What does SMRTP stand for?

Finally Prison authorities have violated a number of articles of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners," he added.

In particular, ill-treatment of prisoners, denial of visitation rights, medical negligence, torture and administrative detentions are violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 relative to the protection of civilians in times of war, and against the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners.

Various other international laws affirm the same thing, including the UN Charter with respect to human rights, 1945 Nuremberg Charter on crimes of war and against humanity, the (1948) Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the (1988) UN Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any form of Detention or Imprisonment, the UN (1955) Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, and (1990) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Amnesty International's new report takes an additional step, arguing that the role of male staff be restricted in accordance with the United Nations' Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, which state that "women prisoners shall be attended and supervised only by women officers.

This trenchant Global Report also calls for UN-sponsored international conferences on prison conditions and UN periodic examination and revision of its standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners.

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s Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, "the purposeful infliction of severe pain or suffering on a detainee by public officials or with their acquiescence .

It will continue the process of humanization of criminal justice that began in 1955 when the first UN Crime Congress adopted a landmark bill of rights for inmates -a set of Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners.