Punishments and torture

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Punishments and torture

Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials (1979)

all officers of the law, whether appointed or elected, who exercise police powers, especially the powers of arrest or detention

Keywords: police, arrest, detention

Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984)

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

Keywords: torture, punishment

Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (1989)

no one within the jurisdiction of a State Party to the protocol shall be executed

Keywords: death penalty

Declaration on the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance (1992)

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

Keywords: disappearance, human rights, security of person

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998)

an International Criminal Court is hereby established. It shall be a permanent institution and shall have the power to exercise its jurisdiction over persons for the most serious crimes of international concern

Keywords: rome statute, international criminal court, justice

Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (2002)

a system of regular visits undertaken by independent international and national bodies to places where people are deprived of their liberty, in order to prevent torture

Keywords: torture, punishment