UN Optional Protocol to Convention Against Torture Will Enter Force
Author: Womens UN Report Network
Date: May 22, 2006
The requisite number of
UN Member State parties needed to bring the Optional Protocol to the Convention
Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
(OP-CAT) into force was attained when Honduras and Bolivia deposited their
ratification of the OP-CAT with the UN in New York on 23 May 2006. The OP-CAT
will enter into force thirty days after the date of deposit, almost 19 years
after the Convention against Torture entered into force (26 June 1987).
Upon coming into force, the OP-CAT
allows in-country inspections of places of detention to be undertaken in
collaboration with national institutions. A Sub-Committee will be
established to carry out the functions under the OP-CAT. For details on how
members of the Sub-Committee are elected, see Part II of the OP-CAT – http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/cat-one.htm
There is, thus, another procedure
under which women’s human rights can be claimed.
WeiSan
IWRAW Asia
Pacific
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