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The Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) is an international non-government organization focused on the prevention of torture and other acts considered as cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. The organization was founded in 1977 by Jean-Jacques Gautier under the name Swiss Committee against Torture.[citation needed]

APT seeks to prevent torture through three integrated elements:

  • Effective monitoring
  • Legal and policy frameworks
  • Ensuring determination and capability on the part of international and national actors

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Association for the Prevention of Torture

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The Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) is an international non-government organization focused on the prevention of torture and other acts...

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Torture in international law

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International, the World Organization Against Torture, and Association for the Prevention of Torture work actively to stop the use of torture throughout the world...

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Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture

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The idea for this scheme of torture prevention goes back to the Swiss Committee for the Prevention of Torture (today Association for the Prevention of...

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National Commission for the Prevention of Torture

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The National Commission for the Prevention of Torture (NCPT) is an independent Swiss federal body. It was created by the Federal Council in 2010 following...

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Shaista Shameem

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visiting the territory. In 2009 she was elected chair of the Working Group. She was a member of the advisory board of the Association for the Prevention of Torture...

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Martine Brunschwig Graf

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2006 she was President of the Association for the Prevention of Torture and the co-president of the Association for the Promotion of a Swiss Human Rights...

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EuroMed Rights

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internationale des prisonniers palestiniens marquée par l'augmentation de torture, mauvais traitements et de détention administrative". EuroMed Rights (in...

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Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group

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Rights Watch Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) UN Committee against Torture European Committee on the Prevention of Torture and Cruel Treatment...

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Exclusion of evidence obtained under torture

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ISBN 978-0-1995-7894-8. "Exclusion of evidence obtained through torture". Association for the Prevention of Torture. Archived from the original on 7 February 2015...

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Ticking time bomb scenario

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end it. Defusing the Ticking Bomb Scenario: Why we must say No to torture, Always (PDF). Association for the Prevention of Torture. September 2007. ISBN 978-2940337163...

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Hassib Ben Ammar

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and he has served on the board of the Association for the Prevention of Torture. He was the son of Salah Ben Ammar and the brother of Radhia Haddad, Married...

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International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims

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the rehabilitation of torture victims and works for the prevention of torture worldwide. Based in Denmark, the IRCT is the umbrella organization for over...

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Fahamu

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the Association for the Prevention of Torture, and the University of Oxford, to strengthen the capacity of national human rights institutions. In the...

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Torture in Turkey

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the outbreak of the Kurdish-Turkish conflict in the 1980s. The Committee for the Prevention of Torture has issued critical reports on the extent of torture...

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Human Rights and Democracy Network

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Rights (EIDHR) the European Parliament Agir ensemble pour les droits de l'homme Amnesty International Association for the Prevention of Torture Christian Blind...

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International Coalition to End Torture

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prevent torture. These include the UN Convention against Torture and its Optional Protocol (OPCAT); the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and...

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Greek case

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Torture and Ill-treatment: Article 3 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights (PDF). Association for the Prevention of Torture....

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List of human rights organisations

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Organization for Human Rights Commissioner for Human Rights Committee for the Prevention of Torture Commonwealth of Nations European Court of Human Rights...

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Sirikan Charoensiri

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the International Commission of Jurists and then consulted with the Association for the Prevention of Torture and the American Bar Association on the...

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American Psychological Association

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legal and ethical justification for the torture of prisoners. Furthermore, the report stated that the association's ethics director Stephen Behnke and others...

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Crew Against Torture

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close the Committee Against Torture down. The Committee for the Prevention of Torture was created as the CAT’s successor. On 14 January 2016, the Ministry...

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Unit 731

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of diseases, particularly syphilis, was the stated reason for the torture. Fetal survival and damage to mother's reproductive organs were objects of interest...

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American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing animal cruelty. Based in New...

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2015 Birthday Honours

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Association for the Prevention of Torture. For services to global torture prevention. Peter West – High Commissioner, Freetown, Sierra Leone. For services...

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Electrical injury

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been condemned for torture by the United Nations special rapporteur on torture for its use of electric shocks as punishment as part of its behavior modification...

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