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Federal Decree No. 73 of 2012 on the Ratification of the United Arab Emirates to the Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1984.
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
United Arab Emirates
Subjects (Classification)
Human rights
Adopted on (Date of text)
2012-06-14
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Regulation, Decree, Ordinance
Second Region
Abstract/Citation
Article 1: Approves the accession of the United Arab Emirates to the Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1984.
Article 1(a): Declaration:
The United Arab Emirates confirms that the lawful sanctions applicable under national law, or pain or suffering arising from or associated with or incidental to these lawful sanctions, do not fall under the concept of "torture" defined in article 1 of this Convention or under the concept of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment mentioned in this Convention.
Article 1(b): Reservations
(1):- In accordance with paragraph 1 of article 28 of the Convention, the United Arab Emirates declares that it does not recognize the competence of the Committee against Torture referred to in article 20 of the Convention.
(2):- In accordance with paragraph 2 of article 30 of the Convention, the United Arab Emirates does not consider itself bound by paragraph 1 of article 30 relating to arbitration in this Convention.
Basic Text region
Basic text(s)
1984-12-10 (ORG-1984-IA-66932)
United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Electronic region
Electronic source title
Legislation online in Arabic
Author
Eastlaws Database
Place of publication
Cairo
Country
Egypt
URL
http://www.eastlaws.com
Serial region
Serial title
Al-Jarida Al-Rasmiya
Date
2012-06-14
Number
No. 539
Page range
P. 11 - P.12