2004
DOI: 10.1093/ejil/15.1.97
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The Prohibition of Torture as an International Norm of jus cogens and Its Implications for National and Customary Law

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“…Indeed, as recently as March 2015, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Juan Mendez, confirmed immigration detention of children as a form of “ill treatment” and that Australia’s asylum seeker policy of indefinite mandatory detention violated the Torture Convention [ 52 ]. Australia’s breach of the Torture Convention and Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights not only derogates from the nation’s obligations under these two binding international law documents but also highlights Australia’s breach of its parallel duties under customary international law and peremptory jus cogens norms that wholly and utterly prohibit torture [ 53 , 54 ].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Indeed, as recently as March 2015, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Juan Mendez, confirmed immigration detention of children as a form of “ill treatment” and that Australia’s asylum seeker policy of indefinite mandatory detention violated the Torture Convention [ 52 ]. Australia’s breach of the Torture Convention and Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights not only derogates from the nation’s obligations under these two binding international law documents but also highlights Australia’s breach of its parallel duties under customary international law and peremptory jus cogens norms that wholly and utterly prohibit torture [ 53 , 54 ].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…First, some authors would invoke the alleged ius cogens nature of the prohibition of torture to affirm that ius cogens violations 'constitute an implied waiver of sovereign immunity'. 82 Secondly, and more convincingly, one could highlight the 'object and purpose' 83 of the Convention and argue that states implicitly waived their immunity for acts of torture of their own agents by ratifying the treaty and accepting rules on aut dedere aut prosequi. 84 In particular, since Article 7 of the Convention requires either extradition or prosecution domestically, a fortiori it must require either waiver of immunity or prosecution.…”
Section: The Ongoing Trial In Milan: Abduction Rather Than Torturementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Diese beinhaltet, dass sie im Gegensatz zu einigen anderen Menschenrechten nie und mit keiner wie auch immer gearteten Begründung aufgehoben oder eingeschränkt werden dürfen. Folter wird trotz dieses Grundsatzes weltweit und eher zunehmend angewandt (Busch et al 2015), und ist einerseits für Jurist/inn/en und die Zivilgesellschaft die wichtigste "Waffe gegen Demokratie", und für Ärzte/innen, Psycholog/inn/en und Psychotherapeut/inn/en aufgrund ihrer schweren Langzeitfolgen bei unmittelbar Betroffenen wie auch bei indirekten Opfern von hoher Relevanz (de Wet 2004;Furtmayr & Frewer 2010). In einem interdisziplinären Rahmen sind dabei sowohl juristische und menschenrechtliche als auch soziologische, politische, kulturanthropologische, psychologische und medizinische Faktoren sowohl für die Prävention wie auch für die Rehabilitation und Behandlung zu berücksichtigen (Wenzel, Frewer et al 2015) und werden daher in den folgenden Artikel einbezogen.…”
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