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Switzerland: Human Rights Council: Invitation to a side event on Torture, National Security and Accountability, 7 March 2011 With the participation of Mr. Juan E. Méndez, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.

Human Rights Council: Invitation to a side event on Torture, National Security and Accountability
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The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the

International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)

 

cordially invite you to a parallel event to the 16th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council on

 

TORTURE, NATIONAL SECURITY and ACCOUNTABILITY

 

Monday 7th March 2011, 3pm – 5pm

Room XXVII

Palais des Nations, Geneva

 

Mr. Juan E. Méndez

UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

 

Mr. Gerald Staberock

Deputy Secretary General, World Organisation Against Torture

 

Mr. Tad Stahnke

Director of Policy and Programs, Human Rights First

 

Mr. Alex Conte

Representative to the UN, International Commission of Jurists (Moderator)

 

The lack of legal accountability for serious human rights violations committed in the name of national security, such as torture or other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, remain today an important unaddressed challenge in the global response to terrorism. If not addressed, it risks undermining the foundations of the UN human rights framework as well as the legitimacy of counter-terrorism and national security laws and policies.

 

The parallel event will take stock of practical and legal impediments to accountability, such as national security doctrines, state secrecy invocations or the protection of intelligence information. It will seek to identify ways forward for the UN Human Rights Council and its independent mandates in upholding the right to remedy and reparation under international law and fostering fully accountable national security responses.


For further information, please contact Alexandra Kossin (ak@omct.org) or Alex Conte (alex.conte@icj.org)




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Date: March 4, 2011
Type: Events
Country: Switzerland

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