CAT/C/52/2
Contents
Page
I.
Introduction.............................................................................................................
1
3
II.
The year in review ..................................................................................................
2–32
3
A.
Participation in the Optional Protocol system ................................................
2–4
3
B.
Organizational and membership issues ..........................................................
5–10
3
C.
Visits conducted during the reporting period .................................................
11–15
4
D.
Dialogue arising from visits, including publication of the Subcommittee’s
reports by States parties and national preventive mechanisms .......................
16–20
5
Developments concerning the establishment of national preventive
mechanisms ....................................................................................................
21–28
6
Special Fund under article 26 of the Optional Protocol..................................
29–32
8
Engagement with other bodies in the field of torture prevention ............................
33–41
9
A.
International cooperation................................................................................
33–41
9
B.
Regional cooperation......................................................................................
40
10
C.
Civil society....................................................................................................
41
10
Issues of note arising from the work of the Subcommittee during the period
under review............................................................................................................
42–71
10
A.
New membership............................................................................................
42–43
10
B.
Development of working practices.................................................................
44–71
11
Substantive issues: corruption and prevention of torture and other ill-treatment....
72–100
15
E.
F.
III.
IV.
V.
A.
Introduction ....................................................................................................
72
15
B.
Corruption defined..........................................................................................
73–75
16
C.
Human rights, democracy and corruption: their broader relationship ............
76–79
16
D.
Correlation between corruption and torture and ill-treatment ........................
80–82
17
E.
Under what circumstances does corruption thrive? .......................................
83–86
18
F.
Conflict and political repression: the importance of democratic principles
and the rule of law ..........................................................................................
87–88
19
G.
Petty corruption ..............................................................................................
89–93
19
H.
Subcommittee’s experience in the field regarding petty corruption
and torture and ill-treatment ...........................................................................
94–97
20
Concluding remarks........................................................................................
98–100
21
Looking forward .....................................................................................................
101–106
21
A.
Plan of work for 2014.....................................................................................
102–103
22
B.
The challenge of resources .............................................................................
104–106
22
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