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5. No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. PLAIN LANGUAGE VERSION: Nobody has the right to torture you. Illustrated version NOTES: Torture is not just hurting someone, but destroying a person’s dignity and making it impossible for that person to continue their lives and activities. Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment include such practices as corporal punishment, pain-causing devices, interrogation under duress, biomedical experiments on prisoners, the use of drugs on prisoners, and solitary confinement. DEFINITIONS: torture is defined in the Convention against Torture as an act “by which severe pain or suffering, whether mental or physical, is intentionally inflicted on a person...by or at the instigation of or with acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an offical capacity.” MORE: The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (1993) The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, (10 December 1984) |
 On the world wide web, go to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights web-site and find the documents section. View the document 'by Treaty'. The direct URL for the site is at: http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf  Click on the Committee against Torture. Then click on Concluding Observations/Comments. This will give you a multilingual list, by country, of the reports made by the Committee against Torture. See if you can find your country on the list. Read and discuss the report. |
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