Other speakers regretted that it was mainly men and boys that were at risk of wrongful arrest and detention, as the result of policies based on race, skin colour and religious discrimination. Concerns were expressed that thousands of women and girls remained detained and subjected to conditions that met the threshold of torture and degrading treatments. The gender impact of countering terrorism was noted. In the ensuing discussion, speakers highlighted the importance of fighting terrorism while respecting human rights. She spoke of her country visit to Uzbekistan. They were all dark stains on the world’s collective conscience. To date, none of the detention sites had been made fully accessible to independent human rights. It was precisely the lack of access, transparency, accountability and remedy that had enabled and sustained a permissive environment for contemporary large-scale detention and harm to individuals. The Human Rights Council this morning held separate interactive dialogues with the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, and with the Independent Expert on the human rights of persons with albinism, Muluka-Anne Miti-Drummond.įionnuala Ní Aoláin, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism, said her report drew a clear and sustained line between the torture and extraordinary rendition that accompanied the so-called ‘war on terror’ to contemporary practices of mass arbitrary detention and torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in Xinjiang China and northeast Syria.
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