Tackling Torture

Malcolm D. Evans is Principal of Regent’s Park College, Oxford. He was formerly Professor of Public International Law at the University of Bristol and Chair of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture. In 2015, he was appointed KCMG for services to the prevention of torture and the promotion of religious liberty, having previously been awarded the OBE in 2004.

• Part 1: The Solution1. What Is Torture?2. Why Prevention?3. Establishing the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture4. What the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture Requires5. The Visiting Mandate of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture6. The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and National Preventive MechanismsPart 2: The Problem7. Visits: An Insider’s Story8. Accepting the Unacceptable9. Excusing the Inexcusable10. Prescribing the Inappropriate11. Working with Fictions12. Thinking Positively about Prevention

"Writing eloquently and accessibly, Evans dwells on the readily achievable. This is an essential text for those interested in questions of detention, monitoring and anti-torture." Human Rights Law Review