All States parties are obliged to submit regular reports to the Committee on how the rights are being implemented. States must report initially one year after acceding to the Convention and then every four years. The Committee examines each report and addresses its concerns and recommendations to the State party in the form of "concluding observations".
In addition to the reporting procedure, the Convention establishes three other mechanisms through which the Committee performs its monitoring functions: the Committee may also, under certain circumstances, consider individual complaints or communications from individuals claiming that their rights under the Convention have been violated, undertake inquiries, and consider inter-state complaints.
The Optional Protocol to the Convention, which entered into force in June 2006, creates the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT). The SPT has a mandate to visit places where persons are deprived of their liberty in the States parties. Under the Optional Protocol, States parties shall establish a independent national preventive mechanisms for the prevention of torture at the domestic level which has also a mandate to inspect places of detention.
The CAT meets in Geneva and normally holds two sessions per year consisting of a four week session in April/May and another four week session in November.
The Committee also publishes its interpretation of the content of the provisions of the Convention, known as general comments on thematic issues
For more information about the work of the Committee Against Torture, click here.
New faces of Torture-Susan Rice and President Obama
Beginning in the early 1990s and continuing to this day, the Central
Intelligence Agency, together with other U.S. government agencies,
has utilized an intelligence-gathering program involving the transfer of
foreign nationals suspected of involvement in terrorism to detention
and interrogation in countries where -- in the CIA's view --
federal and international legal safeguards do not apply.
Many American Political Prisoners have been incarcerated in Solitary confinement
for many many Years Ruchell Magee has been in solitary confinement for
44yrs as a result of participating in a prison break with Soledad brother
George Jackson. The United States has over 200 political prisoners and is
responsible for torturing victims in Afghanistan, Iraq, and South America .
Last Updated ( Sunday, 30 October 2011 01:56 )
Written by Mustafa Ansari
Saturday, 25 December 2010 22:19
The Real Dr Martin Luther King
Dr. King was much more than a Civil Rights proponent. Dr. King was also a proponent of Self-determination. Dr. King understood the American malady of racism. He as we understand that our remedy does not rely on what Congress or the Courts of the United States think. Dr. King said that our remedy is not Lincolnian, or made by the Keynesian theory of the Civil Rights bill. This meant that he was a proponent of self-determination socially, and economically.
Last Updated ( Sunday, 16 January 2011 23:32 )
Written by Mustafa Ansari
Friday, 08 April 2011 04:14
Genocide
Bosnian Genocide
Sarajevo
PHOTO: Bodies of Bosniak children in Sarajevo morgue killed by Serb
snipers during the siege of Sarajevo - the longest siege of a capital
city in the history of modern warfare. CREDITS: Maud S. Beelman.
(Photo used under Fair Use policy as provided for in section 107 of
the US Copyright Law for non-commercial and educational purposes.)
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