The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday June 26th, 2023 – International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
June 26th is the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. Torture seeks to annihilate the victim’s personality and denies the inherent dignity of the human being. The United Nations has condemned torture from the outset as one of the vilest acts perpetrated by human beings on their fellow human beings.
Torture is a crime under international law. According to all relevant instruments, it is absolutely prohibited and cannot be justified under any circumstances. This prohibition forms part of customary international law, which means that it is binding on every member of the international community, regardless of whether a State has ratified international treaties in which torture is expressly prohibited. The systematic or widespread practice of torture constitutes a crime against humanity.
26 June: International Day Against Torture. by Rene Wadlow
Getting torture to be recognized as a real problem and then having the Commission on Human Rights create the post of Special Rapporeteur on Torture, owes much to the persistent efforts of Sean MacBride (1904-1988), at the time the former chairman of the Amnesty International Executive Committee (1961-1974) and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1974). MacBride had been the Foreign Minister of Ireland (1948-1951), and knew how governments work.
However, he had earlier been a long-time leader of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), being the son of John MacBride, an executed leader of the 1916 Easter Rising – an attack on the Dublin Post Office. With his death John MacBride became an Irish hero of resistance. Later Sean had spent time in prison accused of murder. He told me that he had never killed anyone; but as the IRA Director of Intelligence he was held responsible for the murders carried out by men under his command. Later, he also worked against the death penalty.
26 June as the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.
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Do not believe #poem & #painting by Amir Khatib
“Do not believe a poet who died of love,
He always writes about his anguish, his anguish, his starvation, and his sickness.
He always knows what he writes.”
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Insert Brain Here 2.0 #042 #poem by Paul Woods
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