Committee Against Torture

UN body of human rights experts
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Committee Against Torture

Summary

Committee Against Torture is an international organization[1]. It draws 32 Wikipedia views per month (international_organization category, ranking #120 of 431).[2]

Key Facts

  • Committee Against Torture's field of work was Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment[3].
  • Committee Against Torture's instance of is recorded as international organization[4].
  • Committee Against Torture's instance of is recorded as organization established by the United Nations[5].
  • Committee Against Torture's instance of is recorded as treaty-based human rights body[6].
  • Committee Against Torture's ISNI is recorded as 0000000118828146[7].
  • Committee Against Torture's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 157746212[8].
  • Committee Against Torture's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 315204055[9].
  • Committee Against Torture's GND ID is recorded as 1218965-0[10].
  • Committee Against Torture's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as no90006957[11].
  • Committee Against Torture's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12110799n[12].
  • Committee Against Torture's IdRef ID is recorded as 02974251X[13].
  • Committee Against Torture's part of is recorded as United Nations System[14].
  • +1987-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Committee Against Torture[15].
  • Committee Against Torture's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as kn20010710575[16].
  • Committee Against Torture's official website is recorded as https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CAT/Pages/CATIndex.aspx[17].
  • Committee Against Torture's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'Comité contre la torture'}[18].
  • Committee Against Torture's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'es', 'text': 'Comité Contra la Tortura'}[19].
  • Committee Against Torture's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'Комитет против пыток'}[20].
  • Committee Against Torture's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Committee Against Torture'}[21].
  • Committee Against Torture's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'CAT'}[22].
  • Committee Against Torture's different from is recorded as Committee Against Torture[23].
  • Committee Against Torture's different from is recorded as Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment[24].
  • Committee Against Torture's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/121qm1ml[25].
  • Committee Against Torture's UK Parliament thesaurus ID is recorded as 84730[26].
  • Committee Against Torture's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Human rights[27].

Body

Founding

+1987-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Committee Against Torture[15].

Identity

Official names include {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'Comité contre la torture'}[18], {'lang': 'es', 'text': 'Comité Contra la Tortura'}[19], {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'Комитет против пыток'}[20], and {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Committee Against Torture'}[21]. Its part of is recorded as United Nations System[14]. Its short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'CAT'}[22].

Industry

Committee Against Torture's field of work was Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment[3].

Why It Matters

Committee Against Torture draws 32 Wikipedia views per month (international_organization category, ranking #120 of 431).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . ohchr.org. Retrieved . ohchr.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . research.un.org. Retrieved . research.un.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . ohchr.org. Retrieved . ohchr.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . ohchr.org. Retrieved . ohchr.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . ohchr.org. Retrieved . ohchr.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . ohchr.org. Retrieved . ohchr.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . ohchr.org. Retrieved . ohchr.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . ohchr.org. Retrieved . ohchr.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . ohchr.org. Retrieved . ohchr.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . ohchr.org. Retrieved . ohchr.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . ohchr.org. Retrieved . ohchr.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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