Ratify, domesticate anti-torture convention, govt urged

GOVERNMENT should ratify and domesticate the Treaty on the Convention against Torture for Zimbabwe to have a legal instrument that criminalises torture.

The call was made during an event to commemorate the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture in Harare yesterday.

The commemorations mark the day the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment came into effect in 1987.

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