UN calls for an end to torture
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Channel: United Nations · 2009 · News & Politics
United Nations, New York, 26 June 2009 - Noon briefing by the Office for the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon led United Nations officials in calling on governments to go on the offensive in the fight against torture, stressing there can be no justification under any circumstances for such cruel, degrading and inhuman treatment, in a message marking the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. I urge all United Nations Member States that have not yet done so to ratify and implement in good faith the Convention against Torture (CAT), Mr. Ban said in the message. News story: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=31277&Cr=Torture&Cr1= Statement by the UN High Commissioner for HumanRights, Navi Pillay, on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture: http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/7B975F57AAD2E8B3C12575E0004D0461?opendocument
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