ill-treatment

ill-treatment

Keywords

Declaration on the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance (1992) : ill-treatment [Keywords]

persons are arrested, detained or abducted against their will or otherwise deprived of their liberty by officials or by groups and individuals acting on behalf of government followed by a refusal to disclose their fate which places such persons outside the protection of the law

Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984) : ill-treatment [Keywords]

any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person