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UN torture prevention body urges Kazakhstan to enhance prisoner rehabilitation

The United Nations’ torture prevention body has urged Kazakhstan to focus more on the rehabilitation of prisoners rather than punishment, as part of efforts to ensure that people deprived of their liberty are protected against torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

“Beginnings” of Central Asian cooperation over terror prevention

Central Asia is showing the “beginnings” of cooperation between states over preventing acts of terrorism.

That’s the view of Petko Draganov, head of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy in Central Asia.

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