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UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture NEWSLETTER #2– JUNE 26, 2015 . Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace and Justice.
(#1, June 26, 2013).
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Human Rights First
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Google Search,
June 27
June 27
President Obama and Torture, Google Search, June 27
Physicians for Human Rights and Torture, Google Search
Human Rights Watch and Torture, Google Search
Center for Victims of Torture
Torture and US Mainstream Media, Google Search
Senator Bernie Sanders and Torture (and Hillary Clinton), Google Search
Contact President Obama
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, 26 June, 2015, Google Search, June 27
The U.S. government should lead again on torture.
After 9-11, the U.S government embraced the use of torture, renouncing its global leadership role on this issue. Thanks in part to the work we did in partnership with military leaders and interrogation and intelligence professionals, President Obama signed an executive order banning torture. In time, the landmark Senate Intelligence Committee torture report was released, documenting a program that was far more brutal and widespread than Americans were led to believe. We're urging the Obama Administration and Congress to introduce legislation to make loophole lawyering impossible and ensure that our country never tortures again.
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Congress Should Pass a New Legislative Ban on Torture, Close Guantanamo, Bahrain, Guantanamo, Retired Military Leaders
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The United Nations' (UN) International Day in Support of Victims of Torture is annually observed on June 26 to remind people that human torture is not only ...
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The United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture – 26 June is held annually on 26 June to speak out against the crime of torture and to honor ...
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Center for Victims of Torture
June 26 is recognized internationally as United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. On this day in 1987, the UN Convention Against ...
www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/.../international-day-in-support-of-19401
France
On this International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, France reaffirms its commitment to the fight against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading ...
www.omct.org/assistance-to-victims/statements/2014/07/d22754/
Jul 7, 2014 - OMCT Newsletter - June 2014. International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. On June 26, 1987 the Convention against torture came into ...
https://www.whitehouse.gov/.../2014/.../26/statement-press-s...
White House
Office of the Press Secretary. For Immediate Release. June 26, 2014. Statement by the Press Secretary on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture ...
PRESIDENT OBAMA AND TORTURE, Google Search, June 27, 2015
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/obama-torture-hands-arent-entirely-clean
Dec 10, 2014 - President Obama has denounced the techniques revealed in the Senate's torture report as "brutal." But his record on the issue is far from ...
www.nbcnews.com/...torture.../president-obama-cias-post...
NBCNews.com
Dec 10, 2014 - CIA intelligence-gathering techniques detailed in the Senate's torturereport are "contrary to who we are," President Barack Obama said.
www.theguardian.com › US News › CIA torture report
The Guardian
Dec 9, 2014 - Barack Obama at the UN headquarters in New York. It's a long way away from the heady days of Obama's 2008 campaign pledge to 'set an ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../obama-cia-torture-repo...
The Huffington Post
Dec 9, 2014 - President Barack Obama said the revelations bring light to a ... "That is why I unequivocally banned torture when I took office, because one of ...
www.nytimes.com/.../obama-effectiveness-cia-tortu...
The New York Times
Dec 10, 2014 - WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday found himself caught in the middle of a collision between the Central Intelligence Agency ...
www.nytimes.com/.../president-obama-and-the-con...
The New York Times
Oct 20, 2014 - President Obama should not consider any legal loophole that might permit an American official to engage in torture or cruelty, no matter where ...
Dec 8, 2014 - Soon after President Barack Obama took office, he publicly endorsed ... Now, some six years later, the White House says the torture report that's ...
america.aljazeera.com/blogs/.../9/torture-illegal-thennow.html Al Jazeera
Dec 9, 2014 - With today's release of what is being shorthanded as the “torture report” ... consensus behind President Barack Obama's August admission (for ...
thehill.com/blogs/.../279073-president-obamas-record-on-torture The Hill
Jan 24, 2013 - As soon as President Obama began his first term, he issued an executive order that banned the use of torture as an interrogation technique.
Aug 4, 2014 - When President Obama declared last week that "we tortured some folks," the headlines focused on the fact that he spoke relatively plainly ...
Physicians for Human Rights - Torture, Google Search, June 27, 2015 [This search also produced reports on medical professionals’ violations of their oaths to do no harm. –Dick]
physiciansforhumanrights.org › Issues
Physicians for Human Rights
Since its founding in 1986, PHR's core mission has included investigating and reporting on the devastating consequences of torture on individuals, institutions, ...
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Physicians for Human Rights
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physiciansforhumanrights.org › ... › Reports Physicians for Human Rights
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Dr. Ahmed has examined hundreds of torture survivors from over 60 countries and provided expert witness testimony on the medical and psychological ...
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Human Rights Watch,Google Search, June 27, 2015
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Human Rights Watch
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TORTURE AND US MAINSTREAM MEDIA, Google Search June 27
www.juancole.com/2014/12/mainstream-media-torture.html
Juan Cole
Dec 15, 2014 - By Rebecca Gordon | (Tomdispatch.com —. American Torture — Past, Present, and… Future? Beyond the Senate Torture Report By Rebecca ...
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Dec 12, 2014 - Corruption Is Now Officially Legal in the U.S., But Must Be Done Right ... The Media Is Focusing On the WRONG Senate Torture Report ..... no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq – intelligence they received in plenty of time to ...
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Nov 26, 2014 - Torture, spying and net neutrality and more make this year's list. ... When the U.S. funds torturers, the corporate media bury the story, or worse, ...
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The Huffington Post
Dec 19, 2014 - [The media's] justification for this is, "Well, it's not up for us to resolve debates. ... [the fact that] we don't hear from the victims of torture, because to hear .... out there, but this shows how controlled the main stream media can be.
ian56.blogspot.com/2014/12/why-is-mainstream-media-protecting.html
Dec 12, 2014 - Paul Burney, a United States Army psychiatrist assigned to interrogations in Guantánamo Bay that summer of 2002, told Army investigators of ...
www.projectcensored.org/media-whitewash-integral-rol... Project Censored
Mar 2, 2015 - Although both the corporate and progressive press focused public attention on the Senate Intelligence Committee's December 2014 report on ...
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Sep 2, 2014 - This week's Mainstream Media Scream features two MSNBC newsies blaming ... issue and they're going to torture our hostages with that knowledge. ... So, the U.S. should be inhibited from pursuing information from terrorists ...
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1472402553
Dr Vian Bakir - 2013 - Social Science
... sousveillance to break the torture story in American mainstream news, it spurred investigative journalism in American mainstream media in the following months.
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0549632115
Amanda Jean Davis - 2008
U.S. soldiers, simultaneously distance the United States from wrongdoing with ... after the Abu Ghraib photographs were aired in the U.S. mainstream media, ...
BERNIE SANDERS AND TORTURE, Google Search, June 27, 2015
www.sanders.senate.gov/.../sanders-statement-on-cia-repo...
Bernie Sanders
Dec 9, 2014 - 9 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today issued the following statement on a Senate Intelligence ... “The United States must not engage in torture.
Dec 11, 2014 - The differences between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton on ...Torture. Sanders: “A great nation must be prepared to acknowledge its errors ...
www.washingtonexaminer.com/members-of...react...torture.../2557160
Dec 9, 2014 - “Not only is torture wrong, but it doesn't work,” Reid also tweeted, expressing ... Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., called the findings of the report, "An ugly ...
Dec 11, 2014 - The release of the CIA torture report on Tuesday, detailing brutal ...Bernie Sanders issued a statement on Tuesday after the torture report was ...
https://grabien.com/story.php?id=18830Bernie Sanders: Torture Report Is 'Enormously Disturbing'. 'That's not what America is supposed to be. We're supposed to be a different kind of country' ...
rt.com › Shows › Watching the Hawks RT
May 1, 2015 - APA-CIA torture collaboration, Freddie Gray's mysterious death, Bernie Sanders for president, sexist peer reviews, urn sex toys (E024).
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/where-hillary-clinton-torture
Dec 9, 2014 - The use of torture is back in the spotlight -- where is the presumed ...Bernie Sanders both have spoken out strongly since the release of the ...
www.democracynow.org/2015/5/1/headlines Democracy Now!
May 1, 2015 - Report: APA Coordinated with Bush Admin to Enable Torture Program ... Senator Bernie Sanders Announces Bid for Democratic Nomination.
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White House
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Contents #1 June 26, 2013
OMNI Film Showing, War Against Whistleblowers
UN Convention Against Torture
UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
June: UN Torture Awareness Month
TASSC: Torture Abolition and Survivor Support Coalition
Witness Against Torture
Torture USA
US Torture Victims, Google Search
Books on Torture
Hersh, Abu Ghraib
Danner, Torture and the Forever War
Links to February 4, Torture Abolition Day (unofficial)
Recent Related OMNI Newsletters
END INTERNATIONAL DAY IN SUPPORT OF VICTIMS OF TORTURE NEWSLETTER #2 JUNE 26, 2015