8 years 9 months ago
COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE BEGINS EXAMINATION OF REPORT OF MEXICO
31 October 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee against Torture this morning began its consideration of the combined fifth and sixth periodic report submitted by Mexico on how it implements the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Introducing the report, Ruth Villanueva, Deputy Prosecutor for Human Rights, Crime Prevention and Community Services of Mexico, said that Mexico recognized that life without torture was a fundamental right for all human beings. It was for this reason that the country had acceded to and ratified almost all the…
8 years 9 months ago
COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE HEARS REPLIES OF PERU
31 October 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee against Torture this afternoon heard the replies of Peru to questions raised by Committee Experts on the sixth periodic report of that country on how it is implementing the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Responding to questions raised by Committee members on Tuesday, 30 October, the delegation of Peru, which was led by José Avila Herrera, Vice-Minister for Human Rights and Access to Justice of Peru, explained that the state of emergency in Peru was restricted to areas where the Sendero Luminoso…
8 years 9 months ago
COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE BEGINS EXAMINATION OF REPORT OF PERU
30 October 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee against Torture this morning began its consideration of the sixth periodic report submitted by Peru on how it implements the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Introducing the report, José Avila Herrera, Vice-Minister for Human Rights and Access to Justice of Peru, said that Peru had been making major efforts in its fight against torture. Torture was an issue of national sensitivity as the country had been affected by it in a particularly grave manner over a decade of violence. The Truth…
8 years 9 months ago
COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE OPENS FOURTY-NINTH SESSION
29 October 2012
Meeting Summaries
Hears Address by the Director of the Human Rights Division, Adopts Agenda and Discusses Organizational and Other Matters
The Committee against Torture this morning opened its forty-ninth session, hearing an address by the Director of the Human Rights Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, adopting its agenda and programme of work, and discussing organizational and other matters.
Ibrahim Salama, Director of the Human Rights Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, noted that the increase in the number of treaty bodies had never been…
8 years 9 months ago
STATES MUST TRANSLATE COMMITMENT TO ERADICATE TORTURE INTO ACTION, WITH ADEQUATE RESOURCES – UN EXPERT COMMITTEE ON TORTURE
24 October 2012
Press Release
25th anniversary of the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishmen
NEW YORK (23 October 2012) – Twenty-five years after the entry into force of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, an impressive international legal framework has developed, but the abhorrent practice continues in too many states, the chairperson of the UN Committee on the issue said on Tuesday.
Speaking at the 67th session of the UN General Assembly…
9 years 2 months ago
COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE CONCLUDES FORTY-EIGHTH SESSION
01 June 2012
Press Release
Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Albania, Armenia, Canada, Cuba, Czech Republic, Greece and Rwanda, and in Absence of a Special Report on Syria
The Committee against Torture concluded its forty-eighth session today, issuing its concluding observations and recommendations on reports from Albania, Armenia, Canada, Cuba, Czech Republic, Greece and Rwanda which it reviewed during the session, and also on the situation in Syria in the absence of a special report by Syria.
The Committee against Torture considered the implementation of the Convention in Syria in the absence of the…
9 years 2 months ago
COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE DISCUSSES FOLLOW-UP TO CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS AND INDIVIDUAL COMMUNICATIONS
24 May 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee against Torture this morning considered the issue of follow-up to concluding observations and individual communications, hearing oral presentations by Committee members Felice Gaer, Rapporteur on follow-up to concluding observations, and Fernando Mariño Menendez, Rapporteur on follow-up to individual communications.
Ms. Gaer, presenting her report on follow-up to concluding observations, said that since the Committee began the follow-up procedure in 2003 and by the end of the current session, a total of 126 countries would have…
9 years 2 months ago
COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE HEARS REPLIES OF CUBA
23 May 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee against Torture this afternoon heard the responses of Cuba to questions raised by Committee Experts on the second periodic report of that country on how it is implementing the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Responding to questions raised by Committee members on Tuesday, 22 May and today, the delegation of Cuba, which was led by Rafael Pino Becquer, Deputy Attorney General of Cuba, said there was no express definition of the crime of torture in Cuban legislation, but the Government contemplated including…
9 years 2 months ago
COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE STARTS CONSIDERATION OF REPORT OF CUBA
22 May 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee against Torture this morning began its consideration of the second periodic report of Cuba on how it implements the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Introducing the report, Rafael Pino Becquer, Deputy Attorney General of Cuba, said Cuba became a party to the Convention against Torture in 1995 and had complied with its obligations although it was prevented from exercising its sovereignty in the territory illegally occupied by the United States’ Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, which had become…
9 years 2 months ago
COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE HEARS REPLIES OF CANADA
22 May 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee against Torture this afternoon heard the responses of Canada to questions raised by Committee Experts on the sixth periodic report of that country on how it is implementing the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Responding to questions raised by Committee Members on Monday, 21 May and today, the delegation of Canada, led by Alan Kessel, Legal Advisor, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada, emphasized that all the levels of Government were aware of and took seriously Canada’s…
