Torture & Terrorism: International Conventions Against Torture

The Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners was adopted by the first United Nationals Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders in 1955. Inhuman punishment was prohibited in Article 31:

Corporal punishment, punishment by placing in a dark cell, and all cruel, inhuman or degrading punishments shall be completely prohibited as punishments for disciplinary offences.

• 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