All texts on the issue Extreme Poverty

About Against Torture

News and background information about the situation of torture and ill-treatment worldwide.

A project by

• Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights

List of Issues

• Systematic Torture
• Widespread Torture
• Excessive Use of Force
• Inhuman Conditions of Detention
• Corporal Punishment
• Solitary Confinement
• Secret Detention
• Evidence Obtained under Torture
• Impunity
• Universal Jurisdiction
• Independence of the Judiciary
• Corruption
• Poverty
• Violence Against Women
• Complaint Mechanism

Updated Countries

• Austria
• Bangladesh
• Bahrain
• Vanuatu
• Libyan Arab Jamahiriya