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June 26, 2013

International Day in Support of Victims of Torture – June 26

Posted 1:21pm

by Marissa Costello June is Torture Awareness Month. June 26 is the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. The UN proclaimed this day on June 26, 1987, It is set as a day to effect change in the hopes of total eradication of torture. The dates were not chosen at random since 25… Read more »

June 26, 2012

June 26 Tweet-in to #StopTorture

Posted 10:15am

Join @No_More_Torture, @PresbyUN, and others today – International Day in Support of Victims of Torture – by tweeting your members of Congress & the White House against torture, Guantanamo and Indefinite Detention under the NDAA. Also, feel free to tweet on any subject related to the injustice of torture and in support of victims of… Read more »

June 25, 2011

International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

Posted 8:06pm

June is Torture Awareness Month. June 26 is the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has spoken many times against torture. From the National Religious Campaign against Torture comes a variety of worship resources including this prayer: God of all ages and times, we give… Read more »

June 16, 2011

Interfaith Campaign to Combat Anti-Muslim Bigotry

Posted 5:16pm

Help the National Religious Coalition Against Torture and “Shoulder-to-Shoulder: Standing with American Muslims; Upholding American Values,” a coalition of 26 religious organizations, are compiling information on groups working to address anti-Muslim sentiment! The info will go online, so that people can know about efforts to end anti-Muslim sentiment in their communities or give ideas to… Read more »

August 12, 2010

Ask Obama administration to investigage allegations of CIA torture experiments

Posted 3:57am

From the National Religious Campaign Against Torture: The saga continues for the Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) report that provided evidence of unethical and illegal medical experiments by the CIA on U.S.-held detainees. The Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP)…

Stopping Torture, Congressional Visits, Executive Order

Posted 3:12am

Volunteers are needed to organize local delegations to Congressional offices to ask our elected officials to encourage the next President to sign an Executive Order banning torture. No2Torture, a grass roots Presbyterian group seeking to end the use of torture…

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