Exhibition ‘Torture — The International Outlaw’ to Open at United Nations Headquarters, 10 December

The opening ceremony for the exhibition “Torture — The International Outlaw” will be held at 6 p.m. on Thursday, 10 December, in the Visitors’ Lobby at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Organized by Amnesty International, the Association for the Prevention of Torture and the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims, the exhibition is endorsed by the Permanent Mission of Denmark to the United Nations and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

Making remarks during the opening ceremony will be Ivan Šimonović, Assistant Secretary-General, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, New York; Leanne MacMillan, Director of Research Development, International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims; Rosita Eriksson, Communications Officer, Association for the Prevention of Torture; and Colm O’Cuanachain, Acting Secretary-General, Amnesty International.

Through images, text and a timeline, the exhibition provides an overview of the ongoing fight against torture that, over the years, led to the adoption of the United Nations Convention against Torture.  Adopted by the General Assembly on 10 December 1984, the Convention entered into force on 26 June 1987, following ratification by 20 States.

The exhibition includes the testimonies of torture survivors, as well as information that illustrates how the global ban on torture becomes a reality for individual persons/people around the globe — through the establishment of measures for prevention and redress, rehabilitation for victims and the fight against impunity.

For queries, please contact James Campbell at tel.:  +1 212 867 8878, ext. 1, or e-mail:  james.campbell@amnesty.org.

For more information on United Nations exhibitions, please contact Renata Morteo at tel.:  +1 212 963 5455, or e-mail:  morteo@un.org.