Torture-Free Trade

The Alliance for Torture-Free Trade brings together countries from around the world to end the trade in goods used for capital punishment & torture.

[Torture-Free Trade @TortureFree]

Excellent news coming out of New York where the UN General Assembly has adopted our resolution on torture-free trade 🎉. This is an important step towards setting binding international rules banning the trade in these inhuman and degrading tools.

[España en la ONU @SpainUN]

En el Día Internacional de Apoyo a las Víctimas de la Tortura, España se une a los miembros de la Alianza Global @TortureFree para condenar inequívocamente el libre comercio de la tortura.

Consulta el comunicado conjunto 📄https://t.co/144CTDyVy6

[Argentina en ONU 🇦🇷🇺🇳 @ArgentinaUN]

On International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Argentina 🇦🇷 joins members of the Global Alliance for #TortureFreeTrade to unequivocally condemn torture. It is high time we take action. Read how here: https://t.co/p8ItCdqhZB

[Torture-Free Trade @TortureFree]

Today is the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. Read more about the resolution that the Alliance for #TortureFreeTrade has drafted to stamp out international trade in torture instruments for good: https://t.co/VGALNpwDST

[UK at the UN 🇬🇧🇺🇳 @UKUN_NewYork]

On the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the members of the Global Alliance for #TortureFreeTrade reaffirm their unequivocal condemnation of torture. It is high time we take action.

Read how here: https://t.co/Ex8OOc6Dkb

[Albania in UN @AlMissionUN]

On International Day of Victims of Torture, Albania joins members of the of Global Alliance for #TortureFreeTrade to unequivocally condemn torture. It is high time to take action & stop trade in instruments use for torture. Read it https://t.co/B3TkffxGXE

[🇪🇺EU at UN-NY @EUatUN]

On International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the 🇪🇺EU joins members of the Global Alliance for #TortureFreeTrade to unequivocally condemn torture.

It is high time we take action.

Read how here: https://t.co/3rzcs1YXCT

[MFA Austria @MFA_Austria]

On International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Austria joins members of the Global Alliance for #TortureFreeTrade @TortureFree to unequivocally condemn torture. It is high time we take action. Read how here: https://t.co/wlrXjYHMCB

[Torture-Free Trade @TortureFree]

EU Trade Commissioner @MalmstromEU writes in @ProSyn today about the Alliance - launched in September 2017 and now counting almost 65 countries - and our efforts to set binding international rules to curb the trade in torture equipment. #TortureFreeTrade

https://t.co/ZlHk1ANv2E

[Torture-Free Trade @TortureFree]

On the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the members of the Global Alliance for #TortureFreeTrade reaffirm their unequivocal condemnation of torture. It is high time we take action. Read how here: https://t.co/UpFG1DALRd

[UN Human Rights @UNHumanRights]

"Today’s torture tools are no less cruel than medieval torture tools. What makes it even more obscene is when they’re marketed using 21st Century sales techniques and advertising jargon. End this grotesque trade" - @GilmourUN at @TortureFree Ministerial Meeting at #UNGA

[UN Human Rights @UNHumanRights]

"It is shocking that in spite of a universal ban, the tools of torture continue to be freely traded across the globe" - UN Human Rights chief Bachelet as she commends @TortureFree. "Your work in tackling this trade in pain and death is vitally important" #UNGA2018 #TortureFree

[Torture-Free Trade @TortureFree]

The joint declaration from the over 60 countries in the Alliance for #TortureFree trade, at yesterday’s Ministerial meeting:
https://t.co/TLqrSAwp1y

[Torture-Free Trade @TortureFree]

Countries launch U.N. work to shut down global trade in torture tools - all about the results from the Ministerial meeting about #TortureFree trade at #UNGA.
https://t.co/IHfP7lGQxK

[Torture-Free Trade @TortureFree]

EU Commissioner for Trade @MalmstromEU: ”Today, we come together to say that we will not stand for this trade, not in our countries, or anywhere else in the world. Torture is an instrument of fear and has no place in any society.” #TortureFree #UNGA

[Torture-Free Trade @TortureFree]

Michael Crowley of @Omega_RF:
”It is clear from our research that the trade in ’tools of torture’ is international in nature and is currently out of control. It is a global problem, requiring a global response.”

[Torture-Free Trade @TortureFree]

”Torture is a grave attack on human dignity. It inflicts severe damage on both victims and societies.”

H.E. Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in the opening address at today’s Ministerial

[Torture-Free Trade @TortureFree]

First Ministerial meeting starting now at UNHQ in New York

#TortureFree #UNGA

Watch here:

https://t.co/w94w0qXl3G

[Torture-Free Trade @TortureFree]

There’s standing room as the Alliance’s First Ministerial begins

[Torture-Free Trade @TortureFree]

First Ministerial meeting starting now at UNHQ in New York

#TortureFree #UNGA

Watch here:

https://t.co/w94w0qXl3G