Central American Studies and Temporary Relief Act of 1987: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Rules of the House of the Committee on Rules, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 618 and H.R. 1409 to Temporarily Suspend the Deportations of Certain Salvadorans and Nicaraguans, May 13, June 3 and 17, 1987

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239 페이지 - ... torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind...
117 페이지 - ... well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion...
211 페이지 - January 1951 and owing to a wellfounded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country...
239 페이지 - ... mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official...
231 페이지 - Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause...
117 페이지 - Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, I am grateful for this opportunity to appear before this distinguished committee and to join in the welcome extended to you.
219 페이지 - Persons liable to conscription for military service who, for reasons of conscience or profound conviction arising from religious, ethical, moral, humanitarian, philosophical or similar motives, refuse to perform armed service shall enjoy a personal right to be released from the obligation to perform such service.
231 페이지 - To this end, the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the abovementioned persons: a) violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture...
117 페이지 - US obligations under the 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees.
209 페이지 - Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, ILO Convention No.

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