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This digital document is an article from UN Chronicle, published by United Nations Publications on March 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1613 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation Details
Title: Making human dignity violations proof; Third Committee: Social, Humanitarian and Cultural. (GA 57 Session).
Publication: UN Chronicle (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: United Nations Publications
Volume: 40 Issue: 1 Page: 14(2)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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Packing a punch for an better world, the Third (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) Committee, after ten years of negotiations, gave shape to a global system of inspections of places of detention to prevent torture of prisoners. The mechanism enables visits by independent international and national bodies to detention centres, "where persons are or may be deprived of their liberty". Called the "Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment", it helps in implementing the 1984 Convention agreed to by 129 countries.
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