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	United Nations Convention Against Torture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Convention Against Torture is one of a series of UN agreements that seek to protect human rights.
		The Convention has received new attention in the world press because of the Stress and duress interrogation techniques used on the detainees by United States military personnel, most notably at the Abu Ghraib prison and Bagram prison.
		The United States ratified the Convention, but with one reservation: that "...
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Nations_Convention_Against_Torture (729 words)

	United Nations Agreements on Human Rights
		Any state party to the Convention may also call upon the United Nations to act to prevent or punish acts of genocide.
		It must ensure that individuals who allege that someone has committed torture against them are permitted to make and official complaint and have it investigated, and, if the complaint is proven, receive compensation, including full medical treatment and payments to survivors if the victim dies as a result of torture.
		The remainder of the Convention specifies procedures for resolving disputes between nations about whether a specific act or acts constitute(s) genocide, and gives procedures for ratification of the convention.
	www.hrweb.org /legal/undocs.html (1319 words)

	Canada: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture Open Letter
		It is more than two decades since world leaders formalized their commitment to ending torture through adoption of the United Nations Convention against Torture, and several decades after other binding international legal standards made it clear that torture and ill-treatment is never justified.
		You are here: Home > Canada: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture - Open Letter
		Canada can and must make an important contribution to ending the horror of torture by adhering to the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture and other forms of Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Optional Protocol or OPCAT).
	www.amnesty.ca /archives/op_torture_open_letter.php (1535 words)

	VISA SPOTLIGHT: INS ISSUES REGULATIONS IMPLEMENTING THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE
		The United Nations Convention Against Torture, Article 3, prohibits subscribing nations from, expelling, returning or extraditing individuals to a country in which they would be subject to torture.
		The Convention provides protection "where there are substantial grounds for believing that [the person] would be in danger of being subject to torture." The regulations interpret this as placing on the person seeking protection the burden of establishing that it is more likely than not that the person will be tortured.
		Second, the Torture Convention covers all people who may be subject to torture, whatever the basis, unlike the Refugee Convention, which only covers those persecuted on the basis of race, religion, nationality or political opinion.
	www.visalaw.com /99feb/20feb99.html (868 words)

	David S. Weissbrodt - Faculty Profiles - UofM Law School
		During 1996-2003 he served as a member of the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and was elected Chairperson of the Sub-Commission for the year 2001-02.
		Highlights of the Fiftieth Session of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, 17 J. Law and Inequality 445 (1999)(with Mayra Gomez and Bret Thiele).
		The New United Nations Standards for the Investigation of Arbitrary Killings, 13 Hamline L. Rev. 579 (1990) (with Rosen).
	www.law.umn.edu /facultyprofiles/weissbrodtd.htm (2712 words)

	Fact Sheet - DOJ Rule for Claims Under United Nations Torture Convention
		The U.S. Department of Justice published a rule on February 19,1999 to formally implement, as directed by Congress, U.S. obligations under the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
		Under Article 3 of the Convention Against Torture, the United States agrees not to "expel, return ('refoule') or extradite" a person to another state where he or she would likely be tortured.
		The Convention, as ratified by the U.S. Senate, provides that torture is an act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person.
	www.immigrationlinks.com /news/news023.htm (1377 words)

	INS APPROVES FIRST ASYLUM CASE BASED ON UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE
		Four years after the United Nations passed the convention against torture, the INS has approved an asylum case based on the treaty.
		Congress is currently considering legislation that would declare the torture convention "the policy of the United States." Under the legislation, the INS would be required to write regulations implementing the torture treaty and broadening the scope of cases where asylum is possible.
		Under the torture convention, signatory countries are prohibited from sending people back to their home countries if their are substantial grounds to believe that people will be tortured.
	www.visalaw.com /98may/12may98.html (407 words)

	East Africa Living Encyclopedia
		These have included acceding in early 1997 to the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and establishing a Standing Committee on Human Rights.
		There are some protections against police intervention under Kenyan law, which gives police broad powers of arrest without warrant if they suspect a person of having committed or being about to commit an offense.
		The Bill declares that no person shall be discriminated against on grounds of "race, tribe, place of origin or residence or other local connection, political opinions, color, or creed." These protections do not, however, apply to non-citizens.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /NEH/khumanrights.htm (1317 words)

	Protest :: Canadian Democratic Movement :: Alternative News Media on Democracy, Energy, Politics, Trade, Environment, Military and Money
		On October 2, 2004, the United Church of Canada joins the Canadian Peace Alliance in urging member groups, coalitions and peace loving organizations in Canada to organize actions against the United States' Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) plan.
		This is one day after BMD officially goes on line in the United States and two days before the Parliament of Canada resumes.
		It was with absolute dismay that we learned of the planned visit of President Bush to Canada on November 30th 2004.
	www.canadiandemocraticmovement.ca /Topic16.html (468 words)

	Denver Journal of International Law and Policy: The United Nations Convention Against Torture: a self-executing treaty that prevents the removal of persons ineligible for asylum and withholding of removal.@ HighBeam Research
		The United Nations Convention Against Torture: a self-executing treaty that prevents the removal of persons ineligible for asylum and withholding of removal.
		Denver Journal of International Law and Policy: The United Nations Convention Against Torture: a self-executing treaty that prevents the removal of persons ineligible for asylum and withholding of removal.@ HighBeam Research
		The crack of the whip, the clamp of the thumb screw, the crush of the iron maiden, and, in these more efficient modern times, the shock of the electric cattle prod are forms of torture that the international order will not tolerate.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:53462123&refid=ink_tptd_mag (274 words)

	Amnesty International condemns US for violations of UN Convention Against Torture
		The United States appeared Wednesday, May 10 in front of the United Nations Convention Against Torture in Geneva in its first appearance before the body since ratifying the convention six years ago.
		The United Nations committee plans to announce its conclusions and recommendations in relation to the US and the Convention against Torture on Monday, May 15.
		Amnesty International stated, “Since the United States ratified the Convention Against Torture in October 1994, its increasingly punitive approach towards offenders has continued to lead to practices which facilitate torture or other forms of ill-treatment prohibited under international law.”
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/may2000/tort-m12_prn.shtml (643 words)

	The Extradition Act 2003 (Parties to International Conventions) Order 2005
		United Nations United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances which was signed in Vienna on 20th December 1988 ("the Vienna Convention")
		Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 9th December 1994 ("the UN Personnel Convention")
		An offence under section 1(2) of the United Nations Personnel Act 1997[12] which is committed against a UN worker within the meaning of that Act
	www.opsi.gov.uk /si/si2005/20050046.htm (19042 words)

	OHCHR - Committee against Torture
		The Committee against Torture was established pursuant to article 17 of the Convention to monitor its implementation.
		The United Nations is not responsible for the content of external sites.
		In addition to the reporting procedure, the Convention establishes three other mechanisms through which the Committee performs its monitoring functions: the inquiry procedure, the examination of inter-state complaints and the examination of individual complaints.
	www.unhchr.ch /html/menu2/6/cat (244 words)

	McCain Amendment No. 1977 - SourceWatch
		(a) In General.--No individual in the custody or under the physical control of the United States Government, regardless of nationality or physical location, shall be subject to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.
		(c) Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the rights under the United States Constitution of any person in the custody or under the physical jurisdiction of the United States.
		(a) In General.--No person in the custody or under the effective control of the Department of Defense or under detention in a Department of Defense facility shall be subject to any treatment or technique of interrogation not authorized by and listed in the United States Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogation.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=McCain_Amendment_No._1977 (478 words)

	Springer - books from this publisher (ISBNs begin with 90-247)
		United Nations Convention Against Torture: A Handbook on the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishme (International studies in human rights)
		Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights/annuaire De La Convention Europeenne Des Droits De L'homme, 1964
		Human Rights in Criminal Procedure: Comparative Study (United Kingdom Comparative Law Series)
	www.books-by-isbn.com /90-247 (920 words)

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		From March 13-26, Amnesty will hold anti-torture teach-ins across the country during a special "Tell The Truth About Torture" National Teach-in.
		The International Day of the World's Indigenous People: Dispossessed and in Danger -- Time to make the rights of indigenous peoples a reality
	amnestyusa.org /justearth/document.do?id=A931DC18BAF073E080256F97004... (95 words)

	The United Nations Convention Against Torture
		A Handbook on the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
		Non-stock item, please allow 6-8 weeks for delivery
	www.brill.nl /product.asp?ID=19561 (32 words)

	LLRX -- Guide to International Refugee Law Resources on the Web
		Human rights treaties are therefore effective tools to use in the international protection of refugees, particularly the 1984 Convention against Torture, which provides for the principle of non-refoulement in Article 3.
		Similarly, prohibitions against torture in the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Article 5) and the 1950 European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (Article 3) have been invoked to protect refugees from being refouled.
		Elsewhere, the 1969 American Convention on Human Rights promotes the right to seek and be granted asylum in Article 22(7).
	www.llrx.com /features/refugee.htm (1969 words)

	China Signs Human Rights Accord at United Nations
		UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - China signed Monday an important international convention on civil and political rights that guarantees freedom of expression, a fair trial and protection against torture and arbitrary arrests.
		Taiwan represented China at the United Nations until it was replaced by Beijing in 1971.
		China Signs Human Rights Accord at United Nations
	www.pacificnet.net /jue/chinanews/archives/docs/981005.html (538 words)

	BBC NEWS World Americas US fails to block torture treaty
		The United States has failed to block a United Nations treaty on preventing torture, but the country is under no obligation to adopt the new convention at home.
		The UN treaty on torture would allow outside inspections of such sites, but only if the US were to sign the convention.
		The US hostility to a convention which it would not have to subscribe to is being seen as a sign of its deep, ideological opposition to multilateral treaties which it believes would impinge on its sovereignty.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/2150302.stm (373 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Rights bodies welcome govt decision to sign UN convention against torture
		Human rights bodies have welcomed the government's decision to sign the United Nations convention against torture and other inhuman or degrading treatment.
		Rediff On The NeT: Rights bodies welcome govt decision to sign UN convention against torture
		He said the right against torture has been judicially recognised by the apex court as a fundamental right.
	www.rediff.com /news/jul/23tortur.htm (331 words)

	United Nations Convention Against Torture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Convention Against Torture is one of a series of UN agreements that seek to protect human rights.
		The Convention has received new attention in the world press because of the Stress and duress interrogation techniques used on the detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison by United States military personnel.
		The Convention also requires states to take effective measures to prevent torture within their borders, and forbids states to return people to their home country if there is reason to believe they will be tortured.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UN_Convention_Against_Torture (694 words)

	United Nations Agreements on Human Rights
		It must ensure that individuals who allege that someone has committed torture against them are permitted to make and official complaint and have it investigated, and, if the complaint is proven, receive compensation, including full medical treatment and payments to survivors if the victim dies as a result of torture.
		The remainder of the Convention specifies procedures for resolving disputes between nations about whether a specific act or acts constitute(s) genocide, and gives procedures for ratification of the convention.
		In particular, it defines torture, requires states to take effective legal and other measures to prevent torture, declares that no state of emergency, other external threats, nor orders from a superior officer or authority may be invoked to justify torture.
	www.hrweb.org /legal/undocs.html (1319 words)

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	Croatia at the United Nations
		The eradication of the practice of torture in the world was one of the major challenges taken up by the United Nations and continues to be highly placed on its agenda, as the international environment becomes more and more affected by conflict and violence.
		As a party to the Convention against Torture since 1991, my country attaches great importance to those issues and remains committed to prevent, prohibit, investigate and punish every act of torture or other cruel and degrading treatment or punishment.
		Existing international instruments, especially the UN Convention against Torture and other Cruel Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment and its Optional Protocol enabled us with much a needed framework for the elimination of torture and other forms of ill-treatment.
	www.un.int /croatia/statement/58/ga/thirdc/031107.htm (642 words)

	Activists lodge complaint about Guantanamo Bay Express - Clare / - Indymedia Ireland
		Under the Criminal Justice (United Nations Convention Against Torture)
		I remind you that Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (United Nations Convention Against Torture) Act 2000 states -
		Peace activists say that as signatories to the UN convention against torture the UK and Ireland have a duty to arrest anyone on their territory who is thought to be involved in assisting torture.
	naih.pair.com /users/indymed/newswire.php?story_id=67865®ion=clare (9484 words)

	Torture
		of this year the headlines read, “UN Rebukes the US Over Prison Brutality.”1 The United Nations Committee on Torture cited a variety of ways in which the United States is violating the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment that was ratified in the US on October 21,1994.
		The adverse findings against the United States by the UN Committee Against Torture provides us with the opportunity to evaluate and change the penal management practices that have turned California’s prisons into a hostile and hopeless battleground.
		No law or regulation should be put into practice without reference to and compliance with the Convention Against Torture and the other human rights treaties in effect.
	www.prisons.org /torture.htm (9484 words)

	Prisoner of War Protection Act of 2003
		(16) Other nations have not absolved Iraq of its state obligations under the Third Geneva Convention arising from the First Gulf War and other sources, and the torture and inhuman treatment of United States prisoners of war during the First Gulf War are, in any event, a `non-absolvable liability' of the state of Iraq.
		(3) The Third Geneva Convention mandates that prisoners of war must at all times be treated humanely, and that the willful killing, torture, or inhuman treatment or willfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health are `grave breaches' of the Convention.
		(6) Both the United States and the Republic of Iraq are High Contracting Parties to the Third Geneva Convention, and more than 170 countries, as state parties to the convention, have assumed its obligations.
	www.theorator.com /bills108/hr2224.html (874 words)

	Amnesty UK: THE CASE OF GENERAL PINOCHET
		United Kingdom: The Secretary of State, Jack Straw, on 9 December 1998, issued an order authorizing magistrates to proceed with a hearing on a request for extradition to Spain of a former head of state for acts amounting to crimes against humanity and torture committed in a third country.
		United Kingdom: The Secretary of State, Jack Straw, on 9 December 1998, issued an order to a magistrate authorizing the magistrate to proceed with a hearing on a request for extradition to Spain for acts amounting to crimes against humanity and torture committed in a third country.
		324-346; United Nations War Crimes Commission, Draft convention for the establishment of a United Nations war crimes court with an explanatory memorandum, Art.
	www.amnesty.org.uk /news/pinochet/report.html (11579 words)

	Samsara: personal testimony - Dr. Tenzin Choedrak
		"Today the subcommittee will hear testimony on the continued and widespread persistence of torture in the world today — and on what steps the United States and other free and civilized nations can do about it.
		Because the United States has ratified the Convention, this provision is already binding on the United States as a matter of international law — but it has not yet been incorporated into our domestic law.
		I have also treated torture victims myself, including a 24 year old nun from Lhasa, Tibet's capital, who escaped in 1989 after having been subjected to sticks being forced into her genitals while in incarceration.
	www.subliminal.org /tibet/testimony/Choedrak-Congress.html (3315 words)

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