Page Text: Each state is obliged to provide training to law enforcement and military on torture prevention, keep its interrogation methods under review , and promptly investigate any allegations that its officials have committed torture in the course of their official duties. It must ensure that individuals who allege that someone has committed torture against them are permitted to make and official complaint and have it investigated, and, if the complaint is proven, receive compensation, including full medical treatment and payments to survivors if the victim dies as a result of torture. . It forbids states to admit into evidence during a trial any confession or statement made during or as a result of torture . It also forbids activities which do not rise to the level of torture, but which constitute cruel or degrading treatment .
The second part of the Convention establishes the Committee Against Torture, and sets out the rules on its membership and activities.
The Convention was passed and opened for ratification in February, 1985. At that time twenty nations signed, and five more signed within the month. At present sixty five nations have ratified the Convention against torture and sixteen more have signed but not yet ratified it.