This is an interesting article if anyone is study human rights and in particular torture or inhuman and degrading treatment as protected by Art 3 ECHR. privatelawtutor.co.uk/art…
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UN report: Palestinian Authority and Hamas violations of the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (3 March 2021)

https://www.un.org/unispal/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AHRC46NGO95_030321.pdf

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πŸ“…︎ Nov 14 2021
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The Geneva Convention. Practice Relating to Rule 90. Torture and Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment globalcommunityweekly.sub…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/williamcedstrom
πŸ“…︎ Sep 06 2021
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Customary IHL - Practice Relating to Rule 90. Torture and Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment ihl-databases.icrc.org/cu…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Rare_Raise2321
πŸ“…︎ Jul 21 2021
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"Persecuted for one thing and one thing only. For having told the truth about the misconduct of Western democracies." | Nils Melzer - UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment #FreeAssangeNOW #DropTheCharges youtu.be/fvEqRZHqvVM
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πŸ‘€︎ u/drstrangelove444
πŸ“…︎ Jun 10 2021
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NZ Mental Health units in breach of UN Convention against Torture and Cruel/Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment ombudsman.parliament.nz/n…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/bskyb3
πŸ“…︎ Aug 25 2020
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β€œThe Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights continued to receive credible reports of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” The report also mentions β€œbeatings, electric shocks, sexual violence, and threats of rape” en.mercopress.com/2021/07…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Puffin_fan
πŸ“…︎ Jul 04 2021
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Judges reined in on using human rights laws to block deportations | Judges will be told what constitutes "inhuman or degrading treatment", under plans being considered by Priti Patel to curb the use of human rights laws to block deportations. telegraph.co.uk/news/2020…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Underlaker
πŸ“…︎ Oct 18 2020
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Accountability for Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - a TI submission to the may 15 UN Investigation (My research partner) documentcloud.adobe.com/l…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/DuchessJulietDG
πŸ“…︎ May 03 2021
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International Symposium of Parliamentarians briefing on Julian Assange by Prof Nils Melzer, Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. youtube.com/watch?v=-1v6H…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/drstrangelove444
πŸ“…︎ Apr 19 2021
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Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Tortu…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/DuchessJulietDG
πŸ“…︎ Oct 15 2020
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Judges will be told what constitutes "inhuman or degrading treatment", under plans being considered by Priti Patel to curb the use of human rights laws to block deportations telegraph.co.uk/news/2020…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/ZenpodManc
πŸ“…︎ Oct 18 2020
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Melzer Asks Trump to Pardon Assange: The UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment has written to the U.S. president asking him to grant a pardon to the imprisoned publisher. consortiumnews.com/2020/1…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/idspispopd
πŸ“…︎ Dec 22 2020
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Portland: officers targeted medics with teargas and projectiles, report finds. Physicians’ group describes β€˜cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment’ by local police and federal agents theguardian.com/us-news/2…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Whey-Men
πŸ“…︎ Oct 08 2020
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Australia’s offshore detention regime is a β€œcruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment” and unlawful under international law, the international criminal court’s prosecutor has said. But the office of the prosecutor has stopped short of deciding to prosecute theguardian.com/australia…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/DoremusJessup
πŸ“…︎ Feb 15 2020
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#OTD 1998. Human Rights Act passed. Its aim was to incorporate into UK law the rights contained in the European Convention on Human Rights. Gives people "the right to life, freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment and freedom from forced labour"

https://twitter.com/labour_history/status/1457984815236517896?s=21 We don't celebrate the achievements of previous non Attlee governments enough I think, so here's a good one

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Ranger447
πŸ“…︎ Nov 09 2021
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Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Tortu…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/DuchessJulietDG
πŸ“…︎ Oct 15 2020
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Full Civil Rights Observer report - "Policing Protests in Hong Kong: Torture & Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment" hkcro.org/wp-content/uplo…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/bloncx
πŸ“…︎ May 13 2020
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Scotland - The treatment of prisoners during the coronavirus outbreak could be regarded as β€œinhuman or degrading”, MSPs have been told. thenational.scot/news/184…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Whey-Men
πŸ“…︎ May 20 2020
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a reminder that 10 years ago the USG called for "full cooperation with the UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" wikileaks.org/plusd/cable…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/guilelessgull
πŸ“…︎ Mar 18 2020
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[Document] UN Assembly - "Extra-custodial use of force and the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" - Nils Melzer drive.google.com/file/d/1…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/undercover_system
πŸ“…︎ Jan 15 2020
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THE WAR ON TERROR Turning a Blind Eye to 20 Years of Brutality. Cloaked under the false dichotomy of the need for a trade-off between security and rights, the post-9/11 years are a shameful track record of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment which must not be forgotten bylinetimes.com/2021/09/1…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Budget-Song2618
πŸ“…︎ Sep 10 2021
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Solitary confinement - Since solitary confinement has been designated as β€œcruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment” under international law, many lawyers have argued that it is also the kind of β€œcruel and unusual punishment” prohibited by the Eighth Amendment. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/charlatan
πŸ“…︎ May 09 2014
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Foreign criminals could be banned from claiming countries like Greece are unsafe for deportation. Crackdown on foreign asylum claimants who avoid deportation to 'safe' countries by claiming they face 'inhuman and degrading' treatment telegraph.co.uk/news/2021…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/CaravanOfDeath
πŸ“…︎ Feb 04 2021
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UN human rights chief says US treatment of detained migrant children β€œmay constitute cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment that is prohibited by international law.” vox.com/policy-and-politi…
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πŸ“…︎ Jul 09 2019
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OHCHR | Preliminary observations and recommendations of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Mr. Nils Melzer, on his official visit to Ukraine 28 May ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/P…
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Amnesty International has accused the Israeli authorities of subjecting jailed nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment by holding him in solitary confinement. amnesty.org/en/news-and-u…
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πŸ“…︎ Jun 18 2010
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[Laws: Torture] In October 1994 the United States ratified the Convention Against Torture, and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. On November 20, 1994 the Convention entered into force for the United States.

https://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/torture_index.html

This does not apply to weapons testing and medical experiments.

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H.R. 2643: To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require the annual human rights reports to include information on the institutionalization of children and the subjection of children to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, unnecessary detenti

Introduced: Sponsor: Rep. Tom Marino [R-PA10]

This bill was referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs which will consider it before sending it to the House floor for consideration.

Rep. Tom Marino [R-PA10] is a member of the committee.

Govtrack.us Summary

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πŸ‘€︎ u/congressbot
πŸ“…︎ May 25 2017
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Australia "sick of being lectured by the UN" over violations of the right of asylum-seekers to be free from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment bbc.com/news/world-austra…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/PostNationalism
πŸ“…︎ Mar 09 2015
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U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture calls for action against "reparative" therapy aimed at making gay children straight and "forced genital-normalizing surgery" on children born with "ambiguous genitalia." Calls them "tantamount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." theatlantic.com/health/ar…
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πŸ“…︎ Feb 28 2013
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U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture calls for action against "reparative" therapy aimed at making gay children straight and "forced genital-normalizing surgery" on children born with "ambiguous genitalia." Calls them "tantamount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." theatlantic.com/health/ar…
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