Torture expert blasts Human Rights Council
Torture and secret prisons are “global phenomena” that are not being taken seriously by the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council, warns a UN expert.
According to Austrian human rights lawyer Manfred Nowak, there is a growing gap between the high aspirations of human rights law and the sobering reality on the ground.
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