History of Torture and the Organizations that Attempt to End Torture Practices

Torture is usually defined as the use of physical or mental distress to obtain information, punish people, or control members of a group. Torture has been on since humanity's early days. Many organizations tried to pass the treaty, protest government officials, and do lobbying in order to change the law and to stop using torture for one of the reasons mentioned above. The "Geneva Convention" such as the United Nations and Amnesty International is a human rights advocacy group to stop torture.

Over the years, torture has been done in all countries of the world. Torture is the most terribly unacceptable form of punishment, but many countries still suffer people. It seems that various organizations, especially the United Nations, are trying to completely abolish torture, but this is difficult and a long way. As everyone knows, torture is used at the beginning of the world. For example, torture in Asia is used at many ages. Especially in China, countries such as Japan and India use torture. In Europe, people such as Rome, Greece, England, Spain and others have been torturing for hundreds of years. Torture in these countries is used as a form of punishment. In the Middle Ages, torture was used to suppress religious opponents. The so-called Inquisition is a way of destroying people who do not convert to Catholic. The Inquisition is mainly conducted in France, Germany, Italy and Spain (Totten & Kleg, P. 138-140).

Throughout history, torture has been used as a method of political retraining, trial, punishment and enforcement. In addition to state-supported torture, individuals and organizations may be forced to torture others for torture similar to the state, but the motivation for torture is a torture satire like a Moorish murder It may be. Is the same. Since the middle of the 20th century, torture has been banned by international law and domestic laws in most countries. It is regarded as an infringement of human rights and declared unacceptable in Article 5 of the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights. Signatories to the Geneva Convention of 1949 and the 1st and 2nd Additional Protocol on 8th June 1977 formally agreed not to torture trapped persons in international or domestic armed conflict. The United Nations Convention against Torture also prohibits torture ratified in 157 countries.