References: Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

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UN General Assembly, Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 10 December 1984, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1465, p. 85

UN General Assembly, Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 9 January 2003, A/RES/57/199

Canadian Heritage, Basic Information: United Nations Convention against Torture (2013) Government of Canada

Congressional Research Service, Report for Congress, U.N. Convention Against Torture (CAT): Overview and Application to Interrogation Techniques, 26 January 2009, United Nations, Congressional Research Service, 7-5700, RL32438

Danelius, Hans. Introductory Note: Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 10 December 1984, The UN Audiovisual Library of International Law: Historic Archives

Lippman, Matthew. The Development and Drafting of the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1994) 17 B.C. Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 275

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Committee against Torture

Canadian Heritage, Sixth Report of Canada to the Committee against Torture, covering the period 2004 to 2007

United Nations Committee against Torture, CAT/C/CAN/CO/6, Concluding observations of the Committee against Torture, 25 June, 2012

Canadian Heritage, Interim Report in follow-up to the review of Canada’s Sixth Report, August 2013