The Istanbul Protocol Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, UNHCR, 2004
The manual gives a very broad, solid guideline on all aspects of torture. We find a summary on relevant ethical codes, as well as guidelines for investigation of torture-victims/cases. There is a summary on possible physical evidence which includes a description of the most used torture methods. A very useful and solid chapter on psychological damages is included as well as forms for investigation for print-out.
Principles on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishmen
United Nations General Assembly resolution 55/89 December 2000
This UN resolution sends a strong signal for the importance of the investigation and documentation of torture. Endorsing the Istanbul Protocol as a UN manual.
Guidelines for the examination of survivors of torture (second edition)
Medical Foundation for the Care of Victimes of Torture, Duncan Forrest, Françoise Hutton, 2011
This booklet contains guidelines for writing medical legal reports. The advice contained in this book concerns the provision of medical evidence to help substantiate (or evaluate) claims of ill-treatment and torture.
Torture survivors: What to ask, how to document
Miles and Garcia-Peltoniemi, 2012
Your involvement in recording histories and exam findings and in referring patients for specialized care can restore
lives. It can also aid in reversing the “invisibility” of torture survivors that perpetuates inadequate clinical education, research, and development of appropriate therapies.
Working with the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
IRCT 2012
A practical guide for NGOs engaging with the process of SPT country visits. This guide aims at providing tor¬ture rehabilitation centres and other NGOs involved in anti-torture activities with easi¬ly accessible and practi cal advice on how to most effectively engage with and contrib¬ute to country visits by the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) to promote relevant and high quality outcomes from the visit.
The Torture Reporting Handbook 2. edition
Human Rights Centre, University of Essex. Giffard and Tepina 2015
A reference guide for anyone who wishes to know how to take action in response to allegations of torture or ill-treatment. It explains simply and clearly how the process of reporting and submitting complaints to international bodies and mechanisms actually works, and how to make the most of it: how you might go about documenting allegations, what you can do with the information once it has been collected, how to choose between the various mechanisms according to your particular objectives, and how to present your information in a way which makes it most likely that you will obtain a response. Website with the manual in additional languages.
Medical Investigation and Documentation of Torture
Human Rights Centre, University of Essex. M. Peel, N. Lubell, J Beynon, 2005
A practical guide that aims at providing tor¬ture rehabilitation centres and other NGOs involved in anti-torture activities with easi¬ly accessible and practi cal advice on how to most effectively engage with and contrib¬ute to country visits by the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) to promote relevant and high quality outcomes from the visit.
Preventing Torture – An Operational Guide for National Human Rights Institutions
APT, APF and OHCHR 2010
This Guide has been designed as a practical tool to support the National Human rights institutions in their concrete activities to prevent torture. It presents a whole range of useful information, such as good practices. This Guide is part of an integrated CD-Rom package, which also includes associated audio-visual resources.
Forensic examination missions by medical teams investigating and documenting alleged cases of torture: operational manual
IRCT 2012
International law obliges states to investigate allegations of torture and to punish those responsible. One of the major challenges in fighting impunity is to obtain sufficient evidence in cases against alleged perpetrators. The manual is meant as a tool to be used in conjunction with the Istanbul Protocol. It is an operational tool to facilitate the preparation and operational aspects of a mission for the examination and documentation of alleged torture, particularly relating to the survivors of torture.
Shedding light on a dark practice
IRCT 2009
This book is primarily intended for health and legal profes¬sionals who work with or are likely to come into contact with torture survivors, but anyone with an interest in the question of torture will find useful insights. These short articles provide an array of illuminating and readable perspectives on different aspects of a complicated subject. Together they comprise an excellent introduction to the many challenges and op¬portunities associated with the task of establishing medical evidence in cases of alleged torture.
Medical, physical examination in connection with torture part I
IRCT Ole V. Rasmussen, et al. 2004
The 4 links focuses on the medical, physical examination in connection with torture and other related human rights violations. The major content theme is divided into different organ systems that will be described with regard to the acute and somatic consequences of torture here and in the following two issues.
Part I contains information regarding Literature review, Pitfalls, Skin lesions.
Medical physical examination in connection with torture part II
IRCT Ole V. Rasmussen, et al. 2005
Part II contains information regarding symptoms related to the musculoskeletal system
Medical physical examination in connection with torture part III
IRCT Ole V. Rasmussen, et al. 2006
Part III contains information regarding Neurological, Cardiopulmonary, Gastrointestinal, Urological, Examination of children
The medical aspects of the UN Convention against Torture
IRCT, Ole V. Rasmussen 2006
The medical work against torture began in 197411. The work took place in internationaland national NGO’s. In the beginning it concentrated on documenting torture. Medical examination of torture victims added evidence to reports on torture12. The only way to stop torture was to put pressure on the government by exposing them to torture allegations. The usual reaction by the government was that the allegations were unfounded, communistic propaganda done by leftist activists.
Ethics Abandoned: Medical Professionalism and Detainee Abuse in the War on Terror
Institute on Medicine as a Profession 2013
The report is based on two years of review of records in the public domain by a 19-member task force. The report details how DoD and CIA policies institutionalized a variety of interventions by military and intelligence agency doctors and psychologists that breach ethical standards to promote well-being and avoid harm.