Convention Against Torture: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session, January 30, 1990, Volumul 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990 - 196 pagini |
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... Amnesty Internationl USA , Gainesville , FL ....... Prepared statement Rice , Charles , Professor of Law , Notre Dame Law School , Notre Dame , IN Prepared statement Richard , Mark , Deputy Assistant Attorney General , Criminal Division ...
... Amnesty Internationl USA , Gainesville , FL ....... Prepared statement Rice , Charles , Professor of Law , Notre Dame Law School , Notre Dame , IN Prepared statement Richard , Mark , Deputy Assistant Attorney General , Criminal Division ...
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... Amnesty International and the American Bar Association , among others . This was a mutually beneficial process . It enabled us to explain the concerns of the Executive Branch which lay behind the initial package , and at the same time ...
... Amnesty International and the American Bar Association , among others . This was a mutually beneficial process . It enabled us to explain the concerns of the Executive Branch which lay behind the initial package , and at the same time ...
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... Amnesty International , the American Bar Associ- ation and numerous church and human rights groups , have been working with the Justice Department and the State Department to mini- mize the number of declarations , reservations and ...
... Amnesty International , the American Bar Associ- ation and numerous church and human rights groups , have been working with the Justice Department and the State Department to mini- mize the number of declarations , reservations and ...
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... Amnesty Interna- tional USA ; Mr. David Forte , Professor of Law , Cleveland Marshal College of Law ; Mr. James ... Amnesty International USA . Would you lead off ? STATEMENT OF WINSTON NAGAN , CHAIRMAN , BOARD OF DIREC- TORS , AMNESTY ...
... Amnesty Interna- tional USA ; Mr. David Forte , Professor of Law , Cleveland Marshal College of Law ; Mr. James ... Amnesty International USA . Would you lead off ? STATEMENT OF WINSTON NAGAN , CHAIRMAN , BOARD OF DIREC- TORS , AMNESTY ...
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... Amnesty published its report on " Torture in the Eighties ” in 1984 , the same year as the adoption of the convention now before us . Between 1972 and 1989 , we interceded on behalf of thousands of individuals who were in danger of ...
... Amnesty published its report on " Torture in the Eighties ” in 1984 , the same year as the adoption of the convention now before us . Between 1972 and 1989 , we interceded on behalf of thousands of individuals who were in danger of ...
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Pagina 167 - Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field of 12 August 1949; the Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea of 12 August 1949; the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War...
Pagina 169 - torture" means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent...
Pagina 16 - ... whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person...
Pagina 71 - Covenant may at any time declare under this article that it recognizes the competence of the Committee to receive and consider communications to the effect that a State Party claims that another State Party is not fulfilling its obligations under the present Covenant.
Pagina 56 - Each State Party shall include this prohibition in the rules or instructions issued in regard to the duties and functions of any such persons. Article 11 Each State Party shall keep under systematic review interrogation rules, instructions, methods and practices as well as arrangements for the custody and treatment of persons subjected to any form of arrest, detention or imprisonment in any territory under its jurisdiction, with a view to preventing any cases of torture.
Pagina 151 - No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. In particular, no one shall be subjected without his free consent to medical or scientific experimentation.
Pagina 75 - No State Party shall expel, return ('refouler') or extradite a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture.
Pagina 57 - Declaration, torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted by or at the instigation of a public official on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or confession, punishing him for an act he has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating him or other persons.
Pagina 157 - Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment...
Pagina 57 - ... or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions.