
The latest issue of the
International Review of the Red Cross (Vol. 89, no. 867, September 2007) is out. The theme is Torture. Contents include:
- Torture
- Interview with Dr Abdel Hamid Afana
- Cordula Droege, “In truth the leitmotiv”: the prohibition of torture and other forms of ill-treatment in international humanitarian law
- Raphaëlle Branche, Torture of terrorists? Use of torture in a “war against terrorism”: justifications, methods and effects: the case of France in Algeria, 1954–1962
- James Ross, Black letter abuse: the US legal response to torture since 9/11
- Hernán Reyes, The worst scars are in the mind: psychological torture
- Marcelo N. Viñar, Civilization and torture: beyond the medical and psychiatric approach
- Michael Grodin & George Annas, Physicians and torture: lessons from the Nazi doctors
- Selected Articles on International Humanitarian Law
- Jonathan Some, Jungle justice: passing sentence on the equality of belligerents in non-international armed conflict
- Dražan Đukić, Transitional justice and the International Criminal Court – in “the interests of justice”?
- Reports and Documents
- International humanitarian law and the challenges of contemporary armed conflicts
- National implementation of international humanitarian law