The World Organisation Against Torture's (OMCT) 2001 Annual Report
Please click below to download OMCT's Annual Report, which is available in two parts:
1. The 2001 Annual Report's Cover pages
2. The 2001 Annual Report's Contents
OMCT's Annual Report Contents
Torture Respects neither Creed nor Ideology
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• Message from the Secretary-General of the United Nations - page 1
• Who we are - page 6
Highlights
• The struggle against impunity: two Tunisian ministers and an Israeli ambassador pursued by OMCT - page 12
• Conference of the International Labour Organisation (ILO):
OMCT expresses concern about the persecution of trade unionists and the persistence of the worst kinds of child labour - page 13
• 26 June 2001: United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture - page 14
• Durban: OMCT insists on the link between racism and torture and demands the establishment of an effective monitoring mechanism - page 15
• Nigeria: in the wake of the period of dictatorship, 60 Nigerian NGOs and OMCT meet in Lagos - page 18
• Ensuring the primacy of human rights over economic and financial policies: OMCT takes part in the Fourth Inter-Ministerial
Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) - page 19
• United Nations Committee against Torture: OMCT requests that the Committee integrate a gender perspective into
its activities - page 21
• Tampere: OMCT adopts a new programme of action on children, torture and other forms of violence - page 23
Programmes
• Urgent Campaigns and Special Procedures: reliability, rapidity and precision - page 28
• Victims: responding rapidly to complex needs - page 37
• Children: towards greater effectiveness in the fight against torture and other forms of violence against children - page 47
• Violence against Women: a threefold strategy - page 56
• Globalisation and human rights: economic, social and cultural rights as an integral part of the fight against torture - page 63
• Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders: a targeted response to selective repression - page 70
Organisation chart
The Executive Council - page 78
The Assembly of Delegates - page 79
The Consultative Council - page 80
The Organisation Committee - page 81
The International Secretariat - page 85
Statistics
• General activities of OMCT - page 25
• Urgent Campaigns - page 32
• Urgent assistance to victims of torture - page 38
• Annual accounts - page 82
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Please click below to download OMCT's Annual Report, which is available in two parts:
1. The 2001 Annual Report's Cover pages
2. The 2001 Annual Report's Contents
