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 9
... effect that , in order to constitute " torture , " " an act must be a deliberate and calculated act of an extremely cruel and inhuman nature , specifically intended to inflict excruciating and agonizing physical or mental pain or ...
... effect that , in order to constitute " torture , " " an act must be a deliberate and calculated act of an extremely cruel and inhuman nature , specifically intended to inflict excruciating and agonizing physical or mental pain or ...
Pagina 10
... effect of this under- standing might be to undercut the central feature of the Convention , at least as codified in U.S. law , and to encourage other States also to adopt higher domestic standards , thereby limiting the effectiveness of ...
... effect of this under- standing might be to undercut the central feature of the Convention , at least as codified in U.S. law , and to encourage other States also to adopt higher domestic standards , thereby limiting the effectiveness of ...
Pagina 11
... effect that the United States considers itself bound , under Article 16 , to prevent " cruel , inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment " not amounting to torture only insofar as those words mean the cruel and unusual pun- ishment ...
... effect that the United States considers itself bound , under Article 16 , to prevent " cruel , inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment " not amounting to torture only insofar as those words mean the cruel and unusual pun- ishment ...
Pagina 12
... domestic criminal law of the United States . Unless this definitional problem is addressed as it is , we believe , in our reservations , understandings and declarations , the torture convention , we fear , will have the effect of 12.
... domestic criminal law of the United States . Unless this definitional problem is addressed as it is , we believe , in our reservations , understandings and declarations , the torture convention , we fear , will have the effect of 12.
Pagina 13
... effect of fostering unwarranted litigation in numerous areas of law enforcement . The convention does place U.S. law enforcement officials when traveling overseas at risk of arrest and prosecution in foreign juris- dictions or even ...
... effect of fostering unwarranted litigation in numerous areas of law enforcement . The convention does place U.S. law enforcement officials when traveling overseas at risk of arrest and prosecution in foreign juris- dictions or even ...
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Pagina 165 - 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 167 - 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 14 - ... 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 150 - Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights...
Pagina 69 - 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 54 - 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 149 - 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 73 - 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 55 - 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 30 - Committee to receive and consider communications from or on behalf of individuals subject to its jurisdiction who claim to be victims of a violation by a State Party of the provisions of the Convention.