Central American Studies and Temporary Relief Act of 1987: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Rules of the House of the Committee on Rules, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 618 and H.R. 1409 to Temporarily Suspend the Deportations of Certain Salvadorans and Nicaraguans, May 13, June 3 and 17, 1987

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Pagina 239 - ... 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 117 - ... well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion...
Pagina 211 - January 1951 and owing to a wellfounded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country...
Pagina 239 - ... 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 acting in an official...
Pagina 231 - Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause...
Pagina 117 - Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, I am grateful for this opportunity to appear before this distinguished committee and to join in the welcome extended to you.
Pagina 219 - Persons liable to conscription for military service who, for reasons of conscience or profound conviction arising from religious, ethical, moral, humanitarian, philosophical or similar motives, refuse to perform armed service shall enjoy a personal right to be released from the obligation to perform such service.
Pagina 231 - To this end, the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the abovementioned persons: a) violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture...
Pagina 117 - US obligations under the 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees.
Pagina 209 - Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, ILO Convention No.

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