Female foeticide and India’s bride bazaar: The case of Haryana

NCAT lambasts MHA’s Committee for exclusion of torture from its agenda, Time8

Time8  18 August 2020 The NHRC registered 35,554 cases of custodial deaths/rapes including 31,779 cases in judicial custody and 3,775 cases in police custody by the NHRC during 1994-1995 to 2018-2019. GUWAHATI: The National Campaign Against Torture (NCAT) in its submission, “The indispensability of adding offences of torture in Indian Penal Code”, today lambasted the […]

Viet Nam: UN Committee against Torture considers the initial report of Viet Nam

Even Communist Vietnam ratified the UNCAT which India consistently refuses to do despite signing the same in 1997. On 15 November 2018, the UN Committee against Torture concluded its consideration of the initial report[1] of Viet Nam on the efforts made by the State party to implement the provisions of the Convention against Torture.[2] Introducing […]

Nigeria’s anti-torture law shows India’s failure to criminalise torture

Nigeria had been a signatory to the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT) since 28 July 1998 and it ratified the convention on 28 July 2001, in less than three years of becoming a signatory to the instrument. Nigeria accepted the Inquiry Procedure provided under Article 20 […]