Convention Against Torture: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session, January 30, 1990U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990 - 196 pagini |
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... action of the committee on the U.N. Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel , Inhu- man or Degrading Treatment or Punishment . We are prepared to address the questions that were raised earli- er , as well as any other questions that ...
... action of the committee on the U.N. Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel , Inhu- man or Degrading Treatment or Punishment . We are prepared to address the questions that were raised earli- er , as well as any other questions that ...
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... action on the United Nations Convention Against Tor- ture and Other Cruel , Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment . The Bush administration places a high priority on the early ratification of this important human rights treaty ...
... action on the United Nations Convention Against Tor- ture and Other Cruel , Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment . The Bush administration places a high priority on the early ratification of this important human rights treaty ...
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... actions authorized by United States law or by judicial interpretation of such law . " This clarification was thought ... action violates a clear prohibition in international law . In other words , we propose that States Party not be ...
... actions authorized by United States law or by judicial interpretation of such law . " This clarification was thought ... action violates a clear prohibition in international law . In other words , we propose that States Party not be ...
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... actions which result solely in mental anguish . This definitional vagueness makes it doubtful that the United States can , consistent with constitutional due process constraints , fulfill its obligation under the convention to ...
... actions which result solely in mental anguish . This definitional vagueness makes it doubtful that the United States can , consistent with constitutional due process constraints , fulfill its obligation under the convention to ...
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... actions undertaken consistent with statute or case law as opposed to just judicial orders are not interfered with by the convention unless such conduct clearly violates international law . This makes clear , for example , that the use ...
... actions undertaken consistent with statute or case law as opposed to just judicial orders are not interfered with by the convention unless such conduct clearly violates international law . This makes clear , for example , that the use ...
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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 152 - Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights...
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...