| 1986 - 1492 pagini
...Rights Human rights, as defined in Section H6(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act, include freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment...or punishment, prolonged detention without charges, disappearance due to abduction or clandestine detention, or the flagrant denial of the rights to life,... | |
| 1977 - 886 pagini
...this section— (1) the term "gross violations of internationally recognized human rights" includes torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, prolonged detention without charges and trial, and other flagrant denial of the right to life, liberty, or the security of person; and... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - 1987 - 374 pagini
...engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights, including 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... | |
| Cecilia Medina Quiroga - 1988 - 384 pagini
...assistance to foreign states. The following examples are provided in order to illustrate the expression: Torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or...right to life, liberty and the security of the person 36 . As was stated above, the practice of the UN seems to point in the same direction, that is to say... | |
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