30 October 2005.
The book entitled Right to Life, Prohibition of Torture and Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment: European Standards, Russian Legislation and
Practice
In October NGO “Sutyajnik” (Yekaterinburg, Russia) published the book entitled
Right to Life, Prohibition of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment: European
Standards, Russian Legislation and Practice.
This is the fourth volume of the series International Human Rights
Protection established by Sutyajnik in 2001.
The co-authors of the book
are: Professor of Law, Kevin Boyle, a member of the Human Rights Centre at the
University of Essex (United Kingdom),
staff attorneys
of the Urals Centre
for Constitutional and International Human Rights Protection of the NGO
Sutyajnik and postgraduate students of the Urals State Law Academy: Anna
Demeneva and Ludmila Churkina, and lecturer of the Tyumen State University,
department of the international law, Boris Labunetz.
The book contains the review
of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights which helps readers better
understand European standards and use them in their
domestic
litigation as well as arguing cases before the European Court of Human Rights
The authors analyze the
Russian legislation and practice and European standards, in particular, the
provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights enshrined the right to
life, prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
The book is in Russian. The
book in full is available online. For more details in Russian, please, refer to
the NGO Sutyajnik web-site
www.sutyajnik.ru/rus/library/sborniki/echr4
The previous volumes of the
series International Human Rights Protection are available at the
NGO Sutyajnik web-site www.sutyajnik.ru
L. Churkina, S. Beliaev (eds),
Right to Life, Prohibition of Torture and Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment: European Standards, Russian Legislation and
Practice (International Protection of Human Rights Series, Vol. 4)
(Yekaterinburg: Ural University Press,
2005. — 244 pp.
ISBN 5-7525-1361-8
Book in PDF format
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