The OMCT Conference based its
work on an OMCT Study entitled "Poverty, Inequality and Violence: The Economic,
Social and Cultural Root Causes of Violence, Including Torture, a Human Rights
Perspective"
Website Link for Summaries of the
Main Points & Conclusions of the Study
“Poverty, Inequality and Violence: Is
There a Human Rights Response?”
Documents of the International
Conference - Geneva, 4–6 October 2005
OMCT - World Organisation Against
Torture
Website Link for Conference
Documents:
Example of Gender-Focused Document at
the Conference:
*Establishing the correlation between
women's home/property ownership and levels of domestic violence; a case study
from South Africa by Cedric Loots of the Human Rights Institute of South
Africa
Attached is the file for the UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights Address to the
OMCT International Conference:
Poverty, Inequality and Violence
Is there a Human Rights
Response?
