Stop Torture

United Nations latest Poster for campaign human rights campaign as published on Twitter

“There is a worldwide accountability gap for torture and ill-treatment,” Nils Melzer, UN special rapporteur on torture and inhumane treatment, said in presenting a report on accountability. “Torture and ill-treatment are almost always a systemic problem, but scapegoating individuals allows States to deny the existence of structural or systemic patterns and evade their duty to take effective preventative and corrective measures.”

Governments must stop denying torture and hold officials to account – UN human rights expert