Le istituzioni locali e il mondo associativo per la costruzione di una rete in materia di cooperazione, cultura di pace, integrazione multietnica, promozione dei diritti umani e della solidarietà fra i popoli.
International day for the Victims of Torture- 26th of June-
Today, Tuesday the 26th of June, it is the celebration of the international day for the Victims of Torture, proclaimed in 1997 from the General Assembly of the UN (Art: 1.1 of 1984 UN Convention against torture).
Twenty years before, the 26th of June 1987, came into force the UN Convention against torture and other corporal and mental punishments, cruel treatments, inhuman and degrading. At that point, 193 member states of the UN have adhered to the Convention. However, torture is still present in the countries which have signed and elsewhere in the world. Therefore, the situation calls for improvement and active interventions at all levels regional, national and international, to eradicate completely torture in the world.
This is one of the biggest challenge for the international community to face up at different levels:at the juridical level, with the creation of an international system to prevent and repress in a real efficient way; and at the social level to support and inform in continue Victims. One of the big battle against torture is to inform people.
Amnesty International and the Fandango (film production) organised today a demonstration in piazza di Pietra a Roma to ask for the closure of the detention centre of Guantánamo Bay- opened the 11th of January 2002 having today 750 prisoners from 45 nationalities.
