Assertion: torture | /r/HasProperty | cat
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text: The Committee Against Torture (CAT) is a body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention by State parties.
text: : Torture and Forced Confessions is published just ahead of a United Nations review of how China has complied with its obligations under the Convention Against Torture (CAT).
text: This document was succeeded by the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment of Punishment (CAT), which entered into force in 1987.
text: This changed, however, after the UN definition of torture was outlined in detail in the 1984 Convention Against Torture (CAT); Article 1.1 of the CAT states that torture is "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person" for any reason such as obtaining information or punishment, and Article 16 of the same convention prohibits "other acts of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment".
text: The United Nations Convention Against Torture (CAT), which the United States ratified in 1991, recognizes that prosecuting past torture is essential to preventing it in the future.
text: Tuesday marked the 20th anniversary of the U.S. ratification of the U.N. Convention Against Torture (CAT), but there’s not much cause for celebration.
text: The Committee against Torture (CAT) is a body of human rights experts that monitors implementation of the Convention by State parties.
text: Torture, according to the international Convention against Torture (CAT) is as "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity.