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The Principle of Non-Refoulement under the ECHR and the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Eman Hamdan Brill/Nijhoff, 2016, 404 pp, €165, ISBN 9789004319387

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The Principle of Non-Refoulement under the ECHR and the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Eman Hamdan Brill/Nijhoff, 2016, 404 pp, €165, ISBN 9789004319387

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2017

Nicole Bürli
Nicole Bürli*
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Human Rights Adviser, World Organisation against Torture18nb@omct.org
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Israel Law Review , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , July 2017 , pp. 245 - 250
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References

1 Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (entered into force 26 June 1987) 1465 UNTS 85 (Convention against Torture).

2 European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (entered into force 3 September 1953) 213 UNTS 222 (ECHR).

3 Convention against Torture (n 1) arts 1, 3.

4 ComAT, General Comment No 2 (24 January 2008), UN Doc CAT/C/GC/2, para 6.

5 ibid.

6 ComAT, Concluding Observations on the Syrian Arab Republic (25 May 2010), UN Doc CAT/C/SYR/CO/1, para 18.

7 ComAT, Concluding Observations on the Second Periodic Report of Togo (11 December 2012), UN Doc CAT/C/TGO/CO/2, para 16.

8 See, eg, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, ‘Urgent Need to Deal with New Failures to Co-operate with the European Court of Human Rights’, 28 February 2014, Doc No 13435.

9 ECHR (n 2) art 34; Convention against Torture (n 1) art 22.

10 ComAT, Agiza v Sweden, Communication No 233/2003 (24 May 2005), UN Doc CAT/C/34/D/233/2003.

11 See, eg, Forowicz, Magdalena, The Reception of International Law in the European Court of Human Rights (Oxford University Press 2010) 190ffCrossRefGoogle Scholar, which provides a thorough analysis of the perception of the ComAT in the ECtHR case law.

12 Depending on the responding state, a decision is reached in under three years or in more than five years: see, eg, ECtHR Public Relations Unit, ‘The ECHR in 50 Questions’, February 2014, http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/50Questions_ENG.pdf.

13 ComAT, Sogi v Canada, Communication No 297/2006 (29 November 2007), UN Doc CAT/C/39/D/297/2006, para 12.

14 ComAT, Kalinichenko v Morocco, Communication No 428/2010 (18 January 2012), UN Doc CAT/C/47/D/428/2010, para 17.

15 ibid.

16 Convention against Torture (n 1) art 14.

17 For state parties’ obligations under art 14 see ComAT, General Comment No 3 (19 November 2012), UN Doc CAT/C/GC/3.

18 All views are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the World Organization against Torture.