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Contribution by Governments
URUGUAY: Proposal for article 15 (paragraph 1) “Freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”.
1. No person with disabilities No one shall be subjected to torture or to
cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. States Parties shall take
all effective legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent
persons with disabilities from being subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman
or degrading treatment or punishment.
Justification: We are merging the first part of paragraph 1 with the entire
paragraph 2 with the aim to have the same approach as we had in article 10 “Right
to life”.
In this important article we want to have a general prohibition to any kind
of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment for everybody
without distinction and at the same time, taking into account the specific
objective of this Convention, to compromise States Parties to take all effective
measures to make sure that persons with disabilities are not going to be subjected
to this kind of treatment.