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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 »