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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... concerns and reduce the proposed list of conditions . In 1984 Congress enacted a joint resolution , which I sponsored along with Senator Percy , reaffirming the U.S. Government's oppo- sition to torture . By ratifying this convention we ...
... concerns and reduce the proposed list of conditions . In 1984 Congress enacted a joint resolution , which I sponsored along with Senator Percy , reaffirming the U.S. Government's oppo- sition to torture . By ratifying this convention we ...
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... concerns when I begin to question the witnesses appearing before us this morning . However , let me call your ... concerned that this Torture Convention is a dagger pointed at the heart of Israel by the Arab States and the PLO and ...
... concerns when I begin to question the witnesses appearing before us this morning . However , let me call your ... concerned that this Torture Convention is a dagger pointed at the heart of Israel by the Arab States and the PLO and ...
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... concerned about the Torture Convention . From a legal perspective , the Torture Convention contains much loose and imprecise lan- guage which raises many ambiguities . I do not support the roundabout compulsory jurisdiction mecha- nism ...
... concerned about the Torture Convention . From a legal perspective , the Torture Convention contains much loose and imprecise lan- guage which raises many ambiguities . I do not support the roundabout compulsory jurisdiction mecha- nism ...
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... concerns about our reservation there . We think it is a good reservation , Mr. Chairman . We must distinguish between torture and cruel , unusu- al and inhumane treatment prohibitions . The latter is not at the center of this treaty ...
... concerns about our reservation there . We think it is a good reservation , Mr. Chairman . We must distinguish between torture and cruel , unusu- al and inhumane treatment prohibitions . The latter is not at the center of this treaty ...
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... concerns and interests . We believe this is a good treaty with the reservations , understand- ings and declarations , and one which will serve our international interest as well as those of the international community . I will be ...
... concerns and interests . We believe this is a good treaty with the reservations , understand- ings and declarations , and one which will serve our international interest as well as those of the international community . I will be ...
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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...