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Ammon News - Dead Sea, (Petra) A training programme on enforcing the U.N. Convention against Torture opened on Dead Sea shores on Monday for a group of officers of the Public Security Department's PSD Correctional and Rehabilitation Centres Administration.

The four-day course is organized jointly by the Adalah Center for Human Rights Studies and the National Anti-Torture Task Force.

The programme's director Udayy Rababa'ah said the course would tackle a host of topics, concepts and terminology pertaining to human rights, including international legislation and protection of human rights mechanisms as well as the mental scars of torture.

A key focus of the course will be on the concept of the torture crime in the U.N. convention as well as cruel, inhumane and humiliating treatment in addition to international pledges under the convention and the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture.