With torture still widespread across the world, and marking 26 June UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, six of the world’s leading anti-torture organisations, in partnership with over 200 civil society organisations and other partners in 100+ countries, have joined forces to strengthen and expand the anti-torture movement by pooling expertise in torture prevention, protection, rehabilitation and strategic litigation.
The #UnitedAgainstTorture consortium (UATC) brings together the global memberships of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) and the International Federation of Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture (FIACAT) with the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT), Omega Research Foundation and REDRESS.
Funded by the European Union, #UnitedAgainstTorture will work in partnership with national civil society organisations and other partners worldwide to build a global movement. This project will provide grants to directly assist thousands of torture survivors, and strengthen local staff capacity to advocate with national actors responsible for torture prevention and rehabilitation. Survivors’ experiences and, for those who wish, their direct participation will be at the centre of the consortium’s torture prevention, rehabilitation and justice processes, both nationally and internationally.
Resources
Joint submission to the Special Rapporteur on Torture on Prison Management
Joint statement on the 75th Anniversary of the UDHR
Joint submission to the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of assembly and association
Oral statement, Dialogue with the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, HRC55
Oral statement during the Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteur on Torture during HRC55
