United Nations Declaration of Human Rights-Article 5. This is student work so please leave a comment for my students!

1. Universal Declaration of Human Rights Hugh, Crump & Carney

2. Right No. 5 Official Definition No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. DVD Definition You can’t be tortured

3. Torture/Cruelty Nobody shall be subjected to any form of unfair treatment – through torture and/or cruelty

4. Degrading Treatment Nobody deserves to be subjected to degrading or humiliating treatment/punishment.

5. Cruelty/Torture Statistics This is a list of statistics relating to people being tortured at Guantanamo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and other sites as of May 2009. Date started: October 2001, after 9/11, after invasion of Afghanistan total detainees ever in custody: at least 775detainees released without charge: 420current number of detainees:245 attempted suicides: hundredssuccessful suicides: at least 4 Number of cases of abuse: at least 330Number of detainees involved in abuse case: at least 460Number of US personnel involved in abuse cases: at least 600Number of US personnel convicted of abuse: 54Number of US personnel serving prison time for abuse: 40 Number of detainees who have died while in US custody: at least 100Number of detainees deaths ruled a homicide: at least 30 Number of tapes made by CIA showing torture of detainees: at least 92Number of tapes destroyed by CIA: At least 92Number of hours of video footage of CIA torture: hundreds of hours American lives saved from torture-induced confessions: ZERO http://www.warhw.com/2009/05/04/us-torture-statistics/