Convention Against Torture

• The Obama Administration and Obligations Under the Convention Against Torture

Introduction - II. Protection from torture as an absolute and non-derogable right - III. Shift under bush: "the war on terror" undermining the prohibition of torture - IV. The Obama administration and compliance with U.S. obligations under cat - A. The Obama Administration-A Paradigm Shift? - B. Dealing With the Past: Providing Justice For Torture Practices Under the Bush Administration - 1. Duty to Investigate - a) Investigation of the Department of Defense - b) Investigation of the Central Intelligence Agency - c) Investigation of the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel Lawyers - 2. Duty to Prosecute - a) Prosecution of the Department of Justice - b) Prosecution of the Central Intelligence Agency - c) Prosecution of the Department of Defense - C. Right to a Remedy and R...

• Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems
• Nbr. 20-1, May 2011

• 8 CFR 1208.18 - Implementation of the Convention Against Torture.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 8: Aliens and Nationality

• 8 CFR 208.18 - Implementation of the Convention Against Torture.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 8: Aliens and Nationality

• As convention against torture takes effect, the Dominican Republic still has high levels of abuse.

With the UN Convention against Torture coming into force in the Dominican Republic at the end of February, Amnesty International (AI) is once again ca...

• NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
• Nbr. 2012, January 2012

• Cai Wu v. Atty Gen USA, (3rd Cir. 2010)

... protection under the United Nations Convention Against Torture (ACAT@). . Wu claime...

• Federal Circuits

• 8 CFR 208.17 - Deferral of removal under the Convention Against Torture.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 8: Aliens and Nationality

• Illegal renditions and improper treatment: an obligation to provide refugee remedies pursuant to the Convention Against Torture.

I. INTRODUCTION The state of International Law has been significantly influenced in recent years by the terrorist attacks which took place on United...

• Denver Journal of International Law and Policy
• Vol. 37 Nbr. 4, September 2009

• 8 CFR 1208.17 - Deferral of removal under the Convention Against Torture.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 8: Aliens and Nationality

• 8 CFR 1208.16 - Withholding of removal under section 241(b)(3)(B) of the Act and withholding of removal under the Convention Against Torture.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 8: Aliens and Nationality

• The People Vs. Dick Cheney

It begins with illegal wiretapping and surveillance (which in die view of many experts violated die Fourth Amendment, the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, for starters), the politicization of the Justice Department and the firing of nine US attorneys, and numerous instances of obstruction of justice- from the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes to the willful misleading of Congress and the public. Perhaps the paramount charge that legal experts have zeroed in on is the state-approved torture that violated not just the Geneva Conventions and the UN Convention Against Torture but also the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the 1996 War Crimes Act, which prohibits humiliating and degrading treatment and other "outrages...

• Mother Jones
• Vol. 34 Nbr. 1, January 2009