The Committee Against Torture (CAT) is a treaty body of human rights experts that monitors implementation of the United Nations Convention against Torture...
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Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (commonly known as the United Nations Convention Against Torture (UNCAT))...
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Against Torture (Organisation Mondiale Contre la Torture; OMCT) is the world's largest coalition of non-governmental organisations fighting against arbitrary...
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Psychological torture, mental torture or emotional torture is a type of torture that relies primarily on psychological effects and only secondarily on...
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The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI; Hebrew: הוועד הציבורי נגד עינויים בישראל) is an Israeli NGO established in 1990 that monitors the...
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European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment or shortly Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT)...
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the United Nations Committee Against Torture on the Review of the Periodic Report of the United States of America", p. 3 Torture Policy (cont'd) Editorial...
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The Crew Against Torture (NGO CAT; Russian: Кома́нда прóтив пы́ток, romanized: Komanda protiv pytok, founded as Committee Against Torture, Комитет против...
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Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)'s Detention and Interrogation Program and its use of torture during...
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indiscriminately, torture is used as a tool of repression and deterrence against dissent and community empowerment. While many states use torture, few wish to...
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committed wartime sexual violence against Palestinian children, women and men including rape, gang-rape, sexualized torture and mutilation. In February, UN...
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Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (commonly known as the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture...
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violation of the Geneva Conventions, and that they would ask the UN Committee Against Torture to organize an urgent visit to Russia and Russian-occupied territories...
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torture are poor and marginalized people suspected of crimes, although torture against political prisoners, or during armed conflict, has received disproportionate...
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Magdalene Laundries in Ireland (category Violence against women in Ireland)
Ireland to probe Catholic torture". The Philippine Star. 7 June 2011. Retrieved 4 November 2013. Committee against Torture (3 June 2011). "Concluding...
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Felice D. Gaer (category Members of the United Nations Committee against Torture)
American to serve as an Independent Expert on the United Nations Committee Against Torture. There, she had been Vice Chair. Gaer was also a member of the...
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by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) and Amnesty International. There has been extensive sexual violence against both male and female...
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Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (section United Nations Committee Against Torture statement with parents of Michael Brown, 2014)
and the Organization for Black Struggle to the United Nations Committee Against Torture stating that their son's death and the "excessive force by police...
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"Outsourcing Torture". The New Yorker. Retrieved April 17, 2009. "Former member of UN Committee Against Torture: 'Yes, waterboarding is torture'" (Press release)...
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National Council of Resistance of Iran (redirect from NCRI women's committee)
Nations Committee against Torture (2008), Jose Antonio Ocampo (ed.), Selected Decisions of the Committee Against Torture: Convention Against Torture and Other...
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Human Rights, citing the targeting of Dynasty Foundation and the Committee Against Torture, called upon the Plenum of the Supreme Court to examine the practice...
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Hooding (category Modern instruments of torture)
United Nations Committee Against Torture had concluded that hooding constituted torture, a position it reiterated in 2004 after the committee's special rapporteur...
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noise, against IRA prisoners constituted inhuman and degrading treatment but stopped short of calling it torture. In 1997, the United Nations Committee Against...
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Public Committee Against Torture in Israel as follows: "The military approach expressed in the Dahiye Doctrine deals with asymmetrical combat against an enemy...
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before the United Nations Convention Against Torture regarding such experiences. Brinton was the advisory committee co-chair of the National Center for...
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State Security Investigations Service (section Torture)
in 2002, the United Nations Committee against Torture expressed "particular concern at the widespread evidence of torture and ill-treatment in administrative...
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Music in psychological operations (redirect from Musical torture)
the original on 14 October 2007. Retrieved 27 November 2007. UN Committee Against Torture 1997 "Concluding observations: Israel. 09/05/1997." "CAT/C/SR...
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Camp 1391 (category Torture in Israel)
Cross at an off-site location. In May 2009, the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) questioned Israeli officials about the facility and expressed...
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United Nations Committee against Torture, expressing concern over the failure to investigate allegations and a pattern of impunity for torturers, referred...
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The UN Committee Against Torture found that these practices constituted a breach of the obligations imposed by the UN Convention Against Torture. Qatar...
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