Mooney, Annabelle (2018). Torture laid bare: Global English and human rights. In Cliff Goddard (Ed.), Minimal English for a global world: Improved communication using fewer words (pp. 143-167). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-62512-6_7
The prohibition against torture is a well settled, absolute right in international law and human rights. As such, it presents an ideal case to understand what is at stake in human rights generally. The chapter considers the definitions of ‘torture’ contained in the UN Convention Against Torture and the Rome Statute, and then attempts to distill their essence into clear explanatory texts in Minimal English. This offers a way of thinking about the being at the heart of human rights: the human person.
Research carried out in consultation with or under the supervision of one or more experienced NSM practitioners
