Amnesty International: Torture Use 'Systematic' in Many Countries

Publisher:
Voice of America
Publication Date:
12 May 2014
Tags:
Nigeria, Governance, Human Rights, International Organizations and Africa, NGOs and Civil Society

Governments around the world are failing to keep the promises they made in the 1984 U.N. Convention on Torture, according to human rights group Amnesty International. Amnesty International says many countries are using torture systematically on a vast scale.

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