Citation

Int. Rev. Red Cross (1961) 1989; 29(268): 5-8.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, International Committee of the Red Cross)

DOI

10.1017/S0020860400072168

PMID

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Abstract

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.

Language: en