Human Rights, Mass Atrocities and the Struggle for International Justice

Torture seeks to annihilate the victim’s personality and denies the inherent dignity of the human being. There are no exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, that may be used as a justification of torture. The 1984 Convention against Torture lets no one off the hook – neither the torturers themselves, nor the policy-makers, nor the public officials who define the policy or give the orders.

Today in 2023 there are more than a 100 million people around the world displaced by persecution, conflict and atrocities — a disturbingly high number of the forcibly displaced are torture survivors.

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