VICTIMS OF CPS/ FAMILY LAW. Call for submissions to the High Commissioners office of the United Nations. See the site for information about how to submit a complaint of human rights violations/ civil violations in your cases. We are asking you to carefully outline your own case. This we can not draft for you. Currently, The committee on torture is hearing fostercare and orphanage abuse cases from Australia and police brutality in the United States. Circle of Fathers can be found on facebook and the members include Jordan Davis Father who testified before the committee approx 6 weeks ago. You may want to try to contact them for group efforts in moving a cases before the committee and inside tips on travel. Testifying before the committee is held in Geneva Switzerland. Please study the site and consider submitting the case evidence of the civil violations against you if your child has been harmed in cps care, under family law. Groups may want to get together to submit similar cases. UNITED NATIONS / HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS / UNDER COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE / TREATY/ COMPLAINT LINK TREATY LINK TO THE TREATY AND AGREEMENT(ON CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT) TO THE UNITED NATIONS; EXCERPT; TREATY The Government of the United States of America reserves the right to communicate, upon ratification, such reservations, interpretive understandings, or declarations as are deemed necessary. Upon ratification : Reservations: I. The Senates advice and consent is subject to the following reservations: (1) That the United States considers itself bound by the obligation under article 16 to prevent `cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, only insofar as the term `cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment means the cruel, unusual and inhumane treatment or punishment prohibited by the Fifth, Eighth, and/or Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. (2) That pursuant to article 30 (2) the United States declares that it does not consider itself bound by Article 30 (1), but reserves the right specifically to agree to follow this or any other procedure for arbitration in a particular case. II. The Senates advice and consent is subject to the following understandings, which shall apply to the obligations of the United States under this Convention: (1) (a) That with reference to article 1, the United States understands that, in order to constitute torture, an act must be specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering and that mental pain or suffering refers to prolonged mental harm caused by or resulting from (1) the intentional infliction or threatened infliction of severe physical pain or suffering; (2) the administration or application, or threatened administration or application, of mind altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or the personality; (3) the threat of imminent death; or (4) the threat that another person will imminently be subjected to death, severe physical pain or suffering, or the administration or application of mind altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or personality. (b) That the United States understands that the definition of torture in article 1 is intended to apply only to acts directed against persons in the offenders custody or physical control. (c) That with reference to article 1 of the Convention, the United States understands that `sanctions includes judicially-imposed sanctions and other enforcement actions authorized by United States law or by judicial interpretation of such law. Nonetheless, the United States understands that a State Party could not through its domestic sanctions defeat the object and purpose of the Convention to prohibit torture. (d) That with reference to article 1 of the Convention, the United States understands that the term `acquiescence requires that the public official, prior to the activity constituting torture, have awareness of such activity and thereafter breach his legal responsibility to intervene to prevent such activity. (e) That with reference to article 1 of the Convention, the Unites States understands that noncompliance with applicable legal procedural standards does not per se constitute torture. (2) That the United States understands the phrase, `where there are substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture, as used in article 3 of the Convention, to mean `if it is more likely than not that he would be tortured. (3) That it is the understanding of the United States that article 14 requires a State Party to provide a private right of action for damages only for acts of torture committed in territory under the jurisdiction of that State Party. (4) That the United States understands that international law does not prohibit the death penalty, and does not consider this Convention to restrict or prohibit the United States from applying the death penalty consistent with the Fifth, Eighth and/or Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, including any constitutional period of confinement prior to the imposition of the death penalty. (5) That the United States understands that this Convention shall be implemented by the United States Government to the extent that it exercises legislative and judicial jurisdiction over the matters covered by the Convention and otherwise by the state and local governments. Accordingly, in implementing articles 10-14 and 16, the United States Government shall take measures appropriate to the Federal system to the end that the competent authorities of the constituent units of the United States of America may take appropriate measures for the fulfilment of the Convention. III. The Senates advice and consent is subject to the following declarations: (1) That the United States declares that the provisions of articles 1 through 16 of the Convention are not self-executing. Objections (Unless otherwise indicated, the objections were made upon ratification, accession or succession.) United States of America 29 June 2011 (Unless otherwise indicated, the declarations were made upon ratification, accession or succession.) United States of America The United States declares, pursuant to article 21, paragraph 1, of the Convention, that it recognizes the competence of the Committee against Torture to receive and consider communications to the effect that a State Party claims that another State Party is not fulfilling its obligations under the Convention. It is the understanding of the United States that, pursuant to the above-mentioned article, such communications shall be accepted and processed only if they come from a State Party which has made a similar declaration. ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CAT/Pages/CATIndex.aspx LINK TO THE INDIVIDUAL COMPLAINT PROCESS AND INSTRUCTIONS VICTIMS OF CPS/ FAMILY LAW. Call for submissions to the High Commissioners office of the United Nations. See the site for information about how to submit a complaint of human rights violations/ civil violations in your cases. We are asking you to carefully outline your own case. This we can not draft for you. Currently, The committee on torture is hearing fostercare and orphanage abuse cases from Australia and police brutality in the United States. Circle of Fathers can be found on facebook and the members include Jordan Davis Father who testified before the committee approx 6 weeks ago. You may want to try to contact them for group efforts in moving a cases before the committee and inside tips on travel. Testifying before the committee is held in Geneva Switzerland. Please study the site and consider submitting the case evidence of the civil violations against you if your child has been harmed in cps care, under family law. Groups may want to get together to submit similar cases. ohchr.org/…/TBPetitions/Pages/IndividualCommunic… EXCERPT; Who can complain? Anyone can lodge a complaint with a Committee against a State: That is party to the treaty in question (through ratification or accession) providing for the rights which have allegedly been violated; That accepted the Committee’s competence to examine individual complaints, either through ratification or accession to an Optional Protocol (in the case of ICCPR, CEDAW, CRPD, ICESCR and CRC) or by making a declaration to that effect under a specific article of the Convention (in the case of CERD, CAT, CED and CMW). Complaints may also be brought by third parties on behalf of individuals, provided they have given their written consent (without requirement as to its specific form). In certain cases, a third party may bring a case without such consent, for example, where a person is in prison without access to the outside world or is a victim of an enforced disappearance. In such cases, the author of the complaint should state clearly why such consent cannot be provided. LINK TO THE SITE ON COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 19:28:45 +0000
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015