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• June 28-29 : Third international night of vigil
• To get in touch with ACATs

• Africa
  • ACAT - Benin
  • ACAT - Burkina Faso
  • ACAT - Burundi
  • ACAT - Cameroun
  • ACAT - Central African Republic
  • ACAT - Chad *
  • ACAT - Congo
  • ACAT - Democratic Republic of Congo *
  • ACAT - Ghana *
  • ACAT - Ivory Coast
  • ACAT - Madagascar
  • ACAT - Mali
  • ACAT - Senegal
  • ACAT - Togo
• America
  • ACAT - Brazil
  • ACAT - Canada
  • ACAT - Mexico
• Asia
  • ACAT - Philippines *
• Europe
  • ACAT - Belgium
  • ACAT - Czech Republic *
  • ACAT - France
  • ACAT - Germany
  • ACAT - Italy
  • ACAT - Luxembourg
  • ACAT - Netherlands
  • ACAT - Spain
  • ACAT - Switzerland
  • ACAT - United Kingdom
• Oceania
  • ACAT - Madagascar

• Annual Campaign
  • 2006 Campaign : Proposals for a Joint Declaration from all Churches on the Abolition of Torture
    • 2006 Campaign : Proposals for a Joint Declaration from all Churches on the Abolition of Torture
    • Message from Pastor Samuel Kobia, General Secretary of the Council of World Churches on the thirtieth anniversary of ACAT
    • Message from the Justice and Peace Pontifical Council to mark ACATs’ 30th Anniversary on 3 December 2004
    • Pope John Paul II ’s statement
    • The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the US statement
  • Campaign 2001-2002 : African cultures and the fight against torture
    • Final declaration
  • Campaign 2005 : For the abolition of death penalty in Africa
    • Call for the abolition of death penalty in Africa
    • Kenya, Demolishing the gallows
      Kiraitu Murungi
    • Malawi, Vera Chirwa Capital woman
    • Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu testimony
    • Nigeria, The rule of law against stones
      Hauwa Ibrahim
    • Posters for the 2005 campaign
  • Togo Campaign 2004 : ACAT and FIACAT lift ’the veil of secrecy’
    • EU Council press release (14 April 2004)
    • Fact sheet : History of Togo since the transition to democracy at the beginning of the 90s
    • Resumption of the cooperation agreement between Togo and the European Union
    • Togo Campaign 2004 : The ACAT and FIACAT lift "the veil of secrecy"
    • Togo campaign report 2004
• Appeal of the Month
  • BELARUS : The last executions in Europe
  • BHUTAN : Refugees’ right of return
  • BOSNIA - Srebrenica : Ten years of impunity
  • BRAZIL : Investigation into a suspicious death in detention
  • BRAZIL : Torture carried out by military and civilian police
  • BRAZIL : Violence against juvenile detainees in the State of São Paulo
  • BURUNDI : In Bujumbura, hospitals have become prisons
  • BURUNDI : Rape, the hidden crime
  • BURUNDI : Stop Using Torture !
  • CAMEROUN : Torture in New Bell prison
  • CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC : barbaric acts of retaliation
  • CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC : The scourge of impunity
  • CHAD : Enforced disappearance
  • CHAD : Putting a stop to the death penalty
  • CHECHENYA : Torture, ill-treatment and disappearances
  • CHECHNYA : Human disaster in Europe
  • CHIAPAS : Forced transfer of a torture victim to a high security prison
  • CHINA : a small step forward - a code forbidding torture
  • COLOMBIA : Extrajudicial executions
  • COLOMBIA : The Pueblo Bello Massacre
  • DEMOCRATIC REP OF CONGO : Torture and death of an eight-year-old child
  • GUINEA CONAKRY : repression of students turns violent
  • IRAN : Stoning : a return to barbarity
  • IRAQ : the ’Wolf Brigade’
  • IVORY COAST : No to impunity for war crimes and crimes against humanity
  • LAOS : children at risk of being tortured
  • LEBANON : Request for Review of Palestinian Youssef Chaabane’s Trial Turned Down
  • MADAGASCAR : International Criminal Court : Why it must be ratified
  • MEXICO : Torture : it happens all the time
  • NAMIBIA : Torture and death in detention
  • PAKISTAN : Killings in the name of honour
  • PHILIPPINES : Abolition of the death penalty
  • Results of the monthly appeals in 2005
  • RUSSIA : Abolition of the death penalty
  • RWANDA : Disappearance of an MP
  • RWANDA : Disappearances
  • SAUDI ARABIA : discriminatory use of the death penalty against immigrants and women
  • SPAIN : Application of the anti-terrorism laws to a Muslim Arab
  • SUDAN : Crisis in Darfour
  • SUDAN : Incommunicado Detention and Torture of Students
  • SUDAN : Violence against women
  • Summary of FIACAT’s appeals of the month during 2003
  • SYRIA : Imprisoned for denouncing torture
  • TIBET : Persecution of the Tibetan population,
    The case of the monk Tenzin Delek Rinpoche
  • TOGO : Stop this impunity !
  • TOGO : Torture and arbitrary detention,
    The cases of Marc Palanga and Mazama Katassa
  • TOGO : a country where impunity reigns
  • TUNISIA : Allegation of torture of a prisoner
  • TURKEY : Death threats on Human Rights defenders
  • TURKMENISTAN : Prisoner of Conscience Tortured to Death
  • UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / EGYPT : Appeal on Behalf of Onsy ZACHARY
  • USA/EGYPT : ONSY ZACHARY - Second Appeal
  • VIETNAM : Reducing dissident voices to silence
  • What happened to FIACAT’s appeals of the month ? 2004 report
• FIACAT at the UN
  • Reports
  • The Working groups
  • Committee against Torture
    • Current membership of the Committee Against Torture
    • 35th session of CAT, 2005
      • Democratic Rep of Congo examinated by the CAT, November 2005
      • France examinated by the CAT, November 2005
    • 36th session of CAT, May 2006
      • Committee Against Torture hears response of togo
      • FIACAT Press Release : Recommendations of the CAT on Togo
      • Monitoring mission to Togo conducted by FIACAT, in partnership with OMCT and ACAT-Togo, concerning the recommendations of the Committee against Torture
      • Togo examinated by the CAT, May 2006
      • Torture in Togo : FIACAT’s alternativ report to the Committee Against Torture
    • 37th session of CAT, November 2006
      • CAT : Examination of Burundi
      • CAT : Examination of Mexico
    • 38th session of CAT, 30 April - 18 May 2007
      • CAT : Examination of Italy
      • CAT : Examination of Luxembourg - May 2007
      • CAT : Examination of Netherlands
      • Programme of work - 38th session of the Committee against Torture - 30 April to 18 May 2007
    • 39th session of CAT, November 2007
      • CAT : Examination of Benin, 5-23 November 2007
    • 40th Session of CAT, May 2008
      • CAT : Examination of Sweden - May 2008
    • 41th Session of CAT, November 2008
      • CAT : Examination of Belgium - November 2008
  • Enforced disappearances
    • Campaign on Enforced disappearances
      • [UN File] The International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances in 5 questions
    • Convention on Enforced disappearance
      • ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES : Another step towards the adoption of the Convention on enforced disappearances.
      • Historical presentation of the Convention
      • Main provisions of the Convention
    • International Coalition against Enforced disappearances
      • ICAED calls on European Parliament to promote the Convention
      • Manifest of the International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances
      • [Press Release] One year after the signing ceremony of the convention on enforced disappearances the number has reached 72 signatures and 2 ratifications
  • Human Rights Committee
    • Members of the Human Rights Committee
    • 85th sesion of the HRC, November 2005
      • HRC : Examination of Brazil
      • HRC : Examination of Canada
      • HRC : Examination of Italy
    • 86th session of the HRC, March 2006
      • HRC : Examination of Democratic Republic of Congo
    • 87th session of the HRC, July 2006
      • FIACAT report for the Human Rights Committee : Human Rights situation in Central African Republic
      • HRC : Examination of Central African Republic
    • 89th session of the HRC, 12 -30 March 2007
      • HRC : Examination of Madagascar, 12 - 13 March 2007
    • 90th session of the HRC - 9-27th July 2007
      • HRC : Examination of Czech Republic, 9 - 27 July 2007
    • 93th HRC session, July 2008
      • HRC : Examination of United Kingdom, 7 - 25 July 2008
      • HRC : Examination of France, 7 - 25 July 2008
    • 94th HRC session, October 2008
      • HRC : Examination of Spain, October 2008
    • 95th HRC session, March 2009
      • HRC : Examination of Chad, March 2009
    • 96th HRC session, July 2009
      • Examination of Switzerland, July 2009
      • HRC : Examination of Netherlands, July 2009
  • Human Rights Council
    • Human Rights Commissioner comments on the new UN Human Rights Council
    • Joint NGO Statement on Human Rights Council elections
    • Membership of the Human Rights Council
    • UN Human Rights Council adopts documents on disappearances and indigenous peoples
    • [Human Rights Council] Citizens of 147 countries appeal to the United Nations to maintain an independent and effective system of Human Rights experts
    • [UN supplement] The UN Human Rights Council
    • 7th session of the Human Rights Council
      • International Coalition against disappearances’ side event, HRC 7
      • Mission to Togo, report of the Special Rapporteur on torture
      • Oral Statement delivered on the Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
      • Programme of work, HRC 7th session
      • Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture, HRC 7th session
      • Side event on the Role of Doctors in the Fight against Torture
      • Summary of the principal decisions of the United Nations Human Rights Council affecting the work of the ACATs
    • 8th session of the Human Rights Council
      • CINAT’s Statement on Item 3 : Special Rapporteur on torture
      • FIACAT and ACAT France written statement on UPR - France
      • Programme of work, HRC 8th session
      • [HRC 8] Declaration submitted by FIACAT and ACAT Benin - UPR Benin
      • [HRC 8]Written statement submitted by CINAT’s members : RRI on Special Rapporteur on torture
    • Complaint procedure
      • Involvement of the complainant and of the State concerned
      • Measures
      • Working Group on Communications
      • Working Group on Situations
      • Working modalities and confidentiality
    • Fifth session of the Human Rights Council, 11th to 18th June 2007
      • High Commissioner for Human Rights hopes spirit of cooperation and mutual respect will remain hallmark of Human Rights Council
      • Human Rights Council holds organizational meeting to discuss modalities of work
    • Fourth Session of the Human Rights Council, 13th March to 5th April 2007
      • Council concludes dialogue with experts on protection of Human Rights while countering terrorism and torture
      • [Human Rights Council] Act for Special Procedures : A Global Petition
      • [Human Rights Council] Draft timetable for the 4th session, 12 - 30 March 2007
      • [Human Rights Council] Intervention of a Coalition of NGOs focusing on the issue of prevention of torture before the Human Rights Council
        26 mars 2007
    • Second session of the Human Rights Council
      • Human Rights Council discusses joint report on detainees in Guantanamo Bay
      • Human Rights Council discusses reports on torture, arbitrary detention and independence of judges and lawyers
    • Sixth Session of the Human Rights Council
      • Draft programme of Work for the 1st part of the 6th session of the Human Rights Council
        (10 September – 28 Septembre 2007)
    • Third session of the Human Rights Council
      • HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CONCLUDES THIRD SESSION LARGELY DEVOTED TO ORGANIZATION OF FUTURE WORK
    • Universal Periodic Review
      • 1st UPR session, 7 - 18 April 2008
      • 2d UPR session, 5 - 19 May 2008
  • The Commission on Human Rights
    • Membership of the Commission on Human Rights
    • CHR 2001
      • Item 11 a : torture and detention
      • Item 18 C : Standing Invitations to Thematic Human Rights Mechanisms
      • item 9 : Violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms wherever they occur in the world
      • Oral declaration by Renato Simoes on item 11
      • Oral declaration on item 9
      • Special parallel session : The value of international and national efforts to prevent torture
    • CHR 2002
      • Item 11 : Torture and detention
      • Item 11 d : Impunity, an encouragement to ongoing human rights violations
      • Item 18 : Standing Invitations to Thematic Human Rights Mechanisms
      • Item 9 :Massive violations of human rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Cameroon
    • CHR 2003
      • Item 11(b) : Disappearances and summary executions in Africa
      • Item 17 : The death penalty issue
      • Item 18 (c) : Standing Invitations to Thematic Human Rights Mechanisms
      • Item 9 : The human rights situation in Chechnya
      • Statement by the Coalition of International NGOs Against Torture
    • CHR 2004
      • Assessment of the CHR 2004
      • Item 11 : Written Statement - Situation of Human Rights in Chechnya
      • Item 17 : Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
      • Item 18 (c ) : Standing Invitations to Thematic Human Rights Mechanisms
      • Item 9 : Wrtitten Statement - Situation of Human Rights in Togo
      • NGOs statement : CHR weakening commitment to its own Procedures.
    • CHR 2005
      • CINAT Recommandations
      • Item 17 : Promotion and Protection of Human Rights :
        The death penalty
      • Joint Written statement on the question of the death penalty
      • Joint written statement on the situation in Togo
      • Joint Written statement on the standing invitations to Human Rights Mechanisms
    • CHR 2006
      • An ’historic’ vote, General Assembly creates new UN Human Rights Council
      • Commission on Human Rights elects Bureau for 2006 session
      • FIACAT’s priorities for the 62e session of the UN Commission on Human Rights
      • HRC 2006 : Written statement by FIACAT under point 11 b
      • HRC 2006 : Written statement for inclusion under item 9
      • HRC 2006 : Written statement under Item 18 (c) of the provisional agenda
      • NGO Declaration : Building protection for the victims of disappearances cannot be held hostage
      • NGOs make urgent appeal to UN member states to back Human Rights Council resolution
      • Statement by High Commissioner For Human Rights to last meeting of Commission on Human Rights
  • The UN Special Procedures
    • More details on Special Rapporteurs
    • Model questionnaire to be adressed to Special procedures
      • Special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions of the United Nations
      • Special rapporteur on torture of the United Nations
      • Special Representative of the Secretary-General on human rights defenders
      • Working group of the United Nations on enforced or involuntary disappearances of persons
      • Working Group on arbitrary detention of the United Nations
    • Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
      • Reports to the Human Rights Council
• Statements
  • 26 June 2004 : International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
  • 26 June 2005 : International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
  • 26 June 2006 : Making the prevention of torture and ill-treatment a priority
  • 59th session of the UN Commission for Human Rights
  • Absolute prohibition of torture and ill-treatment, letter to all members of european parliament (CINAT)
    October 2005
  • APPEAL against the creation of camps at European borders
  • Best wishes from FIACAT to the new protocol against torture
  • Burkina-Faso : Sentences to death
  • Combating terrorism cannot justify a licence to kill for the police
  • Death Penalty in Illinois (USA)
  • Death sentence passed on former dictator Saddam Hussein
  • Diplomatic assurances do not give carte blanche and should be banned.
  • European Union / Togo
  • FIACAT appeal to General Lamine Cissé on the execution of Sergeant Claude SANZE
  • FIACAT Press release : Farewell Democracy ?
  • FIACAT Press Release : Recommendations of the CAT on Togo
  • FIACAT press releases on the International Criminal Court
  • FIACAT Priorities for 2004 at the 60th session of the Commission on Human Rights
  • FIACAT’s priorities for the 62e session of the UN Commission on Human Rights
  • FIACAT-ACAT CAR statement : Central African Republic must bring its legislation into line with the Pact
  • Guantanamo : the United States cannot go on pretending not to hear !
  • HRC 2006 : Written statement by FIACAT under point 11 b
  • HRC 2006 : Written statement for inclusion under item 9
  • HRC 2006 : Written statement under Item 18 (c) of the provisional agenda
  • Human rights situation in Togo
  • Implementation of the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture : The system of visits to detention centres spreads around the world !
  • Irak : FIACAT says no to war
  • Ivory Coast : An opportunity to end impunity
  • Joint NGO Statement on Human Rights Council elections
  • Joint Statement related to the debates of the United Nations’ Group to elaborate an instrument for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance
  • Myanmar : Detention of Aung San Suu Kyi
  • New International Bureau
  • NGO Declaration : "Building protection for the victims of disappearances cannot be held hostage
  • NGOs make urgent appeal to UN member states to back Human Rights Council resolution
  • Open letter from FIACAT to the European Union Council Presidency on the eve of the EU-Africa Summit
  • President of Togo meets Pope John Paul II. FIACAT concerned at the human rights situation in the country.
  • Press release on 2005 International Day for Human Rights
    10th December
  • Public statement : Togo : One year on from the April 2005 bloodshed, there is still complete impunity
  • Rwanda : Disappearance of an MP
  • Senegal must spare no effort to ensure that Hissène Habré is brought to justice.
  • Situation in Mexico : death threats and harassment inflicted on human rights defenders
  • Situation of Human Rights in Chechnya
  • Statements to the UN Commission on Human Rights
  • The ban on torture vs. the fight against terrorism : the European dispute
  • The European Agency of Fundamental Rights
  • The failure to renew the mandate of the Independent Expert on the human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo is unacceptable !
  • The human rights challenge for the new European Parliament
  • The World Coalition Against the death Penalty calls on President Mahmoud Abbas to declare an official moratorium on the death penalty and not to ratify Tha’er Rmailat’s death sentence
  • The World Coalition Against the Death penalty denounces the provision of Arab Charter on Human Rights regarding the application of death penalty for children
  • Torture in Iraq - CINAT Statement
  • Torture in Iraq : apologies are not enough !
  • UNITED STATES : FIACAT and European ACATs express there opposition on the Military Commissions Act
  • USA : the execution of juvenile offenders is unconstitutional
  • WCADP condemns acceleration of executions in Japan and continued secrecy surrounding these executions
  • [Death Penalty] US Supreme Court’s decision on lethal injection
  • [HRC 8] CINAT’s Statement on Item 3 : Special Rapporteur on torture
  • [Press Release] "No one shall be subjected to forced disappearance"
  • [Press Release] 26 June 1987 – 26 June 2007 : 20 years of fighting torture
  • [Press Release] 26 June 2008 - Christians committed to support victims of torture
  • [Press release] Adoption of a Moratorium on Executions by the United Nations General Assembly : A Significant Step Towards Universal Abolition
  • [Press Release] Adoption of the Forced Disappearance Convention by the United Nations General Assembly
  • [Press Release] Anti death penalty campaigners urge the National Peoples’ Congress to take concrete measures to abolish the death penalty in China
  • [Press Release] CAT 2007 : FIACAT and ACAT Luxembourg still have reservations
  • [Press Release] DARFUR /ICC Open letter from the worldwide network of ACATs to the Vatican on the eve of the Pope’s meeting with the President of Sudan
  • [Press Release] International Human Rights Day : FIACAT calls for the United Nations special procedures system
  • [Press Release] June 26 is the International Day in support of Torture Victims. Much remains to be done…
  • [Press Release] Launch of an international petition for the liberation of the Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor
  • [Press Release] One year after the signing ceremony of the convention on enforced disappearances the number has reached 72 signatures and 2 ratifications
  • [Press Release] Press Conference : "Death penalty reform in China – further steps needed towards abolition"
  • [Press Release] Prison conditions : the United Nations call Benin to order
  • [Press Release] Second European Union-Africa Summit, Open letter from FIACAT to the EU Presidency
  • [Press Release] THE GOSPEL CHOICE : AN UNCONDITIONAL ‘NO’ TO THE DEATH PENALTY
  • [Press Release] To enable the International Convention on Enforced Disappearance to enter into force, nations must accept their responsibilities
  • [Press release] Togo : towards an effective truth commission
  • [Press Release] TOGO : Two years after the elections, victims are still waiting for justice
  • [Press Release] United Nation General Assembly calls for a universal Moratorium on Death Penalty
  • [Press Release] World Day Against the Death Penalty 2007 - FIACAT calls on United Nations member States to support a Resolution calling for a universal moratorium on capital punishment
  • [Statement] Chad : Human rights defenders are still in danger !

Articles

• 2nd World Congress against the death penalty
• European Social Forum : a Seminar on the death penalty
• Flurry of initiatives against the death penalty at ACATs in the past year - June 2006 / June 2007
• The Catholic Church and the death penalty
• The WCC statements on the death penalty
• [Petition] “For the Liberation of the Bulgarian Nurses and the Palestinian Doctor Sentenced to Death in Libya”

• 2nd World Congress Against the Death Penalty.
  • Final Declaration of the 2nd World Congress Agains the Death Penalty, Montreal, October 8, 2004.
• 3rd World Congress Against the Death penalty
  1st - 3rd Fubruary 2007
  • Final declaration of the 3rd World Congress against the Death Penalty
  • THE DEATH PENALTY : INHUMAN, CRUEL AND DEGRADING TREATMENT
• Conventions
  • At the African level
  • At the American level
  • At the European level
  • At the international level (UN)
• The Catholic Church and the death penalty
  • Intervention by H.E. Archbishop Renato R. Martino on Abolition of the Death Penalty
• World Coalition against the death penalty
  • A sad record
  • Charter of the World Coalition against the death penalty
    may 2002
  • Declaration of Strasbourg, 2001
  • [Death Penalty] Mali : is abolition in sight ?
  • [Death Penalty] URGENT : trial of the Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor sentenced to death in Libya
  • China 2008 : some records must be broken
    • [Death Penalty] China 2008 : some records must be broken
    • [Petition] Beijing Olympics : some records must be broken
• World day (10 October)
  • 10 October 2003
  • 10 October 2004
  • 10 October 2005
  • 10 October 2006 : 4th annual World Day against the death penalty
  • 10 October 2003
    • Activities planned by ACAT for 10 October 2003
    • Petition
  • [10 October 2007] World Day against the death penalty : the world decides !
    • [10 October 2007] An appeal for a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty
    • [10 October 2007] Facts and Figures about the death penalty
    • [10 October 2007] Lobbying flyer
    • [10 October 2007] Public opinion awareness leaflet
    • [10 October 2007] Speaking out in favour of a global moratorium on executions

• International Seminars
  • An international Seminar "African cultures and the fight against torture".
    • FI.ACAT News - Special Issue - Dakar 2002
    • Final declaration
    • Initial reflection by the African ACAT associations
    • Minutes of the International Seminar
  • FIACAT International Seminar - Lungern 2007 "The ban on torture : a principle under threat"
    • The ban on torture : a principle under threat
      • A Biblical reflection on the ban on torture
      • DEFEATING THE "TICKING BOMB" ARGUMENT
        Eric Prokosch
      • Observations by the ACATs on the social and political realities in their countries
      • Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
        As a Tool in the Struggle against the use of Torture in Israel, An Israeli Perspective
        (Rachela ERE’L)
      • Preparing the ACATs for the new challenges
      • Programme of the International Seminar 2007, "The ban on torture : a principle under threat"
        29 April – 2 May 2007
      • Questioning the ban on torture
        A few examples of the issues involved
      • Some basic principles that explain why torture must be unconditionally rejected
        (Michel Stavrou)
      • Strategies of a Torturing Regime (Paz Rojas)
      • Summary of comments handed in at the end of each of the 3 days following the time for reflection as reported in plenary
      • The Influence of Fear and Security on Government Activities and Society in Connection to Protection of Human Rights in the Struggle Against Terror : The Israeli Narrative (Rachela Ere’l)
      • The Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention Against Torture
        (Edouard Delaplace)
• NK Trainning Cycle
  • Training session 2004-2005
  • Who is Norbert Kenne ?
• Regional Seminars
  • Africa
    • Bangui (Central African Republic), June 2005
    • Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), July 2004
  • Europe
    • A European seminar "Europe 2000 : What about Human Rights ?"
      • Human rights in Europe : a christian’s viewpoint by Elizabeth Salter
      • Human Rights in Europe, Anne Burley
      • Minutes of the regional seminar 2000, Prague
      • President Vaclav Havel’s Adress
    • European seminar 2001, Luxembourg
      • ACAT, FIACAT at the EU level
    • European seminar 2003, Luxembourg
      • European asylum policies, Ms. Regina Hartig
      • European legislation - a chronology
      • Pierre Courcelle’s speech on the development of asylum law at national level
    • European seminar 2005, Strasbourg
      • Annex : Useful information for NGOs to forward to the CPT
      • Fact Sheet n° 12 : ACATs and the CPT : a step-by-step guide
      • Meeting with Manuel Lezertua, Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe
      • Talks on Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights
    • European seminar 2006, Bruges
      • Confronting the Current Chalenges to the Universal Ban on Torture
      • The ban on torture vs. the fight against terrorism : the European dispute

Articles

• GET INVOLVED WITH FIACAT
• Help us

Articles

• The International Criminal Court

• FIACAT’s Press release on the ICC
  • 1 July 2003 : The ICC is a year old !
  • 11 march 2003 : an end to impunity
  • International Criminal Court (ICC) : Europe must not yield to U.S. demands
• What’s new ?
  • 3 December 2005 : Closing statement by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union at the fourth session of the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court

Articles

• FIACAT Team
• Charter
• FIACAT’s leaflet
• FIACAT’s Statutes
• Rules of procedure

• ACAT in 2004 : 30 years old
  • Declaration adopted by the International Council on the death penalty in Africa.
  • Programme
  • Statement made by Patrick Byrne, President of FIACAT
• Coalitions of which FIACAT is a member
  • Churches and religious congregations
  • NGO’s partners
• International and regional bodies
  • Africa
  • America
  • Europe
  • Francophonie
  • United Nations
• Links
  • Coalitions of which FIACAT is a member
  • International and regional organisations
  • Websites of members of the ACAT network

Articles

• FIACAT News
• The Appeal of the Month
• What’s new on the FIACAT website ?

Articles

• Protection of the rights of the individual is at the very heart of the Gospel

• Prayer texts
  • Prayers for children
  • Prayers for Good Friday
  • Prayers for torturers
  • Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2004
  • Prayers for human rights defenders
    • Do not be afraid
    • I did not speak
    • The walk
    • We cannot merely pray to you
  • Prayers for people sentenced to death (10 October)
    • In my name
  • Prayers for torture victims (26 June)
    • For victims of persecution
    • Hands enchained : A prayer
• Prayers leaflets
  • Hope in the darkest night, introduction by Patrick Byrne
  • Christians against the death penalty
    • Argumentation against the death penalty
    • Bible references
    • Death itself trembles
    • Do not be afraid !
    • Extracts from Bud Welch’s story, published in ACAT Courrier
    • Happy the man
    • Hear the cries which pierce the night
    • In my name
    • Jesus is condemned to death
    • Peace to all men
    • Position of the Catechism of the Catholic Church
    • Prayer of faith and hope
    • Principal statements from the World Council of Churches concerning the death penalty
    • Protecting sparks of life
    • Remember the men of ill will
    • The Holy See takes a stance against the death penalty
    • When dead children speak
  • Hope in the darkest night
    • 1. Some thoughts on the position of the Christian contemplating the passion of Jesus
    • 10. A blessing on the defenders of Human Rights
    • 11. What can we do ?
    • 2. A common Christian on the theme of torture
    • 3. Jesus is arrested, handed over, treated with contempt
    • 4. For the victims
    • 5. Why do you strike me ?
    • 6. Prayers based on specific cases
    • 7. "Open our eyes"
    • 8. A blessing on the victims of torture
    • 9. A prayer for torturers
    • Introduction by Patrick Byrne

• Annual Reports
  • FIACAT Activity Report 2006
  • FIACAT Activity report in 2002
  • FIACAT Activity report in 2003
  • FIACAT Activity report in 2004
  • FIACAT Activity report in 2005
• Europe Supplement to the FIACAT News
  • Europe Supplement to FIACAT News N°56
  • Europe Supplement to FIACAT News N°57
  • Europe Supplement to FIACAT News N°58
  • Europe Supplement to FIACAT News N°59
  • Europe Supplement to FIACAT News N°61
  • Europe Supplement to FIACAT News N°62
  • Europe Supplement to FIACAT News N°63
  • Information sheet
• FIACAT News
  • Addendum N°56
    The Optional Protocol to the Convention against torture.
  • Addendum N°57
    The protection of ACAT Members
  • Addendum N°58
    The International Day against the death penalty (10 October 2003).
  • Addendum N°60
    The situation in Chechnya
  • FIACAT News 26 June 2003 Special
  • Fiacat News n° 61
    September 2004
  • Fiacat News n°55
    September 2002
  • Fiacat News n°56
    December 2002
  • Fiacat News n°57
    April 2003
  • Fiacat News n°58
    November 2003
  • Fiacat News n°59
    January 2004
  • Fiacat News n°60
    June 2004
  • Fiacat News n°62
    January 2005
  • Fiacat News n°62 bis
    December 2004
  • Fiacat News n°63
    April 2005
  • Fiacat News n°64
    December 2005
  • FIACAT News n°65
    July 2006
  • fiacat.news No 66
    November 2006
  • Fiacat.News No. 67
    June 2007
  • Fiacat.News No. 68
    November 2007
  • Fiacat.News No. 69
    June 2008
• FIACAT Newsletter
  • FIACAT Newsletter No. 0 – August 2007
  • FIACAT Newsletter No. 1 – November 2007
  • FIACAT Newsletter No. 2 – December 2007
• Tools for action
  • Annex : Useful information for NGOs to forward to the CPT
  • Fact sheet n° 11 : The ACP-EU Partnership Agreement and human rights protection
  • Fact Sheet n° 12 : ACATs and the CPT : a step-by-step guide
  • Fact sheet n°10 : The European Committee for the prevention of torture
  • [Europe File] A demand for Provisional Mesures before the European Court of Human Rights
  • [UN File] Adoption of the draft International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance
  • [UN File] In 5 questions The international convention for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance
  • [UN File] Individual submissions to the Committee Against Torture (art. 22)
  • [UN File] Working group on arbitrary detention

Articles

• Bibliography of articles related to torture
• Bibliography of books related to torture
• The methods are changing
• There is no such thing as exceptional circumstances
• Training in torture

• CINAT
  • "Defusing the Ticking Bomb Scenario. Why we must say No to torture, always"
  • CINAT’s Statements
    • 26 June 2005 - International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
    • Absolute prohibition of torture and ill-treatment, letter to all members of european parliament (CINAT)
      October 2005
    • CINAT : Making the prevention of torture and ill-treatment a priority
    • CINAT has issued a document on recommendations for the torture resolution which will be adopted by the Commission on Human Rights
    • CINAT Open Letter addressed to the States Parties to the United Nations (UN) Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
    • CINAT’s Press release on 2005 International Day for Human Rights
      10th December
    • CINAT’s statement for the UN Commission on Human Rights
      April 2003
    • CINAT’s Statement on Item 3 : Special Rapporteur on torture
    • CINAT’s statement on the International Day for Torture Survivors
      26 June 2003
    • Members of CINAT call for the universal ratification of the UN Convention against Torture
      10th December 2001
    • Statement on revelations of torture by Coalition Forces In Iraq , may 2004
• Conventions
  • At the African level
  • At the American level
  • At the European level
  • At the international level
• International Day in support of victims of torture
  • 26 June 2002
  • 26 June 2003
  • 26 June 2004
  • 26 June 2005
  • 26 June 2006
• Torture News
  • Article from the Colombus Dispatch : Administration thwarting anti-torture measures
    By Robyn Blumner
  • Article from The Des Moines Register : Enforce both letter, spirit of torture ban
    By Lee Cranberg
  • National Council of Churches general secretary says closing of Abu Ghraib is a chance to renounce torture
  • The Supreme Court struck down the military commissions President Bush established to try suspected terrorists
  • European news
    • "Fight terrorism with legal means", by Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe
    • 11 September terrorist attacks : the total prohibition of torture reaffirmed by the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights
    • Alleged CIA detentions : PACE President welcomes European Parliament investigation
    • Alleged existence of secret detention centres in Council of Europe member states : statement by Dick Marty
    • Challenges to the absolute nature of the prohibition of torture and ill-treatment
      By Manfred Nowak, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture
    • Council of Europe inquiry into rendition flights and secret detentions in Europe : Secretary General publishes additional responses received from governments
    • Council of Europe Secretary General proposes new international legal instruments to prevent human rights abuses in the fight against terrorism
    • Council of Europe Secretary General : publication of the report on alleged illegal detentions and rendition flights in Europe
    • Council of Europe Secretary General : rendition flights did take place
    • Dick Marty : highly likely that European governments were aware of ’rendition’ affecting Europe
    • European Parliament : CIA "directly responsible" in some cases for illegal activities in Europe
    • Extracts of the judgment of the English House of Lords on the evidence obtained by torture issue
    • Important decision by the Law Lords in U.K
    • PACE President joins calls for closure of Guantanamo
    • PACE President reacts to George Bush’s admission of secret CIA prisons
    • PACE President welcomes President Bush’s acceptance of the Mc Cain amendment
    • Preface of the 15th General Report on the CPT’s activities
    • The question of torture : general framework and recommendations to the european parliament, Eric Prokosch
    • The Venice Commission opinion on secret detentions and interstate transport of prisoners
    • US has woven clandestine ’spider’s web’ of detentions and transfers, with collusion of Council of Europe member states
  • FIACAT’s statements
    • Combating terrorism cannot justify a licence to kill for the police
    • Diplomatic assurances do not give carte blanche and should be banned.
    • FIACAT Press release : Farewell Democracy ?
    • Guantanamo : the United States cannot go on pretending not to hear !
  • United Nations news
    • Annan welcomes US endorsement of Geneva Convention on prisoner treatment
    • Diplomatic assurances not an adequate safeguard for deportees, UN special rapporteur against torture warns
    • Presse conference on torture by high commissioner for human rights
    • Torture not an instrument to fight terror, but an instrument of terror
      Kofi Annan
    • [OPCAT] Preventing Torture : Bristol University hosts Major International Conference
  • Vatican’s Statements
    • [Torture] Pontifical Council for justice and Peace’s Press release 30 October 2007