Torture : does it make us safer? Is it ever OK? : a human rights perspective / edited by Kenneth Roth and Minky Worden; Amy D. Bernstein, contributing editor.

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Published: New York : New Press, c2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Kenneth Roth
  • 1. A history of torture / James Ross
  • 2. Moral prohibition at a price / Michael Ignatieff
  • 3. Torture and terrorism : painful lessons from Israel / Eitan Felner
  • 4. Counterinsurgency and torture : exporting torture tactics from Indochina and Algeria to Lain America / Marie-Monique Robin
  • 5. Torture in Latin America / Juan E. Mendez
  • 6. Torture : a family affair / Hector Timerman
  • 7. Torture spoken here : ending global torture / Minky Worden
  • 8. On negotiating with torturers / Nigel Rodley and Amy D. Bernstein
  • 9. Sexual violence, torture, and international justice / Cherie Booth
  • 10. Treating torture victims / Mary R. Fabri
  • 11. Banned State Department practices / Tom Malinowski
  • 12. The road to Abu Ghraib : torture and impunity in U.S. detention / Reed Brody
  • 13. Respecting the Geneva Conventions / John McCain
  • 14. Command responsibility for torture / Dinah Pokempner
  • 15. Torture in U.S. prisons / Jamie Fellner
  • 16. Justifying torture / Kenneth Roth.