CONTENTS
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Contributing authors and other participants..................................................................................
Introduction...................................................................................................................................
Chapter
III.
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B.
112-611
117-241
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111-241
125-461
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126-321
133-381
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139-431
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144-461
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RELEVANT ETHICAL CODES .............................................................................. 148-731
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149-501
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157-651
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LEGAL INVESTIGATION OF TORTURE ................................................................. 174-119
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178-841
185-106
185-871
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RELEVANT INTERNATIONAL LEGAL STANDARDS ................................................ 111-471
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International humanitarian law..............................................................
The United Nations................................................................................
1. Legal obligations to prevent torture................................................
2. United Nations bodies and mechanisms.........................................
Regional organizations ..........................................................................
1. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights .................................................
2. The European Court of Human Rights ...........................................
3. The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment..........................
4. The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the
African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights ..............................
The International Criminal Court ..........................................................
Ethics of the legal profession.................................................................
Health-care ethics ..................................................................................
1. United Nations statements relevant to health professionals ...........
2. Statements from international professional bodies.........................
3. National codes of medical ethics ....................................................
Principles common to all codes of health-care ethics............................
1. The duty to provide compassionate care ........................................
2. Informed consent ............................................................................
3. Confidentiality ................................................................................
Health professionals with dual obligations............................................
1. Principles guiding all doctors with dual obligations ......................
2. Dilemmas arising from dual obligations ........................................
Purposes of an investigation into torture ...............................................
Principes on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment .....
Procedures of a torture investigation .....................................................
1. Determination of the appropriate investigative body .....................
2. Interviewing the alleged victim and other witnesses......................
3. Securing and obtaining physical evidence......................................
4. Medical evidence............................................................................
5. Photography....................................................................................
Commission of inquiry ..........................................................................
1. Defining the scope of the inquiry ...................................................
2. The power of the commission ........................................................
3. Membership criteria........................................................................
4. The commission’s staff ...................................................................
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