Sentences with phrase «of places of detention»

work with the government to advance ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and the establishment of a national system of regular inspections of all places of detention (as required under the Protocol)

This would ensure independent monitoring of all places of detention — including youth detention facilities.

Immediately ratify the Optional Protocol for the Convention Against Torture to ensure independent monitoring of all places of detention.»

The Commission is keen to hear from civil society stakeholders with relevant expertise in relation to the inspection of places of detention.

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.

Not exact matches

One suspect was placed in «administrative detention», a form of incarceration without trial normally reserved for Palestinian prisoners and the first time the measure has been taken against an alleged Jewish extremist.

Protest where Israeli's are demanding a small group of people be placed in «detention» camps.

NBC: Coptic Christian boys in Egypt accused of urinating on Quran Two Coptic Christian boys in Egypt accused of tearing up a copy of the Quran and urinating on it have been placed in juvenile detention, a lawyer for the boys told Reuters on Wednesday.

The 50 - acre lake is already in place, and its main purpose is as a stormwater detention basin for McDonald Creek, which will provide flood relief to areas of Prospect Heights, Mt. Prospect and Wheeling as well as its immediate neighborhood in Arlington Heights.

On the other hand, it seems likely that the prospect of being rescued in this way provides an incentive to migrants to embark on journeys that are visibly unsafe, and that where states have broken the link between rescue and access to their territory — as the Australian government has done by adopting a policy whereby migrant boats are either towed back to their point of embarkation, or else their occupants are assessed in offshore detention centres, with those qualifying for refugee status placed in third countries — the stream of boats rapidly dries up, and with it the loss of life.

Human Rights Watch reports claim that while West African forces helped restore security in these crises, which took place over a decade ago, they were also complicit in serious violations of international humanitarian law, including looting, harassment, and arbitrary detention of civilians, as well as — in the case of Sierra Leone — summary executions of suspected rebels.

It is difficult for me to parse the sentence in Geneva -4-A3, but SCOTUS in the Hamdan decision seems to believe that the phrase «those placed in hors de combat by -LSB-...] detention» is a modifier of «persons taking no active part» and not a modifier of «members of armed forces», because SCOTUS held that this Article applies to Osama bin Laden's driver, who was detained in Camp X-ray.

In third place is a disturbing report of a death at the Colnebrook immigration detention centre.

Article 320: Those sentenced to detention for a theft may, in case of recurrence, be placed on parole by police for a period of at least one year or at most two years.

Judges found control orders placed on six Iraqis breached Article 5 of the Human Rights Act by imposing indefinite detention without trial.

Her letter ended: «The Christmas period can be a particularly difficult time for both incarcerated people and those working in places of detention, so I hope you will grant my request for a visit as a matter of urgency.»

Madu's statement read: «We support the meeting of the South East governors and Ohaneze Ndigbo, with pro-Biafra groups to douse the tension, but we believe that such a meeting can not take place while Nnamdi Kanu is still in detention.

Once you get locked in a detention centre, the bureaucratic inertia of the place takes over.

I think is fairly described as a very robust Labour tribalist from a trade union organiser background (I would place him very much on the right of the party, though you may well approve of his rebelling on ID cards, 90 days detention, the 10p tax rate and other more left / liberal rebellions, which shows he is not easily pigeonholed).

More than 100 of Singh's senior loyalists had been placed in detention as a precautionary measure, said Rohtak police chief Navdeep Singh Virk.

Hardwick said the findings of the April inspection, the first undertaken since June 2013, provided support to calls to place time limits on «administrative detention», or detention without trial.

Instead, offenders would be placed in specialized juvenile detention facility certified by the Administration for Children's Services and the state's Office of Children and Family Services, and in conjunction with the state's Commission of Correction and the New York City Department of Corrections.

When Senate Republicans balked at raising the age for teenagers accused of serious crimes to be sent to state prison from 16 to 18, Cuomo issued an executive order to remove 16 - and 17 - year - olds from the jails and place them in youth detention instead.

The coalition government initially promised to end this kind of detention within weeks - it now look like it will still be taking place almost one year into their leadership.

The screenings were initiated when a youth was placed in a detention center and a screening tool, the Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument, was administered within 24 to 48 hours of the youth's arrival at the detention facility.

Polish detention centres are presented by both authorities and their critics as places of order.

In the case of detention, Lancaster advocated tying children to their desks so that they were adequately fixed in place while teachers went home.

Instead, ICE is violating federal law by placing them in detention centers halfway across the country from where they live, putting them in danger of being molested and assaulted.

Unlike service animals that help people with physical or mental difficulties, therapy animals visit a range of places, from convalescent homes and hospitals to juvenile detention centers and mental health centers.

Detention takes place in 1960s Taiwan, during the period of martial law known as the White Terror.

Well, that's basically how Detention works, the typical style of picking up items that seem to have no use, use them in places where they seem to have no purpose, and so on, but in a 2D environment.

Ghani has collaborated with artist Chitra Ganesh since 2004 as Index of the Disappeared, an experimental archive of post-9 / 11 detentions, deportations, renditions and redactions; and with choreographer Erin Kelly and composer Qasim Naqvi since 2006 on the video series Performed Places.

Along its ideological trajectory the RCP's magazine (initially «Living Marxism», renamed «LM» — a surprisingly glossy publication for a party with a tiny membership and no other visible means of support) found time to deny that genocide took place in Rwanda, and accuse reporters for British television company ITV of faking footage of Bosnian Muslims in a Serb - run detention centre.

While the public are supportive of the legislative scheme in place to combat drinking and driving, this support can not be presumed to extend to police actions that involve the detention and arrest of drivers without the requisite statutory and constitutional grounds.

«In the totality of the circumstances, the initial detention of the accused was reasonably necessary to respond to the seriousness of the offence and the threat to safety inherent in the presence of prohibited weapons in a public place and was temporally, geographically and logistically responsive to the circumstances known to the police.

The first issue clarified by the Court is whether the decision to extend the period of detention should follow the same requirements as the initial decision to place an irregular migrant in detention (Article 15 (2) Returns Directive), meaning that the decision should be in writing and stating the factual and legal reasons.

The significance of this decision, therefore, is that the Court has effectively determined that it does not matter whether or not the initial detention (and by logical extension, seizure) of the cash was lawful or not for forfeiture to take place.

It covers everyone detained or incarcerated at youth detention centres from Jan. 1, 2007 to the present and were placed in secure isolation while under the age of 18.

An investigative duty arose where detention arrangements were implemented by the State authorities with the result that detention took place beyond the reach of the courts, even if such detention was not secret or unacknowledged.

The Claimants argued that the circumstances in which a duty to investigate an alleged violation of Article 5 arises were not limited to cases of enforced disappearance, but that an investigative duty arose in all cases where detention takes place beyond the reach of the courts, even if such detention was not secret or unacknowledged.

Reflecting the complexity of the scheme, over 30 official forms have also been published by the Department of Health to be used to record the various events that must or may take place in connection with an application to authorise a person's detention under the scheme in England — and this is before any application to the Court of Protection has even been contemplated.

Within a span of 36 hours, over 1,000 people — peaceful protesters, journalists, human rights monitors and downtown residents — were arrested and placed in detention.

First, the report is striking in the number of concerns it raises about ill - treatment in places of detention in the UK, including inter-prisoner violence, a lack of safety in prisons, use of restraint and separation in psychiatric hospitals, solitary confinement of children and indefinite lengths of immigration detention.

A passenger who placed something in the trunk of a vehicle had a reasonable expectation of privacy to have standing to challenge the search of the vehicle, but the detention of the occupants and the vehicle was not unconstitutional due...

Yu Wensheng stands accused of «inciting subversion of state power» and has been placed under «residential surveillance in a designated location», a de facto incommunicado detention for charges of «endangering national security».

Upon request of the ED physician, assesses patients for the need to be placed under emergency detention.

Bannum Place - Bureau of Prison's Contracted - Halfway House Quality assurance * Enforces program rules * Summits reports in an accurate and timely manner * Monitors by telephone resident movement while job searching, at work, on pass, furlough and home detention.

A judge will look at the youth's family situation, school performance, and the seriousness of the crime before deciding to place the minor in a youth detention center.

what are the conditions, the understandings, the agreements that would need to be in place in order to return those young people who are in detention centres, to keep those young people who are at risk of incarceration from coming into contact with the criminal justice system, and

«A rigorous inspection system will increase transparency in places of detention.