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

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.

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...

Explaining Commitment: States and the Convention against Torture

Why do states commit to international human rights treaties that may limit state sovereignty? Existing arguments focus on either the fear of domestic democratic instability or on international norms. We focus instead on the variation in three kinds of costs that states must pay to commit: policy change, unintended consequences, and limited flexibility. We use a discrete time-duration model to t...

The medical aspects of the UN Convention against Torture.

Introduction The Committee against Torture (CAT), is one of seven treaty bodies in the UN system. Table 1 gives an overview of the treaty bodies: when they entered into force, the number of experts and the number of State Parties to the Convention. A treaty body is “a committee of independent experts appointed to monitor the implementation by States Parties of the core international human right...

Treatment or Torture

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