Denial of the Right to Life

Violation Types
Legal elements
  • Denial of the Right to Life: A public official was in some way responsible for, involved in, or consented to the deprivation of a person's life, and this process was outside of any judicial proceeding or legal process
  • Denial of the Right to Life: The taking (deprivation) of life or an unnatural death
Constituting Acts
  • Violation of the Right to Life: Death in case of failure to provide for a safe physical environment
  • Violation of the Right to Life: Death in case of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
  • Violation of the Right to Life: Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary execution (private/public)
  • Violation of the Right to Life: Infanticide
  • Violation of the Right to Life: Lack of investigation into death in custody
  • Violation of the Right to Life: State's negligence to protect detainees from known threats within the institution, to carry out regular checks on detainees especially those at risk (e.g. a known suicide risk), to be alert to known risks, to institute systems, regulations and procedures to protect from all the above
Explainer

Arbitrary or unlawful deprivation of life and/or unnatural death that occurs mainly as a result of torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, as well as of neglect, use of force and life-threatening conditions of detention through state action without the sanction of any judicial proceeding or legal process.

Legal instruments