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 14
... concerning the definition of torture . Due to the questions which have arisen concerning the convention's effect on the use of the death penalty , a sixth understanding has in fact been added . The first understanding related to ...
... concerning the definition of torture . Due to the questions which have arisen concerning the convention's effect on the use of the death penalty , a sixth understanding has in fact been added . The first understanding related to ...
Pagina 17
... concerning what degree of mental suffering is required to constitute torture . Accordingly , the Torture Convention's vague definition concerning the mental suffering aspect of tor- ture cannot be resolved by reference to established ...
... concerning what degree of mental suffering is required to constitute torture . Accordingly , the Torture Convention's vague definition concerning the mental suffering aspect of tor- ture cannot be resolved by reference to established ...
Pagina 18
... concerning the scope of what constitutes degrading treatment . Moreover , the little international case law that exists is based almost solely upon the conditions in certain Western European countries which may not always be analogous ...
... concerning the scope of what constitutes degrading treatment . Moreover , the little international case law that exists is based almost solely upon the conditions in certain Western European countries which may not always be analogous ...
Pagina 20
... Concerning to this matter , it declares { int the settlement of disputes between The Status Parties , such disputes may be referred to arbitration or to the International Court ul Justice with The consent of all the Parties concerned ...
... Concerning to this matter , it declares { int the settlement of disputes between The Status Parties , such disputes may be referred to arbitration or to the International Court ul Justice with The consent of all the Parties concerned ...
Pagina 26
... concerning the competence of the Cominittee against Torture , more than five States having . prior to that date , declared that they recognized the Competence of the Committee against Torture . in accordance with the said articles . 2 ...
... concerning the competence of the Cominittee against Torture , more than five States having . prior to that date , declared that they recognized the Competence of the Committee against Torture . in accordance with the said articles . 2 ...
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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.