European Committee for the Prevention of Torture

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• Committee for the Prevention of Torture — The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment or shortly Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) is the anti torture committee of the Council of Europe. It has been described as a… …   Wikipedia

• European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment — The European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment was adopted by the member states of the Council of Europe, meeting at Strasbourg on 26 November 1987. It was subsequently amended by two… …   Wikipedia

• Committee on the Rights of the Child — The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is a body of independent experts that monitors and reports on implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child by governments that ratify the Convention.[1] The Committee… …   Wikipedia

• Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment — Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Type Human rights convention Drafted 18 December 2002[1] Signed 18 December 2002 …   Wikipedia

• Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs — OCHA redirects here. For other uses, see Ocha. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) French: Le Bureau de la coordination des affaires humanitaires, is a United Nations body formed in December 1991 by… …   Wikipedia

• Torture — Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, is any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him, or a third person,… …   Wikipedia

• torture — torturable, adj. torturedly, adv. torturer, n. torturesome, adj. torturingly, adv. /tawr cheuhr/, n., v., tortured, torturing. n. 1. the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or… …   Universalium

• European Court of Human Rights — Not to be confused with the European Court of Justice, the highest court of the European Union. European Court of Human Rights Established 1959 (initially) 1998 (permanent) …   Wikipedia

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• Network of National Institutions in the Americas — The Network of National Institutions in the Americas is one of four regional groups of national human rights institutions (NHRIs) within the global network, the International Co ordinating Committee of NHRIs (the ICC). The Americas group, which… …   Wikipedia