Time To Think Again About Abolishing Torture – OpEd

Time To Think Again About Abolishing Torture – OpEd

Eurasia Review

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By Jonathan Power

Right now, 47 years ago to the day in the autumn of 1975, the corridors of the UN in New York were abuzz with a small army of Amnesty International staff members lobbying countries to agree on a Declaration Against Torture.

The passage of international law to outlaw torture from idea to a convention to a...

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