.

vi, 199 pages ; 24 cm.

Part I. The phenomenon of torture in the twenty-first century. The incomprehensibility of torture -- The role of a United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture -- Independent investigation of torture: methods -- States' methods to impede objective investigations -- Are fact-finding missions dangerous? -- Understanding torture and ill-treatment -- Inhuman detention conditions: worse than torture? -- Is corporal punishment torture? -- Is capital punishment torture? -- Is domestic violence or female genital mutilation torture? -- Torture in the twenty-first century -- Why torture? -- Is there ever a justification for torture? -- George Bush's war on terror -- Torture and enforced disappearance -- Part II. Torture in individual states. Georgia: plea bargaining as a substitute for torture? -- Mongolia: death penalty as a state secret -- Nepal: "A little bit of torture helps" -- China: rehabilitation, reeducation, or brainwashing? -- Jordan: general intelligence as a cradle of torture -- Austria: the case of Bakary Jassey -- Paraguay: excellent follow-up -- Nigeria: notorious torture chamber in Lagos -- Togo: successfully releasing detainees -- Sri Lanka: perfect PR strategy -- Indonesia: three "smoking guns" -- Denmark and Greenland: the principle of normalization -- Moldova: torture in the form of trafficking in women -- Equatorial Guinea: systematic torture as government policy -- Uruguay: full cooperation despite appalling detention conditions -- Kazakhstan: Potemkin villages -- Jamaica: structural violence instead of torture -- Papua New Guinea: traditional structures coexit with globalization -- Greece: the joint asylum and migration policy of the European Union, put to the test.

"In his six years as the United Nations special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak was tasked with reviewing thousands of complaints of torture and detention, investigating facts and circumstances surrounding the global practice of torture, and drawing up recommendations aimed at combating the practice. Now, in Torture, readers can get a first hand glimpse of how modern-day torture is investigated and understood by those working on the frontlines of researching, addressing, and preventing it. Nowak recounts his experience visiting countries, reviewing documents, collecting evidence, and conducting interviews with perpetrators, witnesses, and victims of torture. He offers vignettes of the many states he visited, comparing their diverse experiences, and he explores the rise of new twenty-first century forms of torture, questioning whether capital punishment, corporal punishment, solitary confinement, and contemporary forms of slavery qualify as torture."--book jacket

Includes index.

Translation of: Folter : die Alltäglichkeit des Unfassbaren.

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