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===Torture Under Domestic Laws===
 
===Torture Under Domestic Laws===
Article 1 of the Convention Against Torture sets forth minimum standards for defining torture. In the same Article, it explicitly permits individual states to enact more expansive definitions of torture, stating that its definition "is without prejudice to any international instrument or national legislation which does or may contain provisions of wider application" <ref> Convention Against Torture </ref>. If countries devise their own, more expansive, definition, the CAT definition will bind them in both domestic and international disputes.
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Article 1 of the Convention Against Torture sets forth minimum standards for defining torture. In the same Article, it explicitly permits individual states to enact more expansive definitions of torture, stating that its definition "is without prejudice to any international instrument or national legislation which does or may contain provisions of wider application" <ref> Convention Against Torture, Article 1 </ref>. If countries devise their own, more expansive, definition, the CAT definition will bind them in both domestic and international disputes.
  
 
===Other Treaties that Prohibit Torture===
 
===Other Treaties that Prohibit Torture===

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