Arab-European Human Rights Dialogue - AEHRD

The international community has developed standards to protect people against torture that apply to all legal systems in the world. The standards take into account the diversity of legal systems that exist and set out minimum guarantees that every system should provide. Judges and prosecutors have a responsibility to ensure that these standards are adhered to, within the framework of their own legal systems. Even if a country has not ratified a particular treaty prohibiting torture, because the prohibition of torture is so fundamental, the country is in any event bound on the basis of general international law.

Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT)

The below table links to OHCHR documents. For more information please go to: http://www2.ohchr.org