Denmark - a forerunner having eradicated torture
UN expert singles out Denmark as one of the few countries in the world having managed to eradicate torture.
The United Nations independent expert on torture, UN Special
Rapporteur Manfred Nowak, on Monday 8th told the UN Human Rights
Council that torture unfortunately remains a global
phenomenon.
Manfred Nowak warns that the reality of the majority in the world
is alarming and deserves the full attention of the Council.
According to Nowak: "Only very few countries such as Denmark seem
to have managed to eradicate torture in practice. In the vast
majority of states, torture occurs either in isolated cases, as
exemplified during my recent missions to Uruguay and Jamaica, or in
a more regular manner as found recently in Kazakhstan, or even in a
widespread and systematic manner such as Equatorial Guinea."
Read more here and listen to Manfred Nowak, UN
Radio