Read the 2010 NRCAT Report (PDF)

Though NRCAT has responded to breaking news since its genesis in 2006, 2010 offered many opportunities to claim again and again that torture is wrong and needs to be eliminated from the fabric of American life. NRCAT’s major projects during 2010 are described in the report, followed by a description of NRCAT’s ongoing work, which makes those projects possible. The projects include:

• Changing Views on Torture One Congregation at a Time: 300 in 30 Project
• Activities for Torture Awareness Month – June
• Call for a Commission of Inquiry
• Responding to Allegations of Medical Experiments Involving Torture
• International Committee of the Red Cross Access to All Detainees
• Support for Torture in the U.S. Congress? Senator Scott Brown
• Closing the Detention Center at Guantanamo Bay
• Prison Abuse Remedies Act
• Efforts to limit the use of solitary confinement in prisons across the nation, including supporting legislation in Maine
• The Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture
• Human Rights Day Activities
• Strategy Session on “U.S. Policies and Torture Abroad”
• Section 7071 of the Senate's FY 2011 State and Foreign Ops Appropriations Act
• Joining the Work of the Multi-Religious Campaign Against Anti-Muslim Bigotry