The Torture Victims Protection Act (TVPA) provides for the filing of civil suits in the United States against individuals who have committed or aided and abetted acts of torture and/or extrajudicial killing. Passed in 1991, the statute was intended to codify private rights of action for torture and extrajudicial killing; enhance the remedy already available under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) by extending it to U.S. citizens tortured abroad; and to carry out the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which the U.S. had ratified the year before. By virtue of every country’s membership in the United Nations, every citizen of any country has the right to peacefully assemble for the purpose of agitation for a particular cause.
Ekwe-Nche, is an organization on human rights and a research institute, that works with many other organizations to seek legal relief to the victims of state sponsored tortures and extrajudicial killings.
We the citizens of this great country United States could not with a good conscience remain indifferent when these basic human rights are violated to the point of mass killing of our youths and helpless farmers. To get a glimpse of these atrocities against humanity.
• Port Harcourt, click to see pictures of victims (note they are graphic),
• Aba, click to see pictures of victims (note they are graphic)
• Enugu, click to see pictures of victims (note they are graphic)
• Onitsha, click to see pictures of victims (note graphic pictures)
• Nkpor, click and see pictures of victims (note it’s graphic)
TOGETHER WE CAN DEFEAT THIS EVIL.
Torture Victims Legal Fund, is raising money to help mitigate and bring to justice, agents of governments who engage in torturing and victimizing their people especially those who are not of the same ethnicity like them. Torture, as we all know, is an act of inflicting physical, emotional and economic pain that leads to death. Through your financial support, we will awake the voice of justice to lend a voice against inhuman treatment.
The Torture Victims Protection Act (TVPA) The Torture Victims Protection Act (TVPA) provides for the filing of civil suits in the United States against individuals who have committed or aided and abetted acts of torture Read more…