Journal article

Publication year: 2013

Pages: 157-15+

Journal: Rechtsmedizin

Volume number: 23

Issue number: 3

ISSN: 0937-9819

eISSN: 1434-5196

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00194-013-0884-7

Publisher: Springer

Abstract: 
During the past decades international rules against every form of torture have been established based on the United Nations (UN) "Declaration of Human Rights" from 1948. Torture is defined in the "Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment: United Nations Convention against Torture" from 1987. Muslim nations also consented to the "Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam" from 2000. In 1999 a manual that came known as the "Istanbul protocol" was submitted to the UN High Commission for Human Rights and contains details on how to perform a thorough physical examination of torture victims taking all body regions into account. Different types of torture are described as well as injuries due to torture and additionally the participation of physicians involved in abuse and torture is dealt with.

Harvard Citation style: Dettmeyer, R. (2013) Folter Internationale Normen, Institutionen, Formen und Verletzungsbefunde, Rechtsmedizin, 23(3), pp. 157-15+. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00194-013-0884-7

APA Citation style: Dettmeyer, R. (2013). Folter Internationale Normen, Institutionen, Formen und Verletzungsbefunde. Rechtsmedizin. 23(3), 157-15+. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00194-013-0884-7