Torture & Terrorism: International Conventions Against Torture

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in December 1948 declares in Article 5 that:

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• Torture & Terrorism: What International Conventions Say about Torture
• 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• 1948 European Convention on Human Rights
• 1955 Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners
• 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• 1969 American Convention on Human Rights
• 1975 World Medical Association Declaration of Tokyo
• 1975 Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Tortture
• 1984 Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment