The Phenomenon of Torture: Hearings and Markup Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Its Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, on H.J. Res. 605, May 15, 16; September 6, 1984U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984 - 296 pagini |
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... Group .. Hon . Jerome Shestack , president , International League for Human Rights and former Representative of the United States to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights . 132 146 Wednesday , May 16 , 1984 : Hon . Elliott Abrams ...
... Group .. Hon . Jerome Shestack , president , International League for Human Rights and former Representative of the United States to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights . 132 146 Wednesday , May 16 , 1984 : Hon . Elliott Abrams ...
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... groups who are contributing their expertise to this forum . But most of all , I want to extend my sincerest gratitude to those brave victims of torture who have traveled long distances to share their own painful experiences with us . We ...
... groups who are contributing their expertise to this forum . But most of all , I want to extend my sincerest gratitude to those brave victims of torture who have traveled long distances to share their own painful experiences with us . We ...
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... groups , trades , professions , and beliefs . They may be criminal suspects or political detainees . Children in El Salvador have been tortured and in Iran they've been forced to watch their mothers brutalized . Wives and husbands have ...
... groups , trades , professions , and beliefs . They may be criminal suspects or political detainees . Children in El Salvador have been tortured and in Iran they've been forced to watch their mothers brutalized . Wives and husbands have ...
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... groups through torture and murder . This happened in Guatemala in the early 1980s , when the government terrorized rural peasants to discourage them from supporting guerillas . Tortured , dying villagers were displayed to relatives and ...
... groups through torture and murder . This happened in Guatemala in the early 1980s , when the government terrorized rural peasants to discourage them from supporting guerillas . Tortured , dying villagers were displayed to relatives and ...
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... groups , medical associations , church groups , and trade unions have worked to combat torture in their own countries . From and with them Amnesty International has identified conditions that have contributed to the practice of torture ...
... groups , medical associations , church groups , and trade unions have worked to combat torture in their own countries . From and with them Amnesty International has identified conditions that have contributed to the practice of torture ...
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Pagina 272 - ... 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.
Pagina 17 - ... torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, prolonged detention without charges, causing the disappearance of persons by the abduction and clandestine detention of those persons, or other flagrant denial of the right to life, liberty, and the security of person, unless such assistance will directly benefit the needy people in such country.
Pagina 262 - Rights, both of which provide that no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Having regard also to the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Being Subjected to Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment...
Pagina 265 - Officials provides that law enforcement officials may use force only when strictly necessary and to the extent required for the performance of their duty...
Pagina 261 - ... him for an act he has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating him or other persons. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to, lawful sanctions to the extent consistent with the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners. 2. Torture constitutes an aggravated and deliberate form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Pagina 266 - 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...
Pagina 272 - It is a contravention of medical ethics for health personnel, particularly physicians, to be involved in any professional relationship with prisoners or detainees the purpose of which is not solely to evaluate, protect or improve their physical and mental health.
Pagina 256 - All persons deprived of their liberty shall be treated with humanity and with respect for the inherent dignity of the human person.
Pagina 244 - Courts, as the case may be, of all causes where an alien sues for a tort only, in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States...
Pagina 261 - Nations, as a violation of the human rights and fundamental freedoms proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as an obstacle to friendly and peaceful relations among nations and as a fact capable of disturbing peace and security among peoples.