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15 December 2020 Poland signed the European Convention for the protection of the Audiovisual Heritage (ETS No. 183[1]). Spain ratified the Council of Europe Convention against Trafficking in Human Organs (CETS No. 216[2]). Italy ratified the Council of Europe Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society (CETS No. 199[3]). 14 December 2020 Estonia signed and ratified the Additional Protocol to the Criminal Law Convention...

the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to...

Torture is the intentional infliction of severe mental or physical pain or suffering, by or with the approval of state agents. Torture breaks people’s bodies and minds, rips apart communities, and destroys democratic institutions and the rule of law. Since our founding in 1986, PHR’s core mission has included investigating, documenting, and reporting the devastating consequences of torture on individuals,...

Washington, D.C. – President Obama today signed into law an updated defense authorization bill that includes a landmark provision reinforcing the United States’ ban on the use of torture. Human Rights First notes, however, that other provisions in the bill will severely hamper the president’s ability to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by the end of his term in...