ABSTRACT
Recently, critical theorists have turned their attention to human rights approaches to injustice and found them wanting for their failure to address the structural underpinnings of injustice. Such theories are useful when understood as providing a richer understanding of the aetiology of the injustices we call human rights violations. As generally articulated, however, they provide little guidance to those seeking to develop practical interventions to prevent human rights violations. Looking at the problem of systematic and everyday forms of torture, this chapter considers how critical theoretical approaches to injustice can be usefully taken up to assist in the practice of torture prevention.
