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Commission on Human Rights on questions relating to torture. 16 4.
What steps had the Government taken to prevent the acts of torture detailed in the report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on questions relating to torture?
In 1998, the four main United Nations organs working on questions relating to torture issued a Joint Declaration see annex I above.
At present, questions relating to torture and the use of unauthorized methods of investigation are strictly monitored by the State, particularly by the heads of law enforcement agencies.
Urge all States to cooperate fully with the Special Rapporteur on questions relating to torture in fulfilling his mandate.
Welcomes the continuing close contacts and exchange of information, reports and documents between the Committee against Torture andthe Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on questions relating to torture;
The Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on questions relating to torture unfortunately continued to receive a large number of communications containing reports of torture: a marked increase had been recorded compared with the previous year.
With regard to the monitoring procedures established by the United Nations,he asked why the Special Rapporteur on questions relating to torture had not been permitted to visit India.
First, in the report submitted to the fifty-third session of the Commission on Human Rights,the Special Rapporteur on questions relating to torture had said that, according to the information he had received, the courts still frequently accepted as evidence confessions that had been obtained through torture, and that the confessions formed the basis of convictions, in violation of the Federal Act to Prevent and Punish Torture. .
The Committee exchanged views on this issue with Mr. Nigel Rodley, Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on questions relating to torture, at its 187th meeting, on 27 April 1994.
Calls upon all Governments to cooperate with and assist the Special Rapporteur on questions relating to torture in the performance of his task and to supply all necessary information requested by him and to react appropriately to his urgent appeals;
The Committee against Torture, the Board of Trustees of the Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture, the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on questions relating to torture and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
On that occasion, the Board of Trustees of the Fund, the Committee against Torture, the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on questions relating to torture and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights-- in other words, the main United Nations bodies involved in combating torture-- launched two appeals in the form of a message and a declaration,(see text in annex I), with a view to encouraging the commemoration of the Day throughout the world.
When it examined this information, the Committee also had before it other information concerning allegations of torture in Turkey originating from non-governmental sources andfrom the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on questions relating to torture.
The delegation of Colombia also wished to note that recently,the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, the Special Rapporteur on questions relating to torture and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights had visited Colombia at the invitation of the Colombian Government.
Dr. Paz Rojas Baeza, of the Chilean organization Comité de Defensa para los Derechos del Pueblo(CODEPU), received the 1998 Lisl and Leo Eitinger Prize of the University of Oslo;the prize was presented to her at a ceremony during which the Special Rapporteur on questions relating to torture made a speech.
The Committee against Torture, the Board of Trustees of the Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture, the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on questions relating to torture and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, meeting at the United Nations Office at Geneva on 19 May 1998.
Moreover, it had invited the following United Nations agencies and officials to visit Colombia in the near future: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, Representative of the Secretary-General on internally displaced persons andthe Special Rapporteur on questions relating to torture.
The Committee notes that since November 1991, information on allegations of torture in Egypt has been provided mainly by:(a)reports of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on questions relating to torture;(b) Amnesty International;(c) the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights; and(d) the World Organization against Torture. .
Finally, the joint meeting with the administrative board of the United Nations VoluntaryFund for Torture Victims, the UNHCR Special Rapporteur on Questions relating to Torture and the High Commissioner for Human Rights would be held from 11.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on 16 May, and the press conference would take place at noon on Friday, 19 May.
The Russian Federation was willing to engage in a frank dialogue on such shortcomings,as witnessed by the invitation issued by the Government to the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on questions relating to torture, who had carried out a detailed investigation of conditions of detention in the country.
In addition to considering numerous State reports, it had provided valuable input to the working group of the Commission on Human Rights elaborating the draft optional protocol to the Convention andhad met with the Special Rapporteur on questions relating to torture on matters of mutual concern in order to strengthen cooperation.
The Committee against Torture, the Board of Trustees of the Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture, the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on questions relating to torture and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, meeting at the United Nations Office at Geneva on 19 May 1998, in anticipation of the occasion of 26 June 1998, International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. .
In his capacity as Secretary of the Committee against Torture since its establishment in 1987 until 2000, he developed measures of interaction and cooperation between the Committee andthe Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on questions relating to Torture; the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture; and the United Nations Voluntary Fund for the Victims of Torture. .
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Committee against Torture, the Board of Trustees of the Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture andthe Special Rapporteur on questions relating to torture recall on this United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture that torture, an international crime, is committed on a wide scale and often at the instigation or with the approval of government agencies.
At its eighth session(27 April-8 May 1992), the Committee had before it the additional information requested from Amnesty International, information submitted by other non-governmental organizations,the reports of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on questions relating to torture 5/ and preliminary observations made by the Government of Egypt on the initial information submitted directly to it by Amnesty International.
Investigations carried out by the authorities in response to complaints from the Special Rapporteur on questions related to torture invariably showed that those complaints were not well founded and were mainly politically inspired.
It had come to the Committee's attention that, in 1995 and again in 1996,the Special Rapporteur on questions related to torture of the Commission on Human Rights had requested the Government of Cuba to confirm or reject various allegations of ill-treatment of detainees.
Nevertheless, during the reporting period,information contained in the two most recent reports of the Special Rapporteur on questions related to torture and reports by non-governmental organizations(NGOs) contradicted the claim that“gross” forms of torture had virtually been eradicated.