The refugees had been transferred to a customs vessel at sea while they awaited a hearing, a move that was widely criticized as being
against international protocol.
Not exact matches
Sri Lanka to ratify the Optional
Protocol to the Convention
Against Torture and establish an effective torture prevention programme including extensive training within the military, police and intelligence services and measures to enable independent national and
international monitors to make regular unannounced inspections of any place of detention including unofficial detention facilities.
International standardised testing
protocols and terminology (definitions) in canine behavioural evaluations should help selection
against behavioural disorders in the dog, and optimise breeding success and performance in working dogs.
International standardised testing
protocols and terminology in canine behavioural evaluations should facilitate selection
against behavioural disorders in the modern dog and optimise breeding success and performance in working dogs.
States recommended that Canada improve its relationship with Indigenous peoples, and encouraged Canada to adopt
international conventions (that is, Optional
Protocol to the Convention
against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment).
These included the European Convention on Human Rights, the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention
Against Torture, the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, the two Additional
Protocols of 1977, and the Statute of the
International Criminal Court.
Ten years after the adoption of the Optional
Protocol to the Convention
against Torture, MDAC and leading
international human rights organisations call on governments to strengthen efforts to tackle torture and ill - treatment globally.
The provisions that apply in
international conflicts, Additional
Protocol II (which governs a subset of NIACs), and human rights law all require: (a) a presumption of innocence, (b) prompt notification of the offenses, (c) charges based on individual responsibility and offenses prescribed in law, (d) means to present a defense, (e) presence at trial, (f) a right
against self - incrimination, and (g) notification of remedies.
1Article 2,
International Labour Organisation Forced Labour Convention 1930; Article 1, Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 2Article 3,
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Supplementing the United Nations Convention
Against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo, 2000)
That the Commonwealth government ensure universal ratification of individual communication processes under
international human rights treaties by ratifying the Optional
Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
Against Women.