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

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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