Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 2011, para. 17
Párrafo
Paragraph text
Urges States not to expel, return (“refouler”), extradite or in any other way transfer a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that the person would be in danger of being subjected to torture, stresses the importance of effective legal and procedural safeguards in this regard, and recognizes that diplomatic assurances, where used, do not release States from their obligations under international human rights, humanitarian and refugee law, in particular the principle of non-refoulement;
Condicón jurídica
Negotiated soft law
Organismo
United Nations General Assembly
Tipo de documento
Resolution
Medio de adopción
Consensus
Temas
Governance & Rule of Law
Humanitarian
Movement
Personas afectadas
All
Año
2011
Tipo de párrafo
OP
Reference
UNGA resolution, Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (2011), A/RES/66/150, OP 17.