 | Jennifer Gunning, Søren Holm - 2005 - 364 pagini
...administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction. 2. No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat or war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification... | |
 | Mirko Bagaric, Julie Clarke - 2007 - 130 pagini
...This prohibition is made clear in Article 2(2) of the UN Convention against Torture, which states, "No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether...emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture." 11 Thus, the right not to be tortured is absolute. There are no circumstances in which states can set... | |
 | Ray Murphy - 2007 - 312 pagini
...party to prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction. Article 2(2) provides that no exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a...public emergency, may be invoked as a justification for torture. 48 See generally CF Amerasinghe, Principles of the Institutional Law of International... | |
 | James E. Baker - 2007 - 405 pagini
...administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction." "No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether...of war, internal political instability or any other pubic emergency, may be invoked as justification for torture." Article 4, in turn requires each state... | |
 | Robert Cryer, Håkan Friman, Darryl Robinson, Elizabeth Wilmshurst - 2007 - 456 pagini
...instruments prohibiting torture, see section 11.3.7. Art. 2(2), 1984 UN Convention Against Torture: 'No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether...a threat of war, internal political instability or other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification for torture.' The classic argument that torture... | |
 | Stephen Holmes - 2007 - 293 pagini
...in international law, by the absolutist claim that torture admits of no justification. For instance: "No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture." 33 Mirror-Imaging... | |
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cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. 2. No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture or other... 
