 | 2005 - 1174 pagini
...contained in -he United States Senate resolution of ratification of the Convention. <li Torture is defined as any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether Physical or mental, is intentionally inHicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or her or a third jerson information or... | |
 | Richard Pierre Claude - 1992 - 484 pagini
...resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, torture is defined as "any act by which severe pain and suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally...a public official on a person for such purposes as intimidating him or other persons." It also calls for redress and compensation for torture victims... | |
 | Robin Kirk - 1992 - 68 pagini
...punishment from torture by setting them out in separate articles. 18 The Convention defines torture as: 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,... | |
 | Metin Basoglu - 1992 - 562 pagini
...Degrading Treatment of Punishment (1985) is the most widely used definition of torture. It prohibits: 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,... | |
 | Lois Whitman, Helsinki Watch (Organization : U.S.) - 1992 - 110 pagini
...the anti-torture provisions even in a time of public emergency that threatens the life of the nation. 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,... | |
 | Thomas B. Jabine, Richard Pierre Claude - 1992 - 488 pagini
...documented fear of repression or punishment."31 6. Torture. According to the 1984 UN Convention, torture is "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,... | |
 | Patricia Gossman, Vincent Iacopino, Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.) - 1993 - 46 pagini
...Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment defines torture, in article 1 , as "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,... | |
 | Günter Hoog, Angela Steinmetz - 1993 - 660 pagini
...Have agreed as follows: Article 1 1. For the purposes of this Convention, the term "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,... | |
 | 1993 - 226 pagini
...Walch, division of Human Righls Walch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, vol. II (April 1993), at 20. any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a jxrson for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third IXTSOII information or a confession,... | |
| |
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... 
