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Torture prevention project extended to more States

Special Correspondent

Special attention to be given to potential victims of torture

JAIPUR: The human rights organisation, People's Watch Tamil Nadu, extended its project for prevention of torture to nine more States, including Rajasthan, on Monday, the International Day of (Preventing) Torture.

The project has the support of the European Union and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.

The project would be formally launched in Rajasthan on Tuesday in the presence of the national director, Henri Tiphagne. The other States included in the project are Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Orissa, West Bengal, Northeast and Assam, besides Tamil Nadu.

People's Watch Tamil Nadu, launched in 1995, has so far been working for the protection and promotion of human rights in that State.

Carol Geeta, director of Torture Project, Rajasthan, said special attention would be given to potential victims of torture from vulnerable sections of society and marginalised communities. The group would attempt to highlight individual cases of torture and try to elicit institutional response. It would also educate and enlist profession groups such as lawyers, doctors, social activists, psychiatrists, journalists and teachers in the campaign to prevent and eliminate torture, she added.

The project would promote favourable policy outcomes in the form of new domestic anti-torture legislation and commitments of existing international treaties. The projects in various States would function in a network, monitoring instances of torture and intervening on behalf of the victims.

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