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International Day in Support of Victims of Torture: detainees need protection from Covid-19
European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT)
26 June 2020
Strasbourg
To mark the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, held every year on 26 June, Mykola Gnatovskyy, President of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT), and Malcolm Evans, Chair of the United Nations Subcommittee on...
International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking: facing COVID19 challenges
Pompidou Group
25 June 2020
Strasbourg
“Drug policies must save lives and protect people, not stigmatise.” says João Castel-Branco Goulão on behalf of the Pompidou Group’s Portuguese Presidency, to mark the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (26 June). “As new infections with COVID-19 are massively increasing...