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The Struggle Against Torture: Towards greater Effectiveness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

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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
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 29 , Issue 268 , February 1989 , pp. 5 - 8
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1989

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1 “In general,… the ICRC unequivocally and unreservedly deplores and condemns all torture, in any form and on any pretext. It supports all efforts at international or domestic legislation intended to safeguard human beings more effectively against torture. Above all, it appeals to the conscience of every individual to put an end to this vilest and most degrading practice devised by man”. This statement was made in 1976 by the ICRC, which was particularly disturbed by the repeated and even systematic recourse to torture. “The International Committee of the Red Cross and torture”, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 189, 12 1976, p. 610.CrossRefGoogle Scholar