Impunity as a root cause of the prevalence of torture 2010, para. 61
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- Following the obligations of States to prevent torture and to hold perpetrators accountable, article 14 of the Convention against Torture stipulates that each State party shall ensure in its legal system that victims of torture obtain redress and have an enforceable right to fair and adequate compensation including the means for as full rehabilitation as possible. That obligation includes the establishment and support of torture rehabilitation centres. That duty was further emphasized by the Commission on Human Rights in its resolution 2004/41, in which it stressed that "national legal systems should ensure that victims of torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment obtain redress and are awarded fair and adequate compensation and receive appropriate socio-medical rehabilitation". In that regard the Commission encouraged "the development of rehabilitation centres for victims of torture".
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 61
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