Victims of Torture
| Preis: | 11.95 EUR* (inkl. MWST zzgl. Versand - Preis kann jetzt höher sein!) |
| Versand: | 0.00 EUR Versandkostenfrei innerhalb von Deutschland |
| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Rights, United States; Congress; House;) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Victims of Torture: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights Fo the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, May 8, 1996 The committee met, pursuant to call, at 2:40 p.m. in room 2172, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC, Hon. Christopher H. Smith (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Mr. Smith. The subcommittee will come to order. Good afternoon. Today the subcommittee will hear testimony on the continued and widespread persistence of torture in the world today, and what steps the United States and other free and civilized nations can do about it. Three of our witnesses are themselves victims of torture: a native of Uganda who suffered at the hands of Idi Amin; a Tibetan physician who was tortured by the Chinese Communists; and an American who became a torture victim in Saudi Arabia after he had a falling out with his employer, the Saudi Government. You will also hear from witnesses who are experts on the serious difficulties often encountered by torture victims at the hands of the very institutions that are designed to help them, including refugee and asylum hospices as well as the State Departments process for espousing claims against foreign governments and similar structures. Finally, we will hear testimony on the treatment of torture victims designed to bring about the remission and eventual cure of the severe physical and emotional and psychological consequences of torture. As we begin this hearing, I should say that I am proud to be principal sponsor along with my good friend, the ranking member Tom Lantos, and 48 cosponsors of H.R. 1416, the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1995. The Act contains a number of important provisions designed to assist torture victims. First, implementation of the provisions of the convention against torture that prohibits the involuntary return of any person to a country in which there are substantial grounds for believing that he or she would be in danger of being subjected to torture. Because the United States has ratified the convention, this provision is already binding on the United States as a matter of international law, but it has as yet not been incorporated into our domestic law, and the time has come to do so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
* Preis kann jetzt höher sein. Den aktuellen Stand und Informationen zu den Versandkosten finden sie auf der Homepage unseres Partners.
Folgende Produkte könnten dir ebenso gefallen
