torture

High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

UN human rights chief appeals to donors to help support victims of torture

28 June 2011
The United Nations human rights chief today called on donors to support the fund that provides financial assistance to groups providing psychological, medical and social assistance to thousands of torture survivors and their families worldwide.
Torture victim from Republic of Congo undergoing treatment at a rehab centre in Senegal

States must take effective measures to prevent torture – UN chief

26 June 2011
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today exhorted States to take effective legislative, administrative and judicial measures to prevent torture, calling the practice a brutal attempt to destroy a victim's sense of dignity and sense of human worth that can never be justified.

UN-backed meeting aims to eradicate torture in Latin America and the Caribbean

15 June 2011
Human rights experts and government officials from 11 countries today began a United Nations-backed meeting aimed at eradicating torture from Latin America and the Caribbean, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported.