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UNITED NATIONS - GENERAL ASSEMBLY

 

Gender-Specific Forms of Torture

 

A/55/290

11 August 2000

 

Transmitted by the UN Secretary-General to the General Assembly on the Question of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, submitted by (then) Special Rapporteur Sir Nigel Rodley.

 

II. A. Gender-Specific Forms of Torture

 

    5. The Special Rapporteur has continued to receive information according to which women are subjected to gender-specific forms of torture, including rape, sexual abuse and harassment, virginity testing, forced abortion or forced marriage. A large number of individual cases have been transmitted, mostly in conjunction with the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, to several Governments during previous years...."

 

  8. The Special Rapporteur would like to recall that the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, in its General Recommendation No. 19, entitled "Violence Against Women" (See A/47/38), enumerated the right not to be subjected to torture or to curel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment among those rights impaired or nullified by gender-based violence under international law and constituting discrimination within the meaning of the Convention. It stated that the definition in Artilce 1 of the Convention should be interpreted as encompassing gender-based violence, that is, violence that is directed against a woman because she is a woman or that affects women disproportionately. It includes acts that inflict physical, mental or sexual harm or suffering, threats of such acts, coercion and other deprivations of liberty...."

 

 

 

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