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Organization of American States: Inter-American Juridical Committee Draft Convention Defining Torture as an International Crime*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2017

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Treaties and Agreements
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International Legal Materials , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , May 1980 , pp. 618 - 633
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1980

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[Reproduced from O.A.S. Document OEA/Ser.G, CP/doc.1061/80 of March 14, 1980, pp. iv and 1-18. The explanations of votes referred to in paragraph two of the covering letter have not been reproduced. The statement of reasons for the draft convention appears at I.L.M. page 623.

[The American Convention on Human Rights which entered into force on July 18, 1978, appears at 9 I.L.M. 673 (1970) and i s noted at 18 I.L.M. 1189 (1979). The U.N. Commission on Human Rights draft convention against t o r t u r e and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment appears at I.L.M. page 647. The U.S. Memorandum submitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in the case of Filartiga v. Pena-Irala appears at I.L.M. page 585.]

References

1. Eighth regular session - June-July I978 Actas y documentos, Vol. I, OEA/Ser.P/VlII-0-2.

2. 0EA/SER.L/V/II.48, doc. 27, December lU, 1979.