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    Manfred Nowak (born 26 June 1950 in Bad Aussee) is an Austrian human rights expert, who served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture from...
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    the majority of cases involves incommunicado detention and torture". Manfred Nowak, a special reporter on torture, has catalogued in a 15-page U.N. report...
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  • operations. In a February 2008 report, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak noted that in China "there are many more organ transplants than identifiable...
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  • Novak (redirect from Nowak)
    or Nowak in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Novak (in Serbo-Croatian and Slovene; Cyrillic: Новак), Novák (in Hungarian, Czech and Slovak), or Nowak (in...
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    the War on Terror. The United Nations special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak (in office 2004–2010), said that, as a former president of the U.S....
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  • president George W. Bush in 2001. The film features interviews with Manfred Nowak, who was United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture from 2004 to 2010...
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    accepted the minimum requirements for such a visit, we must cancel [it]," Manfred Nowak, the UN envoy in charge of investigating torture allegations around...
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    extent as for an adult". The judgment was considered 'landmark' by Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading...
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  • Institut für Menschenrechte, with his students and close collaborators Manfred Nowak and Hannes Tretter, and served as its first director. He was part of...
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    broadened over time. Another approach, preferred by scholars such as Manfred Nowak and Malcolm Evans, distinguishes torture from CIDT by considering only...
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    at least one suspect on Diego Garcia during 2002 and possibly 2003. Manfred Nowak, one of five United Nations special rapporteurs on torture, said that...
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  • article 12 of the Covenant by its drafters. Austrian human rights lawyer Manfred Nowak has argued the opposite position, that the right of return applies "even...
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  • already know in broad outline". The UN's chief investigator on torture, Manfred Nowak, states that "if the files released through WikiLeaks pointed to clear...
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    those responsible to account under criminal law. On 20 January 2009, Manfred Nowak—the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman...
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    Frouville (France), 2008 - 2014 Stephen Toope (Canada), 2002 - 2008 Manfred Nowak (Austria), 1993 - 2001 Toine Van Dongen (The Netherlands), 1984 - 1993...
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  • subjected to human rights abuses due to the center's use of aversives. Manfred Nowak, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture at the time, sent what he described...
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    copy of the Mona Lisa Alfred Komarek [de] (1945-2024), Austrian writer Manfred Nowak (born 1950), an Austrian human rights expert, the UN Special Rapporteur...
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    abuse in custody exceeds 2,500. 2006 – UN special rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak releases the findings of his 2005 investigation on torture in China...
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  • Rapporteur on torture (2001-2004)". OHCHR. Retrieved 4 March 2023. "Manfred Nowak, former Special Rapporteur on torture (2004-2010)". OHCHR. Retrieved...
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  • the area of human rights. It was founded in 1992 by Felix Ermacora, Manfred Nowak and Hannes Tretter, all three Professors of Law at the University of...
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    prisoners is totally a lie fabricated by Falun Gong." In August 2009, Manfred Nowak, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, said, "The Chinese...
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    system.[citation needed] United Nations Special Rapporteurs on Torture Manfred Nowak and Juan Méndez have "repeatedly and unequivocally stated that prolonged...
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  • other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (Professor Manfred Nowak) who, on 20 January 2009, remarked on German television that former...
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  • "U.N. Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. CCPR Commentary. By Manfred Nowak. Kehl, Strasbourg, Arlington VA: N. P. Engel, Publisher, 1993. Pp. xxviii...
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  • Violation of Human Rights, published by the University of Pennsylvania. Manfred Nowak (1994) wrote that Kamminga "dealt with one of the most difficult and...
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    Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, he defeated Meglena Kuneva and Manfred Nowak. He took over the position on 1 April 2024, succeeding the previous...
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  • the Article 3 of the ECHR. This was labelled a landmark decision by Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading...
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  • political scientist; Chief of Staff under First Lady Michelle Obama Manfred Nowak – Austrian human rights lawyer; Austrian delegate to the United Nations...
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  • grounds that it is a violation of the human right to life." In 2010, Manfred Nowak undertook a comprehensive review of PNG's use of "torture and other...
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    seizures from unwilling Falun Gong practitioners." U.N. special rapporteur Manfred Nowak said in March 2007 that the chain of evidence Kilgour and Matas were...
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