Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: The Rule of Law Finds Its Golem: Judicial Torture Then and Now
- THE ISSUES
- ESSAYS
- Section One: Democracy, Terror and Torture
- Section Two: On the Matter of Failed States, The Geneva Conventions, and International Law
- Section Three: On Torture
- 13 Legal Ethics and Other Perspectives
- 14 Legal Ethics: A Debate
- 15 The Lawyers Know Sin: Complicity in Torture
- 16 Renouncing Torture
- 17 Reconciling Torture with Democracy
- 18 Great Nations and Torture
- Section Four: Looking Forward
- RELEVANT DOCUMENTS
- AFTERTHOUGHT
- Index
18 - Great Nations and Torture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: The Rule of Law Finds Its Golem: Judicial Torture Then and Now
- THE ISSUES
- ESSAYS
- Section One: Democracy, Terror and Torture
- Section Two: On the Matter of Failed States, The Geneva Conventions, and International Law
- Section Three: On Torture
- 13 Legal Ethics and Other Perspectives
- 14 Legal Ethics: A Debate
- 15 The Lawyers Know Sin: Complicity in Torture
- 16 Renouncing Torture
- 17 Reconciling Torture with Democracy
- 18 Great Nations and Torture
- Section Four: Looking Forward
- RELEVANT DOCUMENTS
- AFTERTHOUGHT
- Index
Summary
THE GENESIS OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Torture Convention), which was adopted by the General Assembly in 1984, is in a resolution adopted by the Fifth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice held in Geneva in 1975. On that occasion, a special resolution condemning torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment was adopted. The resolution was based on the prohibition of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The 1975 resolution by the Fifth Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice was then adopted by the General Assembly that same year, with a proviso that the Secretary General implement said resolution. The Secretary General then sent the resolution to the Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, which, pursuant to a submission jointly made by the International Association of Penal Law and the International Commission of Jurists in accordance with the Commission on Human Rights Resolution 1503, proposed to organize a committee of experts chaired by the respective secretary generals of the two co-sponsoring organizations to prepare a draft convention for the prohibition of torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment or punishment.
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- The Torture Debate in America , pp. 256 - 260Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005
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