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Reports show migrants being deported from US to #Brazil in hand- & legcuffs; with allegations that agents pulled on & over-tightened handcuffs to inflict pain. Use of restraints can be humiliating & degrading, especially when not justified by the situation
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We are #UnitedAgainstTorture!
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With 5 other organisations, we are working together to strengthen the global anti-torture movement, expose torture & other ill-treatment, provide redress to survivors, & prevent future #HumanRights violations.
Learn more: omegaresearchfoundation.org/…
‘Standard’ law enforcement equipment – such as handcuffs & batons – is used all around the world in acts of #torture & other ill-treatment.
Let’s work together to stop these #HumanRights violations.
#UnitedAgainstTorture #TortureFreeTrade
Learn more: omegaresearchfoundation.org/
ALT Over a picture of a range of handcuffs, text reads: 'All around the world, law enforcement equipment is used to torture people at protests & in detention'
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Justiça para Genivaldo! ✊🏽 A condenação de três ex-policiais pela tortura e morte de Genivaldo é uma vitória!
Leia nossa nota em conjunto com a @Omega_RF e @omtcorg
Justice for Genivaldo! ✊🏽
The conviction of three former police officers for the torture and killing of Genivaldo is a victory for justice. Read our reaction with our partners @justicaglobal and @omctorg
#JustiçaPorGenivaldo #BlackLivesMatter #Brazil
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ALT Arte pedindo justiça por Genivaldo, que viralizou na Internet. Cristiano Siqueira. Twitter: @crisvector
Justice for Genivaldo! ✊🏽
The conviction of three former police officers for the torture and killing of Genivaldo is a victory for justice. Read our reaction with our partners @justicaglobal and @omctorg
#JustiçaPorGenivaldo #BlackLivesMatter #Brazil
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ALT Arte pedindo justiça por Genivaldo, que viralizou na Internet. Cristiano Siqueira. Twitter: @crisvector
The conviction of officers in Sergipe, Brazil, for the torture & killing of Genivaldo de Jesus Santos is a step in the right direction, but convictions for torture remain rare. We must continue to fight for justice #JustiçaPorGenivaldo #JusticeForGenivaldo @omctorg @justicaglobal
Caso Genivaldo: Ex-policiais são condenados por morte em porta-malas de viatura.
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As we come to the end of 2024, we've been thinking about the people & organisations we've worked with over another busy year. Around the world, #HumanRights continue to come under attack & our work remains vital. Your help can make a difference. Support us cafdonate.cafonline.org/4066…
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“School is no longer a safe place where children learn and play; it is a place where people suffer and die,” 10-year-old Hala, a #Palestinian child in #Gaza told the Gaza Community #MentalHealth Programme team when they visited her tent in Deir al-Balah. This is Hala's drawing.
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To read the #UnitedAgainstTorture Consortium (UATC) statement on Georgia 👉 irct.org/wp-content/uploads/…
@REDRESSTrust @omctorg @Omega_RF @IMSforfreemedia @OSCE @coe @eu_eeas
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🚨Today, @OBS_defenders (OMCT-FIDH) and partners launch the SOS-Defenders platform exposing arbitrary detention of human rights defenders worldwide. Find out more about the platform and the 274 cases across 17 countries already documented : bit.ly/3BvqdlR
#SOSDefenders #CensorshipByDetention #HRDs #EndArbitraryDetention #HumanRights
🕊️On #CAT40, survivors of torture from across the world demand that the international community takes immediate action to stop the production, sale, trade, & use of tools of torture.
📢We need a #TortureFreeTrade Treaty NOW.
🔗cvt.org/statements/joint-dec…
#ConventionAgainstTorture
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🎉Today on Human Rights Defenders Day, we are celebrating 40 years of the #ConventionAgainstTorture
Adopted in 1984, it stands as the foundation of our global fight to end torture.
🎥To mark this milestone, the #UnitedAgainstTorture Consortium presents Voices for Human Dignity—a multimedia series highlighting survivors, human rights defenders, and experts working to prevent torture worldwide.
🔗 Explore their stories: bit.ly/3VskW5u
🕊️⚖️Today is the 40th anniversary of the #ConventionAgainstTorture.
Claude Heller, Chair of @UNHumanRights Committee against Torture, reflects on the milestones from the past four decades, & notes the journey is far from over: omegaresearchfoundation.org/…
#UnitedAgainstTorture
🇲🇽Oswaldo Rodriguez was tortured into confession by police in #Mexico & wrongly imprisoned for 15 years, until @CctiColectivo helped free him.
Read his story:
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#UnitedAgainstTorture @IRCT @omctorg @REDRESSTrust @FIACAT_org @apt_geneva
The 40th anniversary of the Convention Against Torture is tomorrow, & survivors from around the world are calling for controls on the trade in equipment used for #torture & other ill-treatment.
It is time for a #TortureFreeTrade Treaty: cvt.org/statements/joint-dec…
ALT Text reads: Joint Declaration from Torture Survivors in Support of a Torture-Free Trade Treaty "If a torture-free trade treaty would spare even one person the horrors that we have experienced, it is worth any effort that doing so would require. World leaders can achieve this goal if they commit to it, and lives can be saved"
"Torture is the ultimate abuse of state power over its citizens." — 🇪🇺 EU Special Representative Olof Skoog.
His insights on the global fight against torture, human rights dialogues, #TortureFreeTrade, & 40th anniversary of the Convention Against Torture.
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