Events at Reed

February 19, 2015

Public Policy Lecture Series: Juan E. Méndez, “Torture and International Law: The Struggle for Effective Abolition”

Thursday, 7 p.m., Vollum lecture hall

The international community has made progress in advancing a detailed normative framework, not only to prohibit torture in all circumstances, but to detail the distinct obligations imposed on states to prevent torture and ill-treatment and to ensure accountability for specific acts. Yet we are far from the day in which we can envision a torture-free world. This talk will address the outline of an agenda to achieve an end to torture in our lifetime. Juan E. Méndez is professor of human Rights rights law in residence at the American University-Washington College of Law and the U.N. special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment or punishment. Sponsored by the Munk-Darling Lecture Fund in International Relations. More about the series Hope in Times of Crisis: Prisons, Policing, and Human Rights.
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