ABSTRACT
Despite the post-war efforts to strengthen the torture taboo, by the end of the twentieth century torture was violated on a global scale. Chapter four examines the use of torture by France in the French–Algerian war to show that the taboo remained resilient to violations and played a major role in shaping the outcome of the war. This chapter also analyses Amnesty International’s global campaign against torture to show that its exposure of global violations of the taboo was integral to establishing the UN Convention against Torture.
