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Brazil and UK Sign Agreement to Fight Torture |
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Written by Patrícia Landim
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Tuesday, 06 December 2005 |
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Brazil and the United Kingdom have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on combating torture. Brazil will mobilize specialists on the subject and the UK will provide financing.
As part of the bilateral program, an international seminar on torture is scheduled, along with the publication of an anti-torture manual, scientific and technological cooperation exchange programs and the training of experts and medical legalists.
Richard Barlow, the second secretary at the UK embassy in Brasília, says that the memorandum will make it possible to take action to make people aware of the problem and international legislation for dealing with it. He said that the British government was strongly committed to upholding human rights.
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