Description
Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) contains a prohibition against torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. This prohibition has incorrectly been interpreted as prohibiting three kinds of ill-treatment: torture, inhuman treatment or punishment, and degrading treatment or punishment. Under such interpretations, punishment has been subsumed within treatment. Consequently, the conceptual value of a distinct prohibition against inhuman or degrading punishment has been little explored both in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and in the literature. The resultant lack of definitional clarity on the prohibition of inhuman or degrading punishment means that rights and obligations stemming from this prohibition are not clear and the paucity of literature which explores inhuman or degrading punishment has focused on punishment only in the criminal sphere. The central contention is that punishment should be understood more widely and that the scope of this prohibition should be limited by inhumanity and degradation.| Period | Sept 2024 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Bristol, United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |