By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
National Confederation of Human Rights Organizations (NCHRO) will join other human rights organisations worldwide to commemorate June 26 as the International Day in support of torture survivors and in commemoration of victims.
Throughout the years, NCHRO have been moved by some powerful anti-torture campaigns seeking to highlight the horrors of torture and its devastating impact on the victims and their families.
NCHRO is in nationwide campaign mode with Anti-Torture Posters in all major Indian languages namely Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, Marathi, Manipuri, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and English, which depict torture victim’s images were accompanied by the message: “Torture in any Form is a Crime: Prevent Torture”.
The poster campaign is being conducted in 17 Indian states. The states are Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Assam, Manipur, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Goa, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamilnadu and Pondicherry. NCHRO has been conducting this campaign for the past two decades and since 2007 at national level.
Advocate Mohammad Yusuf, National Secretary at NCHRO said in a statement, “The reality is, torture and torturers exist and is a common practice around the world. Victims of torture continue to be ignored, silenced, abandoned or re-victimized. Impunity and insufficient protection measures for victims stand in the way of a torture free world.”
NCHRO’s campaign has already received plenty of attention and support from the social media.