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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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visiting the territory. In 2009 she was elected chair ofthe Working Group. She was a member ofthe advisory board oftheAssociationforthePreventionof Torture...
internationale des prisonniers palestiniens marquée par l'augmentation de torture, mauvais traitements et de détention administrative". EuroMed Rights (in...
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ISBN 978-0-1995-7894-8. "Exclusion of evidence obtained through torture". AssociationforthePreventionofTorture. Archived from the original on 7 February 2015...
end it. Defusing the Ticking Bomb Scenario: Why we must say No to torture, Always (PDF). AssociationforthePreventionofTorture. September 2007. ISBN 978-2940337163...
and he has served on the board oftheAssociationforthePreventionofTorture. He was the son of Salah Ben Ammar and the brother of Radhia Haddad, Married...
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prevent torture. These include the UN Convention against Torture and its Optional Protocol (OPCAT); the European Convention forthePreventionofTorture and...
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legal and ethical justification for the tortureof prisoners. Furthermore, the report stated that theassociation's ethics director Stephen Behnke and others...
close the Committee Against Torture down. The Committee forthePreventionofTorture was created as the CAT’s successor. On 14 January 2016, the Ministry...
of diseases, particularly syphilis, was the stated reason forthetorture. Fetal survival and damage to mother's reproductive organs were objects of interest...
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been condemned fortorture by the United Nations special rapporteur on torturefor its use of electric shocks as punishment as part of its behavior modification...