Translation of "dispositif de l'homme mort " (French → English) :

automatic vigilance device | dead man's handle | driver's safety device | DSD [Abbr.]

deadman control | deadman | dead man's control | reset safety control | R.S.C. | automatic safety device

deadman control [ dead man's handle | dead man's pedal | safety drive switch | safety control valve ]

deadman control | deadman's handle

deadman's handle | dead man's handle | dead's man button

panic door hardware | panic hardware | hardware set | egress hardware

dead man's handle | enabling device

dead man's handle type braking

dead man alarm

a.Address torture (prevention, accountability and rehabilitation), ill-treatment and the death penalty (abolition, moratorium and minimum standards) in a comprehensive manner through all political and human rights dialogues, and mainstream safeguards against death penalty, torture and ill-treatment in EU activities, including in counter-terrorism and in crisis management.

* Pursue the GAC conclusions of 22 January 2001 on the EU-China Human Rights Dialogue, focus the human rights dialogue better, assess it on a continuous basis, and identify ways of making it more effective and results-oriented, notably on the key issues of concern identified in the GAC conclusions, including co-operation with human rights mechanisms; guarantees for the protection of those prosecuted for a crime for which the death penalty could be imposed and restriction of the cases in which the death penalty can be imposed; reform of administrative detention; respect for the fundamental rights of all prisoners; untrammelled exercis ...[+++]e of freedom of thought, conscience and religion, of the freedom of expression and of the freedom of assembly and of association.

L. whereas the Nigerian Government has recently broken its seven-year moratorium on the death penalty by executing four prisoners in Edo state who were sentenced when Nigeria was still ruled by a military dictatorship; whereas on 26 June 2013 the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, called on the Nigerian authorities to put on hold the imminent execution of a fifth prisoner; whereas according to reports by human rights organisations, in 2012 Nigeria sentenced 56 people to death, and whereas approximately 1 000 people are reportedly on death row in the country;

I remember the dead man’s handle which automatically applied the brakes if the handle was not pressed for a minute.