On 25 June 2006, Advocacy Forum organized an interactive programme to mark the “United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.” Advocacy Forum issued the report "Torture Continues: A Brief Report on the Practice of Torture in Nepal” that was prepared on the basis of Advocacy Forum’s daily monitoring of 35 police detention centres. Nepal ratified the Convention Against Torture on 14 May 1991. Yet, Nepal only criminalised torture with the promulgation of the Interim Constitution. Despite the heroic struggle of the People’s Movement and pledges from the political leadership to improve Nepal’s human rights practices, torture still continues.
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