Torture vs Other Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment

Torture vs other cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment: is the distinction real or apparent?

CONTEXT After the reports of human rights abuses by the US military in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, and Afghanistan, questions have been raised as to whether certain detention and interrogation procedures amount to torture. OBJECTIVE To examine the distinction between various forms of ill treatment and torture during captivity in terms of their relative psychological impact. DESIGN AND SETTING A c...

convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment (1984)

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The Convention Against Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (CAT) - articles 22 and 20.

Article 22 gives a person the right to complain to the Committee Against Torture 1 (hereinafter the Committee) if he presumes that a country which has ratified the CAT is in breach of one or more of the CAT provisions. The main conditions to be fulfilled in order to launch a complaint are found in the following paragraphs of Article 22: Par. 1: • Independent ratification • (56 out of 142 states...

Part III--rights and remedies: the convention against torture alternative asylum mechanisms: the convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Unspeakably cruel--torture, medical ethics, and the law.

Torture is a particularly horrible crime, and any participation of physicians in torture has always been difficult to comprehend. As General Telford Taylor explained to the American judges at the trial of the Nazi doctors in Nuremberg, Germany (called the "Doctors' Trial"), "To kill, to maim, and to torture is criminal under all modern systems of law . . . yet these [physician] defendants, all ...