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Burundi: UN Torture Committee deplores lack of cooperation in torture complaints procedure 12/21/2021
  • Press Releases
  • Burundi
  • Committee against Torture
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
E F S R C A
Mexico: Detention and torture of human rights defender highlights criminalization of legitimate protest, UN Committee finds 12/14/2021
  • Press Releases
  • Mexico
  • Committee against Torture
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
E F S R C A
Comprehensive, inclusive and universal COVID-19 human rights policies urgently needed - UN Treaty Bodies’ statement on Human Rights Day 12/10/2021
  • Statements/Messages
  • Committee against Torture
  • Committee on Enforced Disappearance
  • Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
  • Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
  • Committee on Migrant Workers
  • Committee on the Rights of the Child
  • Human Rights Committee
  • Coronavirus disease 2019
E F S R C A
Committee against Torture closes seventy-second session after adopting concluding observations on Bolivia, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Nigeria, Serbia and Sweden 12/3/2021
  • Press Releases
  • Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Lithuania
  • Nigeria
  • Serbia
  • Sweden
  • Committee against Torture
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
E F S R C A
UN Committee against Torture publishes findings on Bolivia, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Nigeria, Serbia and Sweden 12/3/2021
  • Press Releases
  • Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Lithuania
  • Nigeria
  • Serbia
  • Sweden
  • Committee against Torture
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
E F S R C A
Ecuador has obligation to ensure security inside prisons, UN experts 12/2/2021
  • Press Releases
  • Ecuador
  • Committee against Torture
  • Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
E F S R C A
Committee against Torture Discusses Follow-up to Concluding Observations, Follow-up to Individual Communications, and Reprisals 11/29/2021
  • Press Releases
  • Committee against Torture
E F S R C A
In dialogue with Bolivia, Experts of the Committee against Torture welcome progress against gender-based violence and ask about prison overcrowding and cases of torture 11/26/2021
  • Press Releases
  • Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
  • Committee against Torture
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
E F S R C A
Experts of the Committee Against Torture Ask Serbia about Overcrowding in Prisons, and about the Effective Punishment of State Agents Accused of Torture 11/24/2021
  • Press Releases
  • Committee against Torture
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
E F S R C A
Ce que la Serbie a manqué de traiter correctement ces dernières années, c’est la surpopulation carcérale, souligne une experte du Comité contre la torture 11/24/2021
  • Press Releases
  • Committee against Torture
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
E F S R C A
       
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