Article,
Legal Analysis on Act of Torture based on International Law and its Incorporation into Pakistani law
Traditional Journal of Law and Social Sciences (TJLSS), (2022)
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.
