Torture & Terrorism: International Conventions Against Torture

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Ratified by the United Nation's General Assembly on December 16, 1966 inveighed against torture in Article 7:

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. In particular, no one shall be subjected without his free consent to to medical or scientific experimentation.

• International Covenant on Civil and Political 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