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CTI 2020 Annual Report : Challenges and lessons from Covid-19
CTI’s 2020 Annual Report highlights a number of achievements and activities over this complex year. We are especially proud to announce that [despite Covid-19] UNCAT was the most ratified human rights treaty in 2020, accounting for one-third of all human rights treaty ratifications. We congratulate Oman and St Kitts and Nevis as the Convention’s newest […]
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Commonwealth Caribbean countries move towards implementing UNCAT: workshop report out
Today, the Convention against Torture Initiative (CTI), REDRESS and the Commonwealth Secretariat release a report on the “Online Technical Workshop for Commonwealth Caribbean Countries on UNCAT: Sharing Experiences of Ratification, Legislative Reform and Reporting”, held online via Zoom on 1-3 December 2020, and kindly hosted by the Government of Grenada and the Government of Chile, […]
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CTI HRC46 Item 3 Statement
UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 46th session Item 3 General Debate 9 March 2021 Statement by H.E. Frank Tressler, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations in Geneva, on behalf of the Core States of the Convention against Torture Initiative Check against delivery Thank you, Madam President, I have the pleasure of […]
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CTI’s insights shared at 10th Anniversary of Convention on Enforced Disappearances
Geneva, 4 March 2021. Marking the 10th anniversary of the entry into force of the International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance, yesterday Head of Secretariat Dr. Alice Edwards was a panelist at a well-attended Webinar, where she shared CTI’s experiences of advancing ratification and implementation of the UN Convention against […]
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Recommendations to ratify Convention against Torture dominated at UPR37
Geneva, 4 February 2021 – From 18 to 29 January 2021, the 37th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) took place in Geneva. The ratification of UNCAT and other core human rights treaties was one of the major themes of the session. The UPR is one of the main events of the UN Human Rights Council, […]
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Legal reforms and change of mindsets to counter torture in Sudan
On 20 January 2021, Dr. Alice Edwards, Head of the CTI Secretariat, participated in an online round-table on “Legislative and Institutional Reform in Sudan”, organised by REDRESS and the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Since the deposition of the former President Omar Al Bashir, who ruled Sudan for thirty years, […]
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Focus on Angola, the story of Africa’s latest UNCAT State Party
The Convention against Torture Initiative’s first publication of the year presents Angola’s experience of becoming a party to the UN Convention against Torture (UNCAT) as part of CTI’s “States parties in focus” blog series. Angola’s story highlights how UNCAT is supporting the Government’s human rights reform agenda, and sets out a number of major initiatives […]
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Protecting the rights of women in prison: the Bangkok Rules at 10
Geneva, 22 December 2020. Today, we recognise the 10th anniversary of the UN General Assembly’s adoption of the first set of universal rules for women in criminal justice systems: the UN Rules on the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders. The so-called ‘Bangkok Rules’ represent a pivotal change in recognising the […]
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CTI recommends 10 rudiments for rights-compliant, professional police
The Convention against Torture Initiative’s (CTI) Secretariat submitted a contribution to an upcoming report addressing systemic racism, violations of international human rights law against Africans and people of African descent by law enforcement agencies, which H.E. Michelle Bachelet, High Commissioner for Human Rights, will present during the 47th session of the Human Rights Council in […]
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What has Covid-19 got to do with torture? New CTI advisory note explains!
While States around the world are managing the serious health, social and economic effects of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, CTI releases a short document providing advice on the applicability and benefits of implementing the UN Convention against Torture (UNCAT) to this situation. Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, States around the world have been […]
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CTI joins ASEAN States to imagine torture-free societies
On 3 December 2020, the Head of the CTI Secretariat, Dr. Alice Edwards, contributed to a consultation of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) on the Implementation of Article 14 of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration. The consultation took place in Jakarta, Indonesia and virtually on 3-4 December 2020, at the initiative of […]
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