Legal Analysis on Act of Torture based on International Law and its Incorporation into Pakistani law
Journal Title: Traditional Journal of Law and Social Sciences - Year 2022, Vol 1, Issue 01
Abstract
When the United nation was formed in 1945, its purpose was to bring peace and stability to the world; it also signed many treaties relating to protecting and advocating human rights. It first introduced the first Bill of Human Rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. That contained thirty basic fundamental Human Rights provisions. The United Nations also passed a resolution relating to torture which aimed to prevent all forms of torture and other inhumane and degrading acts that is until now ratified by almost all the nations of the world and also had implemented such treaty provisions in their domestic law by properly legislating the law that criminalizes the acts that constitute torture. In this paper, the research will try to elaborate on a few provisions of the Convention Against Torture, their interpretation by international bodies and law, and its incorporation in one of the ratifying Islamic Republic Pakistan. The qualitative research methodology has been applied to the following article.
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Maseehullah, Sania Islam & Humaira Meer
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