This article traces the development of attention to the role of sex and gender regarding the practice of torture and ill-treatment by the Committee against Torture (CAT), a core UN human rights treaty monitoring body. It traces the experiences of the author during her initial years as a ...
Committee Against Torture Concerning The United States鈥 Mistreatment Of Immigrant Detainees In Violation Of The Convention Against Torture And Other Cruel, Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment In Relation To The United States 5th Periodic Report On The Convention Against Torture (2014)...
(2011) Germany: Briefing to Committee Against Torture. Available at: http://www.institut-fuer-menschenrechte.de/fileadmin/user_upload/PDF-Dateien/Pakte_Konventionen/CAT/cat_state_report_germany_5_2009_parallel_AI_en.pdf. Aust HP (2013) Complicity and the Law on State Responsibility. Cambridge...
as the U.S.’s compliance with the Convention Against Torture (CAT) was under review by the United Nations Committee Against Torture in Geneva, the U.S. delegation touted the country’s progress on reducing and limiting its use of solitary confinement. ...
the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) the Committee Against Torture (CAT) the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) the Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW) the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) the Committee on Enforced Disa...
China has also adopted administrative and judicial means to punish anyone guilty of torture (United Nations Committee Against Torture, 1993). The 1995 Judge Law prohibits judicial organs and their personnel from using torture in Article 30. The 1995 Police Law imposes strict administrative discipline ...
In the interim, she has posed as a prospective buyer at puppy mills in the South, taking part in a group sting that rescued 72 dogs from a dark, fetid compound in North Carolina; helped document the torture done – as standard practice – to the feet of Tennessee walking horses; and tr...
CAT Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; CEDAW Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; CRC Convention on the Rights of the Child; ECHR European Convention on Human Rights; Escazú Agreement Regional Agreement on ...
UN Committee Against Torture (CAT). (2013). Concluding Observations on the 5th Periodic Report of Estonia, Adopted by the Committee at is 50th Session, 6–31 May 2013. CAT/C/EST/CO/5. Available at: www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/docs/co/CAT.C.EST.CO.5-AUV_en.doc. Accessed 29...
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