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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Pagina 7
... occur and requesting the President to continue U.S. involvement in the formulation of this Convention . The text of the Convention was elaborated within the context of the United Na- tions Commission on Human Rights and was adopted by ...
... occur and requesting the President to continue U.S. involvement in the formulation of this Convention . The text of the Convention was elaborated within the context of the United Na- tions Commission on Human Rights and was adopted by ...
Pagina 15
... occur within this country and when , if it does , the Department of Justice is committed to seeing that appropriate prosecu- tions are instituted . As a people we have established constitutional safeguards to protect our inhabitants ...
... occur within this country and when , if it does , the Department of Justice is committed to seeing that appropriate prosecu- tions are instituted . As a people we have established constitutional safeguards to protect our inhabitants ...
Pagina 17
... occur from a person's having been subjected to solitary con- finement or insulting language or from having been forced to strip naked . Paul Sieghart , The International Law of Human Rights , Clarendon Press , Oxford , at 164 . While ...
... occur from a person's having been subjected to solitary con- finement or insulting language or from having been forced to strip naked . Paul Sieghart , The International Law of Human Rights , Clarendon Press , Oxford , at 164 . While ...
Pagina 51
... occur with the consent or acquiescence of a public official ; article 16 also incorporates the provisions of articles 10 ( police training ) , 11 ( interrogation ) , 12 ( investigation ) and 13 ( right to complain ) with respect to ill ...
... occur with the consent or acquiescence of a public official ; article 16 also incorporates the provisions of articles 10 ( police training ) , 11 ( interrogation ) , 12 ( investigation ) and 13 ( right to complain ) with respect to ill ...
Pagina 64
... occur in countries such as Mexico and the Soviet Union without regard to political considerations ? After all , the Convention is designed to protect human individuals from one of the most heinous acts that governments can commit . We ...
... occur in countries such as Mexico and the Soviet Union without regard to political considerations ? After all , the Convention is designed to protect human individuals from one of the most heinous acts that governments can commit . We ...
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action acts of torture adopted alleged Amnesty International application article 16 article 21 authorities Bassiouni Chairman civil committed Committee against Torture complaints concerning consider communications constitute torture Convention Against Torture countries Court of Justice crime cruel definition of torture degrading treatment detained detention Diplock courts effect evidence extradition Geneva Conventions genocide convention German Democratic Republic Government implementation infliction inhuman or degrading International Court international law judicial law enforcement legislation ment Northern Ireland package pain or suffering paragraph paramilitary Party person police political practice of torture prevent principles prisoners procedures prohibition proposed reservations prosecution protection ratification receive and consider recognizes the competence requires resolution Senator HELMS Sinn Féin social SOFAER specific statement subjected to torture supergrass information supra note tion tional Torture Convention Torture to receive transmittal treatment or punishment treaty ture U.S. Constitution United Kingdom United Nations United Nations Congress values vention violation
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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.